I would love to see a current stable release!  I’m often introducing new people to OpenSCAD, and design customisable machines which I share with others – so I sadly do not use the nightly snapshots and am stuck on 2015.03 for sure compatibility…

I’ve seen a lot here about peoples’ ideas and contrasting opinions for what ‘OpenSCAD 2.0’ should be, but I’d be delighted just to try a V1.9!  Or 2020.02 or so

Is it worth nominating a ‘release candidate’ and making a public beta test of this?  This way people like me could at least kick the tyres and road test it, to borrow the car analogy – especially if any know bugs, and any new features, are highlighted.  We could give end user feedback.

I would love to understand what the main obstacles are to making a release?  I don’t know whether it would help but ‘bounties’ could be offered for fixing individual bugs.

Of course this is all dependent on the goodwill of the developers, meanwhile I am grateful for the 2015.03 that has served me well!

Cheers,

Alex Gibson

admg consulting

edumaker limited

·        Project management

·        Operations & Process improvement

·        3D Printing

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.openscad.org] On Behalf Of Clint Goss
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Subject: Re: [OpenSCAD] Why is the 2015.03 kept as the "official" release?

I will put in a vote, a nudge, a sentiment on behalf of the (probably) large number of users who, like myself, make heavy use of OpenSCAD but are not in the developer community. We download it, thank our stars that it exists, scratch our head a bit about the 2015.03 stamp, and put it to use.

Somewhere down the road, after lots of code (11,000 lines, in my case) and results (the open-source www.BreathFlute.com, in my case), we begin to wonder what we might be missing. Are there useful features out there? Are there lurking bugs that have been fixed? Is there a reasonably accessible list of these items since 2015.03??

Yes, I do realize how daunting an official release can be, especially if it has not been done in 3+ years.

However, I'm guessing that the developers may not always be aware of the value of OpenSCAD to a wide and largely un-heard user community out there ...

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On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 2:44 AM, nop head nop.head@gmail.com wrote:

Ideally yes, but when the last release was three years ago and everybody is using snapshots it seems we are waiting for this release to be perfect when it is already substantially better than the last one.

On 21 August 2018 at 07:38, Troberg troberg.anders@gmail.com wrote:

nophead wrote

Well, just like when working with a car, you need to make sure you have all
the parts in and all the nuts and bolts tightened before you let it out on
the road.

Same thing here, a lot of work being done, and it must be verified that
everything is in place and works together as intended.

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The current stable official release is 2019.05.

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Oh!

Sorry for responding without checking!  I will upgrade on my computers - I have been using the latest already for a few months without realising it was a new release!  No issues at all :)

Well done to all those who made that possible, and thanks.

Cheers,

Alex Gibson

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• 3D Printing

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The current stable official release is 2019.05.

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I'd like to say that I appreciate the stability of OpenSCAD and the
conservatism of it's dev team, and that I'm constantly impressed with how
much more stable it is than other open source tools. When I first started
using open source CAD tools, I started with FreeCAD, had it crash on me
multiple times in the span of an hour, and then immediately abandoned it
for OpenSCAD.  I don't mean any disrespect to the FreeCAD team; I
understand that CAD software is very tricky to develop, and I'm sure
they're doing good work. But OpenSCAD, for all it's obscure warnings,
missing features, and challenging pure-functional paradigm, has never
crashed on me, has always provided me with solid documentation, and
generally shows signs of sturdy workmanship.

This is all to say that I am personally completely okay with waiting until
2022 for the next release.

On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 10:24 PM gasstationwithoutpumps <
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