Versions

Information about DAMASK release and development versions is provided here. We urge you to use, whenever possible, the most recent release version.

Versioning Scheme

Semantic Versioning is used for DAMASK releases.

damask-MM.mm.ff.pppp
^^^^^^------------------ Name
       ^^--------------- Major (backward incompatible file formats)
          ^^------------ Minor (new features)
             ^^--------- Bugfix
                ^^^^---- Patch

Current Release

The current release version is 3.0.0-alpha7.

• Release date: October 10, 2022

• Download: damask-3.0.0-alpha7.tar.xz

• SHA-256 hash: damask-3.0.0-alpha7.tar.xz.sha256

• Release notes:

  • point-wise initialization of thermal field for Grid solver

  • point-wise initialization of damage field for Grid solver

  • improved performance of parsing material.yaml

  • option to use libfyaml for parsing YAML configuration files

  • setup.py replaces setup.cfg for Python installation

  • new and improved material.yaml examples

  • support for MSC.Marc 2022.1

  • simplified integration into MSC.Marc

  • define initial eigenstrain via V_e

Development Version

The current development version is available on GitHub:

git clone git@github.com:eisenforschung/DAMASK.git

Registered users can also clone from the DAMASK GitLab instance:

git clone git@git.damask.mpie.de:damask/DAMASK.git

Previous Releases

3.0.0-alpha6

• Release date: February 18, 2022

• Download: damask-3.0.0-alpha6.tar.xz

• SHA-256 hash: damask-3.0.0-alpha6.tar.xz.sha256

• Release notes:

  • new license: AGPLv3 instead of GPLv3

  • typehints for most Python functions

  • fixed dislotwin (TWIP/TRIP)

  • new and improved material.yaml examples

  • support for PETSc with 64bit indices

  • support for MSC.Marc 2021.3.1

  • MSC.Marc integration works again

  • MPI parallelization of Mesh solver works again

  • new functionality: define initial eigenstrain

  • using physics-based interaction matrix for hP

  • homogenization honors given volume fraction v

  • corrected calculation of thermal expansion

3.0.0-alpha5

• Release date: October 7, 2021

• Download: damask-3.0.0-alpha5.tar.xz

• SHA-256 hash: damask-3.0.0-alpha5.tar.xz.sha256

• Release notes:

  • support for HDF5 without compression filter

  • support for vti files from VTK 8

  • improved YAML parser

  • improved Python installation

3.0.0-alpha4

• Release date: June 30, 2021

• Download: damask-3.0.0-alpha4.tar.xz

• SHA-256 hash: damask-3.0.0-alpha4.tar.xz.sha256

• Release notes:

  • examples included

  • grid solver uses vti instead of vtr

  • broken ductile damage removed

3.0.0-alpha3

• Release date: April 15, 2021

• Download: damask-3.0.0-alpha3.tar.xz

• SHA-256 hash: damask-3.0.0-alpha3.tar.xz.sha256

• Release notes:

  • improvements to the python library

  • changes to input (yaml) and output (hdf5) file format

  • restructuring Fortran code

3.0.0-alpha2

• Release date: December 9, 2020

• Download: damask-3.0.0-alpha2.tar.xz

• SHA-256 hash: damask-3.0.0-alpha2.tar.xz.sha256

• Release notes:

  • improvements to the python library

  • changes to input (yaml) and output (hdf5) file format

3.0.0-alpha

• Release date: August 8, 2020

• Download: damask-3.0.0-alpha.tar.xz

• SHA-256 hash: damask-3.0.0-alpha.tar.xz.sha256

• Release notes:

  • new input (yaml) and output (hdf5) file format specifications

2.0 series

See damask2.mpie.de.