FreeSurfer Version 8 & 7 Releases

This page describes the version 8.X and 7.X releases of FreeSurfer. Below are the install packages and tar archives for download and install.

The *.rpm (CentOS/RedHat) and *.deb (Ubuntu) package installer that matches your operating system should be used by anyone with sudo/root permissions on their machine. This includes individual users with their own personal machine running Linux or Mac OS and system administrators who wish to install freesurfer for use by multiple users on institutional and/or public linux servers. The tar archives are an imperfect fallback for users w/o system administrator privileges. Or since expansion of a tar archive neither manages or checks system dependencies like a real installer, then we cannot be responsible for run time errors or system dependency issues that result from use of the tar archives instead of the package installers. Please do not expand any tar archive such that the path to FREESURFER_HOME is /usr/local/freesurfer on linux or /Applications/freesurfer on MacOS. Those paths are overwritten by the installer packages so manual installs there may not be preserved.

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FreeSurfer Release 8.X and 7.X System Requirements

REQUIREMENTS SUMMARY:
See the list of operating systems with supported installers in the tables below for each freesurfer release. The same operating systems may not be supported for every release.
Supported Processors: Intel processors supporting AVX, SSE instructions; Apple M1, M2, M3 arm64 processor.
Required RAM: 8GB for recon-all in 7.X releases and 24GB+ RAM for recon-all in 8.X releases; 16GB suggested for viewing 3D graphics using a 3rd party graphics card that supports 3D graphics via access to its own dedicated memory utilizing accelerated OpenGL drivers (built-in graphics hardware in some portable laptops may not be adequate); 16GB+ for python based tools utilizing tensorflow, etc. packages.
Size of installed image: 16GB-19GB
Typical size of a processed subject: 300MB
Other requirements: Matlab (only needed to run FS-FAST, the fMRI analysis stream)

Linux install and setup: here.

Mac install and setup: here.


Instructions for setting up a Virtual Box VM to host Ubuntu 22 Linux running freesurfer can be found here.

Run freeview with Windows 10 Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL): here.


8.0.0-beta release

Linux OS: CentOS7, CentOS8, Rocky8, Ubuntu18, Ubuntu20, Ubuntu22
Mac OS: 12.X, 13.X, 14.X (separate Intel and arm64 installers).

