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I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new stable release of the tango source distribution.
It's available from here and therein you also find a list of relevant changes.
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You would like to learn more about the Tango internals and to know how to contribute to Tango kernel projects? Now is your chance to hear directly from the kernel developers - Reynald, Michal and Thomas.
The first Tango Kernel webinar took place on Tuesday 3rd November 2020 at 9:00 am CET (8:00 am UTC) and was dedicated to cppTango, the Tango C++ library. The duration was about 90 minutes.
The 1st Kernel webinar covered the following topics:
1. Introduction
2. cppTango repository overview
3. cppTango dependencies
4. How to compile cppTango?
5. How to run the tests?
6. How to add a new test?
7. Architecture overview
8. Practical example: Code navigation. What happens when an attribute is read?
9. QuestionsIt was a traditional Zoom meeting (limited to 100 participants) so participants could interact with the speakers and ask questions directly.
Before the meeting, participants were invited to clone the cppTango git repository and to try to compile cppTango on their own, following the documentation present on the github repository.
This meeting has been recorded and will be soon available on the new tango-controls youtube channel.
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The goal of this virtual meeting is to keep the community updated on latest developments in the kernel and related tools and to hear reports on community developments and projects.
More than 80 of you were able to attend to the Tango community status meeting which took place over 2 full days, the 17 and 18 of November 2020.
A warm thanks to all the speakers to the extremely interesting talks. You contribute to the general increase in competence of the entire community. We can be proud of the work done!
The program of this meeting was very rich and brought a lot of valuable information that can be interesting to watch again.
You can access to the detailed program and have the possibility to download the slides here
All the talks have been recorded.
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Hi all,We are happy to announce the release of Sardana 3.0.3.
IMPORTANT: This release is the first one supporting Python 3 only and is backwards incompatible. If you are already a Sardana user you will need to migrate your system before using this version.
The source packages and windows installers are available to download from:
https://github.com/sardana-org/sardana/releases/tag/3.0.3
It is also available on PyPI:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sardana
To install from PyPI, do:
% pip3 install sardana
or download the tarball, untar and run:
% python3 setup.py install
The documentation is available at:
http://www.sardana-controls.org
For a detailed list of changes, see the release notes:
https://github.com/sardana-org/sardana/releases/tag/3.0.3
...and the issue tracker:
https://github.com/sardana-org/sardana/milestone/7?closed=1
If you encounter problems installing or running this release, please
open an issue in:
https://github.com/sardana-org/sardana/issues
Cheers!
Áureo Freitas (on behalf of all the Sardana Community) -
We are happy to announce the release of Taurus 4.7.0.
This release brings a lot of changes with respect to 4.6.1, among which are improved CLI,
better selection of Qt bindings (Qt5 is now the default fallback), more customizable
TaurusGuis, better support for plugins,...As a novelty, taurus (and taurus_pyqtgraph) can now also be installed using conda, with:
`conda install -c taurus-org taurus taurus_pyqtgraph`
Also note that this is quite probably the last release officially supporting python2.
The source files can be downloaded from:
https://pypi.org/project/taurus/4.7.0/
The documentation (including installation instructions for different platforms) is available at:
For a detailed list of changes, see the CHANGELOG:
https://github.com/taurus-org/taurus/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
...and the issue tracker:
https://github.com/taurus-org/taurus/milestone/15?closed=1
If you encounter problems installing or running this release, please
open an issue in : -
Since the yearly TANGO community meeting of St Petersbourg had to be postponed to 17 to 19 of November for obvious reasons.
we organized a Tango controls status update webinar the 10th of June from 9:00 AM Paris time.The webinar involved 22 speakers and was followed by 128 attendees of the 5 continents.
The program and associated presentations can be seen at the event's indico page -
Dear Tangoers,
Waltz 1.0.x has been released!
Shortly speaking this release introduces major changes in tech stack of Waltz:
- plugable architecture
- npm dependencies management
- Vanila JS6+/RxJS middleware
- Webpack/rollup plugins GitHub template repositories
- UI/UX improvements
Full release description can be found here: GitHub/waltz
Live demo (feel free to use tango-cs/tango credentials): AmazonCloud
Cheers,
HZG & IK teams
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Dear Tangoers,
Tango Controls Steering committee and IK company have been looking closely to the COVID-19 situation during the several weeks. We are very sorry to say but up till now most of the countries keep their borders closed and travel is not permitted.
Due to these circumstances which are beyond our control, the Tango Controls meeting 2020 is postponed from June to November 2020 in the hope that it will then be possible to travel and meet in St Petersburg. THe new dates are:
November, 17-19 2020.
We really hope that the situation in November will be safe and we all will be able to meet face-2-face and have a productive and exciting meeting in the beautiful city of St Petersburg! Thank you for understanding.
In the meantime a compact virtual meeting is planned for the 10 June so that the community stays informed of progress for the core projects. More details to follow on this site.
Looking forward to seeing you online in June and face-2-face in Saint Petersburg!
We wish you all good health.
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Dear Tangoers,
We at IK Company, being organizers of the Tango Controls Users meeting 2020 at Saint Petersburg, observe the situation with COVID-19 very closely.
