Version 12.0.0

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Version 12.0.0 is a major release that adds various new packages and models.

The library has been tested with Dymola 2025x, OpenModelica 1.24.0, OPTIMICA 1.55.11 and recent versions of Impact.

The following major changes have been done compared to release 11.1.0:

• The EnergyPlus coupling has been update to EnergyPlus 24.2.0, and the implementation that uses EnergyPlus 9.6.0 has been moved to the Obsolete package.
• The package Buildings.Fluid.Geothermal.ZonedBorefields has been added that allows modeling geothermal borefields in which groups of boreholes are operated with different mass flow rates
  and inlet temperatures, for example to create a hot core and warm perimeter.
• The template models for air-source heat pump and chiller plants has been updated to allow an optional side-stream water-to-water heat recovery heat pump, and to allow optional buffer tanks
  on the hot or cold side. Also, its control has been updated.
• The control sequences in the package Buildings.DHC.ETS and Buildings.DHC.Plants have been updated to comply with ASHRAE Standard 231P (Control Description Language).
• For pumps, fans, valves and dampers, changed the model for the actuator position. The new implementation changes the actuator position at a constant speed defined by the rise time (fans and pumps) or
  the stroke time (valves and dampers) rather than a second order filter. This gives more realistic response, and also simplifies the control loop tuning.

Also, many models have been updated to improve performance, to improve compliance with the Modelica Language Standard and to correct model errors.

Full Changelog: v11.0.0...v12.0.0

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This discussion was created from the release Version 12.0.0.