python-igraph 0.4

May 21, 2007

The major new additions in this release is a bunch of community detection algorithms and support for the GML file format. Here is the complete list of changes:

New in the C library

• internal representation changed
• igraph_neighbors always returns an ordered list

• igraph_is_loop and igraph_is_multiple added

• topological sorting
• VF2 isomorphism algorithm
• support for reading the file format of the Graph Database for isomorphism
• igraph_mincut cat calculate the actual minimum cut
• girth calculation added, thanks to Keith Briggs

• support for reading and writing GML files

• Walktrap community detection algorithm added, thanks to Matthieu Latapy and Pascal Pons
• edge betweenness based community detection algorithm added
• fast greedy algorithm for community detection by Clauset et al. added thanks to Aaron Clauset for sharing his code
• leading eigenvector community detection algorithm by Mark Newman added
• igraph_community_to_membership supporting function added, creates a membership vector from a community structure merge tree
• modularity calculation added

Others

• proper support for Debian packages (re)added
• many functions benefit from the new internal representation and are faster now: transitivity, reciprocity, graph operator functions like intersection and union, etc.
• igraph compiles with Microsoft Visual C++ now
• there were some internal changes to make igraph a real graph algorithm platform in the near future, but these are undocumented now

Bugs corrected

• corrected a bug when reading Pajek files: directed graphs were read as undirected