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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

• T1.5.1-1406-g23578e93a Merge pull request #995 from mbm-OR/bugfix/Fix-TrainCarOperations-TrainOperationsViewer-overlap
  Fix: TrainCarOperations and TrainOperationsViewer windows overlap.
  • 95da33ba Cleaned code.
  • bec4b34f Merge branch 'master' into bugfix/Fix-TrainCarOperations-TrainOperationsViewer-overlap
  • 992191cf Fix: TrainCarOperations and TrainOperationsViewer windows overlap.
• T1.5.1-1402-g5d79907e1 Merge pull request #991 from mbm-OR/bugfix/Fix-TrainCarOperations-no-interact-AltPgDn-AltPgUp
  Fix TrainCarOperations no interacts AltPgDn AltPgUp.
  • 748eb3bb select traincar on webpage when traincar operations window (F9) not visible
  • 6f266e35 Update Cameras.cs
    Avoids crash when uncoupling cars.
  • 89624382 Fix TrainCarOperations undesired camera3 camera2 behavior.
  • 220b61e6 Code clean-up.
  • e2064fc8 Problems about what camera should be shown.
  • 0d56766a Added ThreeDimCabCamera to if-statement.
  • d6acd59d Fixes a crash when attaching cars.
  • 4d5b1c54 Fix TrainCarOperations no interacts AltPgDn AltPgUp.

See more code changes

The current Testing Version can also be downloaded as a Zip archive:

29 November 2024, 108MB

• Installation Guide (English)

The documents included in the Testing Versions downloads can be found on-line at:

• Architecture Diagram V1.pdf
• Contenct checker.pdf
• How to Provide Track Profiles for Open Rails Dynamic Track.pdf
• Installation Guide En.pdf
• Localization Manual.pdf
• Manual.pdf
• ORTS Trackviewer manual.pdf
• Processor Flow Chart.pdf
• timetable-editor_de.pdf
• timetable-editor_en.pdf

Note: Multiple versions of Open Rails will not interfere if they are saved to different folders.

Unstable Version

To support development, the latest unstable version is also available, which is updated whenever a developer publishes a change. The unstable versions are more likely to contain serious bugs and are only recommended for users wishing to help with Open Rails development.

The Manual for the Unstable version is not included in the download, but is available on-line.

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

Improvements

Improvements to Open Rails are drawn from several public sources as shown here:

We try to make sure that these changes all work and fit together by reviews as marked in orange in the diagram.