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July 10, 2023
OpenCFD announces the June 2023 release of OpenFOAM v2306. This release extends OpenFOAM-v2212 features across many areas of the code. The new functionality represents development sponsored by OpenCFD's customers, internally funded developments, and integration of features and changes from the OpenFOAM community.
OpenFOAM is distributed by OpenCFD under the GPL License. In addition to source code packages suitable for compilation on a variety of Linux and other POSIX systems, this release also has a number of precompiled binary packages.
- Ubuntu Linux: packaged installation for Ubuntu 22.04 (LTS), 20.04 (LTS), 18.04 (LTS), 23.04, 22.10
- openSUSE Linux: packaged installation for Leap15.5
- Redhat Linux variants: packaged installation for epel-9; Fedora 37
Windows users have three options for pre-compiled packages (more information):
- Using Windows Subsystem for Linux (based on Ubuntu, openSUSE etc.)
- Native executables with cross-compiled
- A docker installation
Mac OSX users have the option to compile from source, or use Docker containers for pre-compiled packages (more information).
Upgrading
- Help for users is provided in the user upgrade guide
- Help for developers is provided in the developer upgrade guide
- Note that the minimum C++ standard will increase from C++11 to C++17 in 2023
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.
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