Orocos RTT and OCL 1.12.0 Released

Some might have lost a bet today, but here's the next major RTT/OCL 1.x 
release. It's an important release for all those dreaming of upgrading to the 
2.0 mainline. Upgrading to 1.12 brings you one step closer to 2.0. This is due 
to the backporting of the component and plugin loading framework of the 2.0 
mainline to the 1.12 release. There are some caveats as usual, but some nice 
features as well. Especially Windows users will be happy to hear that dynamic 
component and plugin loading is now also supported on that platform. Also some 
convenience functions for XML marshalling ('marshalling.storeProperties') and 
Corba server creation ('corbaComponent') during deployment have been added.

You can find all the details as you dig into the release notes below.

Peter

           The Orocos Real-Time Toolkit v1.12.0.

The Orocos development team is pleased to announce the first
release of the Real-Time Toolkit v1.12, a C++ toolkit for building
component based, real-time robotics and machine control applications.

This release contains backports of the RTT 2.0.x releases in order to
give users access to the latest features and also to provide a smoother
upgrade path from RTT 1.x to 2.x.

This release is backwards compatible with all 1.x.y releases, although
some functionality has been deprecated or alternative usage patterns
are preferred. These and other changes and improvements can be found
in the Orocos RTT Changes document on

 http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v1.12.x/doc-xml/orocos-rtt-
changes.html

These are the major highlights:
 * Plugin and component loading are now identical as in 2.x, which means,
   - support for dynamic applications on Windows
   - support for locating and loading toolkits
   - support for the RTT_COMPONENT_PATH environment variable
 * Many portability fixes, allowing builds on native Windows
 * Memory and bookkeeping cleanups in CORBA transport
 * Improved marshalling api for fast saving of XML files ('storeProperties')
 * Many bugfixes that could not make it in the 1.10 release.

You can download this release from
  http://www.orocos.org/stable/rtt/v1.12.0/orocos-rtt-1.12.0-src.tar.bz2
and read the installation instructions on
  http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v1.12.x/doc-xml/orocos-
installation.html

Upgrade instructions for swithing from the 1.x to the 2.x releases can be 
found here:
  http://www.orocos.org/wiki/Upgrading_from_RTT_1.x_to_2.0

         Orocos Components Library (OCL) v1.12.0

This major release of the Orocos Components Library is aimed at the
Real-Time Toolkit v1.12.x. Major changes are:

* Component loading 2.0-style
* Component Deployment and TaskBrowsing on Windows / win32 target
* Various usability fixes in (CORBA) deployment

An overview of the documented components is available here:
  http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/ocl/v1.12.x/doc-xml/ocl-
overview.html

This release can be downloaded here:
  http://www.orocos.org/stable/ocl/v1.12.0/orocos-ocl-1.12.0-src.tar.bz2

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