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:
<http://www.orocos.org/devel/rtt/v1.1.0/>

Docs (in progress):
<http://www.orocos.org/devel/documentation/rtt/v1.1.x>

Changes (in progress):
<http://www.orocos.org/devel/documentation/rtt/v1.1.x/doc-xml/orocos-changes.html>

Build instructions:
<http://www.orocos.org/devel/rtt/README.txt>

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.

The Orocos development team announces the third bug-fix release of
the Orocos Real-Time Toolkit 1.0. You can download it here.
This release improved the on-line documentation and addressed the
following reported issues:

ID Vers TargetM Summary
338 1.0.2 1.0.3 setScheduler() not working correctly under GNU/Linux
332 1.0.2 1.0.3 Crash when assigning '0' to Property<T>
324 oroco 1.0.3 make install broken wrt headers (Ubuntu Edgy)


The Orocos development team announces the second bug-fix release of the Orocos Real-Time Toolkit 1.0. A license change from LGPL to the GPL + linking exception was done. The LGPL did not cover C++ templates correctly, while the new license does and is legally more sound for use in commercial applications. You can get it from the download page.

We announce the release of the Graphical User Interface to Orocos Components, based on KDE 3. This program allows to show a component's status variables, and shows the progress of program scripts and state machines. It connects to networked Orocos components through the CORBA Naming Service and allows to browse the full network of components.

Consult the README to see how to compile this program and how to setup your Orocos application such that it can be found by the KTaskBrowser. Download here.

The Orocos development team announces the first bug-fix release of the Orocos Real-Time Toolkit 1.0. This release improved the online documentation, fixed bindings to Xenomai and RTAI and contains additions to the Corba interface.

The Orocos Components Library version 0.2.1 and the Orocos Kinematics and Dynamics Library version 0.2.1 have been released as well. These releases include mainly documentation updates. The 'Component Template' package v1.0 has been released as well, which allows Orocos Component builders to quickly construct a new component. The template offers a ready to use build system (using cmake), an example component and an example test program.

Note before: All this was tested using the orocos 1.0.x branch and xenomai v2.2.x branch. OCL (which uses the cmake build system) was not yet tested.

Warning: These instructions are not meant for the faint of hart :)

Suppose the root file system of your target board is mounted at ${DESTDIR}, and e.g. xenomai is installed at ${DESTDIR}/usr/xenomai, and the linux sources for your target at ${DESTDIR}/usr/src/linux, then do the following:

• Copy the boost headers from your host to ${DESTDIR}/usr/include/boost. Since the boost source code checks for defines set by the compiler, you can simply copy its headers without cross compiling boost first
  
  

The past year has been a milestone for Orocos. Never in the history of Orocos was so much time and effort invested in inventing an easy to use tool for building control applications. Every one who had a part in this process can be genuinely proud. Gentlemen, start your controllers !