Release 8845

Revision 8845 has been designated a MESA release version.

The full release notes are available in this mailing list post.

In order to improve the clarity and uniformity of MESA inlist options, names using “cnt” were changed to use “interval” (e.g., terminal_cnt was renamed to terminal_interval). For the same reasons, the option photostep was renamed to photo_interval. A simple find-and-replace will bring your inlists up-to-date. If one needs to make the changes in a more automated fashion, a sample migration script is included in the release annoucement to mesa-users.
In the binary module, adjustments were made to the Eddington mass accretion rate to take into account black hole spins.

A ZIP file of this release is available for download.