ZerOS 8.0.1 now available.

[Phil Kiernan]

New version was made available on March 3rd and is on the web site. Anybody had time to download and try it?

[kgallen]

Ah... Secret Squirrel releases now then is it...

https://www.vari-lite.com/global/products/zeros-software

https://vari-lite.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/graphics/technical/documents/ZerOS-8.0.1-release-notes.pdf

[Davidmk]

2 hours ago, kgallen said:

Secret Squirrel releases

@Phil Kiernan How did you hear about this? It passed me by.

Not that I care much, I didn't upgrade to 8.0.0 and probably won't risk 8.0.1.

@kgallenI'm going shopping for ChamSys once the new tax year starts.

[Phil Kiernan]

Following the problems we've had with our FLX and knowing that a bug fix was going to be released some time I check the web site about once a month just to see if if anything had been released.

We'll get it loaded next month as we've got a hire in at the moment and see how it performs on the next show.

[scottydog75]

Anyone used 8.0.1 in anger yet and noted any improved 'up-time' when compared to fairly regular crashes on 8.0.0?

Trying to plan what version to program my next show on!

Cheers

[Archie D]

5 hours ago, scottydog75 said:

Anyone used 8.0.1 in anger yet and noted any improved 'up-time' when compared to fairly regular crashes on 8.0.0?

I'd recommend using ZerOS 8.0.1 for your next show as I believe ZOS-12594 is the bug fix for the crashing issue in ZerOS 8.0.0.

ZerOS 8.0.1 also fixes the issue when referencing a non-existent palette (ZOS-12752) using syntax (e.g. COLOUR 40 ENTER where Colour Palette 40 does not exist), previously this would crash the desk. This is actually quite useful if you accidentally hit the wrong key while trying to reference a palette (therefore entering the incorrect palette number, accidentally being one that doesn't exist), and then you have to restart the whole desk to gain control again.