OpenFOAM v14 | Patch Releases
Patched versions of the openfoam14 pack have been released for the following versions of Ubuntu Linux x86 64bit (e.g. Intel and AMD CPUs) and ARM 64bit architectures.
- 22.04 LTS, codename
jammy - 24.04 LTS, codename
noble - 26.04 LTS, codename
resolute
See the Download v14 | Ubuntu page for installation and upgrade instructions.
The packs can be installed or upgraded on Windows and installed or upgraded on macOS.
The Patch Releases of OpenFOAM 14 are: 20260724 and 20261008.
Subversion Numbering
The OpenFOAM Foundation maintains two public repositories of source code of OpenFOAM:
- The development line of OpenFOAM (
OpenFOAM-dev), packaged weekly asopenfoam-dev, which includes major code changes that can break backward compatibility. - The version-release source repository for the latest major version release — currently
OpenFOAM-14— that incorporates latest code fixes without breaking backward compatibility.
The openfoam14 packs include the source code of OpenFOAM. Each pack has a subversion number represented by the packaging date in YYYYMMDD format. For example, a user can list the subversions of the openfoam14 packs by the following command:
apt-cache policy openfoam14
This writes text, e.g. for the initial release and patched versions of OpenFOAM-14:
openfoam14:
Installed: 20261008
Candidate: 20261008
Version table:
*** 20261008 500
500 http://dl.openfoam.org/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
20260724 500
500 http://dl.openfoam.org/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages20260714 500
500 http://dl.openfoam.org/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
Source Code of a Subversion
The OpenFOAM-14 repository is tagged with the subversion number so that users can reference the source code corresponding to a particular pack exactly. Using the tag, the corresponding source code can be obtained either as a tar.gz archive or using Git.
The patched versions can be viewed in a browser at https://dl.openfoam.org/source with links to download the archived sources. For example, to download the patch version 20260724, the user can click the link labelled 14.20260724. After downloading and extracting the archive, it is recommended to be renamed without the subversion number. From the command line the download, extraction and renaming can be done by:
wget -O - http://dl.openfoam.org/source/14.20260724 | tar xvz mv OpenFOAM-14-* OpenFOAM-14
The same source code can be obtained from the repository using Git, e.g.
git clone git@github.com:OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-14.git cd OpenFOAM-14 git checkout tags/20260724
