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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-1.12-win64.exe Size: 150984696 bytes MD5: b662f97cdacb8be458662aa638dd6694	Oct 24, 2017	Instructions Documentation Runs on Windows 7 or later.
Mac OS X 64-bit	chimera-1.12-mac64.dmg Size: 131622631 bytes MD5: 3a691632a3eba8b17286d23432bb6bbb	Oct 24, 2017	Instructions Documentation Runs on Mac OS X 10.8 or later.
Linux 64-bit	chimera-1.12-linux_x86_64.bin Size: 157795228 bytes MD5: 24b9c2560e119988a3150b47c495737b	Oct 24, 2017	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: 153292191 bytes MD5: 81ed234a95629ab838ef92d54f7b893e	May 24, 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: 137897196 bytes MD5: ca96e6f58068cc25971f8da0937130e9	May 24, 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: 160029613 bytes MD5: 60ae958c11099135a637c8550751a4dc	May 24, 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: 154023803 bytes MD5: c283b66e420ad50f75e9a458dd41c41f	May 24, 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-1.12-linux_x86_64_osmesa.bin Size: 151787364 bytes MD5: 5ddaffe3949a5d704ba63c16c7e277e2	Oct 24, 2017	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).