Pre-release 1.9.0 [2016/08/18]

major changes

• variable length seeding and new seeding strategy, much faster (#17)
• new FM index with EPR dictionaries (faster, but bigger) (#57)
• early support for SIMD operations in extension phase (only faster for small reads) (#58)
• new database/index format, files now moved to sub-directory, better diagnostics (#7)

compatibility

• support for .seg files and masking was removed, it yielded poor results and is superseded by variable length seeding (#47)
• the new index format is incompatible to previous releases and it now uses the -i parameter (#7)
• both, the command line options and the index-format are subject to change during the 1.9.* cycle!