lvb Posted November 11, 2018 Report Share Posted November 11, 2018 (edited) Back to the future, the release date says 11/14/18 http://www.ni.com/download/labview-development-system-2018-sp1/7843/en/ Edited November 11, 2018 by lvb 2 Quote Link to comment
hooovahh Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 I had a hard time downloading this, but it could be an IT issue on my side. The download would stall, and I'd pause, then resume to get it going again. After installing with default settings, I launched it and got an error "error unable to open resource files". I'll be performing a full uninstall and reinstall. It could be an issue on my end or an issue with the release. I probably should have tested this in a VM first... EDIT: Uninstall and Reinstall fixed it, not sure if that means there is an issue with upgrade or just me. 1 Quote Link to comment
smithd Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 (edited) Did they fix your issue here? https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/TDMS-Excel-Add-in-18-Crashes-Excel-2013/td-p/3796275 I ended up just removing all of 2018 and reinstalling the driver set because I couldn't make that stupid plugin revert properly (in part because I had NIPM installed) Edited November 13, 2018 by smithd Quote Link to comment
hooovahh Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 Thanks for reminding me. I just tested it and yes the TDM Importer Version 18.0.1.7167 (as reported in Excel) now imports my TDMS files without crashing. That was a major pain because I'd uninstall TDM 18.0.0, reinstall TDM 17.x, but in the uninstall some other dependencies were removed which then needed to be reinstalled...which by default installed 18.0.0 again. Oh and it looks like the download page to this add-on was updated yesterday to the new version too. Other fixes in SP1 I've heard are related to VIMs but am unaware of the details. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
smithd Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 Yeah VIMs are pretty buggy although I'm still back in 17.5. For one particular set (using classes of course) I've had to just convert every instance to static manually, else the exe won't compile. Fortunately I just use them as helpers at the very top level, and drjd's json ones haven't caused any issues. Quote Link to comment
Cloedu72 Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 (edited) I shot my installation too! Be sure to create a backup or test it in a VM! => Really NI?! :-( Edited November 14, 2018 by Cloedu72 Quote Link to comment
hooovahh Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 Can you describe the issue you had after your upgraded? Maybe we can help NI in finding the issue. Quote Link to comment
Cloedu72 Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 I got the same error as you (error unable to open resource files). I did the installation as an upgrade over the existing installation. After that the licensing and LabVIEW didn't work anymore! I then switched to a previous snapshot in my VM and could continue working. Quote Link to comment
smithd Posted November 15, 2018 Report Share Posted November 15, 2018 (edited) Link is now dead, they got the feedback I guess. Well, the feedback that this particular install is bad. Not the feedback of "maybe you should test these installers before uploading them" ? Edited November 15, 2018 by smithd 1 Quote Link to comment
Cloedu72 Posted November 15, 2018 Report Share Posted November 15, 2018 It would be a communication practice to publish the problem. Just turning off the link is a bit too easy! Quote Link to comment
Michael Aivaliotis Posted November 15, 2018 Report Share Posted November 15, 2018 Reminds me of the most recent Microsoft update bug. They had to pull it: https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/05/windows-10-october-update-1809-delete-data-wipe-user-profile/ Quote Link to comment
hooovahh Posted November 15, 2018 Report Share Posted November 15, 2018 Yeah there are several reasons why NI's mistake here isn't as bad as Microsoft's. LabVIEW 2018 SP1 wasn't automatically pushed. An uninstall and reinstall fixed the issue, doing something like that in Windows is a lot more difficult. And NI's issue isn't deleting data (that I know of). Still crappy and NI is clearly looking into it. That being said I have 2018 SP1 running on a couple machines already just fine. But yeah having the 2017 SP1 example doesn't instill much confidence. Fool me once kind of situation here. That being said I don't mind being a test subject when it comes to these things. I updated as soon as I could and took the risk on a machine I didn't care too much about. Quote Link to comment
