WPILib Alpha 6 released

[PeterJohnson]

WPILib Alpha 6 has been released. This most notably fixes OpModeRobot to not crash at startup on Systemcore but also has various other fixes and additions (command v3 state machines). As noted on the releases page, it can be installed over alpha-5 (no need to uninstall); after install, you'll be prompted when you open an alpha-5 robot project if you want to upgrade it to alpha-6 (creating new projects will be created as alpha-6).

[virtuald]

RobotPy 2027.0.0a6 is also available for anyone using Python.

[witcpalek]

I'm looking at the presentation from worlds and there seems to be a lot of updates since we stopped testing at the start of the FRC season. Are all of these updates described in the presentation in this build or do we need to look closer at the change logs to understand what we need to be testing? Thanks

[sciencewhiz]

Telemetry is not implemented yet.

Were you asking specifically about python since you replied to Dustin?

[witcpalek]

Sorry, no I didn't mean to reply to the python message. We are a c++ team and have done some Java testing to this point. So, I want to hit the ground running now that the offseason is here and from the presentation it looks like a lot has changed.

[sciencewhiz]

There's lots of other smaller changes beyond what's in the presentation, so definitely recommend reviewing the changelog. Open issues for any items that are confusing, since many of the changes are straight from the PR title and may be tailored for WPILib developers rather then students.

[witcpalek]

Thanks will do