Orocos Toolchain 2.6.0 Released !

The Orocos Toolchain developers are content[1] to announce the 2.6
release cycle of the Orocos Toolchain. As in the previous release
cycle, the emphasis is on stability, incremental development and
stable API's. The major additions in this release are:
 - stable typekits: we can now load typekits from all kinds of sources
(hand written, ROS, yaml, typegen,...) without having conflicts in
names or functionality
 - RTT added a CIRCULAR_BUFFER connection policy: drops oldest sample
instead of newest
 - Revamped OCL reporter with NetCDF support: reporting is now about
100-1000 times faster / less cpu intensive than before - and is
compatible and more efficient with KST2
 - Updated orogen component generation framework
 - C++ runaway exceptions in operations are now caught by RTT and
bring your component to the Exception state.
 - Many updates to deployment: allow to connect provides() and
requires() operations, have shutdown and daemon support.
 - Improved tlsf, logging and corba support for rttlua

Under the hood, these changes make a difference too:
 - We achieved hard real-time operation calls for rttlua-tlsf: due to
stable typekits, we can now do typeinfo caching eliminating the last
source of memory allocations and improving performance.
 - We log PID/TID numbers on Linux systems when Activity objects are
created, such that you can relate to them using 'top'.
 - We mutex-lock the TypeInfoRepository to allow multi-threaded
imports of typekits (typically in iTaSC / rttlua apps)
 - We moved the component loader to RTT such that you don't need OCL
to load components in applications.

Some more details can be found on the 2.6 Release notes here:
http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v2.6.x/doc-xml/orocos-rtt-changes.html

You can download this release using the bootstrap script on the
website, or pointing your autoproj configuration to the toolchain-2.6
branch, or by fetching the ROS Fuerte Ubuntu packages.

http://www.orocos.org/wiki/orocos/toolchain/quick-start

Since the majority of the Orocos users uses one of these three
methods, it remains to be seen if a 'dot' release will be made.
I would only do so to communicate to newcomers that we do make
bugfixes on a regular basis.

Thanks to the many Orocos users and developers who have contributed to
this truely major release.

Peter

[1] adjective : satisfied with what one is or has; not wanting more or
anything else.
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