Release 2.5.1

Platform Support

• Support for new compilers: GCC 15 and Clang 20.
• Compiler support (tested):
  • GCC 13, 14, 15
  • Clang 18, 19, 20
  • Intel oneAPI C++ Compiler 2025.0 (IntelLLVM)
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 17
  • Other compilers might work but are not tested.

Selected Bug Fixes

• Build System:
  • Fixed an issue in our CMake files that resulted in SEQAN_DEFINITIONS being incorrectly set. With this fix, using target_link_libraries (my_target seqan::seqan2) instead of setting various variables individually now works as expected.

    - include_directories (${SEQAN_INCLUDE_DIRS})
    - add_definitions (${SEQAN_DEFINITIONS})
    - set (CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} ${SEQAN_CXX_FLAGS}")
    - target_link_libraries (my_project ${SEQAN_LIBRARIES})
    + target_link_libraries (my_project seqan::seqan2)
    

• Mason:
  • An exception will be thrown when Mason runs out of temporary disk space instead of crashing. The exception message contains instructions to resolve the issue by setting the TMPDIR environment variable, which are also available in the Caveats section of the help page.