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Archived Installation Guides

Archived Releases

This page links to archived installation information for major Synopsys releases. In the following table, find your release and click the corresponding document link.

Release Opportunity	Documentation	Installer Version
March 11th, 2024		Version 5.7 EFT directory: Installer_INSTALL_README_5.7.txt
December 4th, 2023		Version 5.7 EFT directory: Installer_INSTALL_README_5.7.txt
September 5th, 2023		Version 5.7 EFT directory: Installer_INSTALL_README_5.7.txt
June 5th, 2023		Version 5.6 EFT directory: Installer_INSTALL_README_5.6.txt
March 6th, 2023		Version 5.6 EFT directory: Installer_INSTALL_README_5.6.txt
December 5th, 2022		Version 5.6 EFT directory: Installer_INSTALL_README_5.6.txt
September 6th, 2022		Version 5.5 EFT directory: installer_INSTALL_README_5.5.txt
June 6th, 2022		Version 5.5 EFT directory: installer_INSTALL_README_5.5.txt
March 7th, 2022		Version 5.5 EFT directory: installer_INSTALL_README_5.5.txt
December 6th, 2021		Version 5.4 EFT directory: Installer_INSTALL_README_5.4.txt
September 7th, 2021		Version 5.3.1 EFT directory: installer_INSTALL_README_5.3.1.txt
June 7th, 2021		Version 5.3 EFT directory: installer_INSTALL_README_5.3.txt
March 8th, 2021		Version 5.2 EFT directory: Installer_INSTALL_README_5.2.txt
December 7th, 2020		Version 5.2 EFT directory: Installer_INSTALL_README_5.2.txt
September 8th, 2020		Version 5.1 EFT directory: Installer_INSTALL_README_5.1.txt
June 8th, 2020		Version 5.1 EFT directory: Installer_INSTALL_README_5.1.txt
March 9th, 2020		Version 5.1 EFT directory: Installer_INSTALL_README_5.1.txt
December 9th, 2019		Version 5.0.1a EFT directory: installer_v5.0.1a Installer_INSTALL_README_5.0.1a.txt
September 9, 2019		Version 5.0.1 EFT directory: installer_v5.0.1 installer_INSTALL_README_5.0.1.txt
June 10, 2019		Version 5.0.1 EFT directory: installer_v5.0.1 installer_INSTALL_README_5.0.1.txt
April 29, 2019		Version 5.0 EFT directory: installer_v5.0 installer_INSTALL_README_5.0.txt
March 11, 2019		Version 4.2 EFT directory: installer_v4.2 installer_INSTALL_README_4.2.txt
December 10, 2018		Version 4.2 EFT directory: installer_v4.2 installer_INSTALL_README_4.2.txt
September 10, 2018		Version 4.2 EFT directory: installer_v4.2 installer_INSTALL_README_4.2.txt
June 11, 2018		Version 4.1 EFT directory: installer_v4.1 installer_INSTALL_README_4.1.txt
March 12, 2018		Version 4.1 EFT directory: installer_v4.1 installer_INSTALL_README_4.1.txt
December 4, 2017		Version 4.0.1 EFT directory: installer_v4.0.1 installer_INSTALL_README_4.0.1.TXT
September 5, 2017		Version 4.0 EFT directory: installer_v4.0 installer_INSTALL_README_4.0.txt
June 5, 2017		Version 4.0 EFT directory: installer_v4.0 installer_INSTALL_README_4.0.txt