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

• 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.

Disclaimers:

• FSD blueCAPE is responsible for the development and maintenance of the blueCFD®-Core project.

• blueCFD® is a registered trade mark of FSD blueCAPE Lda.

• FSD blueCAPE Lda is an FS Dynamics company.

• This offering is not approved or endorsed by OpenCFD Limited, producer and distributor of the OpenFOAM software via www.openfoam.com and owner of the OPENFOAM® and OpenCFD® trade marks.

• blueCAPE Lda is a contributor to the OpenFOAM Foundation, but the majority of the specific modifications needed in the source code for running OpenFOAM natively on Windows, will not be accepted in the official releases of OpenFOAM by the OpenFOAM Foundation, mostly due to the maintenance overhead associated to supporting closed-source operating systems.