This Month in Pinball August 2018

11 Sep 2018 - jab

What happened in MPF-land in August 2018? This post will highlight changes in MPF, MPF-MC, MPF monitor, documentation and the rest of the ecosystem.

Current Release 0.50

We released MPF 0.50.13 with bugfixes.

Changes

None

Bugfixes

• Restore Diverter State After Ball Search - jab

Documentation

• Document how to cancel a show using flipper_cancel events - mwiz
• Fix combo_switches syntax - jab

Dev release (future 0.51)

We pushed MPF dev-7.

Changes

• Improve performance without logging - jab
• Add support for P3-Roc burst optos - jab
• Allow users to disable ball search rounds - jab
• Define alignment for segment displays - jab
• Add restart_events to shots and shot groups - avanwinkle
• Add placeholder support to event_player - avanwinkle

Bugfixes

• Fix debug flag in P-Roc and P3-Roc - jab
• Prevent achivements from enabling after restoring state - avanwinkle
• Fix ms vs sec in timer pause - avanwinkle
• Fix depreation warnings in kivy scale - avanwinkle

Documentation

• Document how to cancel a show using flipper_cancel events - mwiz
• Document wiring and voltages - jab
• Mode corrections - mwseiden
• Document electrical details of optos - jab
• Update shot group profiles documentation - avanwinkle
• Document how to use player variables with counters - mwseiden
• Document appliance classes and common ground - jab
• Added examples for PD-LED - jab

Did we forget anything? Please let us know.