Great, thank you! So to be clear, both the web UI and the LCD UI will save the pedalboard automatically when using the Save Snapshot command? And this will happen whether we overwrite the current snapshot or save a new one with a new name?
So after not using the Dwarf for about a year I tried it out tonight, after updating to the latest firmware. I got a bunch of nice snapshots saved, navigated to another pedalboard, and lost all my work again.
My device is reporting v1.13.5.3315. Is that the latest? @falkTX, did this bug fix never land in a public build?
As he said, this is expected with the 1.14 release (which we all wait for eagerly, as some kind of “sign of life”)
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Well it’s very frustrating to report a data loss bug 15 months ago, and have a fix committed 13 months ago, and still not have it pushed out to users. I know the company has been through a lot, but letting users lose their work for another whole year after the fix has been made is very disappointing.
When I ran software teams at Google I would have pushed a fix for a data loss bug within a week, a month at the very latest. Other than maybe a crash or not booting up at all, this is the most serious category of bug there is.
Well, to be honest, this is a well documented and expected behavior rather than a bug.
We are all asking to change that soon, but it is correct to schedule that on a major release rather than a bug fix
Anyway, @falkTX , can we hope we’ll see that anytime soon?
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Sometime this year, yes. Which is not saying a lot but it is something.
We had hopes to bring USB Audio and official WiFi support for 1.14, but perhaps better to turn those down for now so that a new release can actually happen.
I think at this point every minor update would be welcome by the community.
There is the “drag&replace” feature that makes a release worthwhile already, plus this snapshot save change and a faster way to load snapshots too.
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Yeah, it sounds like a good idea to defer major features like USB Audio and WiFi to deliver a lot of other improvements, and sooner. Thanks!
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I would very much support this: more frequent, smaller updates with bug fixes is probably a better deal for most users and MOD than less frequent, more impactful (and so more risky) ones.
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