Synapse 1.2 out!
February 24th, 2007
Synapse 1.2 has been released and is available for download. This release contains a large number of bug fixes in over 40 components making it the largest update yet in terms of number of changes.
There have been some features added as well - mostly minor usability features such as:
- Enhanced copy to clipboard functionality to visualizers
- Cropping by sample and seed support in crop filter
- Per channel equalizing with the equalizer filter
- Improved operator support in the expression filter
- More customization options (scaling, cropping, interpolation..) in image format
- Per sample mixing in the mixer filter
- Row concatenation support for the join format
- Integrated set support for the sink and output formats
- Support for seeds in the unit generation format
- Support for additional data types for the SQL format
Algorithm improvements include:
- NaN/ Infinity detection and prevention for gradient based update rules
- Improved selection algorithms for the GA optimizer
- Additional operators for the expression filter
- Thread securing of optimizable components (for multithreaded execution stability)
The update is about 5 Mb in size when upgrading from 1.1.
If you have Synapse installed and automatic updates enabled, you’ll get the 1.2 version just by starting up Synapse. Customers can download the full installation package from the customer area. A 30-day evaluation version can be downloaded here.