ANSYS, Inc. has discontinued support for the HP-UX Itanium 64, the Sun Solaris x64, IBM AIX 64, and the Linux 32-bit platforms for all products.

ANSYS, Inc. has discontinued support for the Linux Itanium 64 platform for the ICEM CFD product.

Third-party products that are used as part of the installation process are now documented in the ANSYS, Inc. Installation Guides.

The ASAS product has been retired. The FATJACK, BEAMCHECK, and Splinter products are now installed automatically with the Mechanical application.

The Pro/ENGINEER CAD product has been rebranded to Creo Parametric.

The ANSYS, Inc. product installation now supports Creo Parametric, NX, SolidWorks, and Autodesk Inventor reader options. You can now choose to install the Reader (no CAD installation required) or the Associative Plug-in (CAD installation required) options for these CAD products.

The release version now appears with each product selection in the Start menu on Windows.

You can now specify two DVD drives during a silent installation to accommodate the installation process spanning two DVDs. See the discussion on Silent Mode Operations in the Installation Guide for your platform for more information.

You can now choose to install and uninstall only Remote Solve Manager (RSM). RSM will continue to be installed as part of ANSYS Workbench.

You can now choose to install and uninstall only the EKM Server on Windows platforms.

The use of files requiring 777 permissions on Linux has been minimized. For more information on remaining full-permission files and softlinks, see the section Third-Party Software and Other Security Considerations in the ANSYS, Inc. Linux Installation Guide.

The PDF version of the documentation that is available on the Customer Portal is now unprotected, allowing you to copy and paste content from the PDFs into other locations. This capability is especially useful if you want to use command snippets that are available throughout the documentation.