Call for archived OpenRadioss release files — help us recover a newer input reader

[brianclemens]

Status update (2026-10-06): This callout worked — thank you! Community-donated archives recovered the July v70 reader for all three platforms, and as of latest-20261006 OpenCourant ships linux64, win64, and linuxa64 packages, all passing the full MiniQA suite. Everything received is archived with published SHA-256 hashes at OpenCourant/extlib releases.

Donations also established that latest-20260728 was the final upstream release (dual-source verified), so release packages can no longer yield anything newer. The search below is narrowed accordingly.

What we're still looking for

The recovered readers (build 20260710_d899773e, extlib v70 era) lack one API, cpp_get_include_file_by_index, which was added upstream around extlib v76 (2026-09-11). A v76+ reader would remove our last compatibility fallback. The only places those binaries ever existed:

• An extlib.zip release asset, v71 through v82 — downloaded from github.com/OpenRadioss/OpenRadioss_extlib/releases/download/vNN/extlib.zip
• The extlib/ folder of an OpenRadioss source checkout built between 2026-09-11 and 2026-10-01 — if you ran build_script.sh in that window, the folder sits next to your starter/ directory

Also welcome for the archive, any original extlib.zip of any version — these were the upstream-published packages and we preserve them with verified hashes.

What to do

Please reply with the exact filename, where and roughly when you obtained it, and its SHA-256 checksum — post the hash first, don't upload yet:

sha256sum <file>          # Linux
certutil -hashfile <file> SHA256   # Windows

We verify every donation against independent references (reader build IDs, byte-level matches to upstream git history, and known-good hashes) before anything is redistributed.

Recovered so far (thanks to this thread and direct donations)

Artifact	Status
extlib v70 original (extlib.zip)	✅ archived, readers in production
latest-20260728 win64 / linux64 / linuxa64 + source	✅ archived, exact-hash / dual-source verified
March 2026 linux64 + linuxa64 packages	✅ archived (historical)
upstream extlib git history through v82	✅ preserved (branch upstream-v82)
extlib.zip v71–v82	❌ still missing
any post-2026-09-11 extlib/ build folder	❌ still missing

The long-term fix is independent of this: the AGPL open reader in the main repository's reader/ directory is being brought up as the permanent replacement for the binary readers. If you'd like to contribute there, watch this repo for the tracking issue.

Even one of the missing items above would let us delete the last compatibility fallback. Thanks for digging through your downloads folders — it has already paid off three times.

[KF1909]

As you asked for linux64 downloads from 0728 or newer, On Aug 29, I downloaded the following and still have the original zip file if it would be helpful: OpenRadioss_linux64.zip, SHA256:
598ed7b2905a7bac8d1781470c250ac79d7558c39ba962768edf3644644fe33

[KF1909]

Hmm, the zip file is 82MB, the site is only allowing a 25MB upload in this chat window.

[KF1909]

See if you can get to it with this dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mxmpzk562eb0qlgfrw1u0/OpenRadioss_linux64.zip?rlkey=2oargtqdzmjlsd0758pwu92wd&st=g0im8rwh&dl=0

[KF1909]

if that doesn't work we will figure something else out, just let me know.

[brianclemens]

Got it, thanks!

[KF1909]

Awesome. Thanks so much for the effort you guys have put into this project, and what you guys are doing keeping this project alive.

[mrsebe2]

OpenRadioss_linuxa64_20260120.zip found today on the phoronix server. I'm not sure if this old version would help.
SHA256:
9926c7bbb59d80a57ad0766a28d3d3d912c6f4d426731d6aaccc11472ac53ef9

[brianclemens]

Thanks for the offer! No need to upload, we have newer versions

[asims114]

latest-20260728]$ sha256sum OpenRadioss_linux64.zip
598ed7b2905a7bacc8d1781470c250ac79d7558c39ba962768edf3644644fe33 OpenRadioss_linux64.zip

I downloaded this on or around 4 Sep 2026