Release 2022.22 Released

[keithsw1111]

2022.22 November 7, 2022
— enh (gil) Refactored several huge sections of code in PolyLine reducing the complexity of the code
— enh (keith) Add a way to add show players and pure media players to the controller tab
— enh (keith) Prompt user if sequence unsaved and they try to access FPP connect
— enh (keith) Add option to output to lights when defining faces, states, submodels and using the node select dialog
— enh (keith) Add support for the original Minleon NDB controller
— enh (keith) Add Custom Christmas Creations as a prop vendor in the model download
— enh (keith) Add visual model node selection to the test function
— enh (scott) Add experience lights discovery
— enh (dkulp) Increase maximum matrix size
— bug (gil) PolyLine: Now all variations of using lights/node > 1 should work
— bug (gil) Fix bug where program appeared to hang if dropsize is set to 0 for PolyLine
— bug (keith) Address a crash in render cache. This is not a complete fix as we are seeing some hangs in batch render related to this.
— bug (keith) Fix Twinkly start channel bug
— bug (keith) Fix node select does not work on windows if dark mode selected
— bug (keith) Fix some Pixlite controller uploads failing
— bug (scott) Fix experience lights DDP start channel and max pixels per port
— bug (dkulp) Fix falcon FPP discovery
— bug (dkulp) Fix blended/solid circle node display not dependent on camera view point

xLights is available for download from https://xlights.org/releases/

Issue tracker: https://github.com/smeighan/xLights/issues
Video tutorials: https://videos.xlights.org
xLights user manual: https://manual.xlights.org/xlights/

 

[Gerald]

A big round of thanks to all the dedicated people working on this great program for us, One question which I have is , How often do you guys update the program?.
Should you do it everytime to keep things current , as you might do for say Windows , or take the old view if its not broke for you , don,t fix it

Also when you upgrade does it alter in anyway your previous rendered files?

Be interesting to hear the views of fellow enthusiasts regarding this one

Thanks again all you people . its always good to read how your all doing, looking forward to my first show in a couple of weeks time and I can honestly say, all of you who offered help to me in achieving this is most appreciated

 

[CargoLights]

For Gerald, most of us recommend updating most of the year, but holding off it it's working well and it is near time to run your show. With operating system updates, there are security concerns that make it important to update immediately. In this case, it's just improved functionality and bug fixes, so if you have a version that is working well and does everything you need, it might not be worth the risk of finding a bug that causes problems with your show.

That said, these guys are really good at addressing bugs as quickly as possible, so the risk isn't terribly high, and you can always roll back to a previous version. You really have to do your own risk assessment and decide what risk is acceptable vs what benefit you would get from updating.