SCIENCE

Absoft Corporation has announced the immediate availability of an Apple Lion Compatibility Package for users of Absoft Pro Fortran v11.1. The compatibility package for Apple’s new Lion OS is included as a component of a new Absoft service pack v11.1.3, which becomes available today. The service pack is available free for existing customers of Absoft Pro Fortran v11.1 for Mac OS/Intel. 

The Lion Compatibility Package for Pro Fortran v11.1 provides compatibility with the Xcode 4.1 toolset, including clang and LLVM and Apple’s new 10.7 SDK. Additionally, Absoft’s Fx3 graphical debugger has been enhanced for use on Lion. Other modifications for Lion have been made as well. 

Existing Absoft Pro Fortran v11.1.1 customers can download service pack v11.1.3 from the Absoft site at: http://www.absoft.com/download/downloads.html 
The service pack is compatible only with Pro Fortran v11.1 for Mac OS/Intel. 

All new purchases and upgrades to Absoft Pro Fortran v11.1 for Mac OS shipped as of July 20, 2011 will already include the service pack updates. Customers using older versions of Pro Fortran for Mac OS/Intel and are running Lion, will want to upgrade to the new v11.1.3. 

Additional information on Absoft Pro Fortran for Mac OS/Intel is available at: http://www.absoft.com/Absoft_MacIntel_Compiler.htm 
Information on Pro Fortran upgrades from earlier versions is available at: http://www.absoft.com/Commercial_UpgradeOF2.htm 

Contact Absoft sales@absoft.com for any additional questions.