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LAMMPS News

  • New stable release update: 22 July 2026 - Update 6
  • Stable release candidate: 2 September 2026
  • New stable release update: 22 July 2026 - Update 5
  • New LAMMPS website
  • New 'LAMMPS Test Status' dashboard website
  • New feature release: 4 July 2026
  • New ILVES constraint solver for `connected` constrained bonds
  • Support for superellipsoid granular particles
  • LAMMPS tutorials collection paper published
  • Ninth LAMMPS Workshop and Symposium — Albuquerque, NM (Aug 12–14, 2025)
  • New stable release: 22 July 2025
  • New stable release: 29 August 2024
  • Support for general triclinic box geometries
  • New stable release: 2 August 2023
  • New fix mdi/qm and mdi/qmmm for coupling to quantum codes
  • New distributed 3d/2d grid classes for hybrid particle/grid models
  • New stable release: 23 June 2022
  • New LAMMPS overview paper — please cite it in your publications
  • New stable release: 29 September 2021

Stable release candidate: 2 September 2026

The LAMMPS 2Sep2026 stable release candidate is now available for download on GitHub and and in the LAMMPS webserver download area.

This is the last feature update before the 2026 stable release which should be released within a couple of weeks. Until then, please try out this release and report any issues.

LAMMPS is distributed under the GPLv2. Funding is acknowledged here. Contact: webmaster@lammps.org.
Website last updated on: Thu Sep 3 06:15:01 EDT 2026 — git hash: cf38ef47adf9d1073b3aeab2fc8b2834f12626a6