New release 5.6 Beta 1

New release 5.6 Beta 1


The CGAL Open Source Project is pleased to announce the release 5.6 Beta 1 of CGAL, the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library.

CGAL version 5.6 Beta 1 is a public testing release. It should provide a solid ground to report bugs that need to be tackled before the release of the final version of CGAL 5.6 in July 2023.

The development of CGAL will then now on the future CGAL-6.0 (planned for December 2023), with bug-fixes regularly backported to the branches for CGAL-5.5.x and CGAL-5.6.x. CGAL-6.0 will be the first release of CGAL requiring C++17 or later. It will also support Qt6.