This release focuses on improving stability, performance, and error handling across multiple areas of ARC. Key improvements include better timeout handling, enhanced logging, and fixes for cross-threading and connection verification issues.

Key Updates

Improved Web Call Timeout

• The default timeout for web calls has been increased from 4 seconds to 10 seconds, reducing the chance of premature failures in slower network conditions.

Performance and Stability Fixes

• Minor performance improvement in the microphone recording function of the Mic Robot Skill.
• Two potential cross-threading fixes applied to the internal graphing function to improve stability.

Error Handling and Debugging Enhancements

• Improved error handling of EZB cache files when loading window renders.
• Camera errors are now logged directly to the camera device debug window rather than the EZBManager system log, making troubleshooting more intuitive.
• Fixed an unhandled error when attempting to play an invalid audio file in the Bing Speech Recognition configuration screen.
• Improved logging in the EZB Communication Manager to provide clearer diagnostic information.
• The project cache item system has been updated to address potential inconsistencies.

Robot Skill and UI Improvements

• Plugins now display their version number in the debug window when added to a project.
• Robot skills now ignore errors when closing or disposing, preventing unexpected interruptions.
• Captured exceptions when pressing Config or Help in robot skill UI Base, ensuring smoother operation for skills that do not handle these actions themselves.
• The update window will no longer appear if the current version is newer than what is available, preventing unnecessary prompts.

Connection Verification Fix

• The connection state was previously returning true too early, causing some robot skills to attempt data transmission before the connection was fully established. This has been resolved to ensure that the connection is only marked as verified when fully completed.

This update enhances reliability, improves performance, and provides better diagnostics for troubleshooting. Update now to take advantage of these improvements.