@@ -1,3 +1,125 @@ + The Orocos Real-Time Toolkit v1.8.3. + ==================================== + +The Orocos development team is pleased to announce the third bug fix +release of the Real-Time Toolkit v1.8, a C++ toolkit for building +component based, real-time robotics and machine control applications. + +You can download this release from + <http://www.orocos.org/stable/rtt/v1.8.3/orocos-rtt-1.8.3-src.tar.bz2> +and read the installation instructions on + <http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v1.8.x/doc-xml/orocos-installation.html> + +This release fixes a bug in the CORBA layer causing crashes in certain +cases. Timeouts when using semaphores in GNU/Linux were fixed. +Some overall documentation and cmake updates were included in this +release as well. This release also adds the VectorTemplateComposition +header for building custom types based on std::vector in the scripting +language. + + The Orocos Real-Time Toolkit v1.8.2. + ==================================== + +The Orocos development team is pleased to announce the second bug fix +release of the Real-Time Toolkit v1.8, a C++ toolkit for building +component based, real-time robotics and machine control applications. + +You can download this release from + <http://www.orocos.org/stable/rtt/v1.8.2/orocos-rtt-1.8.2-src.tar.bz2> +and read the installation instructions on + <http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v1.8.x/doc-xml/orocos-installation.html> + +This release fixes a bug in Command processing, causing commands not +to be executed in certain configurations. Also state machine +event processing has been adapted such that no events are lost. +Some overall documentation updates were included in this release as well. + + The Orocos Real-Time Toolkit v1.8.1. + ==================================== + +The Orocos development team is pleased to announce first bug fix +release of the Real-Time Toolkit v1.8, a C++ toolkit for building +component based, real-time robotics and machine control applications. + +You can download this release from + <http://www.orocos.org/stable/rtt/v1.8.1/orocos-rtt-1.8.1-src.tar.bz2> +and read the installation instructions on + <http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v1.8.x/doc-xml/orocos-installation.html> + +This release fixes building with certain TAO setups, event ports +registration and emitting using DataPort and BufferPort and includes +a way to set a CORBA message timeout using InitORB. + + The Orocos Real-Time Toolkit v1.8.0. + ==================================== + + The Orocos development team is pleased to announce the next major +feature release of the Real-Time Toolkit, a C++ toolkit for building + component based, real-time robotics and machine control applications. + +You can download this release from + <http://www.orocos.org/stable/rtt/v1.8.0/orocos-rtt-1.8.0-src.tar.bz2> +and read the installation instructions on + <http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v1.8.x/doc-xml/orocos-installation.html> + +The Real-Time Toolkit (RTT) library allows application designers to +build highly configurable and interactive component-based real-time +control applications. This release's major feature highlights are: + + * Event driven data ports allows components to react to new data. + * CORBA: Omniorb support as alternative to TAO. + * Usability improvements in the OCL library for data logging and + application building (deployment). + * Standard activity for each newly created component. + * Many small improvements suggested by the user community. + +If you'd like a high level overview of the Orocos libraries, visit + <http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v1.8.x/doc-xml/orocos-overview.html> +If you'd like to get started building your own components, visit + <http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v1.8.x/doc-xml/orocos-components-manual.html> + +This release is backwards compatible with all 1.x.y releases, although +some functionality has been deprecated or alternative usage patterns +are preferred. These and other changes and improvements can be found +in the Orocos RTT Changes document on + <http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v1.8.x/doc-xml/orocos-rtt-changes.html> + + The Orocos Real-Time Toolkit v1.6.2. + ==================================== + + The Orocos development team is pleased to announce the second +bugfix release of the Real-Time Toolkit v1.6, a C++ toolkit for building + component based, real-time robotics and machine control applications. + +You can download this release from + <http://www.orocos.org/stable/rtt/v1.6.1/orocos-rtt-1.6.2-src.tar.bz2> +and read the installation instructions on + <http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v1.6.x/doc-xml/orocos-installation.html> + +Summary of fixed issues: + * Fix semaphore timout bug + * Fix crashes in CORBA layer + * Improve RTAI/Xenomai install path detection + * Small compilation fixes in certain setups + + The Orocos Real-Time Toolkit v1.6.1. + ==================================== + + The Orocos development team is pleased to announce the first +bugfix release of the Real-Time Toolkit v1.6, a C++ toolkit for building + component based, real-time robotics and machine control applications. + +You can download this release from + <http://www.orocos.org/stable/rtt/v1.6.1/orocos-rtt-1.6.1-src.tar.bz2> +and read the installation instructions on + <http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v1.6.x/doc-xml/orocos-installation.html> + +Summary of fixed issues: + * thread creation in GNU/Linux when no pam limits are set, + * NonPeriodicActivity::trigger() now always returns true if succesful. + * Various build system and documentation fixes. + * Fixed issues with Intel and Suse compilers + The Orocos Real-Time Toolkit v1.6.0. ==================================== NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +orocos-rtt (1.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low + + * New upstream release + + -- Peter Soetens <peter.soetens@fmtc.be> Sun, 04 May 2008 23:07:56 +0200 + orocos-rtt (1.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release debian/changelog f23aa98e320f4a8fc5388829ba5473301dbe86e2 Peter Soetens peter@thesourceworks.com http://github.com/psoetens/orocos-rtt/commit/0c0befef47d3a1f3f891fa1a81c2375caebe4b1e 0c0befef47d3a1f3f891fa1a81c2375caebe4b1e

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Updated NEWS and debian/changelog file. 624fed3558c1e31b414cf813047236915155cb8c Peter Soetens peter@thesourceworks.com