Compatibility#

Operating system#

DPF supports Windows 10 and CentOS 7 and later. For more information, see Ansys Platform Support.

Client-server#

The DPF server version depends on your installed Ansys version or your installed standalone DPF Server pre-release version. The following table shows client-server compatibility for supported Ansys versions. With Ansys 2022 R2 and later, you can use PyDPF-Core 0.10 and later. With Ansys 2021 R2 and 2022 R1, you can use PyDPF-Core version 0.3 up to 0.9. With Ansys 2021 R1, you must use a PyDPF-Core 0.2 version.

As new features are developed, every attempt is made to ensure backward compatibility from the client to the server. Backward compatibility is generally ensured for the 4 latest Ansys versions. For example, ansys-dpf-core module with 0.8.0 version has been developed for Ansys 2023 R2 pre1 release, for 2023 R2 Ansys version. It is compatible with 2023 R2, 2023 R1, 2022 R2 and 2022 R1 Ansys versions.

Starting with version 0.10 of ansys-dpf-core, the packages ansys-dpf-gate, ansys-dpf-gatebin and ansys-grpc-dpf are no longer dependencies and are directly integrated within ansys-dpf-core as modules. This introduced a breaking change to simplify installation and prevent synchronization issues between the PyDPF libraries, requiring to drop support for Ansys previous to 2022 R2.

Ansys strongly encourages you to use the latest packages available, as far they are compatible with the Server version you want to run. Considering Ansys 2023 R1 for example, if ansys-dpf-core module with 0.10.0 version is the latest available compatible package, it should be used.

For ansys-dpf-core<0.10, the ansys.grpc.dpf package should also be synchronized with the server version.

Client-server compatibility#

Server version

ansys.dpf.core Python module version

ansys.grpc.dpf Python module version

ansys.dpf.gatebin binaries Python module version

ansys.dpf.gate Python module version

8.0 (Ansys 2024 R2 pre0)

0.11.0 and later

None

None

None

7.1 (Ansys 2024 R1)

0.10.1 and later

None

None

None

7.0 (Ansys 2024 R1 pre0)

0.10.0 and later
0.9.0
None
0.8.1
None
0.4.1
None
0.4.1

6.2 (Ansys 2023 R2)

0.10.0 and later
0.8.0 and later
None
0.7.1 and later
None
0.3.1 and later
None
0.3.1 and later

6.1 (Ansys 2023 R2 pre1)

0.10.0 and later
0.8.0 and later
None
0.7.1 and later
None
0.3.1 and later
None
0.3.1 and later

6.0 (Ansys 2023 R2 pre0)

0.10.0 and later
0.7.0 and later
None
0.7.0 and later
None
0.3.0 and later
None
0.3.0 and later

5.0 (Ansys 2023 R1)

0.10.0 and later
0.6.0 and later
None
0.6.0 and later
None
0.2.0 and later
None
0.2.0 and later

4.0 (Ansys 2022 R2)

0.10.0 and later
0.5.0 and later
None
0.5.0 and later
None
0.1.0 and later
None
0.1.0 and later

3.0 (Ansys 2022 R1)

0.4.0 to 0.9.0

0.4.0

None

None

2.0 (Ansys 2021 R2)

0.3.0 and later**

0.3.0

None

None

1.0 (Ansys 2021 R1)

0.2.*

0.2.2

None

None

(** Compatibility of DPF 2.0 with ansys-dpf-core 0.5.0 to 0.9.0 is assumed but not certified.)

Update Python environment#

When moving from one Ansys release to another, you must update the ansys-dpf-core package. To get the latest version of the ansys-dpf-core package, use this command:

pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall ansys-dpf-core

To get a specific version of the ansys-dpf-core package, such as 0.7.0, use this command:

pip install --force-reinstall ansys-dpf-core==0.7.0