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@DanielVanNoord DanielVanNoord released this 19 Jun 20:31
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v0.0.1-alpha3
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The third alpha of the ASCOM Alpaca Simulators! This supports all Alpaca device types. As an Alpha expect ugly UI, UI bugs and even functional bugs.

Note on an upcoming breaking change: The default Alpaca port for the product is being changed from 5000 to a new port number in an upcoming release.

(Some) Changes from alpha2

  1. Many device setups now have valid ranges for UI and Save functions
  2. Devices now have control pages
  3. Moved toast popups to center left of screen
  4. Fixed validation for Cover Calibrator max brightness
  5. Allow Cover Calibrator opening and stabilization time to be zero
  6. Not active filters are disabled in setup
  7. Switched to ImageSharp for better cross platform image support
  8. Fixed issue with some Telescope settings not persisting
  9. Lots of other bug and UI fixes (see commits for details)

The binaries can be started directly or from the command line. Either way they will display a terminal for output / testing. The beta builds will run in the background instead. These releases are simple zip / tar.xz files containing the output. For each the main binary is named ASCOM.Alpaca.Simulators.

Each OS dependent package was built as a Self Contained (does not require .Net 5.0 to be installed) and Trimmed (size reduced by removing unused platform code). Non Windows targets are Ready to Run AOT Compiled (whatever code can be fully compiled was).

This release includes Windows (x86 and amd64), Linux (amd64, armhf, and aarch64) and macOS amd64 (Intel or Rosetta 2) binaries.

The zip that ends with .Net 5.0 is a release build that is much smaller but it requires .Net 5.0 to be installed on the system. It can be unzipped and started by calling "dotnet .\ASCOM.Alpaca.Simulators.dll" or by running the exe on Windows.

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