Fortran newsletter: February 2026#
Welcome to the February edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.
Community News#
Talks/Youtube videos#
Meetups/cons#
FortranCon2025 happened in November! See the slides from the presentations here
Community lead software#
Fortran users may wish to be aware that licences for Winteracter, the multi-platform Fortran graphics and GUI toolset, can now be requested, via https://www.winteracter.uk/licrequest.php. Winteracter is now wholly non-commercial, so licences are available free of charge. The package continues to be updated. V17.0 was released recently, adding five new compiler/platform combinations, including new versions for ARM64 and Flang.
Community members#
Joe Wallwork, Institute of Computing for Climate Science, University of Cambridge has been awarded a Computational Abilities Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) fellowship! He will be working to further the efforts of Fortran index in 2026. Watch this space for useful improvements! Please see the full blog post for further information.
Actualités#
Software releases/New projects#
Release of FMSL, a scientific toolkit consisting of common statistical and machine learning procedures. See the JOSS paper and try it out!
METISSE, a Fortran application for single star evolution , see the repo
FIATS, an application for functional inference and training, see the repo
Release of LightKrylov! A modern Fortran package for linear algebra based on Krylov methods. See their accompanying JOSS paper!
fortran-lang.org#
The website has seen some quality of life upgrades, thanks to everyone that has contributed to make this possible!
Fortran Standard Library#
New release of stdlib v0.8.0! See the Github generated changelog here!
Here’s a short summary of changes in stdlib:
Advanced linear algebra: New support for, among others, matrix inversion, QR factorization, Schur decomposition, sparse matrices, and enhanced BLAS/LAPACK intergration.
New utilities: expanded system interfaces and improved file I/O helpers.
Modularization of the library and improved CI workflows for better stability.
Thanks to all (new) contributors who contributed to this release!
Gestionnaire de paquets Fortran#
Current latest release is v0.12.0
Version 0.13.0 is underway, keep posted!
Additionally, the release of set up fpm v9
Here’s what’s new in fpm:
The FPM is still in continuous development and we welcome any testers to find issues, and areas of improvement! Please let us know what you find.
Compiler updates:#
LFortran#
Work continues towards beta quality (expected to work on most codes, but still have bugs)
Can compile and run LAPACK
Focus on compiling
fpm16 releases in 2025
130 total contributors
4,425 total merged PRs on GitHub since 2022.
nvfortran#
Release of NVHPC 25.11