Release 3.5.4

[andrew-platt]

Feature or improvement description Pull request to merge rc-3.5.4 into main and create a tagged release for v3.5.4.

See the milestone and project pages for additional information

https://github.com/OpenFAST/openfast/milestone/14

Test results, if applicable See GitHub Actions

Release checklist:

• [ ] Update the documentation version in docs/conf.py
• [ ] Update the versions in docs/source/user/api_change.rst
• [ ] Verify readthedocs builds correctly
• [ ] Create a tag in OpenFAST
• [ ] Create a merge commit in r-test and add a corresponding annotated tag
• [ ] Compile executables for Windows builds
  • [ ] AeroDyn_Driver_x64.exe
  • [ ] AeroDyn_Driver_x64_OpenMP.exe
  • [ ] AeroDyn_Inflow_C_Binding_x64.dll
  • [ ] AeroDyn_Inflow_C_Binding_x64_OpenMP.dll
  • [ ] BeamDyn_Driver_x64.exe
  • [ ] DISCON.dll (x64)
  • [ ] DISCON_ITIBarge.dll (x64)
  • [ ] DISCON_OC3Hywind.dll (x64)
  • [ ] DISCON_SC.dll (x64)
  • [ ] FAST.Farm_x64.exe
  • [ ] FAST.Farm_x64_OMP.exe
  • [ ] FAST_SFunc.mexw64
  • [ ] HydroDynDriver_x64.exe
  • [ ] HydroDyn_C_Binding_x64.dll
  • [ ] IfW_C_Binding_x64.dll
  • [ ] InflowWind_Driver_x64.exe
  • [ ] InflowWind_Driver_x64_OpenMP.exe
  • [ ] MoorDyn_Driver_x64.exe
  • [ ] MoorDyn_C_Binding_x64.dll
  • [ ] OpenFAST-Simulink_x64.dll
  • [ ] openfast_x64.exe
  • [ ] Turbsim_x64.exe

Changelog

Overview

This release includes performance improvements for BeamDyn (up to 30% speed increase), python file readers and writers from WEIS, and a fix for stack overflows with FAST.Farm (Intel compilation). A few other minor updates are inluded as outlined below.

Anyone using BeamDyn will want to update to this version.

General

Build systems

#2311 Always build openfastcpplib as shared. Use BUILD_OPENFAST_CPP_DRIVER to disable openfastcpp executable (@deslaughter) #2173 Fix crash in MAP_End when using Intel's new icx compiler and disable caching in setup-python GH action (@deslaughter)

Python file readers/writers

#2188 Add WEIS file readers and writers (@cortadocodes and @mayankchetan)

Solvers

FAST.Farm

#2452 Fix for some stack overflow issues with FAST.Farm when copying large amounts of wind data (closes #2053) (@andrew-platt) #2340 Add !$ OMP critical around file opening for VTK to prevent file collision (@andrew-platt)

Module changes

BeamDyn

#2399 BeamDyn performance improvements (@deslaughter)

ElastoDyn

#2321 Backport of #2317: Explicitly initialize ED RtHS to zero -- corrects issue with inccorect linearization results (@andrew-platt)

Input file changes

No input files change with this release, as this only includes minor bugfixes.

Full list of changes: https://openfast.readthedocs.io/en/main/source/user/api_change.html

Full input file sets: https://github.com/OpenFAST/r-test/tree/v3.5.4 (example input files from the regression testing)