# Cantera 2.1.2

Published on September 17, 2014 | [Full release on GitHub](https://github.com/Cantera/cantera/releases/tag/v2.1.2)

- Maintenance release fixing issues identified in Cantera 2.1.1.
- Now includes binaries for Python 3.4.

# Cantera 2.1.1

Published on February 23, 2014 | [Full release on GitHub](https://github.com/Cantera/cantera/releases/tag/v2.1.1)

- Maintenance release fixing issues identified since Cantera 2.1.0.

# Cantera 2.1.0

Published on October 23, 2013 | [Full release on GitHub](https://github.com/Cantera/cantera/releases/tag/v2.1.0)

Some of the major improvements since the release of Cantera 2.0 are:

- A new Cython-based Python interface, with a streamlined API and support for Python 3.2 and higher (as well as Python 2.6 and 2.7)
- Reformulation of reactor governing equations to improve performance and robustness, especially for larger mechanisms, including the addition of reactor types specifically optimized for ideal gases
- Improved support for reactor network sensitivity analysis
- Support for "chemically activated" reaction rate parameterizations
- Better support for importing "Chemkin"-format mechanisms using ck2cti.py
- Numerous improvements to performance and robustness of the 1D solver
- More comprehensive save/restore feature for 1D simulations
- Test suite coverage of the 1D flame module
- Support for compilation using Visual Studio 2012
- Extensive clean-up of Doxygen documentation