The
OpenFOAM Foundation is pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.0 of the
OpenFOAM open source CFD toolbox. The version number 2.4.0 has been chosen
following a request on the issue tracking system to adopt semantic version
numbering. Our numbering
system is now MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, where:
MAJOR: breaks
backward compatibility for usage, e.g. case
files require changes;
MINOR: changes some internal
API, but backward compatible usage;
PATCH: bug fixes that
do not change internal API.
Based
on this, v2.4.0 represents a minor release with changes to some internal API,
some new features described below, particularly relating to pre- and post-processing,
and further bug fixes of version
2.3.1. (The next major release
will then be v3.0.0 based on functionality in the current OpenFOAM-dev repository.) OpenFOAM v2.4.0 includes over 200 code commits and
almost 800 file changes. It is distributed under the General Public Licence by the OpenFOAM
Foundation as: