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]

A new release of KDL is now available,

It contains a few bugfixes, creates shared libraries by default and picked up
some long lost classes in the motion module.

you can download it from the website: ,

Ruben

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

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

New Ubuntu/Debian packages of the latest BFL trunk with the integrated MatrixWrapper are available in a new repository. To upgrade to these newest packages, follow the instructions in the download - packages section. The old BFL Ubuntu/Debian packages will remain in the current repository for a while.

BFL was moved from its original subversion repository, to the Orocos subversion repository. Because this is a different repository, it is not possible to automatically migrate your checks out copy of BFL. You will need to store the local changes in your copy of the old repository (svn diff), then check out the new BFL trunk (svn co http://svn.mech.kuleuven.be/repos/orocos/trunk/bfl), and finally apply your changes to the new trunk. Also check out the updated installation instructions.

Over the past week, BFL has followed RTT, KDL and OCL in their move from a build system based on autotools, to a build system based on cmake. This should also make it easier to build BFL for Windows. The installation instructions for linux have been updated. If anyone tries a Windows build, we're interested in your experiences.

BFL relies on the MatrixWrapper to make itself independent of the underlying matrix library (Lti or Newmat). In the past BFL and the MatrixWrapper where two separate projects. We now merged the MatrixWrapper into the BFL, which decreases maintenance efforts and makes it easier to install BFL.

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.

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)