This is the first bug fix release of the Orocos Components Library v1.4
and only contains backwards compatible fixes.

The Orocos development team is pleased to announce the first bug-fix
release of the Real-Time Toolkit v1.4, a C++ toolkit for building
component based, real-time robotics and machine control applications.

With quite some delay, but in good shape, the new RTT and OCL releases
have arrived. We decided to set the 'major' version numbers (1.4) of the RTT
and OCL equal, such that it is easier for users to match them.

Most importantly, Debian 'etch' packages are available thanks to a very
helpful user. We provide the RTT for standard Linux (-gnulinux) RTAI/LXRT
(-lxrt) and Xenomai (-xenomai). The OCL is currently only available for
standard Linux and LXRT. Also, not all OCL components are available yet,
particularly those depending on KDL. You can find them here:

 deb http://svn.fmtc.be/debian etch main

This release has been on the shelf for a while. Most work went into preparing
RTT 1.4.0 which will go out by the end of this month. So here go the official
release notes:

The Orocos development team is pleased to announce the second bug-fix
release of the Real-Time Toolkit v1.2, a C++ toolkit for building
component based, real-time robotics and machine control applications.

The first major-version KDL-Release is being prepared. KDL-1.0 will contain algorithms for rigid-body positions/velocity/force calculations and transformations. This part of KDL is not changed with respect to the previous versions.

There is a major rewrite and API change in the kinematic family section:

• The representation of a chain is changed.
• The usage of all the kinematic solvers is changed.

The Bayesian Filtering Library development team is pleased to announce the first bug-fix release of the Bayesian Filtering Library v0.6.
You can download this release from <http://www.orocos.org/bfl/source> and read the installation instructions online at <http://people.mech.kuleuven.be/~tdelaet/bfl_doc/installation_guide/> (also reachable through the orocos website).

This release offers improvements to the TaskBrowser, Deployment and
Reporting component. The TaskBrowser shows an improved component
interface and status view upon the 'ls' commandi and also stores and
loads history of previous sessions to a history file, allowing you to
search, execute or list commands of previous sessions. The Deployment
component has been further tested and protects you against loading the
same library twice with different versions (which would cause a
crash). The Reporting component outputs a new single line header,
starting with a hash (#) mark and naming the columns as in
'Component.Porti.index', which allows greatly improved plotting with
the KDE 3 'kst' application.

The documentation had its gradual update as well.

The Orocos development team is pleased to announce the first bug-fix
release of the Real-Time Toolkit v1.2, a C++ toolkit for building
component based, real-time robotics and machine control applications.
Noteworthy changes are improved support for RTAI 3.4 and 3.5 and various
fixes in the CORBA support layer.

The Bayesian Filtering Library development team is pleased to announce the 0.6.0 release of BFL.
You can download this release from here and read the installation instructions online (also reachable through the orocos website).

This release includes support for lti, boost and newmat as matrix library and lti and boost as random number generator.
A new feature is the backward filter and smoother algorithm and the CPPUnit tests.
Furthermore for the first time, a step-by-step installation guide is available for Visual Studio on Windows.