October 2017 Release

This release consolidates the addition of Python versions of several examples, a molecular dynamics code for rigid molecules using quaternions, and a bug fix. In addition, following on from the release of gfortran v7, which included a new built-in random number generator, the GNU-specific init_random_seed routine in maths_module.f90 has been replaced by one which simply calls random_seed(). The previous workaround can be found in gnu_v6_init_random_seed.f90 for information.

No further additions to the codes are currently planned, so new releases in the foreseeable future should be confined to bug fixes and, possibly, accumulated cosmetic changes in the documentation and/or program files.