New release candidate: 1.2.16rc1

After the compatibility issues we saw in 1.2.14 and which prompted the release of 1.2.15 only ~48h later, I promised to look into settings up an opt-in beta program to give more people a chance to test new releases prior to making them available to everyone.

This release candidate is the first step in achieving this goal: not only is it the first release candidate of a maintenance release ever, it also introduces the new release channel functionality that will allow you to comfortably switch to all release candidates to follow in the future, and also switch back to the current stable version. Please read more about Release Channels on the wiki.

Since current versions of OctoPrint do not yet have the release channel feature, if you want to help testing 1.2.16rc1 you’ll sadly need to perform a couple of manual steps to switch over to the rc/maintenance branch and install the new version from that. Please see below for more details on that.

If you are not interested in helping to test release candidates, just ignore this post, 1.2.16 stable will hit your instance via the usual way once it’s ready :)

You can find the full changelog and release notes as usual on Github.

Depending on how the feedback for this release candidate turns out, I’ll either look into releasing 1.2.16 or fix any observed regressions and push out a second release candidate within the next week.

Manually updating to this RC

For OctoPi:

  • cd ~/OctoPrint
  • source ~/oprint/bin/activate
  • git pull
  • git checkout rc/maintenance
  • python setup.py clean
  • python setup.py install
  • sudo service octoprint restart

For manual installs following the official setup guide:

  • cd /path/to/OctoPrint
  • source ./venv/bin/activate
  • git pull
  • git checkout rc/maintenance
  • python setup.py clean
  • python setup.py install
  • Restart OctoPrint

For both install variants, make sure to select the “Maintenance RCs” release channel after your 1.2.16rc1 OctoPrint instance has started via “Settings” > “Software Update” and clicking the little wrench icon there. If you don’t do that, you won’t get any update notifications about any further RCs and will be prompted to revert to stable (currently 1.2.15) instead.

Also see “Using Release Channels” on the wiki.

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Author
Gina Häußge
Published
09 Sep 2016
Category
Release