FME Platform Technical Specifications

Liz Sanderson
Liz Sanderson

FME Version

Introduction

This article outlines the technical specifications for the FME 2024 Platform. To review the technical specifications for previous years, please see Legacy FME Technical Specifications.

 

Operating Systems

Windows 

FME 2024 Form and Flow can only be installed on 64-bit Windows. Please refer to this article for details on migrating to 64-bit FME.

Operating Systems FME Form FME Flow
Windows 11 Yes Yes
Windows 10 Yes Yes
Windows Server 2022 Yes Yes
Windows Server 2019 Yes Yes
Windows Server 2016 Yes Yes

*Note that FME 2024.2 will be the last version of FME to support Windows Server 2016. For FME 2025.0, please use Windows Server 2019 or newer. 

 

Mac 

Note: FME on macOS does not support case-sensitive file systems.

Operating Systems FME Form FME Flow
macOS 15 Sequoia (Beginning FME 2024.2)* Yes  No
macOS 14 Sonoma Yes No
macOS 13 Ventura Yes No

*Note that only FME 2024.2 has been tested on macOS 15 Sequoia; for FME 2024.1 or older, macOS 14 Sonoma or macOS 13 Ventura is recommended. 

 

Linux

Operating Systems FME Form FME Flow
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Recommended distribution beginning FME 2024.2) Yes Yes
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Recommended distribution until FME 2024.2)     Yes Yes
Debian 11 Yes Yes
Debian 12  Yes Yes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (EPEL 9 repository required) Yes Yes
Rocky Linux 9 (EPEL 9 repository required)   Yes Yes
Oracle Linux 9 (EPEL 9 repository required)     Yes Yes


*Note that Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Oracle Linux 8, and Rocky Linux 8 are no longer supported in FME 2024.0. Please use FME 2023.2 or older. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Support

**Note that FME 2024.2 will be the last version of FME to support Debian 11. For FME 2025.0, please use Debian 12. 

 

Containerization

Container FME Form FME Flow
Docker No Yes
Kubernetes No Yes

 

Virtualization

FME Flow should run on almost any virtualization provider's platform on any supported operating system. FME Form additionally requires GUI support (most leading vendors, such as AWS and DigitalOcean provide this, but a small number of other services may not).

 

Custom Installation of FME Flow

The recommended installation option for FME Flow is either Express or Distributed. If you need to perform a custom installation of FME Flow, then you can learn more about the recommended web application servers, databases, and more in Planning an FME Flow Installation.
 

Hardware Requirements

Safe Software is no longer recommending hardware requirements. Although FME can operate on legacy hardware, additional memory, faster CPU and disk will significantly improve processing time. 

FME Flow's processing power can be scaled by purchasing additional FME Engines. For optimal performance, we recommend that each engine have a dedicated CPU core. To deploy FME Flow without the constraints of hardware, learn more about FME Flow Hosted.
 

Languages

Please note that in languages other than English, not all product components have been translated. In addition, non-English versions may have later release dates. The release dates and scope of translation vary based upon the provider – please contact them directly for full details.

Language FME Form 
Provided by:
FME Flow
Provided by:
Chinese Beijing Antu Beijing Antu
English Default language Default language
French GeoNov
Graphland
Veremes
GeoNov
Graphland
Veremes
German con terra con terra
Japanese Pacific Spatial Solutions N/A
Portuguese Solutial Soluções e Análise de Dados N/A
Spanish con terra con terra

 

 

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  • Comment author
    rudy_v

    Hi, 

    It would be great if you can specify minimum of each OS, for example Windows 10 has lots of versions. Supported on 20H2 for example or is the min OS - 22H2.

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