The PCGen Team is pleased to announce that PCGen v.6.08.00 RC3 has been released. We believe this to be a stable version for the next 6.08.00 Production Release.
PCGen v6.08.00RC3 is released as a RELEASE CANDIDATE from our development branch. This is the culmination release that we believe will be the next production release. This is a Stable release. Please give it a shot and let us know how it works for you. Some notable changes in the 6.08.00RC3 release are listed below.
Java 11 aka Java 55 aka 18.09 or 18.10. (Including OpenJDK 11 variants)
PCGEN 6.08.00 RC3 is not compatible with Java 10 (or earlier) and it is NOT SUPPORTED. To get the latest version of Java, go to AdoptOpenJDK. PCGen has been tested with OpenJDK and AdoptOpenJDK Java 11 (including the JRE). We decided to use Java 11 as this is a 3-year supported (Long Term Support), Java 8 is no longer updated.
Be aware that due to Oracle’s new Licensing, and lack of availability of the Java 11 JRE public releases, we are recommending OpenJDK alternative. AdoptOpenJDK also have JREs (Normal Java) for the end users that is not installed and may take an extra couple of steps to make work. If this is not something you want to worry about, then please use the WINDOWS INSTALLER version of PCGen, as this comes with embedded JREs for both x86 and x64 Windows OS’s. For those that want to do the manual installation, please see below for the ‘How to Install’ links below for your Operating System. You can download the Oracle Java 11 JDK but that will be a much bigger download.
Note: To use the BAT file, you need to have the System Variables for JAVA_HOME set to the root folder of the Java 11 (Has the bin folder in it), and then the System Variables ‘path’ have ‘%JAVA_HOME%\bin’ included. You can either set this manually, or install Chocolately and then run ‘choco install openjdk’ in your command prompt window or powershell. Interesting side note, you can install JDK 11 from oracle running ‘choco install jdk11’.
If you have it installed correctly, you can use http://johann.loefflmann.net/en/software/jarfix/index.html to reset association for the .jar file, and that works.
NOTE: The specific files for loading PCGen are as follows:
Please direct all help inquires to our new Media Channels:
The PCGen Team is pleased to announce that PCGen v.6.08.00 RC2 has been released. We believe this to be a stable version for the next 6.08.00 Production Release.
PCGen v6.08.00RC1 is released as a RELEASE CANDIDATE from our development branch. This is the culmination release that we believe will be the next production release. This is a Stable release. Please give it a shot and let us know how it works for you. Some notable changes in the 6.08.00RC2 release are listed below.
Java 11 aka Java 55 aka 18.09 or 18.10.
PCGEN 6.08.00 RC2 is not compatible with Java 10 (or earlier) and it is NOT SUPPORTED. To get the latest version of Java, go to AdoptOpenJDK. PCGen has been tested with OpenJDK and AdoptOpenJDK Java 11 (including the JRE). We decided to use Java 11 as this is a 3-year supported (Long Term Support), Java 8 is no longer updated.
Be aware that due to Oracle’s new Licensing, and lack of availability of the Java 11 public releases, we are recommending OpenJDK alternative. AdoptOpenJDK also have JREs (Normal Java) for the end users that is not installed and may take an extra couple of steps to make work. If this is not something you want to worry about, then please use the WINDOWS INSTALLER version of PCGen, as this comes with embedded JREs for both x86 and x64 Windows OS’s. For those that want to do the manual installation, please see below for the ‘How to Install’ links below for your Operating System.
If you have it installed correctly, you can use http://johann.loefflmann.net/en/software/jarfix/index.html to reset association for the .jar file, and that works.
NOTE: The specific files for loading PCGen are as follows:
Please direct all help inquires to our new Media Channels:
Firstly, PCGen 6.08.00RC1 released, go download and hammer on it!
Secondly:
The PCGen Team is pleased to announce that PCGen v.6.08.00 RC1 has been released. We believe this to be a stable version for the next 6.08.00 Production Release.
PCGen v6.08.00RC1 is released as a RELEASE CANDIDATE from our development branch. This is the culmination release that we believe will be the next production release. This is a Stable release. Please give it a shot and let us know how it works for you. Some notable changes in the 6.08.00RC1 release are listed below.
Java 9, 10 or 11. PCGEN 6.08.00RC1 is not compatible with Java 8 (or earlier) and it is NOT SUPPORTED. To get the latest version of Java, go to AdoptOpenJDK. PCGen has been tested with Java 9, 10 & 11 (including OpenJDK). Be aware that due to Oracle Licensing, and lack of availability we are recommending OpenJDK alternative. AdoptOpenJDK also have JREs (Normal Java) for the end users that is not installed and may take an extra couple of steps to make work. If this is not something you want to worry about, then please use the WINDOWS INSTALLER version of PCGen, as this comes with embedded JREs for both x86 and x64 Windows OS’s
A big thank you to all our community and volunteers.
Andrew on behalf of the PCGen team.
PCGen is pleased to announce the release of PCGen 6.07.10 Beta.
Notable Changes:
For the full detail on all changes made in this release, check out the release notes here:
https://github.com/PCGen/pcgen/releases/download/6.07.10/pcgen-release-notes-60710.html
As you can see, the work for 6.08.00, the next stable release, is progressing well! So for the brave and the bold, please do try out this beta and give us your feedback.
PCGen is a RPG character generator and maintenance program (d20 systems). All datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users for their own campaigns. Please join us at https://pcgen.groups.io/g/main/topics or visit our site http://pcgen.org/
Public Relations Team PCGen Project
PCGen member will be conducting a public meeting for the project, and release schedule. See link for local time:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20181110T1400
Since Discord seems to have the most public accessibility – we will host the meeting in the board_meetings channel: https://discord.gg/WZS65Ee
Use that link for access.
See you all there.
AGENDA:
1) State of the Program and release update plans
2) Reports from Content, Code and PR
3) Additional Business (If any)
4) Public Q&A
So there have been multiple people that suggest we use Patreon to support the project, and we have kicked the concept around several times in the past. But here’s the question, what as a completely free product would we offer?
And if so what should the tiers be? Realistically we don’t have much overhead. Other than getting a booth at GenCon every so often.
If we chose not to use Patreon we still have the Paypal donation link.
Speaking of which we do have a Discord channel setup. 🙂
https://discord.gg/yDSzXJg
