Open Rails

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Three Versions of Open Rails

Three versions of Open Rails are readily available to users, as shown below:

For first-time users, we recommend the Stable Version which comes with an installer.

Updater

Whichever version you choose, Open Rails has a mechanism to notify you of new versions and to update Open Rails for you. You will find the settings for this mechanism in Menu > Options > Update

Open Rails will check for updates at most once a day. If an update is found, then you can install the update just by clicking on the link in the top, right corner:

Testing Version

If you follow the Open Rails project on the forums, then you will hear about bug-fixes and new features. These are included in the Unstable Version for developers and testers to try out. Once they have been checked and approved, they are published (on Friday) as the latest Testing Version. Any user can easily update to the current weekly Testing Version and benefit from these improvements.

Recent Code Changes

• T1.5-rc1-65-g2dd1c6336 Merge pull request #688 from cjakeman/menu-options07d
  adds Help Icons to Video tab
  • 7b6b608b Updated image for manual
  • e4999f0b Adjusted label hiding "anti-aliasing"
  • e44897d2 adds Help Icons to Video tab
    Also moves 2 controls there from Experimental tab

See more code changes

The current Testing Version can also be downloaded as a Zip archive:

 

  Download executables for the Testing Version

See the installation guides below for the pre-requisites you'll need.

 

30 September 2022, 86MB

• Installation Guide (English)
• Tutorial de Instalación (Spanish)

Note: Multiple versions of Open Rails will not interfere if they are saved to different folders.

Unstable Version

To support development, the latest unstable version is also available. This is updated whenever developers submit a change for consideration. This and previous unstable versions are available as a change log and individual downloads. The unstable versions are more likely to contain serious bugs and are only recommended for users wishing to help with Open Rails development.

Improvements

Improvements to Open Rails are drawn from several public sources as shown here:

We try to make sure that these changes all work and fit together by reviews as marked in orange in the diagram.