good day patcher peoples,

here comes the most conservative bug-fix only release we ever managed to build. if you think beta27.1 was naice and stable this one should be even more to your liking. if you hated vvvv before you shouldn't hate it much more though, since not much has changed really (hopefully) except fixes.

so definitely a winwin-release this time. and we're not resting a bit but continue to build features towards beta28 which is already taking form in the daily builds.

so please everyone upgrade now and make bugs history!
oh and while you're at it, this could be a great opportunity to buy some fresh licenses.

and don't forget to down the suitable addonpack!

yours,
devvvvs.

sou,

what have we got to offer this time. lets see. how about a trinity of

• performance
• stability
• featurestuff

big words as such so let us shed some light on them:

stability

remember those annoying freeze-crashes? no more! we quite positively identified the sole bugger of those, extracted it and squashed it to pieces which we burnt and then burried on different continents. so if from now on you experience a freezecrash you can at least be certain it is a new phenomenon and we'll be happy to hear how you got there. also a lot of work was put into dx9-devicehandling so you should see improvements when working with multiple monitors (still bugging though in those setups: videotexture. omg, will this ever end?!).

performance

you've probably noticed and didn't dare to mention that since around beta20 vvvv got slower and slower with each release. how embarrassing really. now here we go: beta27 is most likely the fastest #vvvv ever so far (consider: this could make a nice quote on twitter). rework has been done on the holy grounds of the vvvv graph and we were able to squeeze out quite some frames (for most common scenarios). please report your findings... and while at it we also introduced a (hidden by default) Evaluate on every patch that allows you to disable evaluation on a per patch basis. ja, this should allow you to increase your framerates even further.

featurestuff

forget the GDI category of nodes, vvvv now has a new 2d drawing engine based on SVG. while it is not exactly suitable for highperformance realtime applications it does not only allow you to render 2d stuff with antialiasing and transparency but at the same time save the result as .svg files for printing or further editing in any vector graphics editor. in the right hands this should have quite some potential...

---

and now for the small print: we have some breaking changes this time. nothing too bad though:

• vvvv is now using .net4 which means that plugins from the contributions will need a rebuild. contributors please do so and reupload your contribution or consider putting your stuff in the addonpack (using the vvvv-sdk)?
• vvvv ships with a new and more clean directory-structure. just don't touch anything inside \lib if you don't want to break anything and note that all assets that have ben scattered all over the place are now to be found in \lib\assets
• input Get Original File Infos and output File Format pins of Info (EX9.Texture) had to be removed (due to internas).

ah and we were able to get rid of that annoying crack sound. how on earth was that supposed to be funny in the first place. haha.

so we hope there is something for everybody in this release. to those not satisfied: you're right, never be! we're on your side. but if words comfort you, let us start rumors that considering all available evvvvidence we have to assume that the real big shit is still to come.

yours,
merry and happy,
devvvvs.

dir patchers and coders,

exclusively for you. again. after all the featuridoo in beta24 and beta25 we thought we'd owe you a more stable one: here comes beta25.1 as a bugfix only release. focus has been put on 3 things:

foremost we wanted to get the dynamic plugin coding solid. this includes fixes and small features to the CodeEditor and the ProjectExplorer and tons of fixes to the backend.

then we heard you moan about the enum "situation" and started to tackle that. this goes handinhand with the improved red-node warning system. generally you should now see more red-nodes which tell you they have a problem. this could now be a missing plugin, a runtime error or a missing enum entry like a missing channel at a receiver node or a missing device on your system... so whenever you feel something isn't right, startup the finder in global mode and check for red nodes.

lastly we still find people having trouble getting vvvv to run and therefore we tried to get the install experience more familiar. so now as you're used to with every great software you are using, first run crack.exe (included). if you get all green lights, just exit the crack and start_with_demo.bat (or vvvv.exe to get a vanilla patch). red lights indicate something is missing, pointing you to the right downloads. hope that helps.

all in all a convenience release. but you'll be the judge of that.
your devvvvs.

ah and don't forget to get the suitable addons45beta25.101

bug.
fix.
release.

no new features this time. we just tried to get rid of the most annoying bogus we introduced with beta24 making it the most rocksolid vvvversion ever (so far). most notably the CodeEditor is now also working for effects. for details see the changelog.

as of this writing: 3527068 seconds until node10.
now for some mojitos,
yours devvvvs.