OS

Build Platform

Version

Release Date

Download

Size

MD5 sum

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

8.0.0-beta release

November 2024

freesurfer-linux-centos7_x86_64-8.0.0-beta.tar.gz

10G

0c7c319b7887a42a4fb3b310422dad27

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

8.0.0-beta release

November 2024

freesurfer-CentOS7-8.0.0-beta.x86_64.rpm

9.4G

d115e43e6f6092027f17fc6d55e1a167

Linux

Rocky 8 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

8.0.0-beta release

November 2024

freesurfer-linux-rocky8_x86_64-8.0.0-beta.tar.gz

10G

bcb83ac6139ff5551e0ac6bb8c57f0d1

Linux

Rocky 8 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

8.0.0-beta release

November 2024

freesurfer-Rocky8-8.0.0-beta.x86_64.rpm

9.4G

ad5afe389ced5b6802786a1a366b3d67

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

8.0.0-beta release

November 2024

freesurfer-linux-centos8_x86_64-8.0.0-beta.tar.gz

10G

2d4282936017868fba487dc5e47d2a36

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

8.0.0-beta release

November 2024

freesurfer-CentOS8-8.0.0-beta.x86_64.rpm

9.4G

88a7a38697b155ea43865d5bbe220ef4

Linux

Ubuntu 18 amd64 (64b) tar archive

8.0.0-beta release

November 2024

freesurfer-linux-ubuntu18_x86_64-8.0.0-beta.tar.gz

10G

032e7587a21f4c36e7599317712bebdf

Linux

Ubuntu 18 amd64 (64b) DEB installer

8.0.0-beta release

November 2024

freesurfer_ubuntu18-8.0.0-beta_amd64.deb

8.6G

d3dd20e3a5d3d2b20e7aeaab82a53d53

Linux

Ubuntu 20 amd64 (64b) tar archive

8.0.0-beta release

November 2024

freesurfer-linux-ubuntu20_x86_64-8.0.0-beta.tar.gz

10G

274d6a5464d8b039e8655cdcd060bfb0

Linux

Ubuntu 20 amd64 (64b) DEB installer

8.0.0-beta release

November 2024

freesurfer_ubuntu20-8.0.0-beta_amd64.deb

8.6G

697b3165ac60924105a8768cbbbfb268

Linux

Ubuntu 22 amd64 (64b) tar archive *

8.0.0-beta release

November 2024

freesurfer-linux-ubuntu22_x86_64-8.0.0-beta.tar.gz

10G

4e56d900112e952cba67803be3fe5ba8

Linux

Ubuntu 22 amd64 (64b) DEB installer *

8.0.0-beta release

November 2024

freesurfer_ubuntu22-8.0.0-beta_amd64.deb

8.8G

|a9d1e33bae4183739f4ebd8ab23b24de

MacOS

MacOS X darwin arm64 (64b) tar archive **

8.0.0-beta release

November 2024

freesurfer-macOS-darwin_arm64-8.0.0-beta.tar.gz

9.9G

f7904c32eaac170a4b5038ce255e142b

MacOS

MacOS X darwin arm64 (64b) PKG installer **

8.0.0-beta release

November 2024

freesurfer-macOS-darwin_arm64-8.0.0-beta.pkg

10G

989f7be76efb00678d45b58c16e904b3

MacOS

MacOS X darwin x86_64 (64b) tar archive **

8.0.0-beta release

November 2024

freesurfer-macOS-darwin_x86_64-8.0.0-beta.tar.gz

10G

33ba65d492a307687f78e848d0fd89f6

MacOS

MacOS X darwin x86_64 (64b) PKG installer **

8.0.0-beta release

November 2024

freesurfer-macOS-darwin_x86_64-8.0.0-beta.pkg

10G

a3cac911480648d6187bc9a437588c38

* Ubuntu 22 users may be prompted to obtain a new freesurfer license because of glibc updates
** Mac users should download and install the Xquartz 2.8.2 release from https://www.xquartz.org

7.4.1 release

Linux OS: CentOS7, CentOS8, Ubuntu18, Ubuntu20, Ubuntu22
Mac OS: 10.15; 11.X, 12.X, 13.X (Intel binaries only running under Rosetta).

