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Version 5.5 - November 5, 2024 🎛️ New Integrations Added support for Modbus enabled Mill City 500g-3kg roasters. Helpdesk Manual...
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Version 5.5 – November 5, 2024
🎛️ New Integrations
- Added support for Modbus enabled Mill City 500g-3kg roasters. Helpdesk Manual
- Added support for Dutch Master Roaster. Helpdesk Manual
🎉 New features or settings
- Added Set temperature measurement.
- Added Set temperature to Cropster Slider Controls.
- Added support for auto and manual mode control measurements.
- Added a condensed mode setting to display measurement readouts in a more compact version to support users with smaller screens.
✨ Improvements to existing features or settings
- Added customization of the width of the right sidebar and the vertical distribution between its components, measurement readouts and reference box, via dragging with the mouse cursor and resetting to the original via double-click.
Version 5.4 – October 1, 2024
🎛️ New Integrations
- Added support for Buehler Roastmaster 60/120/240
🎉 New features or settings
- Implemented the “Customizable Alerts” feature (Measurements, profile events and time-based alerts, alerts log, additional settings like audible, visual, notifications). Helpdesk manual
✨ Improvements to existing features or settings
- Added slide to the ‘What’s new’ dialog covering new “Customizable alerts”.
- Improved preferences group settings separation with adjusted space and horizontal division lines, and added an arrow symbol → to identify child settings within groups.
🛠 Fixed issues
- Added missing max width property to input field suffix to prevent them from taking too much space when long name units were used.
🗑️ Remove features or settings
- Removed old fixed alerts 60 seconds before first crack and end of the profile
Version 5.3 – August 27, 2024
🎛️ New Integrations
- Added support for Diedrich PLC with ZIII automation
🎉 New features or settings
- Implemented roast “Start and end detection” feature for Loring roasting machines
✨ Improvements to existing features or settings
- Updated TestFX to 4.0.18
- Improved mouse coordinates display performance for lengthy charts
- Scroll added to sidebars’ listed elements to make those under edit mode fully visible
🛠 Fixed issues
- Measurements setting channel offset not being set to its respective unit
- BBP time limit exceeded displaying notification when the feature was disabled
- Sidebars listed elements going into edit mode with a single click
- Sidebars listed elements edition closed when clicked outside
Version 5.2 – July 2, 2024
✨ Improvements to existing features or settings
- Added gas, airflow and drum speed control for IP-CC
- Updated assets and styles to match Cropster’s brand refresh
- The “Roast technician” selection field has been relocated from the “Today’s Production” sidebar to the top right of the “Next Roast” section.
- Added the ability to stop the timer and chart log for between-batch protocols.
- Removed background from between-batch protocols empty state to avoid competing with other on-screen elements.
- Adjustments were made to the mouse coordinates of the temperature box positioned above the roast chart and functionality extended to between-batch protocols.
- Modified how sidebar hints are triggered and shown, from tooltips on hover to persistent popovers on click, providing additional information and shortcuts.
- Release notes are now accessible directly from RI under ‘Help > Release notes’.
- Reference information is no longer collapsed by default at the start of a roast; instead, the collapsed status of both the reference information and comments boxes is defined by the user and persisted.
- Added slides to the ‘What’s new’ dialog covering Between Batch Protocols and Mouse coordinates changes.
