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# Changelog (from 4.2.1) ------------------------ ## Solvers ### FAST.Farm #3243 Add high res windslice at `T=t_low - DT_high` (Fix for FAST.Farm issue #3183) (@andrew-platt) ## Modules ## AeroDyn #### AeroDyn Driver / AeroDyn\_Inflow\_C\_Bindings interface #3214 [BugFix] ADI c-b

# Changelog (from 4.1.2) ------ ## Overview This release contains improvements to the _AeroAcoustics_ module in _AeroDyn_, an improved cubic interpolation in _HydroDyn_ and _SeaState_, an improved teeter inertia model in _ElastoDyn_ for 2 bladed turbines, and many other small imp

# Changelog (from 4.1.1) ## Overview This release includes several bug fixes and improvements for _OpenFAST_ and fixes a critical error in the Visual Studio build system for _OpenFAST_ and _MoorDyn_. ## General ### Visual Studio build system #2914 Add SeaState path when running M

# Changelog (from 4.1.0) ## Overview This release includes several bug fixes and improvements for _OpenFAST_, GitHub actions, and the C++ interface. ## General ### CMake build system #2910 CMake: update location of external lapack (@andrew-platt) ### GitHub actions #2883 Gh actio

# Changelog (since 4.0.5) ## Overview This release removes the SuperController from _FAST.Farm_ in favor of ZeroMQ communication between ROSCO controllers. This release also adds several new features including direct coupling of _MoorDyn_ to _SeaState_, rectangular members in _Hy

# v4.0.5 Overview This is a minor incremental bug fix release. See the changelog below for details. # Changelog ## Overview This release includes several bug fixes and improvements for _OpenFAST_, GitHub actions, and _openfast\_io_. ## General ### CMake build system ### GitHub ac

# v4.0.4 Overview This is a minor incremental bug fix release. See the changelog below for details. # Changelog ## Overview This release includes several bug fixes and improvements for _OpenFAST_, GitHub actions, and _openfast\_io_. ## General ### CMake build system ### GitHub ac

# v4.0.3 Overview This is a minor incremental bug fix release. See the changelog below for details. # Changelog ## Overview This release includes several bug fixes and improvements for _FAST.Farm_, including segmentation faults with large farms, file I/O collision fixes, increase

# v4.0.2 Overview This is a minor incremental bug fix release. See the changelog below for details. # Changelog ## Overview This release includes a bug fix to the `ExternalInflow` module which is used by AMR-Wind to provide wind velocities to AeroDyn and receive aerodynamic force

# v4.0.1 Overview This is a minor incremental bug fix release. See the changelog below for details. # Changelog ## Overview This release includes multiple small bug-fixes including compilation issues with Flang and Intel (IFX), improved diagnostics for the AeroDyn\_Inflow\_c-bind

# Overview of v3.5.5 This release includes only minor bug fixes. See below for details. ## Input File changes No input file formats change. # Changelog ## Overview This release includes multiple small bug-fixes for compilation with CMake, compilation with the IFX compilers, file

# Overview of v3.5.4 This release includes a performance increase for _BeamDyn_ and several minor bug fixes. See below for details ### Bugfixes There are numerous bug fixes in several modules. See below for details. ### Input File changes No input file formats change. # Changelog

# Overview of v3.5.3 This release includes a long awaited set of bug fixes for linearization with BeamDyn. Anyone needing to linearize with BeamDyn should not use any version of OpenFAST prior to this release. Other notable improvements include corrections to turbine indexing whe

# Overview of v3.5.2 This release contains only bugfixes. No input files are changed from release https://github.com/OpenFAST/openfast/releases/tag/v3.5.0 ### Bugfixes There are numerous bug fixes in several modules. See below for details. ### Input File changes No input file for

# Overview of v3.5.1 This release primarily contains bugfixes, and a very small handful of new minor features. No input files are changed from release https://github.com/OpenFAST/openfast/releases/tag/v3.5.0 ### New features Visualization of HydroDyn Morison meshes and MoorDyn mo

# Overview of v3.5.0 This release includes several new features, bugfixes, and improvements. ### New Features New features include Lidar simulation within the InflowWind module, the ability to simulate a marine hydro-kinetic turbine (MHK) on a floating platform with an downward p

# Release Notes OpenFAST 3.4.1 is a minor release to revert a channel name change in AeroDyn 15. This also contains minor fixes for documentation builds. ### Documentation #1442 `[BugFix] Doxygen builds failing on rtd, and locally. Documentation builds on readthedocs and local we

# Release Notes OpenFAST v3.4.0 includes several major new features and bug fixes. New features include a new curled-wake model in FAST.Farm (#931), buoyancy calculations in AeroDyn 15 for MHK turbines (#957), rotor and tail furling (#1277), and new library interfaces for AeroDyn

# Release Notes ### General #1183 Fix bugs and issues in the online documentation #1248 OpenFAST Registry: allow pointers ### AeroDyn #1000 Updates of Unsteady Aero (UAMod=4) and DBEMT (DBEMT_Mod=3) for linearization #1037 Bug fix: BEMT was disabled for negative inflow #1042 AD:

# Release Notes This release contains the following bug fixes: #1201 Include stdexcept in FastLibAPI driver #1180 Add conditional compile for C++ / C definitions in OpenFAST Library Revert #1169 Update git-module urls # Precompiled binaries The binary files in this release were b

# Release Notes ### General #866 Include legacy documentation in pdf and MS Word format - Modules #1021 Reg_tests python scripts: fix issue where directory returned is empty #1062 Add documentation for community contribution #1169 Update git-module urls #1158 Update orientation d

# Release Notes ### General #707 Add environmental variables to driver input files #734 OpenFAST Registry algorithm change: simplify USE statements Others (#826, #835, #836, #911, #918, #971, #1019) ### AeroDyn #688 AeroDyn driver update for multiple wind turbines, with arbitrary

This release includes the following major enhancements: - Support for flexible floating platforms and expansion of linearization capability (#537) ### AeroDyn #645 Add Eames tower shadow model to AD15 #643 Support primary input file parsing through strings ### BeamDyn #615 [BugFi

### General In v2.5.0, the `master` branch will become `main` and this will serve as the "trunk" or primary branch for OpenFAST. This is in line with current best practices in naming conventions (see [here](https://github.com/github/renaming)). ### AeroDyn - #538 Update AeroDyn t

### General - #428 Improve CLI for OpenFAST (`openfast -v` and `openfast -h`) - #350 Add offshore linearization capability - #488 Improve Line2-to-Line2 or Line2-to-Point mapping - #508 Support RANLUX as an optional pRNG - #373 Support for channel names up to 20 characters - #373

### General - Documentation fixes and improvements ### AeroDyn 15 - Added option for 2D airfoil interpolation (#213) - Add the Gonzalez Model (#226) - Suppport node outputs using DBG_OUTS preprocessor directive (#359) - Fixed units for axial and tangential inductions ### ElastoDy

General - Simulink interface updated and improved - OpenFAST Registry made optional and all module-types files added to version control (https://github.com/OpenFAST/openfast/pull/337) - Consolidated `modules-ext` and `modules-local` into `modules` and added module README's - Solv

OpenFAST - Fix a stack overflow issue in vtk visualization for large wave fields - Add GitHub pull request and issue templates - Continuous integration expansion and improvements - Bug fixes and improvements for the Windows build systems AeroDyn - Robustness improved in DBEMT - B