🎁 We are happy to announce the Brian 2.10 release, now available from pypi and conda-forge, and soon from other sources. 🎁

This release extends the functionality of PopulationRateMonitor and SpikeMonitor, which now provide a unified interface to for smoothed and binned rates, and adds a new run_at function to execute code at specific time points. It also fixes several important bugs and comes with performance improvements for C++ standalone mode. Behind the scenes, it made important progress in refactoring aspects of our code generation system, working towards the long-term goal of having a single C++ code generation system for standalone and runtime mode, and retiring the current Cython code generation mechanism.

For more details, head over to the release notes.

🚀 We are happy to announce the **Brian 2.9** release, now available from pypi and conda-forge, and soon from other sources. 🚀

This release extends the functionality of Brian’s *linked variable* feature (in particular, it can now be used to refer to a global modulation term in `Synapses`), and adds a “graceful interrupt” feature, allowing users to interrupt a simulation with Ctrl+C without triggering the usual Exception. As usual, the release also fixes a number of bugs and incompatibilities and comes with new examples in its documentation.

For more details, head over to the release notes: https://brian2.readthedocs.io/en/2.9.0/introduction/release_notes.html

🎉 The winter is coming to an end in the Northern Hemisphere, and we are getting geared up to participate in this year's Google's Summer of Code program (thanks as always to @INCF for taking us under their umbrella). If you are interested in contributing (either full- or part-time) to the Brian simulator over the summer – and getting paid for it –, this might be for you!

https://briansimulator.org/posts/2025/gsoc-2025/

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A short thread with our 3 project proposals below 👇

In the spirit of end-of-year celebrations, we've just released Brian 2.8 🌠
Alongside the usual helping of small improvements and fixes, this release comes with an important performance improvement for random number generation in C++ standalone mode.

Head to the release notes for more details! https://brian2.readthedocs.io/en/2.8.0/introduction/release_notes.html

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It's release day again 🚀

We are happy to announce the release of Brian 2.7 and Brian2CUDA 1.0a5. Apart from the usual mix of small improvements and bug fixes, the main new feature is the compatibility with the upcoming @numpy 2.0 release – Brian will not hold you back from upgrading to it on day 1 😊

For more details, head over to https://brian2.readthedocs.io/en/2.7.0/introduction/release_notes.html

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