Develop release-4.2

[mattharris]

First pass at release note for 4.2 has been submitted.

Please review this (it's just a concatenation of pretty much everything from the 4.1.x series).

Thanks.

[mattharris]

Production Release 4.2 will be built based upon 4.1.6.

[mattharris]

The release-4.2 branch now exists.

[mattharris]

First candidate files for JMRI 4.2 are available in the usual place:

http://builds.jmri.org/jenkins/job/Test%20Releases/job/4.2/

[mattharris]

Pausing release at the moment due to issue noticed by Dan (copied from developers list):

Using Panel Editor, I found that if I select a blinking icon for a sensor icon, that it doesn't blink. I checked the other test versions 4.1.1 through 4.1.6 and they all have the same problem. Version 4.0.1 works correctly. If I just add a blinking icon to the panel, it does blink, and it seems to work ok if I assign blinking icons to turnouts, so the problem seems to be with sensors.
Testing using NCE simulator.

Here's an example of one of the icons that I'm having problems with:

program:resources/icons/USS/sensor/blink/red-b.gif

Dan

[mattharris]

Do we feel that this is serious enough to stop the release?

Only, we really should try and avoid pushing out a 4.2.1. Yes, we have
done this in the past, but it can get a bit messy.

Thoughts?

(sent also to jmri-developers)

[KenC57]

I know we will hear of this from the users. A number of them (ok at least 5
or 10) use blinking icons for either signals or control panels and expect
them to flash. Non-flashing means something else. I recall helping (at
least) twice on how to substitute the icons to make that happen.

-Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team

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[DanielBoudreau]

I went back and retested, and I was wrong to report that versions 4.1.1 through 4.1.4 had the blinking sensor icon problem. The first release that shows the problem is version 4.1.5. So I think this problem was introduced in the last 4 weeks. History shows that Pete C. was making changes to the sensor code to fix an issue reported by Walt.

Dan

[mattharris]

Pete's updates have been brought in via #401 for the release-4.2 branch

[mattharris]

Closing as part of release process