The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

Swift Software History releases

Listed below is the Swift history of the software releases. The software release date corresponds to the date when the software was made public. The version column contains the Swift software version number together with the HEAsoft software version that supports the Swift release.

Each software release is typically accompanied by new calibration files. The CALDB release history indicates the software version for the specific CALDB release.

Software Release Date Description
2022-11-15 Swift Software ver 5.7 (build46) (HEAsoft 6.31)
2022-03-14 Swift Software ver 5.6 (build45) (HEAsoft 6.30)
2021-07-20 Swift Software ver 5.5 (build44) (HEAsoft 6.29)
2020-07-11 Swift Software ver 5.4 (build43) (HEAsoft 6.28)
2020-03-31 Swift Software ver 5.3 (build42) (HEAsoft 6.27)
2019-06-24 Swift Software ver 5.2 (build41) (HEAsoft 6.26.1)
2018-10-22 Swift Software ver 5.1 (build40) (HEAsoft 6.25)
2018-03-06 Swift Software ver 5.0 (build39) (HEAsoft 6.23)
2017-08-15 Swift Software ver 4.9 (build38) (HEAsoft 6.22)
2017-01-13 Swift Software ver 4.8 (build37) (HEAsoft 6.20)
2016-05-09 Swift Software ver 4.7 (build36) (HEAsoft 6.19)
2016-02-08 Swift Software ver 4.6 (build35) (HEAsoft 6.18)
2015-07-27 Swift Software ver 4.5 (build34) (HEAsoft 6.17)
2014-06-27 Swift Software ver 4.4 (build33) (HEAsoft 6.16)
2014-01-24 Swift Software ver 4.3 (build32) (HEAsoft 6.15.1)
2013-11-25 Swift Software ver 4.2 (build31) (HEAsoft 6.15)
2013-08-01 Swift Software ver 4.1 (build30) (HEAsoft 6.14)
2012-12-21 Swift Software ver 4.0 (build29) (HEAsoft 6.13)
2012-03-12 Swift Software ver 3.9 (build28) (HEAsoft 6.12)
2011-06-09 Swift Software ver 3.8 (build27) (HEAsoft 6.11)
2010-09-28 Swift Software ver 3.7 (build26) (HEAsoft 6.10)
2010-03-29 Swift Software ver 3.6 (build25.2) (HEAsoft 6.9)
2009-12-03 Swift Software ver 3.5 (build25.1) (HEAsoft 6.8)
2009-08-19 Swift Software ver 3.4 (build25) (HEAsoft 6.7)
2009-06-03 Swift Software ver 3.3 (build24.3) (HEAsoft 6.6.3)
2009-04-01 Swift Software ver 3.2 (build24.2) (HEAsoft 6.6.2)
2009-01-05 Swift Software ver 3.1 (build24.1) (HEAsoft 6.6.1)
2008-11-25 Swift Software ver 3 (HEAsoft 6.6)
2008-06-26 Swift Software ver 2.9 (HEAsoft 6.5)
2007-12-07 Swift Software ver 2.8 (build22) (HEAsoft 6.4).
2007-09-24 Swift Software ver 2.7.2 (build21.2) (HEAsoft 6.3.2)
2007-09-24 Swift Software ver 2.7.2 (build21.2) (HEAsoft 6.3.2)
2007-07-30 Swift Software ver 2.7.1 (build21.1)(HEAsoft 6.3.1).
2007-07-05 Swift Software ver 2.7 (build21) (HEAsoft 6.3).
2007-03-07 Swift Software ver 2.6.1 (build20.1) (HEAsoft 6.2).
2006-12-06 Swift Software ver 2.6 (build20) (HEAsoft 6.1.2).
2006-08-21 Patch to Swift Software ver 2.5a (build19) specific to the XRT in HEAsoft 6.1.1.
2006-07-24 Swift Software ver 2.5 (build19) (HEAsoft 6.1).
2006-04-26 Swift Software ver 2.4 (build18) (HEAsoft 6.0.5).
2005-11-28 Swift Software ver 2.3 (build17) (HEAsoft 6.0.4).
2005-10-07 Swift Software ver 2.2 (build16) (HEAsoft 6.0.3).
2005-8-09 Swift Software ver 2.1 (build15) (HEAsoft 6.0.2)
2005-4-12 Swift Software ver 2.0 (build14) (HEAsoft 6.0)
2005-3-02 Swift Software ver 1.2 (build12) (HEAsoft 5.3.1)
2005-1-13 Swift Software ver 1.2 (build11) (HEAsoft 5.3.1)
2004-11-23 Swift Software ver 1.0 (build10) (HEAsoft 5.3.1)