MBDyn 1.7.3 is out.

October 15, 2017

MBDyn 1.7.3 is out. The tarball is available at this link

This release contains some improvements and bug fixes.

The complete changelog is:

MBDyn 1.7.3

• Enhancements:
  • added network byte order to drivers & element output streams
  • added width/format for eigenanalysis output files (noted by Reinhard Resch)
  • added relative output of follower force/couple
  • refactored communication code (stream drivers and output elements) to support user-defined communicators (Luca Conti for GSoC 2017)
  • added module-flightgear (Luca Conti for GSoC 2017)
  • added automatic derivatives coefficient estimation (Reinhard Resch)
• Backward compatibility issues:
  • got rid of adams and motionview output support
  • deprecated “drees 2” rotor inflow model (identical to “dreese”)
• Known issues:
• Bug fixes:
  • fixed (harmless?) off-by-one read in fixed step drive
  • fixed bugs in timestep control (Reinhard Resch)
  • fixed default max time step (Reinard Resch)
  • fixed build without libmbc (noted by Richard Crozier)
  • fixed test if residual is NaN (Reinard Resch)
  • fixed error message in strext (Richard Crozier)
  • fixed typos and strengthened rotor inflow models

Please test and report using the mailing list.