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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-1.13-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-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-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: 153292241 bytes MD5: d035be5eac690c9432903d60807b4d27	Jul 13, 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: 138164456 bytes MD5: 6824e87e1ee77fc44c74bc0ebc5c5001	Jul 13, 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: 160034600 bytes MD5: 0ea1b552ced08ce40e07a1bafbd067a7	Jul 13, 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: 154024256 bytes MD5: 03162d0d54be5af55d218a362e9b2daf	Jul 13, 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-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).