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Download Chimera

Daily Builds
Snapshot Releases
Unsupported Releases
Old Releases

Current Production Releases

See the release notes for a list of new features and other information.
For more recent changes, use the snapshot and daily builds; they are less tested but usually reliable.

64-bit Releases:

Platform	Installer, Size, and Checksum	Date	Notes
Microsoft Windows 64-bit	chimera-1.13.1-win64.exe Size: 153273609 bytes MD5: 920d9882259640cbd0285a206f05d9a2	Aug 14, 2018	Instructions Documentation Release candidate Runs on Windows 7 or later.
Microsoft Windows 64-bit	chimera-1.13-win64.exe Size: 153276097 bytes MD5: 75266564b791bc8aad0d7c085d9dd39f	Jul 03, 2018	Instructions Documentation Runs on Windows 7 or later.
Mac OS X 64-bit	chimera-1.13.1-mac64.dmg Size: 137978610 bytes MD5: 78af52b8d6c8242a95bae75ba0238c7f	Aug 14, 2018	Instructions Documentation Release candidate Runs on Mac OS X 10.8 or later.
Mac OS X 64-bit	chimera-1.13-mac64.dmg Size: 137871177 bytes MD5: 1a51079a2171e7b9da43feeaa469f103	Jul 03, 2018	Instructions Documentation Runs on Mac OS X 10.8 or later.
Linux 64-bit	chimera-1.13.1-linux_x86_64.bin Size: 160015747 bytes MD5: 049519adb79dbc5a8ee439fdd3eaaffb	Aug 14, 2018	Instructions Documentation Release candidate Compiled on CentOS 5.11.
Linux 64-bit	chimera-1.13-linux_x86_64.bin Size: 160039677 bytes MD5: 281090d351c1c304853a6dd50c8e3642	Jul 03, 2018	Instructions Documentation Compiled on CentOS 5.11.

32-bit releases are no longer supported.

Daily Builds

These are the results of our automated build procedure. They are untested but are usually reliable while including the latest Chimera features.

64-bit Builds:

Platform	Installer, Size, and Checksum	Date	Notes
Microsoft Windows 64-bit	chimera-alpha-win64.exe Size: 153292414 bytes MD5: 71fc8d9d49e9021d929db49e703a6886	Aug 15, 2018	(See production version for installation instructions) Runs on Windows 7 or later. Release notes
Mac OS X 64-bit	chimera-alpha-mac64.dmg Size: 137475908 bytes MD5: 0680cb2924277a2c7e7c7a848f4216b5	Aug 15, 2018	(See production version for installation instructions) Runs on Mac OS X 10.8 or later. Release notes
Linux 64-bit	chimera-alpha-linux_x86_64.bin Size: 160032679 bytes MD5: 962ab87d362a18cc40d80194fe4132b7	Aug 15, 2018	(See production version for installation instructions) Compiled on CentOS 5.11. Release notes
Headless Linux 64-bit	chimera-alpha-linux_x86_64_osmesa.bin Size: 154028260 bytes MD5: cc6a1480f0996c9e491e8787b94e9556	Aug 15, 2018	(See production version for installation instructions) For (web) servers. Compiled on CentOS 5.11. Release notes

32-bit builds are no longer supported.

Snapshot Releases

These are development snapshots, not tested as much as the production releases.

Currently there are no snapshot releases.

Unsupported Releases

These are releases for platforms that we might support in the future or used to support.

64-bit Releases:

Platform	Installer, Size, and Checksum	Date	Notes
HP Tru64 Unix	chimera-1.3-tru64.exe Size: 95937093 bytes MD5: 7a84b2a39371a077c51bc348db057f28	Dec 09, 2008	Instructions Documentation Runs on Tru64 5.1B.
Headless Linux 64-bit	chimera-1.13.1-linux_x86_64_osmesa.bin Size: 154010249 bytes MD5: d09576d97bf304b27cf82424cbdd4e5f	Aug 14, 2018	Instructions Documentation Release candidate For (web) servers. Compiled on CentOS 5.11.
Headless Linux 64-bit	chimera-1.13-linux_x86_64_osmesa.bin Size: 154029532 bytes MD5: e5992a45968453126381073d2ae682d6	Jul 03, 2018	Instructions Documentation For (web) servers. Compiled on CentOS 5.11.

32-bit Releases (for small memory computers):

Platform	Installer, Size, and Checksum	Date	Notes
Mac OS X (X Windows)	chimera-1.11.2-mac_x11.dmg Size: 91230485 bytes MD5: a42b0463f5d51ff845cc459cd3de66c3	Dec 02, 2016	Instructions Documentation Runs on Mac OS X 10.8 or later.
SGI IRIX	chimera-1.3-irix.exe Size: 91949632 bytes MD5: 503399e4bcddd58d736e686925feefeb	Dec 09, 2008	Instructions Documentation Runs on IRIX 6.5.10+ with current C++ runtime patches.
Headless Linux	chimera-1.11.2-linux_osmesa.bin Size: 113253259 bytes MD5: 4f8b829bf5838566ba7a3afefdccb02d	Dec 02, 2016	Instructions Documentation For (web) servers. Compiled on Debian 4 (etch).