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

• T1.4-604-gd56c11a97 Merge pull request #663 from cjakeman/menu-option-LOD-to-horizon
  Restores option 02g removed in PR#589
  • a1ecce2f Restores option 02g removed in PR#589
• T1.4-602-ge44612297 Merge pull request #661 from cjakeman/manual-corrections3
  Corrected text that had become out of date
  • 173c4d4f Corrected text that had become out of date
• T1.4-600-g8540a8fae Merge pull request #668 from twpol/feature/fix-defaults
  fix: Swap defaults for instancing and glass back
  • 75b230a0 fix: Swap defaults for instancing and glass back

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.

 

22 July 2022, 82MB

• 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.