November 26, 2025

SLiM 5 published in Molecular Biology and Evolution. "SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary simulations across multiple chromosomes and full genomes."

October 15, 2025

SimHumanity paper published. "SimHumanity: Using SLiM 5.0 to run whole-genome simulations of human evolution."

September 13, 2025

SLiM 5.1 released. Major point release with enhanced matrix/array support and expanded population genetics utility functions.

April 18, 2025

SLiM 5.0 released. Major release enabling multi-chromosome simulation support.

September 17, 2024

SLiM 4.3 released. Transitions from Qt5 to Qt6 widget framework.

May 5, 2024

SLiM 4.2.2 released (bug fix).

April 12, 2024

SLiM 4.2.1 released (bug fix).

March 22, 2024

SLiM 4.2 released. Introduces custom SLiMgui plotting and arbitrary Eidos expressions for event callbacks.

December 6, 2023

SLiM 4.1 released. Features new spatial modeling capabilities.

March 21, 2023

SLiM 4 paper published in The American Naturalist: "SLiM 4: Multispecies eco-evolutionary modeling."

September 14, 2022

SLiM 4.0.1 released (minor bug fixes).

August 12, 2022

SLiM 4.0 released. Adds multispecies simulation and eco-evolutionary dynamics support.

February 14, 2022

SLiM 3.7.1 released (minor bug fixes).

December 15, 2021

SLiM 3.7 released. Adds Windows platform support.

March 3, 2021

SLiM 3.6 released. Strongly recommended upgrade.

December 8, 2020

SLiM 3.5 released. Major release with numerous new features.

May 12, 2020

SLiM 3.4 released. Includes first QtSLiM release.

January 30, 2020

SLiM 3.3.2 released.

September 28, 2019

SLiM 3.3.1 released (bug fixes).

May 15, 2019

SLiM 3.3 released. Features nucleotide-based models and mutation callbacks.

January 29, 2019

SLiM 3.2.1 released.

January 18, 2019

Three papers published: SLiM 3 beyond Wright-Fisher models, beginners guide, and tree-sequence recording applications.

November 6, 2018

SLiM 3.2 released. Improved nonWF performance.

September 3, 2018

SLiM 3.1 released. Improves spatial interactions performance.

July 1, 2018

SLiM 3.0 released. Major upgrade with nonWF modeling and tree-sequence recording support.

December 16, 2017

SLiM 2.6 released.

October 27, 2017

SLiM 2.5 released.

September 12, 2017

SLiM 2.4.2 released (critical bug fix).

July 26, 2017

SLiM 2.4.1 released (critical bug fix).

July 14, 2017

SLiM 2.4 released.

April 18, 2017

SLiM 2.3 released. Introduces continuous space support.

February 22, 2017

SLiM 2.2.1 released.

December 8, 2016

SLiM 2.2 released.

November 8, 2016

SLiM 2.1.1 released.

October 4, 2016

SLiM 2 publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution.

September 19, 2016

SLiM 2.1 released.

May 26, 2016

SLiM 2.0.4 released.

May 12, 2016

SLiM 2.0.3 released.

May 6, 2016

SLiM 2.0.2 released.

April 27, 2016

SLiM 2.0.1 released.

April 1, 2016

SLiM 2.0 released. Introduces Eidos scripting language and SLiMgui graphical modeling environment.