The ADF modelling suite has been a popular modelling package used in many areas of chemistry and materials science. SCM have recently announced an important update to ADF

Software for Chemistry & Materials (SCM) is an Amsterdam-based computational chemistry software company. Originally spinning out from the Vrije Universiteit as Scientific Computing & Modelling NV in 1995, the SCM team supports and develops the ADF Modeling Suite, centered around the flagship program Amsterdam Density Functional (ADF), which was originally developed in the 1970s in the theoretical chemistry department.

Key new features::

• New XC functionals: range-separated hybrid HSE06, long-range corrected hybrids and new meta-GGAs
• SM12 solvation model and Constrained DFT in ADF
• Spectroscopy: excitations from CV(n)-DFT, fast TDDFT+TB and sTDDFT, X-ray emission, surface-enhanced ROA, new kernel for periodic TDDFT, vibrationally resolved spectra from TDDFTB, hole states in BAND
• Improved robustness for SCC-DFTB, COSMO, periodic optimizations, new HF exchange scheme
• Analysis: unrestricted and periodic energy decomposition (pEDA), Fukui functions, Natural Transition Orbitals
• Reactivity, PES: Automated reaction pathways for ReaxFF trajectories, new Transition State search options, MECP, analytic lattice gradients
• GUI: job chaining, multiple spectra, orbital interaction visualization
• Scripting: ASE interface for all codes, scripting support for COSMO-RS, job chaining, extensions to FlexMD multi-scale dynamics
• Parameters, databases: Quasinano15 including repulsive potentials for light elements, latest 3OB parameters, new parameter sets for ReaxFF, ionic liquids database COSMO-RS

Full release notes are here