🛠 Fixed issues
- Temperature unit change now requires restarting the application
- Gas changes before turning point are no longer applied twice under certain conditions
Version 5.1.3 – June 5, 2024
🛠 Fixed issues
- Issue with production sidebar & syncing, causing it to overlap and not be fully visible
- Issue with SVG paths construction, causing errors for Turkish locale on program’s installation
Version 5.1.2 – April 17, 2024
🛠 Fixed issues
- Flickering measurements pushing labels off screen
- Roast notes value, under Profile statistics, not always updated
Version 5.1.1 – April 9, 2024
🛠 Fixed issues
- Profiles disappearing from the list when changing the selected profile during roasting
- Measurement readouts were by default scaled to their minimum size on Windows OS
Version 5.1 – April 2, 2024
🎛️ New Integrations
- Added support for Garanti PID
- Added support for Kapok
- Added support for Carmomaq PLC
- Added support for Fabrica Roasters
- Added support for San Franciscan with Eurotherm controller
🎉 New features or settings
- Added gas control for Coffeetool PLC
- Added airflow and drum speed to slider controls available for Coffeetool
- Added temperature unit option to Fabrica connector
- Updated measurement readouts settings to support different sizes and two-column layout
- Migrated modal dialogs to in-app notifications when no user input is required
✨ Improvements to existing features or settings
- Switch to use j2mod library on San Franciscan connector
- Error message updated when switching between machines
- Over-time roasting warning updated for when X-Axis time value is modified
- Reduced lag when a new roast starts
- Improved height distribution for right side buttons on slider controls
- Aligned chart zoom and reset behavior on all charts
- Improved enabled measurement readouts state in Preferences
- Updated main menu design styles on Windows OS
- Added visibility to shortcuts to navigate through slider control toggle buttons
🛠️ Fixed issues
- Fixed error message shown when switching a machine with a broken file
- Fixed channel offset or unit not being applied
- Fixed explicit java.library.path breaking Linux launch script
- Repositioned arrow of “Click anywhere to add comment” popover hint on the roast chart
- Fixed blank page shown when selecting the same machine twice
- Confirmation alerts dialogues type and icons corrected
- Added missing title to shutdown dialogue
- Added missing warning icon to chart axes reset message
Version 5.0.4 – March 19, 2024
✨ Improvements to existing features or settings
- Shut down undesired persistent background process at the start of each roast
🛠️ Fixed issues
- RoastingAnalyzer and PredictionPanel processes causing memory leaks
- Right sidebar components flickering due to competing for UI space
Version 5.0.3 – March 12, 2024
🛠️ Fixed issues
- Fixed issue with keyboard shortcuts and comments focus
- Corrected behaviour of slider control toggle buttons, to not drop focus and not react to arrow keys interaction
- Corrected handling of non-numerical content under comments in “edit mode“
- Added missing field to update text comments under comments in “edit mode”
- Fixed keyboard shortcuts window not being able to be scrolled on Windows OS
- Measurement readouts were by default scaled to their minimum size on Windows OS
- Fixed issue of “What’s New” dialog disappearing if application was moved to a second screen
- Rectified issue of multiple menus being opened simultaneously while roasting on MacOS and using shortcuts
Version 5.0.2 – February 6, 2024
🛠️ Fixed issues
- Fixed issue with green inventory lots weights for blends being ignored on “Next roast”
Version 5.0.1 – January 16, 2024
🛠️ Fixed issues
- What’s New dialog hidden by maximizing application
- Delay calling Popup.show() when the screen bounds are null
- Error dialogue about missing Phidgets driver is no longer shown
Version 5.0 – January 9, 2024
🎉 New features or settings
- Implemented additional keyboard shortcuts, together with tooltips to show these
- Added Density to green grading results for reference roast in pre-roast screen
- Bean temperature and time of mouse coordinates shown above the roasting chart when hovering
- Addition of What’s New tour to highlight changes and additions in each update
- Addition of Interface tour for any newcomers to RI
- Ability to detach the left sidebars introduced
✨ Improvements to existing features or settings
- Slider control plus and minus button locations swapped
- Improvements to the right sidebar sizing behavior
- Update of Java/JavaFX to 17.0.9
- Preferences separated into sections accessible via an index
- Improvements to the Replay Assist
- Reference section in the right sidebar can be hidden or displayed as desired
- Warning displayed if green inventory lot will run out with the next roast
- Random keyboard shortcuts shown in left sidebar, if sidebar is empty
- Smart Predictions moved to above the roasting chart
- Default for marking/hiding comments changed to be based on temperature (instead of time)
- New Support sidebar for submission of tickets
- Additional info recorded in log files for better support
- Ability to drag and drop machine measurements into their preferred order
- Improved layout of the pre-roast screen
- Reference roast’s curve now opened in a new window
- Preferences now accessible via a button in the left sidebar, next to the new Sync button
- Updated RI design system
🛠 Fixed issues
- Missing input fields on Comments dialogue added
🗑️ Removed features or settings
- Removed support for Phidget 21 driver
- Removed deprecated Probat Webservice connector