v2.4.2

This is a bugfix and maintenance release for v2.4.1. Users are advised to update their installation as soon as possible. The release contains the following improvements and fixes for minor bugs:

• Updated MUSIC examples to use the new Connect framework and allow music_channel as an alias for receptor_type during connection setup.
• Turned PyNEST deprecation warning into a decorator and beautified URLs in the output to allow IPython Notebooks to parse and link them properly.
• Improved performance of SLI functions token_s and symbol_s by a factor of 1000 by replacing a loop by an explicit function call.
• Made CyNEST handle parameters passed as Unicode strings in all Python versions by using basestring instead of str for Python versions < 3.
• Fixed segmentation fault produced by additional command line arguments for Python when PyNEST was imported.

Contributors in addition to v2.4.0 and v2.4.1

• Oliver Breitwieser
• Jan Hahne
• Frank Michler