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+# Change log
+
+## Version 1.5.0 2023-05-24
+
+### Added
+
+- Imported basic MPI functionality from MRChem
+- Haar basis MW filters (only functions, no operators)
+- Possibility for anisotropic MWOperator
+- CartesianConvolution operator (e.g. xy/r^3)
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Reintroduces operator build_prec needed by VAMPyR
+- Bug in getQuadraturePoints (row/col mixup)
+
+
+## Version 1.4.2 2023-01-20
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Invalid read in coef block for nodes without coefs
+- Node count error for negative scales with PBC
+- Missing includes resulting in compile errors for recent gcc
+
+
+## Version 1.4.1 2022-01-05
+
+### Changed
+
+- Catch version 2.13.5
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Buffer overflow in NodeAllocator
+- Polynomial integration bound error message
+
+
+## Version 1.4.0 2021-10-13
+
+### Added
+
+- New constructors for BoundingBox and MRA, accepting box=[-L,L] argument
+- Add FunctionTree::evalf_precise() which evaluates both scaling and wavelet parts
+- Possibility for empty tree skeletons without allocated coefficients
+- Possibility to manually set location of MW filters at configure time
+
+### Changed
+
+- Eigen version 3.4.0
+- Improvements under the hood of the Tree classes (non-API):
+  - remove GenNode and ProjectedNode
+  - simplified NodeAllocator class
+  - new improved OMP locking
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Get node center and (lower/upper) bounds
+
+
+## Version 1.3.6 2020-10-27
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Put OpenMP and MPI in CMake INTERFACE
+- Fix --arch-flags CMake option
+- Fix kramdown security issue
+- Document variuos packaging options
+
+## Version 1.3.5 2020-10-05
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Remove final qualifier GaussFunc/GaussPoly (fixing pybind11 bindings)
+
+## Version 1.3.4 2020-10-02
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Allow to remove arch-specific optimization flags
+- Undo export of compiler flags with MRCPP CMake target
+- Encapsulate OpenMP within MRCPP and export MRCPP_HAS_OMP flag
+- Encapsulate MPI within MRCPP and export MRCPP_HAS_MPI flag
+- Fix faulty OpenMP locks
+- Minor inlining optimizations
+
+## Version 1.3.3 2020-09-23
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Export compiler flags with MRCPP CMake target
+
+
+## Version 1.3.2 2020-09-14
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Miscellaneous fixes for building on conda-forge
+
+
+## Version 1.3.1 2020-09-02
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Uninitialized (max)norms used in space-varying precision algorithms
+
+
+## Version 1.3.0 2020-08-28
+
+### Added
+
+- Function mapping functionality
+- Possibility for faster operator application by space-varying precision
+
+
+## Version 1.2.0 2020-04-13
+
+### Added
+
+- Projecton of vector function onto FunctionTreeVector (API)
+- Construction of semi-periodic Gaussians (non-API)
+- CircleCI test build config
+
+### Changed
+
+- New versioning scheme and branching model, documented in README
+- Much improved API documentation
+- Proper installation of MW filters
+- FunctionTrees are now evaluated as zero outside the domain
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Faulty cube plot grid generation
+- Pull Eigen from gitlab instead of deprecated github mirror
+- Incompatible compiler flags between debug and release
+- Failing periodic unit tests
+- Plotting range verification
+
+
+## Version 1.1.0 2019-10-30
+
+### Added
+
+- Option in the API for building trees using absolute MW precision.
+- Functionality to estimate absolute node overlaps for screening purposes.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Added missing b-spline derivative header to MWOperators include.
+- Make sure that Eigen3 is found along MRCPP.
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-1.5.0-alpha
+1.5.0