Release 8118

Revision 8118 has been designated a MESA release version.

We call your attention to some high level items. Please consult the full release notes, available in this mailing list post, to learn more.

Almost all extras routines in run_star_extras and run_binary_extras are now implemented as hooks, in a similar way to all other_* routines. If you use a custom run_star_extras, you need to slightly modify it for it to be compatible with this and future versions.
The old RGB_wind_scheme and AGB_wind_scheme have been replaced with temperature-dependent hot_wind_scheme and cool_wind_RGB_scheme and cool_wind_AGB_scheme.
There has been a small change in how opacities are computed when blending Type1 and Type2 tables.
Several errors in the on-the-fly weak rate implementation have been corrected. If you have been making use of these capabilities in r7624, please contact Josiah Schwab (jwschwab@berkeley.edu) for more details.
MESA’s color module has now be extended. You can output either the raw bolometric correction(s) or the absolute magnitude(s). PGSTAR plots have also been added to plot magnitude-magnitude, color-magnitude and color-color plots.
A new pgstar plot “network” has been added to show total abundances of isotopes as a function of N vs Z and is a useful way to visualize the distribution of isotopes in your nuclear network.
We now can run the star tests with NaN traps enabled combined with pre-setting all dynamically allocated memory to hold NaNs. This is very effective at showing up accesses to uninitialized data that the compiler can’t catch.

A ZIP file of this release is available for download.