Past is free software for scientific data analysis, with functions for data manipulation, plotting, univariate and multivariate statistics, ecological analysis, time series and spatial analysis, morphometrics and stratigraphy. Past went through a complete redesign with version 3 in 2013. In 2020, version 4 was released with 64-bit support. Past works under Windows 10, 8 and 7, and Mac OSX Catalina