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PyMOL now comes with some builtin examples: look in the examples directory of your source tree.
group command has been added.
The truly awesome grid_mode setting has been added.
Ellipsoids representation added for drawing thermal ellipsoids.
GetNamesInSel — find the names of all objects in a selection.
CalcArea — find the area of any given object/selection;
ConnectedCloud — find connected clouds of objects in PyMOL.
MakeVinaCommand — Use PyMOL to create a valid command line for the new Vina docking software.
DrawBoundingBox — Draw a bounding box around your selection.
Locate loaded PyMOL objects that are nearby some other object with FindObjectsNearby.
Ever wanted to load all the PDBs in a directory within PyMOL? Now you can load all files in a dir with LoadDir.
PDB Web Services Script — Example using PyMOL and the PDB Web Services.
LigAlign — Ligand-based active site alignment and comparison.
Added a simple script for finding the center or mass, or moving a selection to the origin.
Added links in the table on the Main Page (above) for submitting & tracking bugs and feature reqeuests. ♦ New logo for the wiki. It's DNA. You can easily see the major/minor grooves. If you don't see it, force a reload of the page (CTRL-F5, usually).
New category about PyMOL performance: making the impossible possible, and the difficult easier/faster.

ImmersiveViz -- Headtracking user interface for PyMOL (watch the video)!
Colorama --a PyMOL plugin which allows to color objects using adjustable scale bars
ProMOL plugin added. Catalytic site prediction, other tools. Redirects to website.
EMovie plugin added. Easy movies in PyMol using a GUI.
DYNMAP plugin page created. Check it out!
EZ-Viz

Stereo 3D Displays.
Massively restructured the TOPTOC and make the OLD_TOPTOC for the older version. Still need to add more content to the TOPTOC.
Added a simple script for removing specific alternately located atoms.
Added a starter gallery of PyMOL-created Journal Covers.
Added some information on how PyMOL handles Nonstandard_Amino_Acids.
Downtime: The PyMOLWiki underwent some downtime due to FS problems. There are also upgrades planned for this week, so we may expect a little downtime for that. We've been very fortunate to have hosting from BitGnome.Net; they've done an incredible job!
Gallery -- Did you make a cool image? Pop it into the PyMOLWiki Gallery with the PyMOL command you used. Looking for a particular representation--start here (new!).

Updated the wiki. Also installed the newer GeSHI extension. Please keep an eye out for source code that is improperly tagged and so improperly formatted. See GeSHI Parameters.
Adding a special category/section for active PyMOL Development.
PyMOL 1.0 has been released!
PyMOL Official Documentation is also available for subscribers.

New PyMol Features: Nucleic Acid Representation Settings & Examples.
Cool new Plug-In: Show NMR Constrains.
Check out PyMol's new Nucleic Acid Rendering
Added DynoPlot script for plotting data within PyMol; an interactive Ramachandran plot.
Added Kabsch script for optimal alignment of two sets of vectors.
Some details have been released about 0.99beta11's release and new features.

A new map function is in the beta build, Map_Trim.
Details on how to build peptide sequences and nucleic acid sequences by hand.
New Transform_odb script to transform coordinates with .odb file from O or LSQMAN

PyMol gets some new features. PyMol 0.99beta07 added these commands for testing, check out the new

CE Align v0.8-RBS released. Better than before. See test case comparisons.
Slerpy, a set of pymol command extensions to simplify complex movie making is now available.
Updated the Kabsch code with a more elegant solution; fixed a small rotation bug.

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