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 and read the installation instructions online at (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' command 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.Port.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.

The Bayesian Filtering Library development team is pleased to announce the 0.6.0 prerlease of BFL.
You can download this prerelease from

and read the installation instructions on
(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.

This release of the Orocos Components Library is aimed at
the Real-Time Toolkit v1.2.0. and offers new functionality
for loading and configuring components dynamically at run-time.

Two new stand-alone applications have been added as well:
deployer: loads other components into the current process
ctaskbrowser: connects the TaskBrowser to a networked component [CORBA required]

The Orocos development team announces the fourth bug-fix release of
the Orocos Real-Time Toolkit 1.0. You can download this release from here.
This release addresses the following reported issues:

ID     Vers   TargetM   Summary
378    1.0.3   1.0.4   Loading program in KTaskbrowser reports success upon syntax error
379    1.0.3   1.0.4   'Ghost' attributes appear in TaskContext when state machine loading fails
356    1.0.3   1.0.4   CompletionProcessor is not automatically started
397    1.0.3   1.0.4   -fvisibility-inlines-hidden causes undefined symbols

This is a developer's release and provides a look-ahead on RTT 1.2.0.
It passes all unit tests for the GNU/Linux and Xenomai targets. The
documentation manuals have not yet been updated with the latest changes. The
public API is intended to be fully backwards compatible with Orocos 1.0.x
applications.

Sources:

Docs (in progress):

Changes (in progress):

Build instructions:

We are especially interested in current Orocos 1.0.x users testing this release in order to verify the build system and source compatibility, before RTT 1.2.0 is released.