Release 5.13 of the sferes base package is available for download. List of changes or new features:

• configure has been improved and now stops when required programs lack
• automatic module isntallation script. Enjoy :)
• static binary building script from a config file (still beta)

Release 5.12 of the base package, now compatible with gcc 4. Also contains several bugfixes. Other modules are already compatible with gcc 4.

A spider simulator based on ODE has been added to the download page. It has been developped by Jean-Baptiste Mouret and contains a nice display of the spider behavior while evolving.

A new evaluator module has been added to the download section. This module allows to use the generic player robot server as an evaluator. Together with stage (2D robot simulator) or gazebo (3D robot simulator based on ODE), you can launch every experiment dealing with wheeled robots using this module.

The release 5.0 has been added to the download section. Several bugs have been fixed, like the problems concerning the "show" action that did not always display all the things it had to display.

The ability to use a simple context file without any population nor statistic, but just with some individuals to visualize has also been added to simplify the use of linx (especially when studying hand-designed controllers, for instance).

The release candidate 1 of the version 5.0 is now available for download. Several bug corrections have been done since the last beta version and some new features have been included, like the compression of generated files or the ability to include timers in the debug versions to better evaluate and eventually optimize the computation time required. The reading method has also been improved in order to work a bit faster.

The packages for experiments on neural networks are now available for download. The NeuralNetwork package can be used for experiments involving evolution of parameters only (with a fixed structure). Graph, GraphDENLEL, NeuralNetworkDevGraph and ModNet2 packages (with NeuralNetwork package) can be used to evolve both structure and parameters. Example of use are provided. Documentation is still almost inexistent, but will come soon...

The beta version of 5.0 release of the SFERES base package is available for download now. It contains the framework source code, some examples of modules and corresponding experiments configuration files and some source skeletons. No graphical interface is available now, but we should add some in the following weeks (automatic skeletons generation, configuration file generation...).

Don't forget to report us any problem you have with SFERES install procedure or use.

I have added a FAQ plugin. It is empty for the moment, but not for long I hope.

I have also added a ToDo plugin. It is not available to all users by default, you have to ask it to be able use it.

SFERES has been auto*ed. It uses now autoconf and automake. The structure has been modified too. Here is the structure of the Subversion repository:

• base: framework part (sferes one and only directory in the past)
• modules: added modules that are not part of the base distribution (which includes several classical modules, like ES parameters or simple rank based selection algorithm).