.. _releases:

Releases of Clawpack and release notes
=======================================

Before downloading a tar file, please click on the Install tab or visit
:ref:`installing` for installation instructions.  You may want to use
`pip install` or some other mechanism rather than the tar file.

Other notes:
------------

* Please see :ref:`citing` for the suggested way to cite the version of
  Clawpack that you are using in publications.

* For changes in PyClaw, see the `PyClaw changelog <https://github.com/clawpack/pyclaw/blob/master/CHANGES.md>`_.

* See :ref:`changes_to_master` for changes to the master branch on Github
  that are not in the most recent release.  The "dev" branch of the 
  documentation (selected under Versions on the menu
  to the left) may contain documentation of features not yet released.

Releases:
---------

Tar files can be downloaded from 
`https://github.com/clawpack/clawpack/releases/
<https://github.com/clawpack/clawpack/releases/>`_ or 
from the Zenodo links provided below.

* :ref:`release_5_6_1`  -- October 28, 2019
  `[DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3528429] <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3528429>`_
* :ref:`release_5_6_0`  -- June 2, 2019 
  `[DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3237295] <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3237295>`_
* :ref:`release_5_5_0`  -- August 28, 2018
  `[DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1405834] <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1405834>`_
* :ref:`release_5_4_1`  -- June 28, 2017
  `[DOI 10.5281/zenodo.820730] <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.820730>`_
* :ref:`release_5_4_0`  -- January 17, 2017
  `[DOI 10.5281/zenodo.262111] <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.262111>`_
* :ref:`release_5_3_1`  -- November 10, 2015
  `[DOI 10.5281/zenodo.50982] <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.50982>`_
* :ref:`release_5_3_0`  -- May 21, 2015
* :ref:`release_5_2_2`  -- October 28, 2014
* :ref:`release_5_2_1`  -- October 2, 2014
* :ref:`release_5_2_0`  -- July 18, 2014
* :ref:`release_5_1_0`  -- March 2, 2014
* :ref:`release_5_0_0`  -- January 8, 2014


.. _new_in_claw4x:

Clawpack 4.x
-------------

Clawpack 5.x has significant changes from past versions (prior to 2014). 
See :ref:`clawpack5`.

For documentation and recent changes to the Clawpack 4.x version, please see
`Clawpack 4.x documentation
<http://depts.washington.edu/clawpack/users-4.x/index.html>`_