FreeSurfer Version 7 Beta (pre-release)

This page describes the pre-release (beta) version 7 of FreeSurfer. Below are tarballs and RPMs that you can download and install. The purpose of this beta is for users to install and run FreeSurfer on some of their data sets using their computers and their commands and their post-processing to help us track down any errors prior to the full release. To that end, we would like for you to do several tests on a couple of subjects:

We'll update the release notes with new features for the full release, but for now you should know that some features are not present in v7 (QDEC, GPU-capability, and recon-all -make). A new version of Tracula is in the works but probably will not be out until April or so; we'll have a minor release when it is ready.

FreeSurfer Release 7 System Requirements

Summary of Requirements:
Operating Systems:
Linux - we use/test CentOS6, CentOS7, Ubuntu18
MacOS - we use/test 10.13 High Sierra, 10.14 Mojave, 10.15 Catalina
Processor Speed: 2.8GHz or higher
RAM: 8GB for recon, 16GB suggested for viewing graphics
Graphics card: 3D graphics card with its own graphics memory & accelerated OpenGL drivers
Size of installed image: 10GB
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.



OS

Build Platform

Version

Release Date

Download

Size

Linux

CentOS 6 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.0.0 beta 1

Feb 2020

freesurfer-linux-centos6_x86_64-7.0.0-beta.tar.gz

4.3G

Linux

CentOS 6 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.0.0 beta 1

Feb 2020

freesurfer-CentOS6-7.0.0-0.1.b1.x86_64.rpm

3.7G

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.0.0 beta 1

Feb 2020

freesurfer-linux-centos7_x86_64-7.0.0-beta.tar.gz

4.2G

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.0.0 beta 1

Feb 2020

freesurfer-CentOS7-7.0.0-0.1.b1.x86_64.rpm

3.6G

macOS

MacOS X (64b Intel) tar archive

7.0.0 beta 1

Feb 2020

freesurfer-darwin-macOS_HighSierra-7.0.0-beta.tar.gz

4.0G

macOS

MacOS X (64b Intel) PKG installer

7.0.0 beta 1

Feb 2020

freesurfer-MacOS-7.0.0b1-x86_64.pkg

4.0G

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).