OS

Build Platform

Version

Release Date

Download

Size

MD5 sum

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.4.1 release

June 2023

freesurfer-linux-centos7_x86_64-7.4.1.tar.gz

8.9G

e200a3a3326d887bace33a3c25fe5d1c

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.4.1 release

June 2023

freesurfer-CentOS7-7.4.1-1.x86_64.rpm

7.2G

60ed272838ca61a36b0dd31ea7d86df4

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.4.1 release

June 2023

freesurfer-linux-centos8_x86_64-7.4.1.tar.gz

8.9G

93d67e5c811d80a82260ea5b4846dae3

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.4.1 release

June 2023

freesurfer-CentOS8-7.4.1-1.x86_64.rpm

7.2G

2512c0c798e7fe75bdfd5ba31e3160bb

Linux

Ubuntu 18 amd64 (64b) tar archive

7.4.1 release

June 2023

freesurfer-linux-ubuntu18_amd64-7.4.1.tar.gz

8.9G

5b6896bef2bcf683184612798902c89b

Linux

Ubuntu 18 amd64 (64b) DEB installer

7.4.1 release

June 2023

freesurfer_ubuntu18-7.4.1_amd64.deb

6.3G

3df44ed3deeabfca6d5154e884adcc4a

Linux

Ubuntu 20 amd64 (64b) tar archive

7.4.1 release

June 2023

freesurfer-linux-ubuntu20_amd64-7.4.1.tar.gz

8.9G

f735655a88b0a5e05bef4ab73d991e3d

Linux

Ubuntu 20 amd64 (64b) DEB installer

7.4.1 release

June 2023

freesurfer_ubuntu20-7.4.1_amd64.deb

6.3G

3f488ddc5c1a19fe23bb9cbe2c9f457f

Linux

Ubuntu 22 amd64 (64b) tar archive *

7.4.1 release

June 2023

freesurfer-linux-ubuntu22_amd64-7.4.1.tar.gz

8.9G

4275a307a1a91043587f659389b3e9a8

Linux

Ubuntu 22 amd64 (64b) DEB installer *

7.4.1 release

June 2023

freesurfer_ubuntu22-7.4.1_amd64.deb

6.6G

bfe85dd76677cfb7ca2b247b9ac6148e

MacOS

MacOS X darwin (64b) tar archive **

7.4.1 release

June 2023

freesurfer-macOS-darwin_x86_64-7.4.1.tar.gz

6.6G

8248bfcc4e311a323eeb788ce2c24b66

MacOS

MacOS X darwin (64b) PKG installer **

7.4.1 release

June 2023

freesurfer-macOS-darwin_x86_64-7.4.1.pkg

6.6G

e050d9a939cb1c969ff0f0d12c5d2749

* Ubuntu 22 users may be prompted to obtain a new freesurfer license because of glibc updates
** Mac users should download and install the Xquartz 2.8.2 release from https://www.xquartz.org

7.4.0 release

Linux OS: CentOS7, CentOS8, Ubuntu18, Ubuntu20, Ubuntu22
Mac OS: 10.15; 11.X, 12.X, 13.X (Intel binaries only running under Rosetta).

