This is a major feature release with full support of stable wxPython
Phoenix versions. It includes full support for wxPython versions ≥
4.1, Python versions ≥ 3.11, improved GUI layout, and the addition of
a script for finding two pivots in an ensemble of structures.

For the official, easy to navigate release notes, please see
http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/Relax_5.1.0 .

The new relax versions can be downloaded from
http://www.nmr-relax.com/download.html. If binary distributions are
not yet available for your platform and you manage to compile the
binary modules, please consider contributing these to the relax
project (described in section 3.6 of the relax manual,
http://www.nmr-relax.com/manual/relax_distribution_archives.html).

The full list of changes is:

Features:
    * Full support for the stable wxPython versions >= 4.1.0.
    * Addition of a double pivot finding script.
    * Redesign of the GUI splash screen.
    * Improved layout of GUI elements.
    * Support for Python versions >= 3.11.


Changes:
    * Release checklist document: Usage of environmental variables for
command line simplification.
    * Release checklist document: Version number updates for the new
5.0.x releases.
    * CHANGES file: Date fix and removal of an insignificant changes entry.
    * Copyright: Updated the years for the release checklist.
    * Wiki backup scripts: These have been updated for the migration
to the SourceForge servers.  The scripts were previously configured
for Troels' brother's server which hosted the relax wiki.
    * Wiki backup scripts: Renamed the FTP backup script to be the
wiki file backup script.
    * Wiki MySQL backup script: Fixes for properly handling the
SourceForge shell.  The important commands are now echoed into the log
as well.
    * FSF Copyright Validation script: Bug fix for the handling of
file renames.  File renames, when made in the current repository, were
not being followed.
    * FSF Copyright Validation script: Removal of a DeprecationWarning.
    * FSF Copyright Validation configuration: Blocked incorrect git
history for one of the Docker scripts.
    * FSF Copyright Validation script: Better documentation of the blank config.
    * FSF Copyright Validation configuration: Fix for the 'README' to
'README.md' rename.  The committer information file was created just
after this rename.
    * FSF Copyright Validation configuration: Ignore an insignificant commit.
    * Sample scripts: Addition of the double pivot finding script from
Edward's QRB paper.  The reference is
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033583519000015.
    * Sample scripts: Added some documentation to the double pivot
finding algorithm script.
    * GUI: The main window title now includes the git hash when
running from the repository.
    * Sample scripts: Addition of a copyright notice to the double
pivot finding algorithm.
    * FSF Copyright Validation configuration: Add some copyright years
to sample_scripts/pivot_finder.py.
    * Graphics: Addition of a PNG version of the pipe_bundle icon.
    * wxPython: Versions >= 4.1.0 are now considered stable.
    * wxPython: Fixes for allowing relax to run on wxPython >= 4.1.0.
    * Travis CI config: Removal of the obsolete configuration file.
Travis CI no longer supports open source projects and hence the
automated testing of relax using Travis CI configuration files via
GitHub can be removed.
    * GUI: Complete redesign of the GUI splash screen.  The static
image has been replaced with an animation.  This consists of two
stacked panels, with an animated gif on the bottom and a basic
transparent bitmap on top.  The animation is of the frame order 1st
motional mode in the CaM-IQ peptide complex.
    * wxPython: Fix for the relax controller for versions >= 4.1.0.
    * wxPython: Fix for the spin controller window title text for
versions >= 4.1.0.
    * wxPython: Text wrapping fix for all wizard windows for versions >= 4.1.0.
    * wxPython: Truncated icon fix for all wizard windows for versions
>= 4.1.0.  This caused the Oxygen icons in all user function GUI
windows to be only partly shown.
    * Copyright: Updated the main program copyrights for 2022.
    * GUI: Added some additional spacing within the free file format
GUI element.
    * GUI: Improved size measurements of text elements by using wx.DC
objects.  This uses wx.ScreenDC() objects to set the font and
determine the size of the text element with that font, allowing for
accurate width and height setting and measurements and hence improved
widget layout.
    * wxPython: Fix for the wizard page titles for versions >= 4.1.0.
The wx.StaticText size needs to be calculated via a DC object and set
when creating the StaticText object.
    * GUI: Dialog height fix for the reset() user function.
    * Diffusion tensor display: The tm row now displays the hidden radian unit.
    * wxPython: Fix for recent versions whereby
wx.ScreenDC.GetTextExtent() now returns floats.  This was causing the
wx.Sizer AddSpacer() function to fail, as it expects an integer
argument.
    * wxPython: More fixes for recent versions whereby floats are
encountered instead of ints.
    * wxPython: Another fix for recent versions whereby floats are
encountered instead of ints.
    * OpenDX: Depreciation error fix for the dx.map user function.
    * Test suite: Fix for the Palmer.test_palmer_omp system test.  Art
Palmer's modelfree4 64-bit Linux binary is producing slightly
different results with the newer linked libraries (from ~2024).  The
test has been updated to catch this.
    * Development scripts: Added Python 3.12 to the list of Python
versions to run the test suite against.
    * Test suite: Support for Python versions >= 3.11.  The private
method assert_() of the unittest.TestCase module has been removed.
This requires a switch to the public assertTrue() method within the
whole test suite.
    * Compat: Fix for the Linux distribution information if neither
the platform or distro packages exist.  This information is used in
the system information printout and in the test suite.
    * Travis-CI: Removal of the last mentions of this shut down service.
    * Release Checklist: Removal of an old mention of the Gna! infrastructure.
    * Copyright: Updated the year to 2024.
    * Python: Conversion of many strings to raw strings to avoid
SystemWarnings for newer Python versions.
    * Python: Fixes for the removal of failIf() and failUnless() from
the unittest TestCase class.  These have been switched with
assertTrue(...) and assertTrue(not ...) to retain Python 2.5
compatibility.
    * Python: Fix for the removal of the depreciated
inspect.getargspec() function.  This is now provided by
inspect.getfullargspec().  A wrapper function in lib.compat has been
added to allow for multiple Python support.
    * Test suite: Work around for the now eliminated locale.format()
function.  This can simply be replaced by locale.format_string() for
Python versions 2.5 to 3.12.
    * Development scripts: Fix for the multi Python version testing
script for newer Python versions.
    * GUI: Improved the warning text for wxPython-Phoenix 4.0.x versions.
    * Python: Continued conversion of strings containing "\" to raw
strings to avoid SystemWarnings.
    * FSF Copyright Validation: Updated a number of copyright notices
for 2024.  These were identified with the command
'./devel_scripts/fsfcv -c devel_scripts/fsfcv.conf.py'.


Bugfixes:
    * GUI: Fix for the Help->Licence menu entry.  The full file path
to the GPLv3 text is required.


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