OctoPrint.orgNew release: 1.2.14
Note Some people are reporting communication issues
with this release. The release has been withdrawn (marked as prerelease)
while this is being investigated to make sure you don’t run into issues
as well.
Even though a heat wave over Germany did its best the past couple of weeks to turn my office into an oven I nevertheless kept on coding and am now pleased to present you with OctoPrint 1.2.14.
A couple of highlights of this release:
- I got into another all out fist fight with the print time estimation and put a couple of sanity checks in there. Along with this goes a visual indicator on the frontend of the accuracy of the “Print Time Left” value at any given time with a tool tip specifying the current source of the estimate - like a traffic light with explanation. The estimation is still just that, an estimation with varying accuracy and which can deviate from the truth, but at least it should now be a bit more transparent how reliable the current value is - and it should hopefully also be a bit more accurate than before as well.
- Have you ever uploaded a file and then had to use the search to recover it because it drowned in your sea of files? That’s a thing of the past now. After an upload the file list now scrolls to the uploaded file (again - this behaviour was in for years but fell prey to a bug) and the file also gets a small and temporary visual highlight to make it really get your attention. There’s a small GIF below that shows how all that comes together.
- The print progress now also displays the percentage. The upload and GCODE viewer loading progress bars were also visually improved in the process, centering their contained text so its easier to read.
- The info clusters in the “State” sidebar panel now have a slightly improved visual distinction between printer state, info about the selected file and the current print progress. In the long run that whole panel should probably be reevaluated but for now it should at least improve things. A tiny screenshot of that and also the visual indicator of the “Print Time Left” estimation mentioned above can be found below.
- A printer that goes offline without shutting down its serial line will now be detected as having gone offline. That goes along with a slight change in how communication timeouts are handled in general, hopefully improving handling of unresponsive printers.
- Thanks to Mark Walker this release of OctoPrint also now has a feature flag to enable compatibility with RepRapFirmware SD card behaviour.
And of course there are a lot more tiny improvements and bug fixes.
Important note for people using the GPX plugin up to version 2.5.2: Please wait a bit with this update. The plugin needs a minor fix first to solve a small issue currently present that causes trouble with this release. Once the GPX plugin is updated to a version after 2.5.2, it is safe to update to OctoPrint 1.2.14 or later as well.
You can find the full changelog and release notes as usual on Github.
It may take up to 24h for your update notification to pop up, so don’t be alarmed if it doesn’t show up immediately after reading this.
If you don’t get an “Update Now” button with your update notification, read this or - even more specifically - this.
If you do get an “Update Now” button but the update is immediately reported to be successful without any changes, read this.
If you have any problems with your OctoPrint installation, please seek support in the G+ Community or the Mailinglist.
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