March

27 Mon
>>>>>>> ___________ update ___ update ___ update ___________
) FLUKA release 2006.3b is available for download. this is a BUG-fix release and replaces release 2006.3


2007




September

12 Tue
>>>>>>> ___________ update ___ update ___ update ___________
) new FLUKA release 2006.3 is available for download. this release includes again many changes, improvements and new features - please see the Release Notes for details.


March

27-31
) FLUKA User Course - at the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.


2006


July

29 Fri
>>>>>>> ___________ update ___ update ___ update ___________
) new FLUKA release 2005.6 is available for download. this release includes many changes, improvements and new features - please see the Release Notes for details. In addition a first (test) release of the FLUKA source code is available.


May

23 Mon
) final version of FLUKA user license governing download and use of FLUKA is now in place.


February

16 Wed
) major work-over of the FLUKA website after 4 years of operation. this site now can be viewed with two different looks/skins - support for Netscape4 is still available.


January

9-14
) FLUKA User Course - at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas.


2005


December

27 Mon
) we implemented a new registration/download procedure. this change should be transparent to the users. the new procedure guarantees secure transport of user information across the internet and is able to be used for a concurrent set of mirror servers.
) at the same time a first FLUKA mirror website was installed and brought online. this mirror is located at the University of Houston, Houston Texas: fluka.phys.uh.edu.


August

11 Wed
) an updated list of FLUKA citations was made available


April

06 Tue
>>>>>>> ___________ update ___ update ___ update ___________
updated version of the FLUKA package (2003.1b) is available for download.
the update consists of minor bug fixes.


2004


December

18 Mon
a new FLUKA release is available (fluka 2003.1) for download
>>>>>>> ___________ update ___ update ___ update ___________
this release includes heavy ion event generator support which at this point in time is limited to the Linux platform.

17 Mon
) the official agreement between INFN and CERN to support and host the FLUKA project has been signed. accepting a period of adjustment, the FLUKA code should become publicly available to the scientific community.


June

13 Fri
) there will be a 1st FLUKA user course held at Frascati this fall. see more about FLUKA user courses here.


May

23 Fri
>>>>>>> ___________ update ___ update ___ update ___________
a new release is available (fluka 2002.4) for download.

07 Wed
) implemented the latest version of the ASCII manual for online use - this as a precursor to the imminent next FLUKA release.


February

19 Fri
) a scientific agreement was signed between INFN, CERN and the FLUKA project with the goal to prepare a full FLUKA release. here are PDF copies of the signed agreement and the charge to the Coordinating Committee.


January

31 Fri
) the section for examples of the manual is now a live link to a new page dedicated to a growing list of detailed examples of how to setup and run a FLUKA simulation. attention will be given to describe standard FLUKA output features.

24 Fri
) instructions for and details of the FLUKA to Geant-4 geometry interface FluGG are available now. just follow the link on the projects page.
) the procedure to register/download has been updated. Should you experience problems, please let us know. you will now need a personal email account in order to register and download the FLUKA package.


2003


December

19 Thu
>>>>>>> ___________ update ___ update ___ update ___________
a slightly revised/updated version is available (fluka 2002.1b) for download. changes include minor fixes and two physics improvements (extended GDR/giant dipole resonance database, updated treatment of optical photons). Note for users of mgdraw.f: FLUKA now provides calls to new entry points bxdraw() and eedraw() for boundary crossings (explicitly) and the end of events respectively. should you be providing your own mgdraw.f you will have to add these two new entry points, even if left empty at this time.


October

31 Thu
) the online manual now reflects the status of the latest release of the FLUKA package. with the development of an almost automatic translation procedure further revisions should be available to the users through the online manual as soon as the ASCII original.

24 Mon
) we now have an updated FLUKA package available for the SUN Unix platform.

22 Fri
) an additional LINUX version is available for download. this is the result of a very unlucky RedHat distribution philosophy which affects versions 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2 in particular. the problem, which is centered around the shipped version of the GNU linker, is resolved in RedHat version 7.3 and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade at least their linker. for the time being, and intended as an interim solution, a FLUKA library produced under RedHat 7.2 is provided. also, please note that RedHat will discontinue support for it's version RedHat 6 at the end of this year.

13 Sun
>>>>>>> ___________ update ___ update ___ update ___________
new version of the FLUKA package is available for download (fluka 2002.1). at this point the new release is limited to Linux (both RedHat 6.x and 7.x) and Compaq Unix but the missing platforms will be added soon.


August

30 Fri
) we reached a total of about 120 registered FLUKA users since introducing the new download procedure! check out the sections on talks which features now a very detailed introduction to FLUKA's physics and gives quite a list of example applications.


May

29 Wed
) several features were added to the FLUKA website during the last few weeks. it now features a 'digest' of the questions/answers faq submitted to the mailing list next to a project internal area intrernals for communication within the development team. the download procedure was updated to include a more formal registration, which is still under testing. also, a first detailed EXAMPLE on how to prepare and run FLUKA is available now.

07 Tue
) we now have a new and more adequate name for our web presence: www.fluka.org. the FLUKA mailing list is in the process of being moved to the official FLUKA server.


March

19 Mon
) a new version of the FLUKA package is available with an extended time stamp. more details are available in this email to the FLUKA users. since there's no IBM/AIX system available to the FLUKA team, support for this platform was suspended.

11 Mon
) the FLUKA website was migrated to Milano and it's official INFN web-server. further adjustments are expected.


2002


November

19 Mon
) because new features are not debugged sufficiently at this point, the next release of the FLUKA package was postponed. for the time being an unchanged version of the package is available with an extended time stamp only. The anticipated next release date is set for February 2002 (Alfredo's note).


June

12 Tue
) for both Linux and Compaq Unix there are new FLUKA packages available. they contain minor fixes for 2 technical bugs which are mostly transparent to the user. these are not considered an upgrade. In case of Linux however, please note:
April

02 Mon
>>>>>>> ___________ update ___ update ___ update ___________
new release of the FLUKA package with minor bug fixes is available for download. this is not a full upgrade. please read Alfredo's note on this update. there is NO package available for the SUN operating system at this point in time.


March

19 Mon
) little late, but here are excerpts from the REPORT OF THE STEERING GROUP OF THE LHC COMPUTING REVIEW concerning mainly FLUKA (ROOT and Linux).

January

05 Fri
) added a first set of online browsable copies of reference material. now a cgi script is used to perform the actual download of the FLUKA package.


2001


December

10 Sun
) the site now offers a web-a-fied online version of the latest FLUKA manual (it dates back to 21 June 2000) which ships with the FLUKA package as fluka99.manual. some of the sections were simply put through verbatim, so there's another spot for improvement. the references within the document do NOT work yet.


November

29 Wed
) the pages are now official and online since about 4pm. please direct any suggestions and/or questions to the maintainer.

28 Tue
>>>>>>> ___________ update ___ update ___ update ___________
new version of the FLUKA package is available for download

23 Thu
) a Fluka mailing list is now operational and ready for discussion. to subscribe please send email to majordomo@cern.ch and place the single line subscribe fluka-discuss as the body of your mail.

19 Sun
) implemented the initial structure for the FLUKA web presence. the still mostly empty pages were extensively tested for Netscape versions 4.75 and 6.0 under Linux. further checks are needed for other Unix platforms, Microsoft Explorer and whatever runs on MacOS.
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