You can either download binaries or source code archives for the latest stable or previous release or access the current development (aka nightly) distribution through CVS.

Current Release Notes

Latest Release (3.6.2)

Platform Files
Windows, 32 bit paraview-3.6.2-win32-x86.exe
Windows, 64 bit paraview-3.6.2-win64-x86.exe
Linux x86, 32 bit paraview-3.6.2-Linux32-x86.tar.gz
Linux x86, 64 bit paraview-3.6.2-Linux64-x86.tar.gz
Macintosh OS X Universal Application Bundle paraview.app-3.6.2-universal.dmg
Macintosh OS X Universal Command Line Tools paraview.cl-3.6.2-universal.tar.gz
Source paraview-3.6.2.tar.gz
  paraview-3.6.2.zip
Data ParaViewData3.6.zip

Note: There are two Mac downloads. The one named paraview.app.XXX is the download for the Paraview application whereas the other download contains the Unix-style command line executables, such as pvbatch and pvserver. Most users will only need to download paraview.app.XXX. The binaries are built as universal binaries for both PPC and Intel (i386). They were built using Python 2.3 and do not support MPI.

Detailed information about how the above binaries were built can be found here. When building plugins for these binaries, make sure to use the same versions of the compiler and libraries listed in the linked page.

CVS branch tag: "ParaView-3-6-2"

Platform Files
Windows, 32 bit paraview-3.6.1-win32-x86.exe
Windows, 64 bit paraview-3.6.1-win64-x86.exe
Linux x86, 32 bit paraview-3.6.1-Linux32-x86.tar.gz
Linux x86, 64 bit paraview-3.6.1-Linux64-x86.tar.gz
Macintosh OS X, Tiger and Leopard (Intel) paraview.app-3.6.1-Tiger-x86.dmg
Macintosh OS X Tiger and Leopard (PPC) paraview.app-3.6.1-Tiger-ppc.dmg
Macintosh OS X, Tiger and Leopard (Intel) paraview.cl-3.6.1-Tiger-x86.tar.gz
Macintosh OS X Tiger and Leopard (PPC) paraview.cl-3.6.1-Tiger-ppc.tar.gz
Source paraview-3.6.1.tar.gz
  paraview-3.6.1.zip
Data ParaViewData3.6.zip

Note: There are two Mac downloads for each cpu architecture. The ones that are called paraview.app.XXX are the downloads for the paraview applications whereas the other downloads contains the Unix-style executables such as pvbatch and pvserver. Most users will only need to download paraview.app.XXX. The Tiger binaries work on both Leopard and Tiger. They were built using Python 2.3 and do not support MPI.

Detailed information about how the above binaries were built can be found here. When building plug ins for these binaries, make sure to use the same versions of the compiler and libraries listed in the linked page.

CVS branch tag: "ParaView-3-6-1"

Platform Files
Windows, 32 bit paraview-3.4.0-win32-x86.exe
Windows, 64 bit paraview-3.4.0-win64-x86.exe
Linux x86, 32 bit paraview-3.4.0-Linux32-x86.tar.gz
Linux x86, 64 bit paraview-3.4.0-Linux64-x86.tar.gz
Macintosh OS X, Tiger and Leopard (Intel) paraview.app-3.4.0-Tiger-x86.dmg
Macintosh OS X Tiger and Leopard (PPC) paraview.app-3.4.0-Tiger-ppc.dmg
Macintosh OS X, Tiger and Leopard (Intel) paraview.cl-3.4.0-Tiger-x86.tar.gz
Macintosh OS X Tiger and Leopard (PPC) paraview.cl-3.4.0-Tiger-ppc.tar.gz
Macintosh OS X, Leopard (Intel) paraview.app-3.4.0-Leopard-x86.dmg
Macintosh OS X, Leopard (Intel) paraview.cl-3.4.0-Leopard-x86.tar.gz
Source paraview-3.4.0.tar.gz
  paraview-3.4.0.zip
Data ParaViewData3.4.zip

Note: There are two Mac downloads for each cpu architecture. The ones that are called paraview.app.XXX are the downloads for the paraview applications whereas the other downloads contains the Unix-style executables such as pvbatch and pvserver. Most users will only need to download paraview.app.XXX. The Tiger binaries work on both Leopard and Tiger. They were built using Python 2.3 and do not support MPI. The Leopard binaries were built using Python 2.5 and OpenMPI available only on Leopard.

Detailed information about how the above binaries were built can be found here. When building plug ins for these binaries, make sure to use the same versions of the compiler and libraries listed in the linked page.

CVS branch tag: "ParaView-3-4-0"

Current development distribution

Download ParaView (contains reorganized ParaView source tree and VTK) source via CVS access:

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@www.paraview.org:/cvsroot/ParaView3 login
(respond with empty password)

Follow this command by checking out the source code:
cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@www.paraview.org:/cvsroot/ParaView3 co ParaView3

For checking out the data, use the following:
cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@www.paraview.org:/cvsroot/ParaView3 co ParaViewData

If you have not already done so, you will need to download and compile/install CMake to compile ParaView. You will also need to download and install Qt® (version 4.3 or later is required). To use CVS, you must have it installed on your system. You may wish to use the Cygwin tools on Windows platforms, or WinCVS which provides a very nice GUI to CVS.

Nightly documentation archive

The documentation for the nightly build of ParaView is also available as a gzipped tarball: ParaView3-html.tar.gz. This is useful if you would like your own local copy of the ParaView documentation without spending the extra time and effort to build it yourself.