# About AMIRIS

AMIRIS is developed for more than 15 years. 
See a short overview of AMIRIS's history below.

## History

| Date    | Milestone                                                                                                                                 |
|---------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 2008    | Development of AMIRIS begins.                                                                                                             |
| 2010    | An early version of AMIRIS is drafted.                                                                                                    |
| 2017    | Development of the [FAME](https://helmholtz.software/software/fame) framework begins.                                                     |
| 01-2018 | AMIRIS has 10 contributors.                                                                                                               |
| 06-2020 | AMIRIS is ported to [FAME](https://helmholtz.software/software/fame).                                                                     |
| 03-2021 | AMIRIS has 15 contributors.                                                                                                               |
| 12-2021 | AMIRIS v1.0 is [published](https://gitlab.com/dlr-ve/esy/amiris/amiris/-/tags/v1.0) under Apache 2.0 license.                             |
| 02-2022 | The AMIRIS [release workshop](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6327556) is held.                                                            |
| 03-2023 | AMIRIS Examples v1.0 are [published](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7789050).                                                             |
| 04-2023 | AMIRIS is [peer-reviewed](https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/5041) and [published](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05041). |
| 03-2024 | AMIRIS v2.0 is [published](https://gitlab.com/dlr-ve/esy/amiris/amiris/-/tags/v2.0.0).                                                    |
| 09-2024 | AMIRIS v3.0 is [published](https://gitlab.com/dlr-ve/esy/amiris/amiris/-/tags/v3.0.0).                                                    |
| 08-2025 | 30 external user of AMIRIS are confirmed.                                                                                                 |
| 08-2025 | AMIRIS and its accompanying [tools](https://gitlab.com/dlr-ve/esy/amiris) account for a total of 50 releases.                             |
| 09-2025 | 6 Ph.D. thesis with AMIRIS are defended.                                                                                                  |