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| current [2019/12/07 15:58] – [9.4.27 Change Log] James Sentman | current [2020/07/14 12:14] – update for 9.4.32 James Sentman | ||
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| - | =====XTension Version 9.4.27===== | + | =====XTension Version 9.4.32===== |
| - | Released: | + | Released: 7/14/2020\\ |
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| - | Download: [[https:// | + | Download |
| + | Download for Catalina Only: [[https:// | ||
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| + | **NOTE: the catalina download is a notarized disk image file but does not contain the entirety of the plugins as not all are updated to run on Catalina yet. See the Catalina note below or more info. Please do not use this image on a 10.14 (Mohave) or earlier version, use the non Catalina file above.** | ||
| ====Important Info==== | ====Important Info==== | ||
| **Minimum System Version** for this release is OSX 10.10\\ | **Minimum System Version** for this release is OSX 10.10\\ | ||
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| - | **Mac OSX Catalina** | + | **Mac OSX Catalina** |
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| **Mac OSX Mojave** has changed the requirements for scripting of other applications. You MUST force any script to run that contacts a different application when you upgrade and click “OK” when it asks for permission or your scripts will silently fail when they run later. See the [[tech_notes: | **Mac OSX Mojave** has changed the requirements for scripting of other applications. You MUST force any script to run that contacts a different application when you upgrade and click “OK” when it asks for permission or your scripts will silently fail when they run later. See the [[tech_notes: | ||
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| + | Please test the new DIY plugin! | ||
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| + | ====9.4.32 Change Log:==== | ||
| + | * NEW: [[dictionary: | ||
| + | * DIY Plugin: The new DIY plugin now calls the unit handlers in it’s Interface script as the old one did. | ||
| + | * DIY Plugin: Note that the timing of when the data available event fires may be different for the new plugin compared to the old one. If you were relying on the event to fire only once for a line or packet it may now fire more than once unless you use the parsing options to properly break up the packets. | ||
| + | * FIX: A regression in the last version caused Interface scripts to be overwritten with their empty template when opening the edit window for them. (the work around was to use the previous version popup to restore the source from the last successful compile and then edit and save that again) this is now working normally again. | ||
| + | * FIX: A regression in the last version caused the Say and Speak verbs default “wait” parameter to default to false instead of true and so unless you specifically added “with waiting” they would speak over each other if more than one was called at a time. This is now fixed. | ||
| + | * FIX: Deleting an Interface script no longer leaves the folder in the database behind causing confusion later when creating a new one. | ||
| + | * FIX: New DIY plugin no longer requires Python3 to be installed | ||
| + | * FIX: New DIY plugin no longer throws errors when receiving binary data that is non-UTF formatted. | ||
| + | * FIX: The new Hue plugin no longer prints constant errors to the log if you have a sensor or other unknown device configured for it. | ||
| + | * FIX: The new Arduino plugin now recognizes negative numbers as numbers and will probably set the value of the unit to them and no longer set them to the Description of the unit as it did previously. | ||
| + | * FIX: The new Arduino plugin now properly routes all types of commands to the Units. Previously some received or sending commands could get lost due to a different address prefix in one place vs the other. | ||
| + | * FIX: The Switchbot plugin will now again perform a scan for switchbots. This fix was in the plugin API to do a non-case sensitive search for the appropriate handler so this may fix some potential problems in other plugins as well. | ||
| + | * FIX: The new VeraUI7 plugin will now properly update the House Mode unit in XTension when the house mode is changed in the Vera. | ||
| + | * PLUGINS: The standard python includes will now automatically create the correct type of connection be it a TCP or a Serial connection simplifying the creation of new plugins that use the built in connection class. | ||
| + | * PLUGINS: Normally any output to stdout or stderr will be logged as if it came from the write log command. There are some libraries or functions that will always print to stdout or stderr and you may not always be interested in this. The plugin API has a new key to tell it to ignore the std pipes for logging to suppress some of the log spamming we were seeing specifically with the tp-link plugin. If the plugin is placed in debug mode all the logging will be done normally as before to aid in seeing the errors or information. | ||
| + | Please also remember that the original Arduino, Hue, Barix, Vera and w800 plugins are no longer included in the build. They have been replaced with new Catalina compatible plugins. If you haven’t already converted your interfaces to the new plugins simply go to the interface list window and edit those interfaces selecting the proper new plugin from the list and then enable them. These plugins have been around long enough that I consider them to be fully functional but if you have problems with the conversion let me know. Internally to XTension the older plugins will still work fine so if it is necessary you can pull the plugins out of the previous release and then use the “install plugin” menu under the Database menu to re-install them in this version. They will not run under Catalina going forward so it is important to get switched to the new ones at some point. | ||
| - | ====9.4.27 Change Log==== | ||
| - | * NEW: The “XTension Kit” plugin is now compatible with the [[kits: | ||
| - | * NEW: Added a “Description” field to the Edit Scheduled Event window. This is just informational for you to describe why you created the event and what it is for. It is displayed as the tool tip in the Event List window but the way they implemented that it looks pretty horrid there, not like the tool tips in other display types. I’ll be updating that eventually but thats just cosmetic. It works just fine, just isn’t pretty. | ||
| - | * NEW: Added an option to “Ignore logging from Video Pitcher” on the Logging tab of the Preferences window. If you have one of those cameras that continually throws errors even though the stream is displaying this will declutter your log and make it easier to see real events. This does not suppress only errors but all logging from VP so if you’re having legitimate problems with something you may have to turn it off in order to see any actually useful messages from it. This is a temporary fix that will not be necessary once the new video plugin system is complete. | ||
| - | * FIX: Fixed an error in the [[supported_hardware: | ||
| - | * FIX: In the new [[supported_hardware: | ||
| - | * Am filtering more garbage characters in the edit script window that can seemingly be inserted randomly by Apple’s VNC implementation. This should fix more of the problems that folks sometimes have when editing scripts over VNC where they fail to compile but show no location for the error as it is an invisible non-printable character that was inserted either randomly or more often in response to your hitting the delete key. | ||
| - | * FIX: the [[supported_hardware: | ||
| - | * FIX: the [[dictionary: | ||
| - | * This version returns to the new Apple file API version that will be necessary going forward to Catalina and beyond. Apple is sure keeping me busy working on this stuff that wasn’t broken last week. On earlier OS versions there should be no visible change to how anything works but please keep an eye on things when renaming Units or Global Scripts as this was where we had problems previously. Any errors will be written to the log if this happens so please let me know if you see anything while doing that. I have been running this fix on my own systems for several weeks now without being able to duplicate any of the previous errors so I don’t believe that anyone will have any new issues with it but let me know if it does. Note that this does not make it run any better on Catalina itself. Please do NOT update your servers to Catalina yet. I continue to work towards that capability. | ||
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| =====Previous Releases===== | =====Previous Releases===== | ||
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