Change Release Notes
Important update that migrates ARC to use Synthiam's new and improved cloud server - with backup and project version history. The previous server will be shut down in a few days. Previous versions of ARC may still load, but cloud services will be offline unless you update to this or a later version.
Huge bug fixes and stability improvements
Performance improvement for Blockly UI
JavaScript compiler performance improvement
updated to latest python libraries
camera performance improvement
improved memory management
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Computing through the "Cloud" has always worried me.
Why's that David? The cloud really just means our servers, which are backed up nightly so your projects are kept safe
Some pictures to help you visualize the cloud:
LOL, @PTP - exactly. Not sure when the word "cloud" became a thing. Maybe because of Visio and PowerPoint having the cloud icon for network flowcharting?
same as the word "server" - people wondered - wow.....
just someone computer running server software like apache2 on Linux Debian like I use
It's just that I guess I'm a bit of a control freak. I worries me when someone else has my data instead of me. I'm OK with it as long as I can have a physical copy myself.
I got no reason to care about your projects
There's like 120gb of projects on our server. Too much lol
(just checked, yup 112gb of just apps)
Is that private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, hybrid multi-cloud, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS or BaaS on AWS, GCP, AZURE, ORACLE, IBM, ALIBABA or a server in your basement?
Seriously though if we have a project on the current cloud do we need to download the latest version and re-upload it then.