2026.05.000

This release is based on mom-ocean/MOM6:main at d51c751 with the following changes:

• Fixed spurious wind speeds at OBC boundaries due to the application of wind stress BCs at these locations in MOM_vert_friction module (by @dougiesquire in #55)
• Added file-based dye tracer (by @angus-g in #51)
• Fixed introduction of NaN in LF17 wave method with WAVE_INTERFACE_ANSWER_DATE >= 20230102 (by @dougiesquire in #50)
• Increased character length for logging message in MOM_neutral_diffusion module (by @ezhilsabareesh8 in #45)
• Allowed simultaneous MOM6 solo (exe) and ACCESS3 (library) builds in CMake build system (by @dougiesquire in #36 and #37)
• Added ACCESS-NRI build-ci test infrastructure (by @CodeGat and @dougiesquire in #24 and #32)
• Fixed indexing i/j typo bug when HMIX_UV_SFC_PROP>0 (by @claireyung in #28)
• Added support for restarting from decomposed restart files when restart filenames are provided (by @minghangli-uni and @dougiesquire in #23)
• Clarified description of KHTR_MAX parameter (by @aekiss and @minghangli-uni in #19)
• Fixed bug in application of salt flux adjustments (by @dougiesquire in #18)
• Fixed typo in long_name of total_net_massin diagnostic (by @aekiss in #11)
• Added CMake build system for ACCESS3 models (by @anton-seaice, @dougiesquire, @minghangli-uni, @micaeljtoliveira and @JorgeG94 in #2, #10, #15 and #40)
• Added support for using generic tracers with the NUOPC cap (by @dougiesquire in #8)
• Re-add src/tracer/MOM_generic_tracer.F90 routine (by @dougiesquire in #21)

New Contributors

• @ezhilsabareesh8 made their first contribution in #45
• @angus-g made their first contribution in #51

Full Changelog: 2026.01.001...2026.05.000