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'''Note for users of Microsoft Internet Explorer:''' Internet Explorer may save the file with the extension {{{.zip}}} instead of {{{.jar}}}. To avoid this, click "Save Target As..." (using the right mouse button) and then enter the name of the installation file, for example, {{{bcvtb-install-win64-1.4.0.jar}}}. (Or use Firefox to avoid this problem.) '''Note for users of Microsoft Internet Explorer:''' Internet Explorer may save the file with the extension {{{.zip}}} instead of {{{.jar}}}. To avoid this, click "Save Target As..." (using the right mouse button) and then enter the name of the installation file, for example, {{{bcvtb-install-win64-v1.6.0.jar}}}. (Or use Firefox to avoid this problem.)

'''Note for Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) users:''' Apple has enabled a new default security oriented featured called System Integrity Protection, often called rootless, in OS X 10.11 onwards. This new feature prevents all versions of the BCVTB to run correctly. A workaround is available at https://github.com/lbl-srg/bcvtb/issues/32.
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== Release 1.6.0 (April 21, 2016) ==
=== Download ===
||Manual ||[[http://simulationresearch.lbl.gov/bcvtb/releases/1.6.0/doc/manual/index.xhtml|html]], [[http://simulationresearch.lbl.gov/bcvtb/releases/1.6.0/doc/manual/bcvtb-manual.pdf|pdf]] ||
||Windows 64-bit ||[[http://github.com/lbl-srg/bcvtb/releases/download/v1.6.0/bcvtb-install-win64-v1.6.0.jar|bcvtb-install-win64-v1.6.0.jar]] ^(a)^ ||
||Linux 64-bit ||[[http://github.com/lbl-srg/bcvtb/releases/download/v1.6.0/bcvtb-install-linux64-v1.6.0.jar|bcvtb-install-linux64-v1.6.0.jar]] ||
||Mac OS X 64-bit ||[[http://github.com/lbl-srg/bcvtb/releases/download/v1.6.0/bcvtb-install-mac64-v1.6.0.jar|bcvtb-install-mac64-v1.6.0.jar]] ||

=== Release notes ===
^(a)^ On Windows 64-bit, to use Dymola a C/C++ compiler is required which can generate 64-bit executable and libraries.

This version contains the following updates:

 1. Fixed a bug that was causing system environment variables to be ignored.
 1. The example files have been updated for !EnergyPlus 8.5.0.
 1. The BCVTB support for Windows 32 bit has been discontinued.
 1. This version has been compiled with Java (1.8.0_77 64-bit). It has been tested on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit), Windows (7 and 8.1 64-bit), Mac OS X (10.10.5 64-bit) with latest releases of !EnergyPlus (8.5.0), MATLAB (R2016a), and Dymola (2016 FD01).
 1. The development site of the BCVTB was migrated from svn to github (https://github.com/lbl-srg/bcvtb).

'''Note for Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) users''': Apple has enabled a new default security oriented featured called System Integrity Protection, often called rootless, in OS X 10.11 onwards. This new feature prevents all versions of the BCVTB to run correctly. A workaround is available at https://github.com/lbl-srg/bcvtb/issues/32.
 
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Note that these versions work with !EnergyPlus 8.2, which needs to be downloaded separately from https://github.com/NREL/EnergyPlusRelease/releases.

=== Release notes ===
^(a)^ On Windows 64-bit, to use Dymola, the Microsoft Visual Studio Professional is required.
Note that these versions work with !EnergyPlus 8.2, which needs to be downloaded separately from https://github.com/NREL/EnergyPlus/releases/latest.

=== Release notes ===
^(a)^ On Windows 64-bit, to use Dymola a C/C++ compiler is required which can generate 64-bit executable and libraries.
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=== Release notes ===
^(a)^ On Windows 64-bit, to use Dymola a C/C++ compiler is required which can generate 64-bit executable and libraries.
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^(a)^ On Windows 64-bit, to use Dymola, the Microsoft Visual Studio Professional is required. ^(a)^ On Windows 64-bit, to use Dymola a C/C++ compiler is required which can generate 64-bit executable and libraries.
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