Release v1.0

Author: LukasBreitwieser

CMakeLists.txt

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 # Project name and current version. We do not specify any language for
 # this project. Therefore, we will be able to check manually which compiler
 # is detected on the system.
-project(BioDynaMo LANGUAGES VERSION "0.1.0")
+project(BioDynaMo LANGUAGES VERSION "1.0.0")
 
 #---Set the locale to default C to prevent issued due to localization of commands---------------
 # This is necessary as we for example call `clang -v` and parse its output. But on a localized

doc/blog/release_v1.0.md

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+---
+title: "BioDynaMo Version 1.0 Released"
+date: "2021-04-09"
+path: "/blog/release_v1.0/"
+meta_description: ""
+---
+
+</br>
+
+On behalf of the BioDynaMo team I am pleased to announce our first major release: BioDynaMo 1.0. 
+
+The following publication gives a good overview about BioDynaMo's features and capabilities.
+
+**BioDynaMo: a general platform for scalable agent-based simulation** </br>
+*Lukas Breitwieser, Ahmad Hesam, Jean de Montigny, Vasileios Vavourakis, Alexandros Iosif, Jack Jennings, Marcus Kaiser, Marco Manca, Alberto Di Meglio, Zaid Al-Ars, Fons Rademakers, Onur Mutlu, Roman Bauer* </br>
+bioRxiv 2020.06.08.139949; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.08.139949
+
+Please have a look at the [release notes](/docs/userguide/release_notes_v1.0/), [installation instructions](/docs/userguide/installation/) and [tutorials](/docs/userguide/hello_world/) for further information.
+
+Thanks and enjoy! </br>
+Lukas for the BioDynaMo team
+

doc/sidebars/userguide.yaml

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     items:
       - title: OpenGL
         link: /docs/userguide/opengl_issues/
+  - group: Release Notes
+    items:
+      - title: BioDynaMo v1.0
+        link: /docs/userguide/release_notes_v1.0/
   - group: Changelog
     items:
       - title: Log

doc/user_guide/release_notes_v1.0.md

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+---
+title: "BioDynaMo Version 1.0 Release Notes"
+date: "2020-04-09"
+path: "/docs/userguide/release_notes_v1.0/"
+toc: true
+image: ""
+sidebar: "userguide"
+keywords:
+  -release
+  -v1.0
+  -1.0
+---
+
+BioDynaMo version 1.0 was released on April 9, 2021.
+
+The following people have contributed to this first major version
+(ordered by number of contributions):
+
+* Lukas Breitwieser
+* Ahmad Hesam
+* Fons Rademakers
+* Konstantinos Kanellis
+* Jean de Montigny
+* Roman Bauer
+* Giovanni De Toni
+* Jack Jennings
+* Dorukhan Arslan
+* Nam Nguyen
+* Johannes Franz
+* Lukasz Stempniewicz
+* Robert Harakaly
+* Sadyksaj
+* Tobias Duswald
+* Victor Drobny
+
+## Main features
+
+* A general API to implement and customize agent-based models
+* A fully parallelized, high-performance simulation engine
+* Ability to offload computations to GPUs of all major vendors
+* Large-scale model support. BioDynaMo can simulate billions of agents on a single server.
+* Predefined building blocks for simulations in neuroscience, oncology, and epidemiology
+* Support for spherical and cylindrical agent geometries
+* Diffusion methods: Euler, Runge-Kutta
+* Multi-scale simulation support
+* Visualization in ParaView
+* Parameter configuration: JSON, C++ interpreter script, command line, or in-code
+* Automatic backup and restore functionality using ROOT
+* BioDynaMo Notebooks for rapid web-based prototyping
+
+
+For a more detailed description of BioDynaMo's features and capabilities, 
+please have a look at the following publication: 
+
+**BioDynaMo: a general platform for scalable agent-based simulation** </br>
+*Lukas Breitwieser, Ahmad Hesam, Jean de Montigny, Vasileios Vavourakis, Alexandros Iosif, Jack Jennings, Marcus Kaiser, Marco Manca, Alberto Di Meglio, Zaid Al-Ars, Fons Rademakers, Onur Mutlu, Roman Bauer* </br>
+bioRxiv 2020.06.08.139949; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.08.139949
+
+
+## Demos
+
+BioDynaMo v1.0 comes with the following demos:
+
+* Cell division
+* Diffusion
+* Soma clustering
+* Tumor concept
+* Epidemiology
+* Gene regulation
+* Parameters
+* Multiple simulations
+* Makefile project
+
+## Supported Platforms
+
+*  Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04
+*  CentOS 7
+*  macOS 10.15 and macOS 11.1
+