hooovahh Posted November 20, 2018 Report Share Posted November 20, 2018 So if it wasn't clear, this release had issues. It wasn't intended to be the final LabVIEW 2018 SP1 and was an version between SP0 and SP1 for testing. It was unintentionally released to the public and wasn't intended for the general public to use, and likely won't activate. The release was pulled and if you did download it you are better off not using it until the actual SP1 release. On top of not being intended for an actual release, and not activating, it also has a bug with upgrading from 2018 f2 to 2018 SP1 which is being addressed for the actual SP1 release. 1 Quote Link to comment
Popular Post ericreffett Posted November 20, 2018 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 20, 2018 Thanks to hooovahh for posting information before I could get to it. Most of you already know me but for those of you who don't, you can always reach out to me directly if you have questions or concerns about LabVIEW. As he stated, the 2018SP1 installer was not complete and wasn't supposed to go live online when it did. Our apologies to everyone who downloaded it and found it to be incomplete. The issue with the installer has been fixed and we will release the finished product/installers soon. My personal apologies that our installers were so eager to get out the door and into your hands that they didn't wait for all of the final testing to be complete. When we do our next get together at the CLA conference, LV Champions call, NIWeek, or other LabVIEW-related event, feel free to come find me and let me know how we can best improve LabVIEW to help you. 4 Quote Link to comment
lvb Posted November 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2018 Wow, quite a bit of activity on this “release”. Glad some others were able to notify about issues. I also got word from NI that this release shouldn’t be used as it was accidentally published to the official downloads page. Quote Link to comment
BramJ Posted December 3, 2018 Report Share Posted December 3, 2018 (edited) Looks like it is actually released now: http://www.ni.com/download/labview-development-system-2018-sp1/7843/en/ http://www.ni.com/download/labview-development-system-2018-sp1/7849/en/ I see the release data is still 11/14/18, hmm... Edited December 3, 2018 by BramJ Quote Link to comment
shoneill Posted December 3, 2018 Report Share Posted December 3, 2018 It would be nice to have a changelog accessible before having to download the installer first.... All I see is a critical patch link, but this doesn't look like a changelog to me at all. Have I missed something? Quote Link to comment
Cloedu72 Posted December 3, 2018 Report Share Posted December 3, 2018 I'll wait this time! Haha 😎 Quote Link to comment
shoneill Posted December 3, 2018 Report Share Posted December 3, 2018 Maybe it's a new version of the Marshmallow test. 2 Quote Link to comment
smithd Posted December 3, 2018 Report Share Posted December 3, 2018 This one also has the full suite web installer: http://www.ni.com/download/web-based-installer-labview-development-system-2018/7924/en/ and the full driver dvd http://www.ni.com/white-paper/55036/en/ Quote Link to comment
Mads Posted December 3, 2018 Report Share Posted December 3, 2018 There is also already an SP1 f1 installer out....(3rd of December is the release date) Here: http://www.ni.com/download/labview-development-system-2018-sp1/7889/en/ So is that an update to SP1 that needs to be applied after SP1, or is it included in the "new" (hopefully) SP1...or? Anyone who has been brave (or virtual) enough to install these already?😉 Quote Link to comment
smithd Posted December 3, 2018 Report Share Posted December 3, 2018 (edited) Still broken, don't install To be clear I used the standalone installer for 32 bit since that took 3 minutes to download and the web installer would have taken 28 hours. Edited December 3, 2018 by smithd Quote Link to comment
gleichman Posted December 4, 2018 Report Share Posted December 4, 2018 20 hours ago, BramJ said: Looks like it is actually released now: http://www.ni.com/download/labview-development-system-2018-sp1/7843/en/ http://www.ni.com/download/labview-development-system-2018-sp1/7849/en/ I see the release data is still 11/14/18, hmm... It now shows "Release date: 12-03-2018" Quote Link to comment
gleichman Posted December 4, 2018 Report Share Posted December 4, 2018 Also, NXG 3.0 is available through NI Package Manager. Quote Link to comment
BramJ Posted December 4, 2018 Report Share Posted December 4, 2018 (edited) Just compared the MD5 checksums of the 32 and 64bit 2018 SP1 I downloaded yesterday, they don't match what is listed on the download page now (with the new release date) Also, the buildInfo.txt content of both the 32 and 64bit is exactly the same as the version I downloaded last month (I must say, I have been running the 2018 SP1 the last weeks, have not run into any problems) Edited December 4, 2018 by BramJ Quote Link to comment
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