Release Notes
Version 4.9.0.90 (BETA)
Build Date: November 15, 2023
- Improved:
The Automatic Backup feature to prevent backup data loss.
[NT8 V4 Hardware Only] The LED display to follow the states of tasks.
[NT8 V4 Hardware Only] The LED Configuration to set up the LED display.
[NT8 V4 Hardware Only] The auto-calibration by moving its configuration from behavior.config to AutoCalibration.config.
[Status Bar] The notification to be more noticeable.
[Plate Type Editor] A new behavior when deleting Rock Maker Plate Definition from Plate Type Library.
[Plate Type Editor] A pop-up message when editing the plate height.
[Status Bar] The notification to be more noticeable.
[RMI] The text field’s state to be disabled to forbid barcode entry.
- Added:
A feature to automatically collect usage data via email.
[NT8 V4 Hardware Only] A Humidifier & Water Level Sensor Diagnostics feature to analyze failure on the humidifier system and water level sensor.
A Flexible Fingers Diagnostic feature to analyze failure on flexible fingers.
A feature to disable the LV Dispense Gap notification for LCP dispense volume change.
- Removed:
The Humidifier Settings from the lookup table.
The Bang2Controller from TrinamicWamboOutputDevice.config.
- Fixed:
An issue where the “Verify Plate Type” menu was displayed when no Protein Block was detected.
An issue where the auto humidifier wouldn’t turn ON after an idle state.
An issue where an incorrect UI state appeared when the USB was disconnected during a running task.
[NT8 V4 Hardware Only] An issue where the software crashed when detecting that the water level inside the humidifier chamber was below the minimum limit during an LV tips washing sequence.
An issue where using the Alt+F4 shortcut during the preparation steps of the sanitization wizard causing the software to go to the next step instead of closing it.
An issue where uninstalling the software was allowed while running.
An issue where the sound file of completed execution wouldn’t play even after manually re-selecting it.
An issue where the software crashed when running on Windows 7.
- ROCK MAKER Integration [RMI]
An issue where the selected Protein Block from Task List still showed up while loading an RMI experiment.
An issue where the software wouldn’t load RMI experiments with the HV protein tray when the LV protein tray was attached to hardware and the RMI protein default location ID was “9”.
An issue where the software did a wrong calculation for wash delay time.
An issue where editing the seed mixing volume didn’t automatically update the checklist instruction.
An issue where the Seed volume value was not rounded when loading an experiment with seed mixing.
An issue where the wrong protein block recommendation appeared when loading an experiment to dispense 1 seed and 1 protein types on 2 drops and no Protein Block attached.
An issue where enabling the ROCK MAKER Integration required a software restart.
An issue where a “Protein Tray Not Set” error message occurred when loading the next RMI experiment barcode although the protein block type was chosen in the previous experiment.
An issue where NT8 didn’t use FF touch sensors and clamp when running dispensing tasks for some dispensing and seeding protocols.
- Task List
An issue where an error message appeared when opening and closing the NT8’s door while running an experiment.
An issue where the High Volume Multi Protein tray was not found on Plate Station 3’s plate selection when the four-row plate feature was disabled.
[Task List][RMI] An issue where the software allowed a protein block type change when a Protein Block was attached to hardware.
[Task List][RMI] An issue where changing the value of wash prime additional duration didn’t affect the washing task.
[NT8 V4 Hardware Only] An issue where the waste pump was turned OFF after the system turned OFF the wash pump while washing LV tips.
[NT8 V4 Hardware only] Unsaved HV Tip auto-calibration result at Plate Station 2.