Discover the new release v23.12!

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SOFA v23.12 is released!

The SOFA team is glad to (a bit lately) announce the v23.12 release!

What’s new?

• Improvement on linear solvers (parallelism, performance using constant sparsity, speedups!)
• Integration of the Tracy profiler
• Massive use of GitHub Actions
• New plugins on:
  • Visco-Elasticity @pasqualeferr94 🚀
  • and Design Optimization @TanguyNav 🚀

Download it here
Read more about the release here

Contributors

A big thank to @alxbilger 🥇 (AGAIN!), @fredroy 🥈 (AGAIN!), @epernod 🥉, @bakpaul, @damienmarchal, @olivier-roussel, @dennis2society, @Camille-K, @EulalieCoevoet for their contributions and their involvement!

Thank you all for making the project thriving through GitHub activities @EulalieCoevoet, @DanteAngio8, @Dwarveney, @AliceCatalano, @JetsSimavDibris, @kaihuang-ak, @Xavier-OM, @younes1010, @AngelicaScamarcia, @giuliadinardo1, @datou1209, @dusevitch, @PiccioFra, @Cuberkk, @camilla-agabiti, @SangbaekYoo, @Gabriele111, @Slykkey, @tolstoys19, @Alex-srj, @vargabalint92, @xlsufo, @manueotti, @duchaoyu, @parabolang, @OBMartin, @MarkWrobelUCL, @TurboS2002, @GrisNuAge, @YeganehAliyari, @JoJoamin, @oystebje, @nhnhan92, @VeronicaG24, @ISIR-GuillaumeS, @EricSanchezok, @SerkanErgunAAU, @Alico10, @JaggerYu928 and @maddin200 !

Looking forward to seeing your achievements at the SOFA Week 2024 or our other 2024 events!

– The SOFA Consortium
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And because the list of active GitHub users is long ... 🎉
@YiJinStar, @fangzhouzisb, @JaggerYu928, @Gopi-GK02, @dhananjayjha100, @joseph01sf, @sapnasahai, @LuyuHuang-AO, @YixiongCair, @KantaphatLeelakunwet, @saketh2002, @q1221sr, @ylffan, @no240805, @kayhan-batmanghelich, @liuqiluhan, @lowkey9527, @wj9991, @ldi4, @Lihao7788, @zq-isgood, @meoDzz, @yang-si-hang, @hyzhao955, @DarkN117, @jiayiliu-pku, @RaMathuZen, @jungjae01eng, @Leon-0919, @james12parker, @kittykisser, @harshjn, @jungjae01eng, @Junang-Wang, @WilliamHangXu, @mehrnoosh-afshar and @jjalora!

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Changes

Changelog: https://github.com/sofa-framework/sofa/blob/v23.12/CHANGELOG.md#v231200
Diff with v23.06: v23.06...v23.12

Required dependencies

Windows

1. Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2022 Redistributable.
2. Install Python 3.10 + Numpy + Scipy + pybind11 if you want to use the SofaPython3 plugin or any of its dependers.
   Download and install Python 3.10 (amd64).
   Make sure to enable PIP installation and addition to PATH.
   Then, open a console and run python -V && python -m pip install numpy scipy pybind11==2.9.1

Linux

1. Install libopengl0

    sudo apt install libopengl0 
   

2. Install Python 3.10 + Numpy + Scipy + pybind11 if you want to use the SofaPython3 plugin or any of its dependers.

    sudo apt install python3.10-dev python3.10-distutils pybind11-dev
    curl -L https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/get-pip.py --output /tmp/get-pip3.py
    python3.10 /tmp/get-pip3.py
    python3.10 -m pip install --upgrade pip
    python3.10 -m pip install numpy scipy pybind11==2.9.1
   

MacOS

1. All core dependencies are included in the binaries.

2. Install Python 3.10 + Numpy + Scipy + pybind11 if you want to use the SofaPython3 plugin or any of its dependers.

    brew install [email protected]
    brew link --force [email protected]
    python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
    python3 -m pip install numpy scipy
    brew install pybind11
   

Check SHA256 checksums

Feel free to check SHA256 checksums of our official binaries:

• SOFA_v23.12.00-full_Linux.run → caa7fe30dc501e3db53f39634a359a06552ff162f68da1eedf394171b44f0cb7
• SOFA_v23.12.00-full_Linux.zip → 47be20c5ea8b7e56fdfc70f0ba1eda58b6a6c4780a081aa7307a30bd1a9c1c50
• SOFA_v23.12.00-full_MacOS.zip → 494b730c380cee9acc4605c19b6abc839758fc4a9b8d97a09c217da8f5c14ab3
• SOFA_v23.12.00-full_Win64.exe → c48a88cc507357c54c861ff2f7ca3378a0af7115cce8746c9597a32169474427
• SOFA_v23.12.00-full_Win64.zip → d4109571e3982215618d477973e3d237c8ddd4c4c2c29672e1edbf59162db51b

Compare these sha with yours:

• Windows : on Powershell Get-FileHash path/to/file
• Ubuntu : in a terminal sha256sum path/to/file
• MacOS : in a terminal shasum -a 256 /path/to/file

Info for developers

SOFA binaries were generated using the following libraries:

	Qt	Boost	Eigen	Python	pybind11	TinyXML2	Glew	Zlib	libPNG	libJPEG	libTIFF
Windows	5.12.12	1.74.0	3.4.0	3.10.10	2.9.1	9.0.0	1.13	1.2.8	1.6.18	6b	4.0.9
Linux	5.12.12	1.71.0	3.3.7	3.8.10	2.9.1	9.0.0	2.2.0	1.2.11	1.6.37	8c	4.3.0
MacOS	5.12.8	1.76.0	3.4.0	3.8.10	2.6.2	10.0.0	2.2.0	1.2.11	1.6.37	9e	4.3.0

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