We are happy to announce the Brian 2.8 release. This release fixes a number of small bugs and improves our release infrastructure. In addition, it includes an important performance improvement for random number generation in C++ standalone mode, which significantly speeds up everything that needs randomness (e.g. PoissonGroup). It also comes with the Diehl & Cook (2015) model in the documentation, contributed by Björn Lindqvist (thanks!).

For more details, head over to the release notes.

Brian 2 can be installed with pip from the pypi repository, and via several other means (some of them might take a while to catch up to the latest release). See the installation instructions, and the badges in the README file for more details.

Thanks to everyone who contributed 🤝!