Public Beta Releases
In order to try to improve our testing, we're going to start doing a "Public Beta" period for new releases.
We'll test to the point we normally would before a release, then make the new version available here for anyone who wants to try it. We'll gather feedback from those users to try to fix any issues we missed before doing a general release.
Reporting Bugs
If you encounter a bug in a public beta, please let us know by sending an email to support@lightburnsoftware.com with as much information as you can recall about what you were doing so we can try to reproduce it and fix it.
The standard licensing rules apply - you'll need to have a current license key to run these (or be in an active trial period). If you have any issues while using a beta, you can just install whatever version you were using before, or grab the current released version from the Trial/Download page.
Download
Public Betas can be downloaded from here.
Changes
Here's the full list of changes for the 1.4.00 beta:
- Added 'Repeat Marking' feature for galvos
- Added Warp tool (4-point)
- Added Deform tool (16-point)
- Add File > New Window option to launch separate instance
- Bugfix: Don't print hidden layers
- Auto-close combined paths in SVGs on import
- Line tool now actively tries to connect to existing shapes
- Cleaner output when deleting single line/curve in a shape
- Added Scale nudge to galvo framing dialog with PgUp / PgDn
- Add head camera settings to camera import/export
- Added field offset for fine tuning galvo devices
- Added cursors to indicate failure modes for Fillet tool
- Bugfix: SVGs with shape instances that specified size in percent imported incorrectly
- Updated Slot resizer to support Inch units
- Allow single decimal place for Q-pulse length
- Bugfix: Variable text parser would miss quotes on start of line
- Bugfix: New auto-overscan code for DSPs ignored multiple passes
- Bugfix: properly handle multi-appended SVG style definitions (new Illustrator exports & clipboard format)
- Bugfix: large data packets sent from Ortur WIFI (like machine settings) could hang the connection
- Bugfix: support height wasn't properly restored when switching between mm/in on the main toolbar
- Bugfix: DXF polyline arc export was incorrect for some device origin settings
- Produce less direction change in Offset Fill of curves
- Bugfix: Done Marking signal for galvos wasn't properly emitted when a job completed normally
- Bugfix: Overscan distance wasn't shown properly for Image Mode on GCode systems
- Added Done Marking duration setting
- Remember the Job Counter value after the framing dialog is closed (might move this to a global counter, but trying this for now)
- Can now drag-reorder stored move coordinates
- Bugfix: Enable Focus / Air assist by layer/with laser settings interfered with each other
- Bugfix: Overcut used with "Choose best starting point" on Ruida could produce an incorrect cutting line
- Bugfix: GCode produced for non-horizontal fills on A-axis rotary had incorrect feed-rate
- Bugfix: Flood Fill now disables Fill grouping in galvo mode
- Bugfix: 'Show Me' open shapes would crash if the shapes were in a virtual array
- Bugfix: Pause button in rotary screen would sometimes not resume
- Bugfix: Image compositor could sometimes output zero-length pixels on the edge of an image
- Bugfix: 'Start Here' + Overcut would emit incorrect cut line at end on GCode systems
- Bugfix: AutoGroup feature could incorrectly exclude interior shapes
- Bugfix: don't do extra work during 'Break Shapes' (dramatically faster when breaking shapes with lots of nodes)
- Bugfix: PDF file with a line-break in an object reference would crash
- Bugfix: Scan image preview showed wrong angle for some device origins
- Bugfix: Ramp mode broken if "ramp outer edge" was off (bug in inside/outside sorting)
- Bugfix: Disabling first sub-layer could cause a crash, and incorrect filling of subsequent sub-layers
- Bugfix: Slicing shapes for rotary could cause a crash in rare circumstances
- Bugfix: Limit total attempts to intersect Bezier curves (prevents crash on malformed or weird files)
- Bugfix: Roller rotary on galvo was incorrectly using object diameter, not roller diameter
- Bugfix: inline style should override class style on shapes
- Expanded range of allowed override frequency for CO2 lasers up to 100khz
- Don't allow MOPA commands through to DIGIT boards (prevents hanging the board when wrong laser is chosen)
- Bugfix: Send File shortcut (Alt+Shift+S) was broken
- Bugfix: 'Mirror output to rotary' would revert if creating or loading a new file
- Bugfix: DXF spline parser got confused if some data fields were out of order