{"id":11,"date":"2012-01-09T13:34:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T13:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/espressomd.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:52:42","slug":"download","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/espressomd.org\/wordpress\/download\/","title":{"rendered":"Download"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Release versions<\/h1>\n<p>For most users, we recommend to use the latest release version of <span class=\"espresso\">ESPResSo<\/span>. It contains the best-tested code and stable features and it is easy to compile.<\/p>\n<h3>5.0 (Latest release Feb 26 2026)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/espressomd\/espresso\/archive\/5.0.0.tar.gz\">Download 5.0.0.tar.gz<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/espressomd\/espresso\/blob\/5.0\/CHANGELOG.md\">Release Notes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/espressomd\/espresso\/blob\/5.0\/COPYING\">License<\/a><\/li>\n<li>clone from GitHub via<br \/>\n<code>git clone --single-branch -b 5.0 https:\/\/github.com\/espressomd\/espresso.git<\/code><code><\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please consider subscribing to our <a href=\"https:\/\/espressomd.org\/wordpress\/community-and-support\/mailing-lists\/\">mailing list<\/a> if you&#8217;re using <span class=\"espresso\">ESPResSo<\/span> in production, as we occasionally need to get community feedback when making decisions on the future of specific features\/methods in upcoming releases of <span class=\"espresso\">ESPResSo<\/span>. You&#8217;ll also get up-to-date information on bugfix releases.<\/p>\n<h1>Development code<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Find the latest development code of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/espressomd\/espresso\"><span class=\"espresso\">ESPResSo<\/span> on GitHub<\/a>\u00a0or directly<br \/>\n<code>git clone -b python https:\/\/github.com\/espressomd\/espresso.git<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Codespaces users can also try it directly in the web browser (<a href=\"https:\/\/codespaces.new\/espressomd\/espresso\">direct link<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/espressomd\/espresso\/blob\/python\/.devcontainer\/Readme.md\">detailed instructions<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Note that although many features are continuously tested, we recommend to use the latest stable release for production simulations.<\/li>\n<li>If you are planning to develop new features, please contact us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Older releases<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Older releases of <span class=\"espresso\">ESPResSo<\/span> with Python can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/espressomd\/espresso\/releases\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Older releases of <span class=\"espresso\">ESPResSo<\/span> with Tcl can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/download.savannah.gnu.org\/releases\/espressomd\/\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release versions For most users, we recommend to use the latest release version of ESPResSo. It contains the best-tested code and stable features and it is easy to compile. 5.0 (Latest release Feb 26 2026) Download 5.0.0.tar.gz Release Notes License clone from GitHub via git clone &#8211;single-branch -b 5.0 https:\/\/github.com\/espressomd\/espresso.git Please consider subscribing to our &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/espressomd.org\/wordpress\/download\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/espressomd.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/espressomd.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/espressomd.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espressomd.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espressomd.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":94,"href":"https:\/\/espressomd.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/espressomd.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/espressomd.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}