On Sunday 06 September 2015 06:18:35 EBo wrote: > Maybe I grabbed the wrong chunk of code (snapshot of 2.7.0 master). > EMC2VERSION is set to '2.8.0~pre1'. Is that the case, if so I think > it should be changed. If not I have a problem with my system... > > EBo --
I've been on the bleeding edge version (master-rt) for most of a year, and its been solid as a rock AFAIAC. I bailed out of the stock releases at 2.6.8 when I could not stop it from doing random resets several times a day on my Atom powered boxes. Up till then, and from about 2.6.4 it had not been at all stable on my hardware. The crashes occured usually about 5 seconds after stopping LCNC. I posted about it, and was ignored. The only problem I have noted recently is that the command line test a value facility in the hal-showconfig screen has stopped working, anything you enter is an error if the command entered is more than 40 bytes or so, and playing with anything in the 5i25 takes more bytes than the apparent failure trigger. halcmd itself doesn't seem to have a problem once I learned about it a couple weeks ago. > On Sep 5 2015 8:03 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > After many new features, much testing, and many bug fixes, I'm > > pleased > > to announce the release of LinuxCNC 2.7.0! > > > > This release is codenamed "I Kill Kokomo". > > > > The major new features since 2.6 are: > > > > * new trajectory planner (from Rob Ellenberg of Tormach) It works well IMO. That surprised me a few weeks back as I had been parking this new machine pretty high on the post, and one bit of code did a rapid z followed by a rapid x, and instead of making a sharp corner, it started the x move about an inch above the work, maintaining the G0 velocity of several hundred mm/sec while doing it. I hit the panic button the first time, but then realised I was Seeing Roberts work. Sweet! > > * support for RT-Preempt real-time (from Jeff Epler) That I believe I am using in the 2.7.0-pre7 SIM I run on this machine. > > * Support for importing Mach3 configs via StepConf How about its own? Having to start from scratch each time isn't terribly helpful. JMHO of course. > > * better ARM support An advantage for the BBB users I'm sure. > > * better docs Better yes, but too concise at times yet. > > * many new drivers and features All pluses > > * bug fixes I have not encountered a showstopper in quite some time, so a hearty thanks to all of you who have fixed, usually the next day, anything I've found. > > * probably other things that I've forgotten! > > > > > > Instructions on how to upgrade from 2.6 to 2.7.0 are here (note this > > may > > require manual changes to your config, detailed on this webpage): > > > > > > http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/getting-started/updating-linuxcnc. > >html > > > > > > Instructions on how to make a fresh install of 2.7.0 are here: > > > > > > http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/getting-started/getting-linuxcnc.h > >tml > > > > > > Many thanks to all the folks who worked hard to add features, fix > > bugs, > > write docs, run tests, and report how things were or weren't > > working. Amen! If any of you ever come by my place for the 50 cent tour, a cold one is on me, even if its not 5 oclock... Unless I'm out, the current state and this being Sunday, I can't fix that till after 13:00. WV law. > > Here's to many more years of friendly, effective collaboration! Hereby seconded. I am on several mailing lists, and this one is the best ever. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
