ESS CS-Studio Releases

Installation Notes

Java

Oracle Java Platform 8 (JDK) must be installed. Installation packages can be downloaded from here:

Java Platform, Standard Edition: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Note: Open-JDK cannot be used because of the lack of JavaFX support.

Java 9

Current version of CS-Studio doesn't run on the Java 9 VM. If you have installed Java 9 (possibly because you are evaluating or working with it) and Java 8, then you need to tell CS-Studio to used Java 8.

On MacOS X

Right-click on the ESS CS-Studio.app application and select Show Package Contents menu item;
Navigate into the Contents/Eclipse folder and edit the ESS CS-Studio.ini file;
Before --launcher.library add the following two lines:

-vm

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/bin

where jdk1.8.0_152.jdk should be replaced by the Java 8 version you have installed.

On CentOS

Edit the /opt/cs-studio/ESS CS-Studio.ini file;
Before --launcher.library add the following two lines:

-vm

/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_144/jre/bin

where jdk1.8.0_144 should be replaced by the Java 8 version you have installed.

css-update

Note: the following instuctions are deprecated for the Development Machine 3.0.0 and newer. The supported method to update CS-Studio is described here.

css-update.sh is a linux script that will make easy update CS-Studio to a specific version. Download it into your home directory, then execute the following commands:

sudo mv ~/css-update.sh /usr/bin/css-update sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/css-update

Now you can use it in the following manner: css-update [-d] <version>, where

-d will take updates from the development repository,
<version> is the version you want to be updated to.

This command:

will move /opt/cs-studio folder into /opt/cs-studio-<old-version>,
will download the requested version and extract it into a temporary folder,
will move the extracted version into /opt/cs-studio.

Example: css-update -d 4.5.0.1 will download the development version of CS–Studio 4.5.0.1 and install it into /opt so next time the css command will be run the new version of CS-Studio will start.

Documentation

Documentation about ESS version of CS-Studio can be found at the ESS CS-Studio homepage.

Development

Ver. 4.5.1.2

Production

Ver. 4.5.1.1 (24.10.2017)

Mostly bug fixes and performance improvements.

Ver. 4.5.1.0 (28.08.2017)

First version including the Knob widget for Display Builder.

Ver. 4.5.0.2 (07.08.2017)

Including SymbolWidget and TextSymbolWidget.

Ver. 4.5.0.1 (10.07.2017)

Various improvements and bug fixes.

Ver. 4.5.0.0 (22.03.2017)

Web menu items pointing to ESS services.

Ver. 4.4.1.4 (14.03.2017)

First version including meters and gauges widgets in Display Builder.

Ver. 4.4.1.3 (31.01.2017)

First version including the new Data Sources preference pages.

Ver. 4.4.1.2 (16.01.2017)