[Playerstage-users] Player 1.3.1 released

[brian g. <bg...@us...>]

hi,

We've released Player 1.3.1, and you can get it from the usual place:

  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42445

Please read the release notes; I've appended them below, and they're also
linked off the download page.

Stage 1.3.1 is coming soon, but as the release notes say, Player 1.3.x and
Stage 1.3.x are interoperable. This means that you can, for example, use
Player 1.3.1 with Stage 1.3.

Enjoy, and *please* use the SourceForge bug tracker to report problems:

  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=42445&atid=433164


        - your friendly neighborhood Player/Stage developers.


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Release Name: 1.3.1

Notes:

This release fixes several annoying bugs, and adds a couple of new things.

Concerning versions: we're adopting a policy maintaining compatibility between
versions of Player and Stage that only differ by a micro version. That is,
Player 1.3.x will work with Stage 1.3.x (including 1.3) and with 1.3.x client
programs (including 1.3). To do this, we keep the Player/Stage memory
interface and the Player/client socket interface unchanged. However, there is
a slight change to Player's external interface with 1.3.1, to do with wifi
devices, but I doubt that anyone was using that interface anyway.

Player highlights:

    * udpbroadcast driver (comms interface) is now working properly, including
      handling lots of messages and timestamping.

    * C++ comms proxy is now working properly, including queueing multiple
      messages, with timestamps

    * Cross-compiling support is more general, using the standard --host and
      --build arguments to configure. Check the FAQ for detailed instructions.

    * The Player manual no longer says DRAFT all over it

    * There are two new interfaces, each supported by one driver: waveform
      (for raw digital data, such as sound) and localization (for
      probabilistic localization). These are both experimental, but please
      play with them. Note that you have to explicitly enable their inclusion
      via configure.

    * The bug in the installed headers is fixed, making it much easier to
      build C and C++ client programs.

    * The distro tarball is now called 'player-src-', so that it won't try to
      install over the source tree in the case that you (for some strange
      reason) unpacked and built it in your home directory.

    * The wifi interface has changed slightly, to accomodate perceived link
      information from multiple hosts. The C++ client support likely doesn't
      work.
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