FEFLOW | History of released versions

• New 3D Supermesh Data Structure
• Implicit Modelling of Geological Surfaces
• Equation of State (EOS)
• Extension of the Standard Transport Equation
• Reference projection and online visualization
• Isofeatures as Spatial Entities
• Extended Budget-History Charting
• New 1D hydrodynamical coupling
• New FEFLOW-Python APIs
• Several usability improvements

FEFLOW 8.1       > version maintenance and support    
Release date: November 2023
New feature descriptions

• Well Manager: Groups and rules
• Well Manager for Geothermal
• New Observation Data dialogue
• 3D Supermesh Tools
• New CAD implementation
• New module PySMH: Access the Supermesh and Mesh generators from Python
• New Cross-section Generator in Python
• FePEST improvements for Observation Groups
• Several usability improvements.

FEFLOW 8.0       > version maintenance and support 
Release date: November 2022
New feature descriptions

• New workflow for 3D model building.
• Extended workflows for model conceptualization.
• 3D Supermesh repairing.
• New Well Manager editor
• Official release of the Cloud Simulations panel in the FEFLOW and FePEST GUIs.
• Enhanced features for FePEST parallelization.
• New Python implementation of the Well Manager (available only with 8.0.2).
• New 3D Supermesh Tools for interactively create 3D geometries (available only with 8.0.2, see here).
• New 3D mesh generator for tetrahedral meshes (available only with 8.0.2, see here).
• Several usability improvements.

FEFLOW 7.5
Release date: November 2021
New feature descriptions

• Support of cloud computing directly from the FEFLOW and FePEST GUIs.
• Update models faster using a new conceptual modelling approach.
• Better management of selections and their workflows.
• Improvements in FEFLOW’s Numerics.
• Get closer to integrated groundwater resources management.New input unit for BHE: Energy demand
• Several improvements in IFM, Python and FEFLOW console.
• FePEST comes reloaded with a new set of interesting features. 

FEFLOW 7.4
Release date: December 2020
New feature descriptions

• Extended Python interface and a robust new FEFLOW Python APIs documentation. IFM methods are available through the C++ interface.
• Flexible framework for multi-species transport and import/export of chemical transport species and their kinetic reactions.
• FEFLOW piHMC plug-in is installed automatically. It incorporates a fully hydro-mechanical coupling in the flow simulation in FEFLOW.
• Separate tool to convert MODFLOW 6 files into a FEFLOW mesh including the import of already-defined material properties.
• New OpenGL version maintaining the FEFLOW graphical components as cutting-edge technology.
• New Meta Information block supporting the collaboration between groundwater modellers and supporting the documentation of workflows.
• FePEST comes reloaded with a new set of interesting features.

FEFLOW 7.3 
Release date: February 2020
New feature descriptions

• Material properties
• UI and workflows
• Support or different Python Interpreter versions
• New Features in FePEST
• Programming Interfaces IFM & Python functions Menu

FEFLOW 7.2
Release date: December 2018
New feature descriptions

• Material properties
• Additional map support
• New Auxiliary Parameters
• Processes and Numerical Solutions
• Support or different Python Interpreter versions
• Multi-document operation
• New Features in FePEST
• New SAMG solver version
• Programming Interfaces IFM & Python functions Menu

FEFLOW 7.1
Release date: November 2015
New feature descriptions

• Discrete Feature Elements (Review and Extensions)
• Coupling of Groundwater and Surface Water Processes
• Visualization
• Improvements in Mesh Generation
• New Selection Tools
• Additional Map Functionalities
• Recording of Model Content Information
• New Scripting Menu
• New Features in FePEST
• Additional Functionality

FEFLOW 7.0
Release date: November 2016
New feature descriptions