rdkit 2026.3.6


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Released: Sep 03, 2026


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Author: Christopher Kuenneth

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🔥 RDKit Python Wheels

This repository holds the code to build RDKit platform wheels for Linux, macOS, and Windows on Github Action and Circle CI. The wheels contain the compiled platform-specific dynamic libraries (*.so, *.dylib, and *.dll) and are available at PyPI. RDKit can easily be installed using

pip install rdkit

Please open an issue if you find something missing or not working as expected.

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Available Builds

OS Arch Bit Conditions 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 CI
Linux intel 64 glibc >= 2.28 (e.g., Ubuntu 18.04+, CentOS 6+, ...) last: 2024.3.5 last: 2025.9.2 ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Github Actions
Linux aarch64 64 glibc >= 2.28 (e.g., Raspberry Pi, ...) last: 2024.3.5 last: 2025.9.2 ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Circle CI
macOS armv8 64 >= macOS 11, M-Hardware last: 2024.3.5 last: 2025.9.2 ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Github Actions
Windows intel 64 last: 2024.3.5 last: 2025.9.2 ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Github Actions

macOS Intel (x86_64) wheels are no longer built. The last available versions were 2024.3.5 (Python 3.8), 2025.9.2 (Python 3.9), and 2025.9.3 (Python 3.10-3.13).

Installation

PIP

python -m pip install rdkit
python -c "from rdkit import Chem; print(Chem.MolToMolBlock(Chem.MolFromSmiles('C1CCC1')))"

uv

uv add rdkit
uv run python -c "from rdkit import Chem; print(Chem.MolToMolBlock(Chem.MolFromSmiles('C1CCC1')))"

Local builds on Linux

cibuildwheel requires patchelf (apt install patchelf)

python3 -m pip install cibuildwheel

git clone https://github.com/kuelumbus/rdkit-pypi.git
cd rdkit-pypi

CIBW_BUILD=cp313-manylinux_x86_64 python3 -m cibuildwheel --platform linux --output-dir wheelhouse --config-file pyproject.toml

Replace * in cp*-manylinux_x86_64 with 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, or 315 to build for different Python

Wheel compatibility matrix

Platform CPython 3.10 CPython 3.11 CPython 3.12 CPython 3.13 CPython 3.14 CPython 3.15
macosx_11_0_arm64
manylinux_2_28_aarch64
manylinux_2_28_x86_64
win_amd64

Files in release

Extras: None
Dependencies:
numpy
Pillow