Date of article: 27 February 2018
Today we release the culmination of all of the bug fixes done since the last post,
namely replying and fixing bug reports,
synchronizing the
blueCFD-Core-5.x branch with OpenFOAM-5.x
and writing FAQ entries.
blueCFD-Core 2017-2 is a bug fix release, along with a
synchronization with all of the bug fixes available in
OpenFOAM 5.x. A few fixes and
additions were made for the third-party software (see the
release notes).
Released elements are:
- blueCFD-Core-2017-2-win64-setup.exe
- blueCFD-Core 2017-2 provides MSys2, OpenFOAM 5.x and ParaView 5.4.1.
- 790 MiB installer, SHA1:
4df0b7a38eea5363b66e5f7d0d94f50714d59f1a
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The Release Notes for blueCFD-Core 2017-2
page has been created for this release.
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The Frequently Asked Questions page is being
revised for this release and will be completed as soon as possible.
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A Project Management page for
organization/project members is available to list the tasks that are in
development for the next release of blueCFD-Core, for easier coordination
with anyone who wants to contribute and/or stay up-to-date on what is being
done.
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A wiki is available for software developers and system installers, which
will be updated in the next few weeks:
blueCFD-Core wiki
- The source code provided for the port of OpenFOAM 5.x has been
updated here.
At the time of this release, there were several tasks still open, as it can be
seen on the milestone blueCFD-Core 2017-2
page, which will be addressed as soon as possible, in association with this
milestone.
As mentioned above, the development infrastructure is based on
MSys2 and instructions for developing in a clean
installation of MSys2 will be provided at openfoamwiki.net,
once we are able to sort out the tasks left for this
milestone.
For a complete list of bug reports, issues and wishes that have been submitted
to the blueCFD-Core project, see the
Issue Tracker page.
Date of article: 3 November 2017
Today we release blueCFD-Core 2017-1, which provides OpenFOAM 5.x as a native
build for Windows, with OpenFOAM binaries acting as normal Windows applications.
The installer for blueCFD-Core 2017-1 is installed separately from
blueCFD-Core 2016, therefore both installations can coexist.
Released elements are:
- blueCFD-Core-2017-1-win64-setup.exe
- blueCFD-Core 2017-1 provides MSys2, OpenFOAM 5.x and ParaView 5.4.1.
- 727 MiB installer, SHA1:
4367af23e453dde2dd406539a01ef76f2afa2376
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The Release Notes for blueCFD-Core 2017-1
page has been created for this release.
-
The Frequently Asked Questions page is being
revised for this release and will be completed as soon as possible.
-
A Project Management page for
organization/project members is available to list the tasks that are in
development for the next release of blueCFD-Core, for easier coordination
with anyone who wants to contribute and/or stay up-to-date on what is being
done.
- A wiki is available for software developers and system installers, which
will be updated in the next few weeks:
blueCFD-Core wiki
The source code provided for the port of OpenFOAM 5.x has been
released here,
as well as of ThirdParty-5.x here.
As mentioned above, the development infrastructure is based on
MSys2 and instructions for developing in a clean
installation of MSys2 will be provided at openfoamwiki.net,
as soon as possible.
For a complete list of bug reports, issues and wishes that have been submitted
to the blueCFD-Core project, see the
Issue Tracker page. For example, a
complete list of issues and tasks that were conducted for developping
blueCFD-Core 2017-1, are available there:
milestone blueCFD-Core 2017-1.
Date of article: 7 September 2017
Today we release the culmination of all of the bug fixes done since the last post,
namely replying and fixing bug reports,
synchronizing the
blueCFD-Core-4.x branch with OpenFOAM-4.x
and writing FAQ entries,
as it can be seen from the list of 24 issues that were solved for
milestone blueCFD-Core 2016-2.
This means that blueCFD-Core 2016-2 is a bug fix release, along with a
synchronization with all of the bug fixes available in
OpenFOAM 4.x. No new software has
been added.
As for our port of OpenFOAM 5, this will be released soon in blueCFD-Core 2017-1.
Released elements are:
- blueCFD-Core-2016-2-win64-setup.exe
- blueCFD-Core 2016-2 provides MSys2, OpenFOAM 4.x and ParaView 5.1.2.
- 726 MiB installer, SHA1:
6925346856d62124971316f5886b18977b49d266
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The Release Notes for blueCFD-Core 2016-2
page has been created for this release.
-
The Frequently Asked Questions page has been
revised and several more entries have been added.
-
A Project Management page is
available to list the tasks that are in development for the next release of
blueCFD-Core, for easier coordination with anyone who wants to contribute
and/or stay up-to-date on what is being done. Note: At the moment,
Github only supports organization/project members to see this page.
- A wiki is available for software developers and system installers:
blueCFD-Core wiki
The source code provided for the port of OpenFOAM 4.x has been
updated here.
As mentioned above, the development infrastructure is based on
MSys2 and instructions for developing in a clean
installation of MSys2 will be provided at openfoamwiki.net,
after we have finalized the release of blueCFD-Core 2017-1.
For a complete list of bug reports, issues and wishes that have been submitted
to the blueCFD-Core project, see the
Issue Tracker page.
