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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-1.11.2-win64.exe Size: 115415636 bytes MD5: 4251cf28aec9d441eac8e88a6ead5ae9	Dec 02, 2016	Instructions Documentation Runs on Windows 7 and 8 or later.
Mac OS X 64-bit	chimera-1.11.2-mac64.dmg Size: 101611902 bytes MD5: 7369cb961673c93495f5b4c0d68275a0	Dec 02, 2016	Instructions Documentation Runs on Mac OS X 10.8 or later.
Linux 64-bit	chimera-1.11.2-linux_x86_64.bin Size: 121918350 bytes MD5: 08b9eb2dc4b91ca2239732fa659a1748	Dec 05, 2016	Instructions Documentation Compiled on Debian 4 (etch).

32-bit Releases (for small memory computers):

Platform	Installer, Size, and Checksum	Date	Notes
Microsoft Windows	chimera-1.11.2-win32.exe Size: 109260484 bytes MD5: c0201380b0f328f57b9d839efcf646bd	Dec 02, 2016	Instructions Documentation Runs on Windows 7 and 8 or later.
Mac OS X	chimera-1.11.2-mac.dmg Size: 103774888 bytes MD5: fa2ccd9c17c456d71088e81129c862d6	Dec 02, 2016	Instructions Documentation Runs on Mac OS X 10.8 or later.
Linux	chimera-1.11.2-linux.bin Size: 119742278 bytes MD5: 47dd12fbcbcfe01ea678599dd7001a6b	Dec 02, 2016	Instructions Documentation Compiled on Debian 4 (etch).

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: 115473706 bytes MD5: cb4432025d9c8bb576e7ff8261d71b35	Jun 26, 2017	(See production version for installation instructions) Runs on Windows 7 and 8 or later. Release notes
Mac OS X 64-bit	chimera-alpha-mac64.dmg Size: 101209053 bytes MD5: 04285e7ccad1f539ed696520a1290430	Jun 26, 2017	(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: 121953221 bytes MD5: c53185388f0955abe0eb590683a9ecad	Jun 26, 2017	(See production version for installation instructions) Compiled on Debian 4 (etch). Release notes
Headless Linux 64-bit	chimera-alpha-linux_x86_64_osmesa.bin Size: 115935775 bytes MD5: 2097fe7304b5a0d20e5582025277d977	Jun 26, 2017	(See production version for installation instructions) For (web) servers. Compiled on Debian 4 (etch). 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-1.11.2-linux_x86_64_osmesa.bin Size: 115246376 bytes MD5: fe799309c1a693928fd5eef9660bed98	Dec 05, 2016	Instructions Documentation For (web) servers. Compiled on Debian 4 (etch).

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).