Workers 5.0 is finally here and is now available to download from VIPM - Discover LabVIEW Tools!. The focus of Workers 5.0 was to provide scripting tools to create both APIs and HALs for Worker QMHs.

Some of the new tools / features in Workers 5.0 include:
- Public API Builder tool
- Create MHL Case tool
- New Debug Server application
- Asynchronous Launchers
- Change Worker Properties tool
- Workers User Library Config File Editor
- DMM HAL demo project
 
The Workers 5.0 online documentation, including a walk-through of the changes made in this version, can be found here. https://docs.workersforlabview.io/

Workers 5.0 will also be presented at the GLA Summit - For all LabVIEW and TestStand Enthusiasts! on the 25-26 March 2024, so if you want to see the new version in action, please tune in for the live presentation.
 
Again I’d like to thank the guys at Kubes AG, including or in addition to Matthias Kubli, Andreas Scheuber, Sreejith Sreenivasan, Philipp Herzog, Olivier Compondu, for helping to make this version what it has become. I couldn’t have done it without your feedback, support, creative ideas, discussions and testing during the development process.

It’s finally reeeeady! After 18 months in development and more than 70 additions/improvements later (changelog), the Workers 5.0 beta is finally here! Link for VIPM package download is below.

The focus of Workers 5.0 has been to provide developers with scripting tools to create strictly typed Public and Local APIs for both Workers and Worker base classes, and to provide the tools required to create abstracted Worker APIs, making it now possible to easily create HALs with the framework.

Workers 5.0 allows you to create:
-         Local API Requests
-         Public API Requests
-         Public API Requests with Reply
-         Public API Responses
-         Override Public / Local API MHL cases
-         Asynchronous Launcher VIs

Other new additions in Workers 5.0 include:
-         Change Worker Properties Tool
-         Workers User Library Config File Editor
-         Workers 5.0 Debug Server: a new application, refactored and improved
-         DMM HAL demo project

The new Asynchronous Launcher and Public Request VIs can be used to interact with a Workers application from external LabVIEW applications or from TestStand (such as in the new DMM HAL demo project).

As always, feedback is most welcome to help with the continued development of the framework.

Big thanks to the guys at Kubes AG and ad+t AG for making this version possible. I couldn’t have done it without your feedback, support, creative ideas, discussions and testing during the development process this year. Matthias Kubli, Andreas Scheuber, Sreejith Sreenivasan, Philipp Herzog, Olivier Compondu

Workers v4.0 is finally available on VIPM.

You can now use your Workers QMHs on NI real-time targets such as a cRIO. Workers v4.0 allows you to develop and debug your Workers on both Windows and real-time targets, allowing you to run your Windows-developed Workers on real-time targets, without needing to develop real-time specific modules.

I’ll be releasing a demo video in the coming weeks showing how to setup Workers applications on both a Windows host and a real-time cRIO, and stream data between the two applications using the new TCP Server and Client Workers (available in the Worker Library).

You can learn more about developing applications with Workers 4.0 here.

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Workers v3.1 is now available through the NI Tools Network and through VIPM - Discover LabVIEW Tools!

The main new feature of this release is the addition of the Workers Library. The Workers Library will become a library of pre-built functional Workers that you can use in your applications. As of now, it only contains a single dynamically loadable Message Pump Worker, but more Workers will be added to the library in future releases.

VIPM Download Link: https://lnkd.in/dxmGSY6
NITN Download Link: https://lnkd.in/dTjh8PW8

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