How to get PLUMED
PLUMED is free and licensed under the Lesser GNU General Public License. New and old releases can be downloaded below.
When upgrading to a new version, please read carefully the CHANGES file for syntax changes, which might break compatibility in rare occasions. Please notice that new version might also bring in new bugs, hence test carefully PLUMED on your system before using a new version in production. Known bugs that have not been fixed yet can be found on GitHub. Known bugs that have been fixed in a patch release can be found in the linked CHANGES file. Known bugs that are fixed on GitHub but for which the fix has not been released yet can be found at the end of such file.
Recent releases
Development version
Previous releases (unsupported)
- v2.8.4 (CHANGES)
- v2.7.6 (CHANGES)
- v2.6.6 (CHANGES)
- v2.5.7 (CHANGES)
- v2.4.8 (CHANGES)
- v2.3.8 (CHANGES)
- v2.2.5 (CHANGES)
- v2.1.5 (CHANGES)
- v2.0.5 (CHANGES)
- v1.3
- All releases of the 2.x series can be found at this link
- All releases of the 1.x series can be found at this link
Packages
PLUMED is also available as a package in a few binary or source distributions. Some of these packages are activiely maintained by PLUMED developers:
- MacPorts, ports plumed and py-plumed, both as a pre-compiled binary (with basic capabilities) and source code (with more MPI and compiler options and including optional modules). Port plumed-devel provides a snapshot of the current development version.
- Conda-forge, packages plumed and py-plumed, as pre-compiled binaries with basic capabilities. Other conda binaries containing development versions or nightly builds are available on the plumed channel.
- Python wrappers are also available on PyPI, package plumed. If you download these wrappers, you will have to install the PLUMED library separately.
Other packages are contributed and maintained by the community (please let us know if a package or repository is missing here):
- Arch-linux, packages plumed and plumed-mpi.
- DPorts, package plumed.
- Free-BSD ports, package plumed.
- NixOS packages (unstable), package plumed.
- Pkgsrc, package plumed.
- SlackBuilds, package plumed.
- Spack, package plumed.