New release candidate: 1.4.1rc4

This fourth RC of 1.4.1 fixes three regressions observed with the prior ones and improves error resilience in new functionality:

Improvements

  • #3661: Protect against invalid input data extracted from Github in plugin repository browser

Bug fixes

  • #3653 (regression): Fixed disconnect during auto connect hanging indefinitely or not getting properly reported to frontend
  • #3655 (regression): Fixed broken /api/files/local API
  • Fixed a duplicated ID in the generated HTML (regression)

The heads-ups regarding Jinja2 templating, awesome-slugify and the virtual printer from 1.4.1rc1 still apply.

You can find the full changelog and release notes as usual on Github.

Special thanks to everyone who contributed to this release candidate and provided full, analyzable bug reports, you help making the next release as stable as possible!

As the past RCs have shown me that a lot of people appear to be unaware of this: Please do not install this RC if you expect a fully stable version. It is not a stable release, it is a release candidate, and of the next big release to boot: severe bugs may occur, and they might be bad enough that they make a manual downgrade to an earlier version necessary - maybe even from the command line.

You should feel comfortable with and capable of possibly having to do this before installing an RC.

If you want to and can help test this release candidate, you can find information on how to switch to the “Maintenance RCs” release channel in this guide if not already done (also linked below).

Please provide feedback on this RC. For general feedback you can use this ticket on the tracker. The information that everything works fine for you is also valuable feedback 😄. For bug reports please follow “How to file a bug report” - I need logs and reproduction steps to fix issues, not just the information that something doesn’t work so make sure to fill out all fields of the issue template.

Thanks!

Depending on the feedback regarding this version I’ll look into fixing any observed regressions and bugs and pushing out a follow-up version as soon as possible and necessary.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://octoprint.org/blog/2020/07/29/new-release-candidate-1.4.1rc4/
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With this new version, can I set the serial port using the 'by-id' path? Like "/dev/serial/by-id/usb-0658_0200-if00". This path stays the same. However, since I have a few serial devices hooked up to the PC, the /dev/TTYACM* name can change upon reboot. I remember there being some discussion that this might be possible in this next version and I was just checking to see if it's been implemented.

You've been able to do that for ages now simply by adding /dev/serial/by-id/usb-0658_0200-if00 to the list of additional ports.