4.16 is indeed newer than 4.6, (many years newer) but be aware that 4.16 has a serious bug in the default baud rate setting area. (It affects CMRI, Digitrax, and possibly other interfaces) You would be MUCH better off to upgrade to 4.17.3 which is a test version that fixes these issues as far as we can tell. There has actually been some talk on the developers forum about how to go about fixing 4.16 so that folks don't run afoul of these issues. If I remember right it would be difficult to go back and just make these specific fixes to 4.16, so 4.16.1 probably will never happen. Normally the test releases carry some risk of new bugs, but 4.17.3 with its slight possibility for new bugs is surely the better option today, especially when compared with 4.16 and its known serious bug.
Dick :)
On 9/2/2019 10:48 AM, rockpizza09 wrote:
Gentlemen,
I need a little help with two questions:
1. I went to the JMRI web site's down load page and it says that the current version is 4.16. If I start my version on my computer it says that I have version 4.6-R81496dc? Did they restart the version numbers? Got any ideas? If 4.16 is newer do I install it over top of the old one or put it in a new directory?
2. I recently purchase an engine with an unknown decoder. I went to add the engine into my roster and asked decoder pro to identify the decoder. It came back and said that it was a Train Control Systems/Jan 2000. It highlighted about 10 different decoders. Which one do I choose?
