I am pleased (and a little relieved) to announce the release of LinuxCNC v2.8.0
This release has been a long time in development. The main new feature, the separation of joints (actuators) and (cartesian) axes has been in development since around 2010. This is one of the biggest updates to LinuxCNC ever. The changelog can be viewed here: https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/2.8/debian/changelog Highlights include: * Joints-axes separation - mainly obvious as much better support for gantries and their homing but also for robots and any other non-cartesian system * Reverse-run - negative feed-overide will now reverse along the previous path - introduced for wire spark eroders, but I am sure you will find other uses. * Multiple spindle support - up to 9 spindles * Tool table expanded to 1000 tools * Packages available for Raspberry Pi 4. * External offsets and Extra (not controlled by G-code) joints. - G-code is not the only way to move things. * QTvcp: New QT-based VCP framework * QTdragon, QTlathe, QTtouchy, QTscreen - new GUIs based on QTVP * Silverdragon: New gscreen based GUI * plasmac: New full-featured Plasma cutter controller - with integrated THC and a whole lot more. * Massively expanded and improved Spanish translations of documentation and manpages * New Chinese translation of the "入门" (Getting Started) documentation. Installable packages are available for Ubuntu Precise and Debians Wheezy, Stretch, Jessie and Buster (including Raspbian). Support for Ubuntu Lucid has ended. At the moment most supported platforms only work with the preempt-rt kernels. There is an experimental 64-bit RTAI kernel for those needing it. We hope to mainline this soon, but help would be appreciated. More details of how to update here: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/getting-started/updating-linuxcnc.html For new installations, or to test-run the new version and OS on your existing hardware without committing to an OS upgrade use the ISO images and process described here: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/getting-started/getting-linuxcnc.html Many thanks to the following contributors, and to anyone else who has submitted work or code to the project. Alec Ari Alexander Brock Alex Joni Alex Wigen Al Smart Andrea Ricchi Andrew Kyrychenko andypugh Anthony Barney Anton Midyukov ascurtis Balestrino bebro Bence Kovacs Benjamin Brockhaus Benjamin Weis Bernhard M. Wiedemann Bertho Stultiens blazini36 Boris Skegin Brian Hicks cascade256 Chris Edwards Chris Morley Chris Radek Colten Edwards Curtis Dutton Daniel Rogge david David Shore Dewey Garrett Eduard Kachur Edward Tomasz Napierala Ernesto Lo Valvo Florian Kerle Gergely Nagymate Hannah Lau Håvard Flaget Aasen itai itaib James Waples Jan Mrázek jasen Jeff Epler Jim Craig Jin j.m. garcia Joe Hildreth John John Kasunich John Morris John Thornton Jon Elson Kim Kirwan Kurt Jacobson Lars Bensmann Les Newell loopsun Lorenz Neureuter Lubomir Rintel Luke Peterson Mark Andrew Gerads Markus Mateusz Konieczny Matsche Michael Geszkiewicz Michael Haberler Mick Moses McKnight MrFouFou Nicola Quargentan Norbert Schechner Oleg Pryadko peter wallace Phillip A Carter Phillip Carter pippin88 Rene Hopf Rick M Robert W. Ellenberg rolf Rudy du Preez Ruoxi Wang Rushabh Loladia sam sokolik Sam Sokolik Sebastian Kuzminsky Sergey Alirzaev Solitarily sphasse Stephen Wille Padnos Sync Tero Kaarlela Thomas Burkhard Tom Schneider Trần Ngọc Quân tseufl TurBoss Will Glynn -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
