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Release Notes for JMRI 4.19.5 release

Date: April 23, 2020

From: Bob Jacobsen

Subject: Test Release 4.19.5 of JMRI/DecoderPro is available for download.

Notes:

This is a test release. Please post a note if you encounter any new or old bugs! And please back up your JMRI files before installing this, in case you want to go back to an earlier version.

This is the next in a series of test releases. We expect this series to end in the next JMRI production release in early summer 2020. (See the tentative release schedule)

Some of the changes involved are quite extensive. They may require a certain amount of experience before they are working well. Therefore, this test release should be considered experimental.

JMRI is now only available under the GNU General Public License. For more information, please see our copyright and licensing page.

Update From Older JMRI Versions

If you are currently using JMRI 4.11.9 or earlier, we strongly recommend that you update to JMRI 4.12 and make sure that's running without errors during startup or on the JMRI log. Once you have JMRI 4.12 running OK, store your configuration and panel files and use those from then on. There have been changes in serial port support, panel file format and configuration options since those earlier releases, and moving to the stable JMRI 4.12 release is a good way to work through any possible problems.

If you are currently using JMRI 4.7.3 or earlier on Linux or macOS (Windows doesn't need this), you must update to JMRI 4.12 and carrying out the migration process described in the JMRI 4.12 release note before updating to this release.

If you are currently using JMRI 4.17.7 or earlier, including if the previous paragraphs convinced you to update to JMRI 4.12, we strongly recommend that you update to JMRI 4.18 and make sure that's running without errors during startup or on the JMRI log. Once you have JMRI 4.18 running OK, store your configuration and panel files and use those from then on. There have been changes panel file format and configuration options since earlier releases, and moving to the stable JMRI 4.18 release is a good way to work through any possible problems.

Known problems with this release

New warnings for this release:

Older warnings

See the JMRI 4.18 release note for more warnings predating the 4.19 development series, including pointers to various migration issues. These may be relevant to you if you're updating from an earlier version.

Download links:

Please note that the download links in this and future JMRI releases link to Github servers. People are welcome to distribute the download files further via other websites, etc. If you want to check that you've received original, unmodified versions, please check the files against the checksums shown below.

Changes since Test Release 4.19.4:

The list of included changes is available from our GitHub code repository.

Hardware Support

MERG CBUS

New / Updated decoder definitions

BLI

ESU

SoundTraxx

Control Panel Editor

Dispatcher

Scripting

Signals

Signal Systems

Throttle

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