Published June 14, 2026 | Version v5.10.1
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Mol* library

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  • Fix exported image artifacts on transparent background with emissive, bloom, or antialiasing
  • Fix cel-shaded ambient color being stripped to luminance (now uses full RGB, matching the classic lighting path)
  • Fix empty transforms default in ShapeFromPly
  • Use morton order for spheres in dot visual with lod-levels
  • Add Camera.changed event and rotation/translation setter/getter
  • Add instanceGranularity: 'auto' as a memory guard
  • Honor instanceGranularity in Visual.getLoci
  • Add mesoscale representation preset
  • Add presets option to ObjectList param definition
  • Fix memory leak in State.dispose() not invoking transformer dispose callbacks for live cells
  • Adds File/Open and drag-and-drop support for Kinemage files in the viewer app
  • Fix bugs in ModelServer surroundingLigands endpoint, resulting in omitWater not honored
  • Fix Volume and Isosurface getBoundingSphere ignoring instances
  • Fix aromatic ring detection not accounting for hybridization
  • Add axis param to camera spin/rock animation
  • Fix SSAO half/quarter resolution textures for multi-scale
  • Camera improvements
    • Add the option to approximate "least obstructed direction" when focusing camera, accessibe via PluginContext.managers.camera.focusLoci with optimizeDirection option
    • Add CameraFocusOptions.zoomOut option that zooms out to to make the entire scene visible before focusing on the target
    • Add easing support in camera transtion
  • Non-covalent interactions: water bridge support
  • Add OBJ format support
    • Positions, normals, faces
    • Groups from usemtl directive
    • Vertex color extension
    • Sideload MTL files (diffuse color only)
  • Download Structure From AlphaFoldDB allows IDs with version suffix (version is ignored)
  • Add loadUrl method and GET params to Viewer app
  • Add binary PLY format variants support
  • Add extensions/plugin with several QoL improvements
    • Standalone useful loading functions previously avaiable only in the Viewer class
    • Standalong plugin interactivity helper function previously available only via the Viewer class
    • View models (and hooks) for more straightforward usage in React (and in other UI libraries)
  • Add examples/react that showcases few ways the Mol* can be used together with React
  • Fix default representation plugin option, which resulted in represenations not being shown automatically when using the default plugin spec
  • Track added custom props in QueryRuntimeTable to prevent excess "symbol already added" messages when creating multiple instances of a pluing

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https://github.com/molstar/molstar