December 2025 critical fixes
December 2025 fixes were published on 16 December 2025. All critical fixes listed here were fixed for versions 2512.1 and 2506.6.
Bug 118866: Perfect contact thermal coupling does not work with the finite element method when both the primary and the secondary selections consist of 2D thin shell elements
A bug has been resolved that prevented perfect contact thermal couplings from functioning correctly in finite element models when both the primary and secondary selections consisted of 2D thin shell elements, that is 2D-to-2D element connections. With this fix, perfect contact now works reliably for shell-to-shell configurations, enabling accurate and physically realistic heat transfer modeling. This improvement aligns the finite element method’s behavior with that of the finite volume method and ensures consistent results across serial and parallel runs.
