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Today we at FS Dynamics Portugal have released blueCFD-Core 2024-1, which provides OpenFOAM 12 as a native build for Windows, with OpenFOAM binaries acting as normal Windows applications.
This was possible thanks to our various sponsors, benefactors and donators!

The installer for blueCFD-Core 2024-1 is installed separately from older blueCFD-Core versions, therefore these installations can coexist.

Released elements are:

• blueCFD-Core-2024-1-win64-setup.exe
  • blueCFD-Core 2024-1 provides MSYS2, OpenFOAM 12 and ParaView 5.11.2.
  • 1173 MiB installer, SHA1: 87a16cd49ba891c9a5ff24d6c24b832e44f6cee7
• The Release Notes for blueCFD-Core 2024-1 page has been created for this release.
• The Funding page has been updated, to reflect the funding the project has received so far, as well as the work done so far.
• The Project Management page is public, allowing people to know how things are coming along and what are the upcoming objectives for 2024 and 2025.
• A wiki is available for software developers and system installers: blueCFD-Core wiki

The source code provided for the port of OpenFOAM 12 has been released here, as well as of ThirdParty-12 here.
As mentioned above, the development infrastructure is based on MSYS2. As listed in the Funding page page, one of our objectives is to provide updates and builds of OpenFOAM via MSYS2 package manager, however this is not yet available with this release. That said, instructions are available on blueCFD-Core’s wiki on:

1. Preparing a new MSYS2 installation for blueCFD‐Core development
2. Quick notes on how to update build
3. Loose notes on building custom code

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 developing blueCFD-Core 2024-1, are available there: milestone blueCFD-Core 2024-1.


Disclaimers:

• FS Dynamics Portugal is responsible for the development and maintenance of the blueCFD®-Core project.
• blueCFD® is a registered trade mark of FS Dynamics Portugal.
• FS Dynamics Portugal 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.
• FS Dynamics Portugal 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.

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Thank you to FS Dynamics Portugal and all the sponsors, benefactors, and donors for their hard work in releasing blueCFD-Core 2024-1 with OpenFOAM 12 for Windows, making it easier for users to access and use these powerful tools on their systems.