David Zwart

Version 1.8.3 of FDM Monster has been released! This release ships with FDM Monster Client 1.9.0.

Highlights of this release​

This release includes new features, improvements and bug fixes to both FDM Monster and FDM Monster Client since the FDM Monster 1.8.2 release!

• Printer Thumbnail improvement (experimental feature)
• Print upload bar would get stuck
• Support paths in Printer URLs (like octoprint_deploy)
• Http client with builder pattern
• SocketIO messages are not serialized twice
• Smaller chores on the repository

Version 1.8.2 of FDM Monster has been released!

Highlights of this release​

The release notes for this release have been placed as a reference only.

Klipper support​

After the work on 1.6.2 I have started work on Klipper for FDM Monster 1.7.0 🥳

📆 Planning​

The past two weeks have been mostly about planning and refining the work for FDM Monster. It has become clearer to me and others that the project needs a cleaner roadmap.

Together with @Dyrant we've been able to formalize the roadmap and shape the work into Github Milestones The result is a development cycle which slightly looks different than what was before:

• a set of specific features are selected for a release (version 1.6.0)
• in a follow-up cycle, bugs are collected, prioritized and fixed (for example 1.6.1, 1.6.2 and so on)
• and then the next cycle: work towards a new release starts (for example 1.7.0 with Klipper support), but also work on documentation, site and overall code quality (administration)

🚀 Updates​

This week I have started the upgrade of the frontend UI of FDM Monster. I've allocated quite some time to upgrade from Vue 2 to Vue 3. Luckily, this is not the first time I'm doing this so it will be a feasible but impactful task. I do want to emphasize that this gives mental space for Mobile Design of FDM Monster, something I've been putting off quite a while now.