# \#release **URL:** https://brian.discourse.group/tag/release/4.md [Latest](https://brian.discourse.group/latest.md) · [Categories](https://brian.discourse.group/categories.md) · [Tags](https://brian.discourse.group/tags.md) --- ## [New release (2.10), new settings, and a request for feedback](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-release-2-10-new-settings-and-a-request-for-feedback/1522)
**Author:** [@mstimberg](https://brian.discourse.group/u/mstimberg)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [16 January 2026 15:28 UTC](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-release-2-10-new-settings-and-a-request-for-feedback/1522 "2026-01-16T15:28:20Z")
This announcement comes a bit late, but in case you were not aware of it: about a month ago we released Brian 2.10 :rocket: This release comes with plenty of bug fixes, packages for Python 3.14, and a few new features su… --- ## [New release: Brian 2.9](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-release-brian-2-9/1453)
**Author:** [@mstimberg](https://brian.discourse.group/u/mstimberg)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [16 May 2025 08:12 UTC](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-release-brian-2-9/1453 "2025-05-16T08:12:07Z")
We are happy to announce the Brian 2.9 release. This release extends the functionality of Brian’s linked variable feature (in particular, it can now be used to refer to a global modulation term in Synapses), and adds a “… --- ## [New release: Brian 2.8](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-release-brian-2-8/1353)
**Author:** [@mstimberg](https://brian.discourse.group/u/mstimberg)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [2 January 2025 23:58 UTC](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-release-brian-2-8/1353 "2025-01-02T23:58:31Z")
We are happy to announce the Brian 2.8 release :rocket: . This release fixes a number of small bugs and improves our release infrastructure. In addition, it includes an important performance improvement for random number… --- ## [New releases: Brian 2.7.0 and 2.7.1](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-releases-brian-2-7-0-and-2-7-1/1248)
**Author:** [@mstimberg](https://brian.discourse.group/u/mstimberg)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [2 July 2024 14:52 UTC](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-releases-brian-2-7-0-and-2-7-1/1248 "2024-07-02T14:52:37Z")
A bit of a belated announcement: we have released Brian 2.7.0 and 2.7.1. The 2.7.0 release fixes a number of important bugs, gets our reference documentation back in shape, and introduces full compatiblity with numpy 2.0… --- ## [New release: Brian 2.6](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-release-brian-2-6/1166)
**Author:** [@mstimberg](https://brian.discourse.group/u/mstimberg)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [15 March 2024 18:00 UTC](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-release-brian-2-6/1166 "2024-03-15T18:00:14Z")
It’s been a while since the last release, so we are very happy to announce that Brian 2.6 is finally out :tada: This release comes with a major new feature to run standalone simulations repeatedly (or in parallel), witho… --- ## [New release: Brian 2.5.3](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-release-brian-2-5-3/1023)
**Author:** [@mstimberg](https://brian.discourse.group/u/mstimberg)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [28 July 2023 13:28 UTC](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-release-brian-2-5-3/1023 "2023-07-28T13:28:16Z")
We recently made not just one but two\[1\] new Brian releases :tada: ! Unfortunately, a number of major enhancements are still in the work-in-progress state and did not make it into this release. For users, the releases t… --- ## [New releases: Brian2GeNN 1.7.0 and Brian2CUDA 1.0a3](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-releases-brian2genn-1-7-0-and-brian2cuda-1-0a3/1035)
**Author:** [@mstimberg](https://brian.discourse.group/u/mstimberg)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [28 July 2023 13:26 UTC](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-releases-brian2genn-1-7-0-and-brian2cuda-1-0a3/1035 "2023-07-28T13:26:49Z")
All connoisseurs of GPU-accelerated computation will be delighted to hear that we recently updated Brian’s GPU backends, i.e. Brian2GeNN (see the release notes) and Brian2CUDA to be compatible with the latest Brian relea… --- ## [New release: Brian 2.5](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-release-brian-2-5/539)
**Author:** [@mstimberg](https://brian.discourse.group/u/mstimberg)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [6 January 2022 17:27 UTC](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-release-brian-2-5/539 "2022-01-06T17:27:00Z")
It took us a while, but we are very happy to finally announce a new release, Brian 2.5 :tada:. This release comes with a large number of bug fixes, various small improvements to the C++ code generation process, new examp… --- ## [Brian2tools 0.3 ­­– highlight: importing/exporting model descriptions](https://brian.discourse.group/t/brian2tools-0-3-highlight-importing-exporting-model-descriptions/425)
**Author:** [@mstimberg](https://brian.discourse.group/u/mstimberg)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [16 July 2021 10:12 UTC](https://brian.discourse.group/t/brian2tools-0-3-highlight-importing-exporting-model-descriptions/425 "2021-07-16T10:12:55Z")
We are very happy to announce a new release of brian2tools, a selection of useful tools around the Brian simulator. This is a “big release” :rocket: that has several new features that have been developed over the last y… --- ## [Strange redefinition error upon Brian upgrade to version 2.4+git: handling of multiple runs in standalone not consistent with previous Brian versions](https://brian.discourse.group/t/strange-redefinition-error-upon-brian-upgrade-to-version-2-4-git-handling-of-multiple-runs-in-standalone-not-consistent-with-previous-brian-versions/170)
**Author:** [@mdepitta](https://brian.discourse.group/u/mdepitta)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [5 October 2020 09:42 UTC](https://brian.discourse.group/t/strange-redefinition-error-upon-brian-upgrade-to-version-2-4-git-handling-of-multiple-runs-in-standalone-not-consistent-with-previous-brian-versions/170 "2020-10-05T09:42:32Z")
Description of problem My code for some network model is not compiling any longer after Brian’s last upgrade – i.e., from version 2.2.x (or maybe 2.3.x) to v2.4+git. It is hard to figure out what has changed – but everyt… --- ## [New release: Brian 2.4](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-release-brian-2-4/132)
**Author:** [@mstimberg](https://brian.discourse.group/u/mstimberg)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [7 September 2020 09:29 UTC](https://brian.discourse.group/t/new-release-brian-2-4/132 "2020-09-07T09:29:15Z")
In these very particular times, we are nevertheless happy to announce a new release, Brian 2.4. This release fixes a large number of bugs and includes a number of small improvements. As announced with the previous releas…