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+title: "Public prototype and monthly update"
+date: 2021-07-14T07:08:58+01:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+In case you wondered where your beloved monthly update is, it was delayed due to
+us working on a big announcement:
+
+We released [version 0.5](https://github.com/avaframe/AvaFrame/releases/tag/v0.5) 
+our so called **public prototype**. 
+
+So now why is this big? (Apart from being a project milestone, which you couldn't
+care less about I guess) 
+
+**This is the first release that is being tested for
+application in operational hazard mapping.**
+
+To achieve this, quite a few things changed:
+
+- Version 0.4 saw us switching to our own code for the dense flow module
+com1DFA. The original module is still available, but our development efforts
+will now focus on the new one. 
+
+- With version 0.5 we completely overhauled and updated the documentation to include things
+  like:
+  - updated descriptions of the modules
+  - installation instructions for Windows
+  - new DFA algorithm [description page](https://docs.avaframe.org/en/latest/com1DFAAlgorithm.html)
+  - and many more changes...
+
+- We created a [new repository](https://github.com/avaframe/QGisAF) for the
+  connection between QGis and AvaFrame. This means you can run our operational
+  workflow from inside QGis. It is a setup for running com1DFA (dense flow) and
+  com2AB (alpha beta), in which you can change
+  release thicknesses and run multiple scenarios, but the rest of the setup is
+  according to our current default setup. 
+  
+- and many more functional changes under the hood, see the main ones in our 
+ [release notes](https://docs.avaframe.org/en/latest/releaseNotes.html).
+
+- Together with C. Tollinger (Fachzentrum f. Geologie und Lawinen, WLV) we
+ developed a visualisation of the main peak variables based on colormaps that
+ works better for people with vision deficiencies (e.g. red/green blindness).
+ These plots now work for normal vision, red/green deficiency and in grayscale.
+ See examples for the test case ALR at the end of this post. 
+
+We invite you to give this version a try, but expect some rough edges. 
+But whatever you do, enjoy your summer (or your winter for the southern
+hemisphere guys out there)! 
+
+Signing out for summer, 
+Felix
+ 
+ 
+ Peak flow depth
+![Example image](/img/FZGL_PFD.jpg)
+
+ Peak flow pressure
+![Example image](/img/FZGL_PPR.jpg)
+
+ Peak flow velocity
+![Example image](/img/FZGL_PFV.jpg)
+