Synapse 1.3 has been released and is available for download. This release is a big one with new features and improvements in over 50 components. Although there are hundreds of improvements in the new version there are three major features that you will notice right away:
- Integrated help system. On all blocks and filters you can now find a “Help” item in the settings browser. Clicking on it will take you to the relevant documentation in our new documentation system.
- Script Filter and Script Format components with an advanced Visual Studio-like code editor that allows you to write your own filters and formats directly from Synapse:
- LSTMs (Long Short-Term Memories) are advanced memory structures for use in dynamic adaptive systems. Unlike standard feedback loops LSTMs can preserve information over indefinite time gaps. With LSTMs previously unsolvable time-series problems can now be handled with ease.
If you have Synapse installed and automatic updates enabled, you’ll get the 1.3 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.
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We are currently in the process of upgrading our server hardware, software as well as launching a new version of the home page and a new version of Synapse. This will cause interruptions in our service for the next 24-48 hours. We apologize for the inconvenience but we are sure you will like the improvements.
The new documentation system (http://www.peltarion.com/doc) is online and you can reach it if your ISP’s DNS entries have been updated (if not, they will within the next 24 hours). The forums (http://www.peltarion.com/forums) will remain offline for a short while until the upgrades have settled.
A new version of Synapse that features massive improvements will be released tomorrow as both download and automatic update. More on that tomorrow.
We apologize for any inconveniences during this upgrade and hope you will enjoy the new site and the new Synapse 1.3.
–The Peltarion Team
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First, sorry for the lack of updates on the blog. We’ve been very busy working on a very large update package for Synapse as well as a new documentation system. We are also migrating to new servers, which does take some time. The good news is that we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and hope to have everything finished soon and ready for release. You’ll be happy with the new documentation system that is a vast improvement over the existing stuff and it also features a community forum which I’m sure is good news as many have requested it.
Now to the point of this post which is a question that we get relatively often. The question is do systems deployed from Synapse work on mono? (Mono is a .NET framework clone that runs on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and a few other platforms.)
The short answer is: No.
The long answer is: Not yet.
The primary problem is a bug in Mono that causes it not to recognize .NET Compact assemblies. Base level components in Synapse are all Compact compatible (so you can use a deployed system on a PocketPC or any Windows Mobile phone and a range of other devices).
We will look into the mono problem and try to come up with a solution. Until then, if you are using Linux (or FreeBSD or OS X etc), you can always use the WINE emulator to run systems. In that case you can probably use Synapse as well. It is of course completely unsupported on our part, but it may be worth a try.
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