EGSnrc 2023a update

This is the 2023a release of EGSnrc. This update is released to resolve a Windows compilation bug related to git and time zones. Please see the full changelog for details. This release only updates the source code. To obtain the GUIs and sample data, scroll down to the initial 2023 release and expand the assets section.

What's Changed

• Fix egs_cbct, egs_fac compilation and egs_cbct example by @rtownson in #940
• Fix formatting issues in dose scoring ausgab object by @ftessier in #1013
• Add badges for doi, licence and citation to the top-level readme by @ftessier in #1043
• Clarify egs_box example with explicit bounds by @ftessier in #979
• Fix compilation on windows for some time zones, add lquadmath by @rtownson in #972

Full Changelog: v2023...v2023a

EGSnrc 2023

👁 Release notes

This is the 2023 release of EGSnrc (there was no release in 2022). Notable changes from the previous version are listed in the release notes. Please review the recommended way to cite EGSnrc. To install EGSnrc, clone the repository and follow the installation instructions for your operating system. In addition, the assets below provide:

• the configuration GUIs for Linux and Windows (these include the pre-compiled GUIs);
• pre-compiled GUIs for Linux and Windows (egs_gui, egs_inprz, and egs_view);
• an archive of all the EGSnrc manuals available on http://nrc-cnrc.github.io/EGSnrc/; and
• additional sample data sets in support of some EGSnrc examples.

EGSnrc 2021

This is the 2021 release of EGSnrc. Notable changes from the previous version are listed in the release notes. Note that the recommended way to cite EGSnrc has been updated. Please download the EGSnrc source code from the github repository, as per the installation instructions for your operating system. In addition, the assets below provide:

• the configuration GUIs for Linux and Windows;
• pre-compiled GUIs for Linux and Windows (egs_gui, egs_inprz, and egs_view);
• an archive of all the EGSnrc manuals available on http://nrc-cnrc.github.io/EGSnrc/; and
• additional sample data sets in support of some EGSnrc examples.

EGSnrc 2020

This is the 2020 release of EGSnrc. Notable changes from the previous version are listed in the release notes. Please download the EGSnrc source code from the github repository, as per the installation instructions for your operating system. In addition, the assets below provide:

• the configuration GUIs for Linux and Windows;
• pre-compiled GUIs for Linux and Windows (egs_gui, egs_inprz, and egs_view);
• an archive of all the EGSnrc manuals available on http://nrc-cnrc.github.io/EGSnrc/; and
• additional sample data sets in support of some EGSnrc examples.

EGSnrc 2019a update

This is the 2019a release of EGSnrc. This release reverts a bug introduced in release 2019, which may cause spurious geometry errors inside egs++ conestack geometries. Please see commit bce4233 for details. This release only updates the source code. To obtain the GUIs and sample data, scroll down to the initial 2019 release and expand the assets section.

EGSnrc 2019

This is the 2019 release of EGSnrc. Notable changes from the previous version are listed in the release notes. You should download the EGSnrc source code from the github repository, as per the installation instructions for your operating system. This release page provides:

• the configuration GUIs for Linux and Windows;
• the application GUIs for Linux and Windows;
• an archive of all the EGSnrc manuals available on http://nrc-cnrc.github.io/EGSnrc/; and
• additional sample data sets in support of some EGSnrc examples.

EGSnrc 2018

This is the 2018 release of EGSnrc. Notable changes from the previous version are listed in the release notes. You should download the EGSnrc source code from the github repository, as per the installation instructions for your operating system. This release page provides:

• the configuration GUIs for Linux and Windows;
• the application GUIs for Linux and Windows;
• an archive of all the EGSnrc manuals available on http://nrc-cnrc.github.io/EGSnrc/; and
• additional sample data sets in support of some EGSnrc examples.

EGSnrc 2017

This is the 2017 release of EGSnrc. Notable changes from the previous version are listed in the release notes. You should download the EGSnrc source code from the github repository, as per the installation instructions for your operating system. This release page provides:

• the configuration GUIs for Linux and Windows;
• the standalone GUIs for Linux and Windows;
• the standalone GUIs for macOS;
• an archive of all the EGSnrc manuals available on http://nrc-cnrc.github.io/EGSnrc/; and
• additional sample data sets in support of some EGSnrc examples.

Backwards incompatibilities

• egs++ rotation transformations
  • if you are using an old egs++ inputfile with rotation transformations, the y-axis rotation direction has changed
  • see commit 0cf6670 for more details

EGSnrc 2016

This is the 2016 release of EGSnrc, which marks the first official release of EGSnrc on github, under the terms of the AGPL 3.0 licence. EGSnrc releases are now tagged by year, and v2016 follows the deprecated version number V4-2.4.0 (released in March 2013). BEAMnrc is now integrated in EGSnrc and does not need to be installed separately.

You should download the EGSnrc source code from the github repository (and not from the source code archives listed at the bottom of this release), as per the installation instructions for your operating system. This release page provides:

• the configuration GUIs for Linux and Windows;
• the standalone GUIs for Linux and OS X when installing with the configure script;
• an archive of all the EGSnrc manuals available on http://nrc-cnrc.github.io/EGSnrc/; and
• additional sample data sets in support of some EGSnrc examples.

EGSnrc 2015

This is the 2015 release of EGSnrc. This release page provides the configuration GUIs for Linux and Windows, as well as the standalone egs_gui and egs_inprz GUIs for Linux and OS X. You can also download an archive containing all the EGSnrc manuals found on http://nrc-cnrc.github.io/EGSnrc/, as well as additional sample data sets in support of some EGSnrc examples. You should download the EGSnrc source code from the github repository as per the installation instructions, not from the source archives below.