OS

Build Platform

Version

Release Date

Download

Size

MD5 sum

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.4.0 release

May 2023

freesurfer-linux-centos7_x86_64-7.4.0.tar.gz

8.9G

40db9599e07216c3619feff8015a77a9

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.4.0 release

May 2023

freesurfer-CentOS7-7.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm

7.2G

901592522126ebf439917dd5903e67cc

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.4.0 release

May 2023

freesurfer-linux-centos8_x86_64-7.4.0.tar.gz

8.9G

f0a443eaf47921eb4777a3d34be16a6b

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.4.0 release

May 2023

freesurfer-CentOS8-7.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm

7.2G

b5e83b7d1fa552772bb4fcc8bea0650e

Linux

Ubuntu 18 amd64 (64b) tar archive

7.4.0 release

May 2023

freesurfer-linux-ubuntu18_amd64-7.4.0.tar.gz

8.9G

49e8a09b9bd79cd297d9ac028dd33511

Linux

Ubuntu 18 amd64 (64b) DEB installer

7.4.0 release

May 2023

freesurfer_ubuntu18-7.4.0_amd64.deb

6.3G

c937619102bb6666c64c30c7f98802ae

Linux

Ubuntu 20 amd64 (64b) tar archive

7.4.0 release

May 2023

freesurfer-linux-ubuntu20_amd64-7.4.0.tar.gz

8.9G

301bf34eb65532aa8824da48cc13c956

Linux

Ubuntu 20 amd64 (64b) DEB installer

7.4.0 release

May 2023

freesurfer_ubuntu20-7.4.0_amd64.deb

6.3G

1f107c22eb75821e1aa46b55a6eb8189

Linux

Ubuntu 22 amd64 (64b) tar archive *

7.4.0 release

May 2023

freesurfer-linux-ubuntu22_amd64-7.4.0.tar.gz

8.9G

4ac13f71bbff55a39cf4960e65c59de7

Linux

Ubuntu 22 amd64 (64b) DEB installer *

7.4.0 release

May 2023

freesurfer_ubuntu22-7.4.0_amd64.deb

6.6G

b405e9ac2492ebe3c34d10a3fbf56ab8

MacOS

MacOS X darwin (64b) tar archive **

7.4.0 release

May 2023

freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.4.0.tar.gz

6.6G

212a5d3b208de8a699d31318dca2e85b

MacOS

MacOS X darwin (64b) PKG installer **

7.4.0 release

May 2023

freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.4.0.pkg

6.6G

157b2bfb9dbabe924f2f1a117e0bfe8e

* Ubuntu 22 users may be prompted to obtain a new freesurfer license because of glibc updates
** Mac users should download and install the Xquartz 2.8.2 release from https://www.xquartz.org

7.3.2 release

Linux OS: CentOS7, CentOS8, Ubuntu18, Ubuntu20, Ubuntu22
Mac OS: 10.14, 10.15, 11.X, 12.X (Intel binaries).

OS

Build Platform

Version

Release Date

Download

Size

MD5 sum

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.3.2 release

Aug 2022

freesurfer-linux-centos7_x86_64-7.3.2.tar.gz

6.2G

098feb790507ccdf5853097acf1697fe

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.3.2 release

Aug 2022

freesurfer-CentOS7-7.3.2-1.x86_64.rpm

5.0G

157ede117abb0dffd59f606bd294b315

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.3.2 release

Aug 2022

freesurfer-linux-centos8_x86_64-7.3.2.tar.gz

6.2G

941b85c2122eea05003ea2fc74410a62

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.3.2 release

Aug 2022

freesurfer-CentOS8-7.3.2-1.x86_64.rpm

5.0G

ebec16df24bd4895929b0b1c8caf15dc

Linux

Ubuntu 18 amd64 (64b) tar archive

7.3.2 release

Aug 2022

freesurfer-linux-ubuntu18_amd64-7.3.2.tar.gz

6.2G

69526a9334c2bce22ad96694a00d8dbc

Linux

Ubuntu 18 amd64 (64b) DEB installer

7.3.2 release

Aug 2022

freesurfer_ubuntu18-7.3.2_amd64.deb

4.2G

0ec408245411fbd832109106a1984ff1

Linux

Ubuntu 20 amd64 (64b) tar archive

7.3.2 release

Aug 2022

freesurfer-linux-ubuntu20_amd64-7.3.2.tar.gz

6.2G

de9e639976a480612cbba1cf5d33f2b0

Linux

Ubuntu 20 amd64 (64b) DEB installer

7.3.2 release

Aug 2022

freesurfer_ubuntu20-7.3.2_amd64.deb

4.2G

1f107c22eb75821e1aa46b55a6eb8189

Linux

Ubuntu 22 amd64 (64b) tar archive *

7.3.2 release

Aug 2022

freesurfer-linux-ubuntu22_amd64-7.3.2.tar.gz

6.2G

ef8b8086c86870ac1de84fe8b55a3456

Linux

Ubuntu 22 amd64 (64b) DEB installer *

7.3.2 release

Aug 2022

freesurfer_ubuntu22-7.3.2_amd64.deb

4.5G

c82faf14365262f926ce0ea3e2ce45d4

MacOS

MacOS X darwin (64b) tar archive **

7.3.2 release

Aug 2022

freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.3.2.tar.gz

5.0G

4835d3819dcca07338c9a5488d1a07c4

MacOS

MacOS X darwin (64b) PKG installer **

7.3.2 release

Aug 2022

freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.3.2.pkg

5.0G

1915bd7679c51d5693e74d7fdf2dd720

* Ubuntu 22 users may be prompted to obtain a new freesurfer license because of glibc updates
** Mac users should download and install the Xquartz 2.8.2 release from https://www.xquartz.org

7.2.0 release

Linux OS: CentOS6, CentOS7, CentOS8, Ubuntu18
Mac OS: 10.12 thru 10.15, 11.X (Intel binaries)

