Version 8.56 (Nov 20th, 2025)

You can download IFs Version 8.56 at IFs 8.56.

Interface Updates

Increased decimals in Graphical Display for values lower than 10, the rule used to be that values that started below 1 would get 5 decimals else they would only 2, now the rule is below 10, so GDI when doing aggregations was producing 1.0005 or something like that producing only 2 decimals and causing step/like graphs.
Fixes to the Create/Delete Variable Lists Forms, also the ability to select the filtering options to which each list belongs to was added.
Fix to Explain for pre-run scenarios that were not included in the ifsInit.db file.
Added Validation for Groups that don't exist in scenario tree when used in parameters with 2 dimensions.
Fix for Index Base 1 when using new first year.
Adding special logic to Marking Functions for Labor Coefficient.
Fixes to convert old vb6 run files.
Fix to changing aggregations from Flex Display when variable doesn't have historic analog, like GDPR.
Fixing problems to load variables where first dimension is not country in Flex Displays
Fix to preserve selected Meso categories and Macro categories in Flex Displays when switching display types.

Handling Division by 0 in Bilateral Tariff Rate logic.
Changes on education target (lower and upper sec graduation rates) fix.
Minor revision of energy code (putting in a bound that was missing in the code for variable renewable’s system cost code).
Avoid Negatives in Trade when Tariff Growth is too big, for example for North Macedonia.
After the fix: