MOLPRO version 97.2 contains the following changes (mostly bug fixes) relative to 97.1 DFT grid generation: (a) efficiency improved (b) fixed bug whereby symmetry was not recognized in a restart job. DFT gradients: memory allocation errors fixed. Cray T3E, IBM SP2 and HP UX 10 versions implemented. Further enhancements to integral-direct methods. Bug in data parser fixed. Fixed bug in molpro front end associated with file names not containing '.' Fixed problems with restart of ci after redoing the integrals. Check if molecule has changed in new integration and resets occupations if necessary. Gives error message and crash if basis too small in multi (infinite loop before). Correction and improvement for restart in scf; fixes scfocc for open-shell. Localization program fixed; can now be called after multi to do Pipek-Mezey localization. Fixed some problems with alaska gradients. For direct methods: Seward/alaska/direct based now on molcas 4 version dmp2 selects automatically fully direct or semi-direct method, depending on disk and memory available. Various improvements of integral-direct integral transformation (still in further progress). Molcas memory manager replaced by a substitute. Eliminates 32MW memory restriction with 32 bit integers. Some bug fixes and new options for local correlation treatments. In addition, there is new functionality. An optimization procedure for conical intersections has been added.