OS

Build Platform

Version

Release Date

Download

Size

MD5 sum

Linux

CentOS 6 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-linux-centos6_x86_64-7.2.0.tar.gz

4.7G

eae2d09b063794bf2c8ed3e50ee80bd8

Linux

CentOS 6 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-CentOS6-7.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm

3.8G

538fc84f5d15d3398e1a339767ce4597

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-linux-centos7_x86_64-7.2.0.tar.gz

4.7G

9d2d1576b0ddf587274130052530a200

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-CentOS7-7.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm

3.8G

2f88f3b751dbcc5ebc91ebf2c736e920

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-linux-centos8_x86_64-7.2.0.tar.gz

4.7G

1e23201345a69f0263630ac0706f4104

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-CentOS8-7.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm

3.8G

020c62a9808bc21901aa36d6ab454cac

Linux

Ubuntu 18 amd64 (64b) tar archive

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-linux-ubuntu18_amd64-7.2.0.tar.gz

4.7G

aae6b77f759e566bb1d2682019717bdd

Linux

Ubuntu 18 amd64 (64b) DEB installer

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer_7.2.0_amd64.deb

3.1G

c8c73f5d2ef134f74305770b67436531

MacOS

MacOS X darwin (64b) tar archive

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.2.0.tar.gz

4.2G

3c3a099232f259006eef945fa3e53c80

MacOS

MacOS X darwin (64b) PKG installer

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.2.0.pkg

4.2G

a11df11ae70ff06552910dd82e8736d3

7.1.1 release

Linux OS: CentOS6, CentOS7, CentOS8
Mac OS: 10.12 thru 10.15, 11.X (Intel binaries)

OS

Build Platform

Version

Release Date

Download

Size

MD5 sum

Linux

CentOS 6 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.1.1 release

July 2020

freesurfer-linux-centos6_x86_64-7.1.1.tar.gz

4.4G

b573573ed6a9317ccde9ff6b76d0a2da

Linux

CentOS 6 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.1.1 release

July 2020

freesurfer-CentOS6-7.1.1-1.x86_64.rpm

3.7G

323ce6d2bc51f5fee116bf2df90e187d

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.1.1 release

July 2020

freesurfer-linux-centos7_x86_64-7.1.1.tar.gz

4.3G

2edffb289ad068c1e934ff8a2cbb4fb0

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.1.1 release

July 2020

freesurfer-CentOS7-7.1.1-1.x86_64.rpm

3.6G

7f06be7ee8e8bdc6d4f364b97225d1a8

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.1.1 release

July 2020

freesurfer-linux-centos8_x86_64-7.1.1.tar.gz

4.3G

2edffb289ad068c1e934ff8a2cbb4fb0

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.1.1 release

July 2020

freesurfer-CentOS8-7.1.1-1.x86_64.rpm

3.6G

7f06be7ee8e8bdc6d4f364b97225d1a8

MacOS

MacOS darwin (64b Intel) tar archive

7.1.1 release

July 2020

freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.1.1.tar.gz

4.1G

6c304330b4b1765db99c00a56ef028bc

MacOS

MacOS darwin (64b Intel) PKG installer

7.1.1 release

July 2020

freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.1.1.pkg

4.1G

8e87a069fd90fd50d31ee0729c58c6d6

Important Note: When processing a group of subjects for your study, it is essential to process all your subjects with the same version of FreeSurfer, on the same OS platform and vendor, and for safety, even the same version of the OS. While we continue to work to ensure that results match across platforms, there are none-the-less system-level libraries that are OS dependent. An exception to this rule is that you may view and edit files across any platform or version, and run some post-processing tools (outside the recon-all stream) if you check with us first (for instance you may run the longitudinal processing with newer versions).

rel7downloads (last edited 2024-11-12 14:21:33 by buildqa)