Versions

Three Versions of Open Rails

Three versions of Open Rails are readily available to users, as shown below:

For first-time users, we recommend the Stable Version which comes with an installer.

Updater

Whichever version you choose, Open Rails has a mechanism to notify you of new versions and to update Open Rails for you. You will find the settings for this mechanism in Menu > Options > Update

Open Rails will check for updates at most once a day. If an update is found, then you can install the update just by clicking on the link in the top, right corner:

Testing Version

If you follow the Open Rails project on the forums, then you will hear about bug-fixes and new features. These are included in the Unstable Version for developers and testers to try out. Once they have been checked and approved, they are published (on Friday) as the latest Testing Version. Any user can easily update to the current weekly Testing Version and benefit from these improvements.

For reference all the Testing Versions (executable and source) can be found in our archive.

Recent Code Changes

T1.5.1-1284-gca636331f Merge pull request #983 from sweiland-openrails/SwitchPanelDpu
WEB based Switch Panel bug: DPU window
- 202316e8 bugfix: The DPU window opened from the WEB based Switch Panel enhancement does not cycle between it's variants
T1.5.1-1282-g336a70013 Merge pull request #799 from twpol/feature/one-true-wind
Consolidated wind simulation
- dfc715e5 feat: Make precipitation response to camera movement
- 6a55f3ba fix: Correct cloud movements against camera
- 1a70945a fix: Move daylight offset entirely into Viewer
- 0daa2d48 Merge branch 'master' into feature/one-true-wind
- dc038507 feat: Make precipitation respond to instantaneous wind speed and direction
- 3bce3955 feat: Remove precipitation customisation
- eb92d81e style: Format precipitation code
- 99f50877 feat: Make particles respond to instantaneous wind speed and direction
- 920870a9 feat: Make clouds respond to average wind speed and direction
- 39e75c4a feat: Define average and instantaneous wind speed and direction with updates
- 39abd77e style: Format physics wind code
- 1e6d6767 refactor: Clean up HUD wind resistance information
- 097b97c6 refactor: Improved field names and removed unused field
- 546b4c8d refactor: Fix spelling
- aadcd83b style: Format weather simulation and viewer code
T1.5.1-1266-g14405bf42 Merge pull request #962 from cesarBLG/pantograph-fix
Fix pantographs on unpowered cars
- 46d0472f Fix pantographs on unpowered cars
T1.5.1-1264-g041e55a65 Merge pull request #885 from cjakeman/add-menu-notifications
feat: Add notifications to Menu
- 45ca50d5 Adds adjustment for display scaling != 100%
- 7490f2c2 Resolves review points
- 8f473cef Merge branch 'master' into add-menu-notifications
- 816b7bc2 Merge branch 'master' into add-menu-notifications
- d98ac26a Merge branch 'master' into add-menu-notifications
- efef86cd Merge branch 'add-menu-notifications' of https://github.com/cjakeman/openrails into add-menu-notifications
- 0917bdc7 switches to use real data source
- 65ac2698 adjusted to suit System > Display > Scale = 125% as well as 100%
- 54174f77 uses Panel in place of Page.Panel
- f1bca8b9 some re-factoring
- 318043ad adds PageTracking. Corrects Retry
- 067662ef adds NotificationPageAlert()
- a9b02aca adds sort by date and include only notifications that pass checks
- 9c6c13f2 adds Arrow class
- 03ecdd98 refactor AddArrow
- 6426c6f9 add next & previous controls
- e267870a After tidying
- 6cf52723 Handles all test cases in Notifications.docx
- 20514b03 Handles minimal notification
- 2728d6da Merge branch 'master' into add-menu-notifications
- 56c17fb0 restores chat_icon to Menu\MainForm.resx
- 885a176a Merge branch 'logic-processing' into add-menu-notifications
- c6e02ed0 merge master into branch
- d83e8101 adds CheckNotContains()
- c153b9d8 refines CheckConstraints to ignore empty constraints
- 0a956f54 Adds IncludesAllOf() and ExcludesAnyOf().
  Adds local menu_test.json for testing changes.
- 96eff087 Refactoring, respects userSettings, adds read from file for testing menu.json
- fb6b8120 Fix for bug in CheckExcludes() and CheckIncludes()
- 42092cbf Change "New Version" to "Latest Version".
  Fetch from /notifications/menu.json instead of /notifications.json
- 03d4a525 Change New Version to report "already updated" when up to date
- dcd4f7de Change New Version to report "none" when up to date
- 1465b28e Change New Version to report "none" when up to date
- 68029a67 fix for IndexOf bug
- 753cba5d adds Operating System as a possible check.
  Also makes checks case-insensitive
- d714b11e removes redundant labels for What's New and Update Check Failed
- 0f6de51b handles fetch errors for Update and Notifications
- 55dfb283 adds notificationManager
- eec888a8 takes JSON from remote URL
- 4067ed2e Refine ReplaceParameters() to support parameters embedded in text
- aeef5b23 add IncludesAnyOf constraint
- c311e43a add ExcludesAllOf constraint
- 59d70763 Merge branch 'master' into add-menu-notifications
- 90acfdf3 to clear working space
- 79ddb23c Merge branch 'master' into add-menu-notifications
- 4b4dbee6 adds JSON reader
- ec2350eb Merge branch 'master' into add-menu-notifications
- 8f943336 Tidy code
- b8fe0ce1 Replaces Update links with a single Notification - unfinished
- 06b8a9e1 Adds Notification class with NDetail elements shown in the panel
- f70d0aa5 Merge branch 'master' into add-menu-notifications
- d9ce84bb Adds icon to count new notifications
  No content yet. Just a dummy arrangement to see how it looks.
- 74466d96 fix: Menu update label positioned statically
  Was right-aligned by code and could also be partly hidden by "What's new?" label.
- c81447bd Adds Notifications icon and toggle behaviour

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