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What to Download#

Note

First and most importantly, we recommend that you read User’s Guide to CGNS. This guide also includes sample code (UserGuideCode) for helping to get started with CGNS.

For the up-to-date development source, visit GitHub Development.

git clone https://github.com/CGNS/CGNS.git

For the stable source, visit GitHub Stable.

git clone -b master https://github.com/CGNS/CGNS.git

At the minimum, you will need to download and compile the CGNS library code. Compilation requires an ANSI-compliant C99 compiler. The source code may be downloaded as a gzipped tar file.

Current Stable Release:#

The latest stable release can always be found at: CGNS Latest Version

Historical Stable Releases:#

Note

Please see the release notes at: CGNS Releases for CGNS versions 4.2.0 and up.

  • CGNS Version 4.1.1 (Patch):

    Patched version v4.1.1 addressed backward compatibility and tools compilation errors.

  • CGNS Version 4.1.0:

    This version implements:
    - CPEX42 (Storing bounding box of a grid, CGNS-149)
    - CPEX43 (Family hierarchy as a tree, CGNS-180)

    CGNS switched to using HDF5 compact storage for smaller datasets.

    The following APIs were removed:
    cgio_read_all_data, cgio_read_data, cgio_read_block_data
    cgio_read_all_data_f, cgio_read_data_f, cgio_read_block_data_f
    These APIs should be used instead:
    cgio_read_all_data_type, cgio_read_data_type, cgio_read_block_data_type
    cgio_read_all_data_type_f, cgio_read_data_type_f, cgio_read_block_data_type_f

    See RELEASE.txt for additional bug fixes.

  • CGNS Version 4.0.0:

    Background [1]: The CGNS versions are currently numbered as follows: “Version x.y, Revision z”, or “Version x.y-z”.The first number represents the “major” version number. Within this number, the library maintains forward compatibility.

    Issue: With the introduction of CPEX 0041 “NGON modification proposal”, CGNS 3.4.0 broke the convention of maintaining forward compatibility within the major versioning of CGNS.

    Version 4.0.0 was released with CPEX 0041 implemented (essentially, this is CGNS 3.4.0 released as version 4.0.0).

  • CGNS Version 3.4.1 (patch):

    Patched version v3.4.1 removed CPEX 0041.

  • CGNS Version 3.4.0:

    In addition to numerous bug fixes, this version added new features: CPEX 40 Rind Plane Indexing, CPEX 41 NGON modification proposal, added support for NAG Fortran compilers, enforce the HDF5 version >= 1.8 is used in building HDF5, automatic detection and linking of szip and zlib if required by HDF5.

  • CGNS Version 3.3.0:

    This Version implements CPEX 0038 and 0039, adds new functionality to the parallel capability, and makes extensive changes related to the Fortran library.

    Important note for Fortran users: V3.3 removes the usage of “include cgnslib_f.h.” Instead, from this release forward, one must now employ the module “use CGNS.” Also, if using 64-bit integers, Fortran programs must declare the relevant 64-bit integers via, e.g., integer(cgsize_t) integer KIND.

  • CGNS Version 3.2.1:

    This Version 3.2 release partially integrates parallel I/O using HDF5 with MPI. It also implements the Hierarchy of families (CPEX 0033), Multiple families (CPEX 0034), and Cubic elements (CPEX 0036). Conversion programs to and from AFLR3, FAST, and TetGen have also been added to CGNStools.

    Release 3.2.1 implements the suggestions by Cambridge Flow Solutions to the CMake scripts and adds routines to set the MPI communicator for parallel I/O. There are also numerous updates and fixes to the test cases, tools and CGNStools utilities.

  • CGNS Version 3.1.4:

    It includes 64-bit integer capability and updated tools for viewing and editing CGNS files. When CGNS is built with HDF5 version 1.8 or later, HDF5 is now the default file type. (CGNS can always read or write both HDF5 and ADF file types.)

Older recent release versions are also available from CGNS/CGNS.

Even earlier releases can be found in the archives: CGNS/CGNS_archives.