TIDAL Tools for Respiratory Physiology / News: Recent posts

TIDAL 3.11.8 is released. 3.11.8 adds the ability to set the channel buffer size at runtime with a command-line option or a gconf parameter.

Release 3.11.6 adds gconf support for defining the syslog facility, changes the algorithm for VOL() to reduce noise sensitivity, and allows the internal macros _VOL() and _C_VOL() to be overridden.

TIDAL 3.11.5 is released. 3.11.5 improves compile-time detection of GConf libraries.

TIDAL 3.11.4 is released. 3.11.4 adds full support (acquisition and graphics) for Debian sarge. The Installation Guide has instructions to install Comedi and TIDAL on a fresh installation of sarge. See the Release Notes for more details.

The first release candidate for 3.11.4 is on the web. The primary objective of 3.11.4 is adding full support (acquisition and graphics) for Debian sarge. The Installation Guide has instructions to install Comedi and TIDAL on a fresh installation of sarge.

TIDAL 3.11.3 is released. This release supports pre-GNOME2 versions of GTK+ and GConf in addition to the GNOME2 versions. See the Release Notes for more details.

TIDAL 3.11.2 is released. This release supports GTK+ 2.x and GConf 2.x. See the Release Notes for more details.

TIDAL 3.11.1 is released. This release changes the default output units to standard physiological conventions. There are also a few minor bug fixes in test cases. See the Release Notes for details.

TIDAL 3.10.11 is released. This release fixes a minor bug in the conversion of gas volumes from ambient conditions to BTPS. 3.10.11 will be the last release in the 3.10 series. See the Release Notes for details.

Denham Ward will present a poster on TIDAL at the IX Oxford Conference on Modeling and Control of Breathing, 2003-09-13/16, in Paris.

The conference web site is http://www.iaf.cnrs-gif.fr/ngi/oxford03/index.html.

I have reimplemented 90% of the core offline functionality of daq in about 1000 lines of Ruby. At present, this is a prototype activity, but the ease of implementation so far leads me to expect that future development of TIDAL will be in Ruby. Among other things, Ruby gives the TIDAL user a more powerful scripting capability than EDL, as well as easy access to advanced libraries, e.g., graphical user interface builders.... read more

TIDAL 3.5.4 is released. See the Release Notes for details.

TIDAL 3.10.10 is released. This release fixes a potentially serious bug in the conversion of gas volumes from ambient to standard pressure. See the Release Notes for details.

TIDAL 3.10.9 is released. See the Release Notes for details.

TIDAL 3.5.3 is released. See the Release Notes for details.

TIDAL 3.10.8 is released. See the Release Notes for details.

TIDAL 3.10.8-beta1 is released. See the Release Notes for details.

TIDAL 3.5.2 is the current MS-DOS release. Although TIDAL for DOS is more than ten years old, this is the first CVS release. See the Release Notes for details.

DOS versions of TIDAL are deprecated. The Linux/Unix/Cygwin releases are fully-functional in offline mode on Windows. If you want to do data acquisition, the Linux version is highly recommended.

TIDAL 3.10.7 is released. See the Release Notes for details.

I just completed three days of testing Release 3.10.6 with Denham Ward, Bill Voter, and Jens Jensen at the University of Rochester. We found and fixed two bugs (668066 and 669069), both of which were several years old. These fixes and some new convenience features will be incorporated into 3.10.7.