Download Match! Pre-release Version
On this page you can download the most recent pre-release version of the Match! software.
Please note that this version has not been officially released and may still contain
bugs or other inconsistencies! Besides this, the documentation may still be incomplete. The
current official version can
be downloaded from here.
The most recent version is 4.2 Build 328 (created July 7, 2025).
To update your current Match! installation to this most recent version please perform the following steps:
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If Match! is running, please save any open documents and close the program.
- Please DO NOT uninstall the previous version before installing the new version! Instead, simply
install the new version on top of the existing version. This is important to make sure that your license
information is retained.
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Download the installer file for your platform from below and uncompress ("unzip") it if necessary.
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Make sure that you have administrator privileges on multi-user systems,
then run the installer by double-clicking on it. More details about this topic are given in the
platform-specific "Readme" files that are also available from the Download page.
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Follow the steps in the installer until it has finished, then restart Match!.
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Check whether the update was successful by selecting "About Match!" from
the "Help" menu.
Enhancements compared to current official version
- During guided operations, Match! will now also allow you to restrict your analysis to certain chemical classes ("subfiles", e.g. "mineral" or "cement material").
- You can now answer "No (don't ask again)" to the questions regarding chemical class, known elements or phases when running the "Quantitative and qualitative analysis" command, in order to suppress future displays of these questions.
- New "Automatic" finishing option: "Export result to LIMS" writes the result (contents of the match list) to a csv-file in the directory given on the "Automatic" tab of the "Options" window, with extension "_LIMS_ddmmyyyy_hhmmss.csv". Here, "ddmmyyyy_hhmmss" is the current date and time when the LIMS file is written.
- New file format "LIMS" for batch script command "export_matchlist"
- When importing crystal structure data (space group HMS) with given origin choice from CIFs, Match! now also understands "origin choice 1" and "Origin Choice 1", as alternatives to "O1".
- New edition "2025.07.04" of the COD reference databases, now providing the "Organic" subfile flag (restraint) for the full COD reference database (in addition to "Cement materials", "Inorganic" and "Minerals").
- Several bugs have been fixed:
- In certain situations, Match! could crash when automatically marking the next phase after an automatic search-match (update of FoM values) calculation after a phase selection.
- Match! could crash while switching over to a different reference database.
- A bug causing the "COD-Inorganics" reference database to contain several organic compounds/phases has been fixed.
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