RobotPy 2015.0.14 released

This is a bugfix release of RobotPy, but teams are strongly encouraged to upgrade.

• When HAL functions that use a status return a warning, warnings.warn is called instead of throwing an exception. This problem has been most observed when using the PDP, but in theory it could happen in other locations (see https://github.com/robotpy/robotpy-wpilib/issues/143)
• Updates to the simulated HAL

See all changes on github.

Critical RobotPy bug; RobotPy 2015.0.12 released

This is a critical bugfix release of RobotPy, and all RobotPy users are recommended to upgrade. We sincerely apologize for releasing this after build season has ended.

• There was a race condition that could cause the DriverStation thread to crash at startup, and the robot would not respond to driver input, with no notification to the user that this had occurred (other than netconsole output)
• SampleRobot programs now only report readiness to the Driver Station after robotInit has finished

See all changes on github. You can download the latest release from github, or use the installer to upgrade your current installation of RobotPy.

Hopefully the last critical pynetworktables bugfix release; RobotPy 2015.0.8 released

I spent a week looking really closely at pynetworktables, and as a result pynetworktables 2015.1.0 has been released, which fixes a number of critical bugs which may cause your robot to freeze/deadlock or have poor performance on poorly performing networks. See https://github.com/robotpy/pynetworktables/pull/11 for more information.

RobotPy has been updated to 2015.0.8, and is a recommended update for all RobotPy users.

• Update pynetworktables dependency
• Minor simulator related clarified error messages

See all changes on github. You can download the latest release from github, or use the installer to upgrade your current installation of RobotPy.

RobotPy 2015.0.7 released

This is a minor bugfix release of RobotPy, and is an optional upgrade for teams using RobotPy.

• Installer improvements – ignoring the roborio’s host key, so you can perform operations on roborio’s with the same hostname
• Update encoder API
• LiveWindow fixes

See all changes on github. You can download the latest release from github, or use the installer to upgrade your current installation of RobotPy.

Critical pynetworktables bug; RobotPy 2015.0.6 released

This is a critical bugfix release of RobotPy, and this update is recommended for all RobotPy users.

• NetworkTables didn’t properly handle sequence numbers, and would crash the server thread if too many values were sent over the network. This could lead to dangerous situations if test mode/LiveWindow were enabled.
• CANJaguar update

See all changes on github. You can download the latest release from github, or use the installer to upgrade your current installation of RobotPy.