LAMMPS News on LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator

New LAMMPS website

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The LAMMPS website has been recreated and modernized using the Hugo tool instead of the legacy txt2html tool that gave it its trademark 1990s look.

Please let us know either at webmaster@lammps.org or post a message in the MatSci.org forum if there is anything missing or if there are broken links.

New 'LAMMPS Test Status' dashboard website

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

New feature release: 4 July 2026

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The LAMMPS 4Jul2026 feature release version is now available for download on GitHub and and in the LAMMPS webserver download area.

New ILVES constraint solver for `connected` constrained bonds

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Support for superellipsoid granular particles

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

LAMMPS tutorials collection paper published

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A set of eight beginner-to-advanced LAMMPS tutorials by Simon Gravelle, Cecilia M. S. Alvares, Jacob R. Gissinger, and Axel Kohlmeyer appeared in the Living Journal of Computational Molecular Science (LiveCoMS 6(1), 3037).

Ninth LAMMPS Workshop and Symposium — Albuquerque, NM (Aug 12–14, 2025)

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Talks, tutorials, posters, and breakout sessions. Recordings and slides are available on the workshop page.

New stable release: 22 July 2025

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The 22Jul2025 stable version is available for download.

New stable release: 29 August 2024

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Support for general triclinic box geometries

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

New stable release: 2 August 2023

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

New fix mdi/qm and mdi/qmmm for coupling to quantum codes

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

New distributed 3d/2d grid classes for hybrid particle/grid models

Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

New stable release: 23 June 2022

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

New LAMMPS overview paper — please cite it in your publications

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

See the citation details and cool images from the paper.

New stable release: 29 September 2021

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000