News

• Due to ICSE going virtual, we will soon announce decisions with regards to what it means for the 8th GI workshop.
• [The 8th International Workshop on Genetic Improvement](./gi2020icse.html) will take place at ICSE 2020, which will now be held in October. More details about this move are available on the [ICSE 2020](https://conf.researchr.org/home/icse-2020) website.
• We are happy to announce that Mark Harman (Facebook, University College London) will give a keynote talk at the GI workshop at ICSE 2020.
• The 9th International Workshop on Genetic Improvement will take place at GECCO 2020.
• There will be a special session on Genetic Improvement at WCCI 2020.
• The 62nd CREST Open Workshop on Program Repair and Genetic Improvement took place on 20-21st January 2020.
• Version 2 of the Genetic Improvement in No time (Gin) tool has been released. It is available at https://github.com/gintool/gin. It provides the ability to handle multi-class projects, gradle and maven build tools, built-in profiler and sampling utilities, test case generation, and a load of new edit operators.
• Version 2, alpha release, of the PYGGI Python General Framework for Genetic Improvement has been released. It is available at https://github.com/coinse/pyggi/releases. This release now supports XML.