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Choupo-dev is the continuously-updated latest — no pre-announced target version, OpenFOAM-dev style — and it is what choupo.org/app runs by default. Periodically, a snapshot of it becomes an immutable dated stable release (public name Choupo-YYMM, immutable git tag vYYMM). Each stable release keeps a frozen, never-touched copy of the app at /vYYMM/app/: the URL you cite, teach from, and archive. Choupo-2608's copy carries and loads its own engine, which was not true when the release was cut: the bundle asked for the solver at the SITE ROOT, so it would have computed with the development engine while showing you 2608 — true of Choupo-2607's copy as well, so no frozen release had ever run its own solver. The packaging was fixed on the release line, and the tag v2608 names the commit the copy served here was built from.

Choupo-2608 — current stable release

Released 2 September 2026 · tag v2608

Four solver binaries (steady, batch, dynamic + control, properties), 50 unit-operation models, a curated thermodynamic catalogue (603 components, 205 Henry pairs, Pitzer and electrolyte-NRTL sets), 393 runnable tutorials, and the three-level conservation discipline — mass, per-element atoms and energy — with the element balance emitted by default on every converged steady run. Runs natively (C++17, zero dependencies) and in the browser via WebAssembly.

Development line — Choupo-dev

The continuously-updated latest · no pinned target version · branch main

The app at choupo.org/app runs this line by default — a browser app has no install, so visitors get the newest Choupo, clearly badged Choupo-dev · <commit> in the top bar. No stability promises: cases, results and interfaces may shift between commits; cite and teach from the tagged stable release above.

Cite Choupo

Make the exact software version part of the scientific record.

A moving branch is not a citable object — cite the versioned release you actually used:

Geraldes, V. (2026). Choupo — Open-source Chemical Process Simulator (version 2608) [Computer software]. https://www.choupo.org/

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