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Commit Log v1.0b

The document summarizes several bug fixes and improvements made to Grbl firmware between September 2015 and August 2015, including: - Fixing issues with how G38 commands were reported and handled. - Resolving problems caused by defining volatile variables inside structs. - Updating Grbl's intermediate motion behavior for G28/G30 commands to match LinuxCNC standards. - Correcting bugs that could cause queued tool paths to complete unexpectedly or prevent compilation with line numbering enabled.

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Commit Log v1.0b

The document summarizes several bug fixes and improvements made to Grbl firmware between September 2015 and August 2015, including: - Fixing issues with how G38 commands were reported and handled. - Resolving problems caused by defining volatile variables inside structs. - Updating Grbl's intermediate motion behavior for G28/G30 commands to match LinuxCNC standards. - Correcting bugs that could cause queued tool paths to complete unexpectedly or prevent compilation with line numbering enabled.

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Date: 2015-09-30
Author: Sonny Jeon
Subject: Bug fixes.

- G38.x was not printing correctly in the $G g-code state reports. Now
fixed.

- When investigating the above issue, it was noticed that G38.x


wouldn’t show at all, but instead a G0 would be printed. This was
unlike the v0.9j master build. It turned out volatile variables do not
like to be defined inside a C struct. These are undefined on how to be
handled. Once pulled out, all weird issues went away.

- Also changed two ‘sizeof()’ statements in the mc_probe() and


probe_state_monitor() functions to be more robust later on.

- Updated the commit logs to individual files for each minor release.
Forgot to update the generating script to account for this.

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Date: 2015-09-30
Author: Sonny Jeon
Subject: Minor bug fixes.

- G38.x was not printing correctly in the $G g-code state reports. Now
fixed.

- Potential bug regarding volatile variables inside a struct. It has


never been a problem in v0.9, but ran into this during v1.0
development. Just to be safe, the fixes are applied here.

- Updated pre-built firmwares with these two bug fixes.

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Date: 2015-09-24
Author: Sonny Jeon
Subject: Updated G28/G30 intermediate motion behavior.

- G28 and G30’s behavior has been updated from the old NIST g-code
standard to LinuxCNC’s. Previously when an intermediate motion was
programmed, the NIST standard would move all axes to the final G28/30
stored coordinates. LinuxCNC states it only moves the axes specified in
the command.

For example, suppose G28’s stored position is (x,y,z) = (1,2,3) for


simplicity, and we want to do an automated z-axis tool retraction and
then park at the x,y location. `G28 G91 Z5` will first move the Z axis
5mm(or inches) up, then move Z to position 3 in machine coordinates.
Next, the command `G28 G91 X0 Y0` would skip the intermediate move
since distance is zero, but then move only the x and y axes to machine
coordinates 1 and 2, respectively. The z-axis wouldn’t move in this
case, since it wasn’t specified.

This change is intended to make Grbl more LinuxCNC compatible while


making commands, like the shown tool retraction, much easier to
implement.
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Date: 2015-09-05
Author: Sonny Jeon
Subject: Parking motion bug fix.

- Parking motion would intermittently complete the queued tool path


upon resuming in certain scenarios. Now fixed.

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Date: 2015-08-29
Author: Sonny Jeon
Subject: Optional line number reporting bug fix.

- Fixed a bug where it would not compile when USE_LINE_NUMBERS was


enabled.

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Date: 2015-08-27
Author: Sonny Jeon
Subject: Update README

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Date: 2015-08-27
Author: Sonny Jeon
Subject: v1.0 Beta Release.

- Tons of new stuff in this release, which is fairly stable and well
tested. However, much more is coming soon!

- Real-time parking motion with safety door. When this compile option
is enabled, an opened safety door will cause Grbl to automatically feed
hold, retract, de-energize the spindle/coolant, and parks near Z max.
After the door is closed and resume is commanded, this reverses and the
program continues as if nothing happened. This is also highly
configurable. See config.h for details.

- New spindle max and min rpm ‘$’ settings! This has been requested
often. Grbl will output 5V when commanded to turn on the spindle at its
max rpm, and 0.02V with min rpm. The voltage and the rpm range are
linear to each other. This should help users tweak their settings to
get close to true rpm’s.

- If the new max rpm ‘$’ setting is set = 0 or less than min rpm, the
spindle speed PWM pin will act like a regular on/off spindle enable
pin. On pin D11.

- BEWARE: Your old EEPROM settings will be wiped! The new spindle rpm
settings require a new settings version, so Grbl will automatically
wipe and restore the EEPROM with the new defaults.

- Control pin can now be inverted individually with a


CONTROL_INVERT_MASK in the cpu_map header file. Not typical for users
to need this, but handy to have.
- Fixed bug when Grbl receive too many characters in a line and
overflows. Previously it would respond with an error per overflow
character and another acknowledge upon an EOL character. This broke the
streaming protocol. Now fixed to only respond with an error after an
EOL character.

- Fixed a bug with the safety door during an ALARM mode. You now can’t
home or unlock the axes until the safety door has been closed. This is
for safety reasons (obviously.)

- Tweaked some the Mega2560 cpu_map settings . Increased segment buffer


size and fixed the spindle PWM settings to output at a higher PWM
frequency.

- Generalized the delay function used by G4 delay for use by parking


motion. Allows non-blocking status reports and real-time control during
re-energizing of the spindle and coolant.

- Added spindle rpm max and min defaults to default.h files.

- Added a new print float for rpm values.

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