Release Notes for blueCFD-Core 2020-1

These release notes address the changes made for the 2020-1 release, which is divided into the following topics:

• In section Software provided with installers is provided further information about the installer blueCFD-Core-2020-1-win64-setup.exe.

• Section Cumulative changes and notes lists what we provide in the git development branch blueCFD-Core branch 8.

Software provided with installers

Here is listed what software and respective versions are provided inside the binary installers, namely:

• blueCFD-Core-2020-1-win64-setup.exe

  • MSys2 x86_64, from 27th of August 2020. We selected MSys2 because it provides an open source software development infrastructure and is more up-to-date than the original MSys project. There are several pre-installed packages, including:
    • CMake 3.17.3
    • GCC 10.2.0
    • GDB 9.2
    • Git 2.27.0
    • Meld 3.21.0
    • Python 3.8.4
    • Gnuplot 5.2.8
    • Many other packages are already pre-installed. To get a full list after installation, run in MSys2: pacman -Q

  • OpenFOAM 8, commit 218f49416d, 20th of October 2020.

  • ThirdParty 8, commit 686040d3c0, 21st of July 2020.

  • Notepad2 4.2.25

  • ParaView 5.6.2, 64-bit, built with the options: Qt5, OpenGL2.
    • Using the pre-built one from the ParaView.org website.
  • MS-MPI 7.1 is the default MPI version, which can optionally be installed later on.

Cumulative changes and notes

This release provides the following changes relative to the previous version of blueCFD-Core:

1. Upgraded ported code to work with OpenFOAM 8 (up to commit 218f49416d, 20th of October 2020), based on the changes done up to blueCFD-Core 2017-2.

   • Associated to this, MS-MPI 7.1 and 8.1 are supported, with MS-MPI 7.1 used by default, so that it’s easier to support blueCFD-Core 2017.

2. Using MSys2 installer 20200720, updated on the 27th of August 2020.

3. gnuplot 5.2.8 was installed via MSys2 package manager, instead of providing it as a separate package.

4. ParaView 5.6.2 with Qt5, OpenGL2 is provided in the AddOns folder with the installer.

5. New script wmake/wmakeListAllIncludedLibraries.

6. There are a few tutorial cases known to not be working as intended, but we did not have time/budget to work on fixing them, as listed in Issue #171.

7. Fixed Issue #96: Open terminal via right-click in Windows Explorer does not work with paths that have spaces

8. Fixed Issue #97: Can’t use foamMonitor on Windows, due to x11 terminal not existing for gnuplot

9. Fixed Issue #161: Missing GPLv3 statement on the resources/version file