SLiM News
Release history and announcements
SLiM 5 published in Molecular Biology and Evolution. "SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary simulations across multiple chromosomes and full genomes."
SimHumanity paper published. "SimHumanity: Using SLiM 5.0 to run whole-genome simulations of human evolution."
SLiM 5.1 released. Major point release with enhanced matrix/array support and expanded population genetics utility functions.
SLiM 5.0 released. Major release enabling multi-chromosome simulation support.
SLiM 4.3 released. Transitions from Qt5 to Qt6 widget framework.
SLiM 4.2.2 released (bug fix).
SLiM 4.2.1 released (bug fix).
SLiM 4.2 released. Introduces custom SLiMgui plotting and arbitrary Eidos expressions for event callbacks.
SLiM 4.1 released. Features new spatial modeling capabilities.
SLiM 4 paper published in The American Naturalist: "SLiM 4: Multispecies eco-evolutionary modeling."
SLiM 4.0.1 released (minor bug fixes).
SLiM 4.0 released. Adds multispecies simulation and eco-evolutionary dynamics support.
SLiM 3.7.1 released (minor bug fixes).
SLiM 3.7 released. Adds Windows platform support.
SLiM 3.6 released. Strongly recommended upgrade.
SLiM 3.5 released. Major release with numerous new features.
SLiM 3.4 released. Includes first QtSLiM release.
SLiM 3.3.2 released.
SLiM 3.3.1 released (bug fixes).
SLiM 3.3 released. Features nucleotide-based models and mutation callbacks.
SLiM 3.2.1 released.
Three papers published: SLiM 3 beyond Wright-Fisher models, beginners guide, and tree-sequence recording applications.
SLiM 3.2 released. Improved nonWF performance.
SLiM 3.1 released. Improves spatial interactions performance.
SLiM 3.0 released. Major upgrade with nonWF modeling and tree-sequence recording support.
SLiM 2.6 released.
SLiM 2.5 released.
SLiM 2.4.2 released (critical bug fix).
SLiM 2.4.1 released (critical bug fix).
SLiM 2.4 released.
SLiM 2.3 released. Introduces continuous space support.
SLiM 2.2.1 released.
SLiM 2.2 released.
SLiM 2.1.1 released.
SLiM 2 publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution.
SLiM 2.1 released.
SLiM 2.0.4 released.
SLiM 2.0.3 released.
SLiM 2.0.2 released.
SLiM 2.0.1 released.
SLiM 2.0 released. Introduces Eidos scripting language and SLiMgui graphical modeling environment.