Version 3.0 of Cervus offers many new features and enhancements:
1) New likelihood equations that offer a substantial increase in power to assign parentage.
2) Parentage testing for parent pairs, when sexes of candidates are either known or unknown.
3) The option to choose Delta or LOD score as the statistic used to assess confidence levels.
4) Parentage testing allowing for selfing and other forms of inbreeding.
5) Completely rewritten code eliminating limits on numbers of alleles, loci and individuals and offering much faster processing.
6) An enhanced user interface with customisable menus and toolbars and the ability to view multiple results windows side by side.
7) Expanded output files allowing users to view the results of analyses in greater detail.
Further information
A description of the new likelihood equations can be found in Kalinowski et al. (2007), and more information about of the capabilities of Cervus 3.0 can be found here.