As for now everything remains according to the schedule.
However, taking into the account recent updates in many companies and their policies concerning business trips, we have prolonged the deadlines for registration, payment etc till May, 20th 2020.In case of any other changes we will inform you at once.
We wish you all good health!
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Tango Controls 2020 meeting contest
From March, 9th till June, 9th 2020.
Make a contribution and get All products pack from JetBrains for free!
Registrants of the meeting have a chance to win a 1-year All products pack personal license from JetBrains!
To be nominated, make a contribution(s) in a period from March, 9th till June, 9th 2020 to any repository in one or both of GitHub organizations: tango-controls or waltz-controls.
Contribution can be everything: from making PR that fixes a typo or PR that performs a full scale refactoring or just creating an issue.
Please create an issue with a link to your contribution in a dedicated repository to participate in the contest.
The jury will choose 2 contributions to be awarded. Another 1 contribution will be chosen by the community.
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Please proceed to the event's indico page for more information.
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After only 10 months of shutdown for dismantling the old Storage-ring, adapting the injection system and installing the tens of tousands of pieces of equipments, the beam have been injected in the new storage ring at the foreseen date and within the foreseen budget.
The Accelerator control system based on TANGO was ready at the d date for allowing the control room team to tune this brand new machine. TANGO thank's to it's modularity, flexibility and efficient design, allowed to prepare all the pieces of software well in dadvance on simulated devices and was the key of the success of the control system.
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Dear Tangoers,
I am pleased to announce new releases:
Waltz - v0.7.4 and Tango Rest Server - 1.17
New Waltz version features:
- New look and feel compliant with material design
- HintWidget
- Performance improvements
- Migration to NodeJS and new architecture, first steps
Full info about the release can be found here: GitHub release - v0.7.4
Live demo in Amazon cloud: link
Use tango-cs/tango to authorize
Tango Rest Server release 1.17:
- Compatibility with JDK11+
- Minor improvements
Full info about the release can be found here: GitHub release - 1.17
Please feel free to create issues including your wishes and ideas on GitHub
Cheers,
Igor
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We are pleased to announce that the latest TangoBox is available for launching on Amazon Web Services.
The related AMI ID is:
ami-0a2e0cddaa68be39f
It contains all the applications of standard TangoBox and RDP remote desktop connection. Please refer to the documentation.
This image lowers the barrier even more for trying out and testing the full suite of Tango Controls tools!
Thanks to S2Innovation for providing this useful service!
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HDB++ is an archiving system for TANGO, based on events. The next HDB++ meeting will take place from 18th to 20th September 2019 at ESRF, Grenoble, France. If interested, please contact reynald.bourtembourg@esrf.fr.
The draft agenda is available on https://indico.esrf.fr/indico/event/37/
This workshop meeting hosts the main contributors of the Tango HDB++ project. The status of the development in different institutes will be presented. Then the different development strategies will be discussed and a roadmap for the future will be defined.
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The new Taurus 4.6.1 has been released.
https://github.com/taurus-org/taurus/releases/tag/4.6.1
The documentation (including installation instructions for different platforms) is available at:
For a detailed list of changes, see the CHANGELOG and the issue tracker.
PS: also, the taurus_pyqtgraph plugin (which adds pyqtgraph-based plot widgets) is now available from PyPI
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Dear Tangoers,
I am pleased to announce new Waltz release - v0.7.3
This version features (including v0.7.[0-2]):
- New Dashboard with multiple profiles stored per user basis
- TableWidget
- PlotlyWidget
- ListWidget
- ManagerWidget
- Redesigned Tango device control panel
- Redesigned Info panels
- Bug fixes and optimizations e.g. using WebGL for plots
Full info about the release can be found here: GitHub release - v0.7.3
Waltz has been dockerized. It is now super easy to give it a try:
$> wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/waltz-controls/waltz/v0.7.3/docker-compose.yml $> docker-compose up $> firefox http://localhost:8080/waltz
Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/waltz
Or try a live demo in Amazon cloud: link
Use tango-cs/tango to authorize
Please feel free to create issues including your wishes and ideas on GitHub
Cheers,
Igor
P.S. the project has been moved to a dedicated GitHub org: new link
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Hi Tangoers,
Following the Tango Community Meeting in Hamburg, we have started work on Tongo Controls protocol formal specification (RFCs). The RFCs will be base for future development.
The current state is visible on the GitHub: https://github.com/tango-controls/rfc
We are looking for contributors. You may contribute by:
- writing parts of the specification
- reviewing and commenting on what is written (PR reviews)
If you would like to contribute, please:
- join us on Slack: https://tango-controls.slack.com/messages/CKHSF815W/ (if you do not have access, please contact Piotr )
- check the wiki: https://github.com/tango-controls/rfc/wiki
- read the following guidelines:
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The new Sardana 2.8.0 (corresponding to the Jul19 milestone) has been released.
The source files and Windows installers can be downloaded from:
https://github.com/sardana-org/sardana/releases/tag/2.8.0
The documentation is available at:
For a detailed list of changes see CHANGELOG and issue tracker.
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