Oct. 13, 2021

Approximatrix is happy to announce the availability of Simply Fortran version 3.21 for all supported platforms. The latest release introduces numerous bug fixes and feature additions.

On modern releases of supported operating systems, Simply Fortran can now open a terminal embedded within the development environment as a tab. In the View menu, the Open New Terminal option will open a command prompt or shell in a tab. This new feature requires an up-to-date version of Windows 10 or...

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Aug. 23, 2021

New builds of Simply Fortran 3.20 are now available for macOS that should allow printing from the integrated development environment. Our build system was not properly deploying the necessary printing backends when packaging the application for distribution.

This improvement does have some caveats, however. Printing to a file can be problematic on modern macOS versions because macOS security may deny access to writing output files to certain locations. ...

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Aug. 18, 2021

Approximatrix is happy to announce the release of version 3.20 of Simply Fortran. This release includes an updated compiler on macOS and Windows, bug fixes to the development environment, and optional changes to the development environment's user interface.

On Windows and macOS, Simply Fortran now includes GNU Fortran 11.2, the latest version of the compiler suite. Our builds of this compiler suite continue to support Windows XP through 10 on both 32- and 64-bit x86...

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June 7, 2021

After a long development cycle, Approximatrix is happy to announce the availability of Simply Fortran 3.19 for all supported platforms. This release incorporates several bug fixes and compatibility improvements on all platforms, cosmetic and compatibility fixes for the Windows release, and increased functionality in the Apple Silicon macOS release.

In the Project Options window, selecting initialization of variables to zero and enabling coarrays are now mutually exclusive as this...

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