Things are very very busy nowadays for WM Pro development.<\/p>\n
Besides scores of minor bug and usability fixes, there’s a couple major refinements in progress right now. One of the two main issues that just got finished up was the Tiled File Input device. Since the handling of Tiling is a very important feature in Pro, I want to make sure that Tiling-related features are well completed. The initial implementation had some things left to be desired, particularily in its cacheing behavior on large datasets.<\/p>\n
The first implementation had some serious issues in Layout mode and multithreaded builds, where the lack of a shared\u00c2\u00a0 tilecache between threads meant that a lot of extra disk loads were being done completely unnecessarily.
\nWith the new cache it’s not too terrible to use even a very small cache to contain a multi-GB tileset.<\/p>\n
In terms of timeline, I’m on track for the next (and final) internal Alpha release of WM Pro on the 15th, for a few days of shakedown testing. By the 20th, I should have the Beta-1 build ready to go; I’m currently targeting the 22nd for potential Beta test start.<\/p>\n
I’m going to start emailing folks soon with the WM Beta application\/information emails; you should see them in your inbox before the 20th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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