# Vapor 3.8.1 now available

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**Created:** [April 3, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://vapor.discourse.group/t/vapor-3-8-1-now-available/296 "2023-04-03T15:55:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://vapor.discourse.group/t/vapor-3-8-1-now-available/296/1 "2023-04-03T15:55:21Z")

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Vapor 3.8.1 is now live and includes the enhancements and fixed issues below. Further documentation for Vapor’s scriptable PythonAPI has been added as and [can be found here](https://ncar.github.io/VaporDocumentationWebsite/pythonAPIReference.html). Stay tuned for upcoming tutorials on this new API and please reach out to us if you have any questions.

**New Enhancements**  
3312 - Graphics Memory Detection

**Fixed Issues**  
3345 - Python API direct parameter access not working  
3343 -​ ​Python Renderer class missing global opacity controls  
3335 -​ ​Bad documentation page  
3325 -​ Flow: Pathlines seem to never stop advecting  
3318 -​ Flow deltaT calculation on mostly zero fields​  
3315​ - Python API documentation overhaul  
3313 - Bundle libxinerama in Ubuntu 22  
3311 -​ ​Journal article should be cited  
3306 -​ ZFP compressed NetCDF files do NOT open with VAPOR 3.7.0  
3305 -​ Trajectory trace files have a time precision of 1 second, the time of subsecond trajectory data is truncated  
​3304​ - Documentation is wrong about the vector field multiplier  
3296 -​ ​Python API instructions for M1 build  
3290 -​ Python help() needs to be added to readTheDocs  
3293 - Deleting a Python variable plotted in a renderer causes Vapor to crash  
3277 - Mismatched default origins between the Wireframe and TwoDData renderers  
3268 - M1 build crashes with isosurfaces  
3253 - Particle Length Scale changes direction rather than length  
3162 - Height mapped variables on 2D grids  
3148 -​ ​Contributor’s Guide documentation for building and installing Python API  
3060 -​ Closing Visualizer with multiple datasets breaks navigation controls  
3359 -​ [anaconda.org](http://anaconda.org) installer currently broken​
