What’s new in the next release of Kwant

This article lists the new features and enhancements that will be part of the next release of Kwant.

Package cleanup

In order to modernize Kwant’s codebase and improve maintainability, we have implemented multiple

We have upgraded Kwant to use the modern format for providing metadata and changed the build system to use meson-python. This makes the compilation of Kwant faster and more reliable.

We adopted SPEC-0 as the standard for which dependency versions Kwant supports and updated the minimal required versions of several dependencies.

Kwant used to provide a partial wrapper for the MUMPS library. This wrapper has been removed in favor of using the more general python-mumps wrapper.