GROMACS 2024.5 release notes

This version was released on TODO, 2024. These release notes document the changes that have taken place in GROMACS since the previous 2024.4 version, to fix known issues. It also incorporates all fixes made in version 2023.5 and earlier, which you can find described in the Release notes.

Fixes where mdrun could behave incorrectly

Fix crash with modular simulator, md integrator, DD and constraints

The combination of modular simulator, md integrator, domain decomposition and constraints caused illegal memory access and could crash before step 0.

Issue 5236

Fixes for gmx tools

Handle trajectory reading error in gmx tcaf

gmx tcaf now fails with informative error message when failing to read a trajectory.

Issue 5238

Fixes that affect portability

Fix linking error on Windows with Intel oneAPI

Fix LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file ‘m.lib’ error encountered when using icx compiler on Windows by using dynamically-detected name for the m library.

Issue 5240

Work around the interal compiler error in Visual Studio 2022

Visual Studio 2022 will fail when compiling calc_verletbuf.cpp. This is a bug in the compiler, but we introduce a workaround for it.

Issue 5252

Miscellaneous