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Hi,
 I am getting the following error on a Mac running MacOS Ventura 13.7.6, when trying to run 

>> sudo FREESURFER_HOME=/Applications/freesurfer/8.0.0  bash  fs8_updates.sh
Password:
Machine context is darwin_arm64
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0   196    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
*** Error: download of default config failed - if this error persists please notify the Freesurfer team.

Any help in updating the URL  would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Mira
_______________________________________________
Mira Michelle Raman
Senior Neuroimaging Data Analyst
BrIDGe Lab, Division of Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences
Stanford University
1520 Page Mill Rd, 160.12
Palo Alto, CA 94304


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Sent: Friday, April 11, 2025 5:24 PM
To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Subject: [Freesurfer] Updates/bug fixes available for the 8.0.0 release
 
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Some updates/bug fixes are available for an existing installation of the Freesurfer 8.0.0 release.  The list of files you can update along with a brief comment about the change(s) are:

$FREESURFER_HOME/bin/csvprint
Script changed to use python3 - values for eTIV should no longer be misreported as 0.00 for data processed with the recon-all command

$FREESURFER_HOME/bin/recon-all
Fixes for options -autorecon1, -nonuintensitycor.  Add flag -no-fix-ga to turn off fixing of gyrus ambiens part of the cortex label.

$FREESURFER_HOME/bin/gtmseg
gtmseg now uses samseg by default

$FREESURFERR_HOME/bin/xhemireg
Modifications to make xhemireg work with 8.0.

$FREESURFER_HOME/bin/xcerebralseg
gtmseg now uses samseg by default

$FREESURFER_HOME/bin/post-recon-all
gtmseg now uses samseg by default

$FREESURFER_HOME/python/packages/gems/SamsegLongitudinal.py
fix parameters to surfa.image.transform()

$FREESURFER_HOME/etc/recon-config.yaml 
Added option -no-fix-ga to turn off fixing of gyrus ambiens part of the cortex label.

Please note THESE UPDATES DO NOT CHANGE THE OUTPUT OF THE recon-all COMMAND.

If these updates are of interest to you, then please go the 8.0.0 download URL,
https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/8.0.0/
- and download the fs8_update.sh script.

On MacOS run the script as follows,
$ sudo FREESURFER_HOME=/Applications/freesurfer/8.0.0  bash  fs8_updates.sh

On CentOS and Rocky8 Linux run the script as follows,
$ sudo FREESURFER_HOME=/usr/local/freesurfer/8.0.0-1  bash  fs8_updates.sh

On Ubuntu Linux run the scripts as follows,
$ sudo FREESURFER_HOME=/usr/local/freesurfer/8..0.0  bash  fs8_updates.sh

You will be prompted on the command line as to whether or not you want to install each file, including displaying the description of the change(s) listed above.