v1.7.1

OpenStudio Application Version 1.7.1

The OpenStudio Coalition is proud to announce the releases of OpenStudio Application v1.7.1. This is a patch release based on OpenStudio SDK v3.7.0 which uses EnergyPlus v23.2.0.

Overview

The OpenStudio Application 1.7.1 release fixes several important bugs that were present in the 1.7.0 release.

The OpenStudio Application and OpenStudio SketchUp Plug-in are funded by the OpenStudio Coalition members The Energy Coalition, PSD, VEIC, and EffiBEM. The OpenStudio Coalition has a strategic roadmap (here are the high level results) which prioritizes education and outreach to states, utilities, and higher education while ensuring the OpenStudio Application and OpenStudio SketchUp Plug-in user interfaces continue to be free and open source. To continue our efforts and provide additional support or training, please join us!

Bug Fixes:

• BCL Viewer Human Readable Descriptions by @jmarrec in #672
• Dragging construction set from library is very slow by @macumber in #687
• Unable to edit Water Use Equipment Definition by @macumber in #685
• OpenStudio Application unusable on MacOS14 with M2 by #692
• Error when running Create Typical Building from Model Measures by @jmarrec and @macumber in #699
• Local copy of BCL folder gets wiped/overwritten by @macumber in #700

Internal/Developer changes:

• Mac CI failing on GMP by @macumber in #690

Installation Instructions

OpenStudio Application v1.7.1 is supported on 64-bit Windows 10 – 11, OS X 11.0 and higher for x86, OS X 12.1 and higher on M1, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 22.04. The OpenStudio SketchUp Plug-in v1.7.0 requires SketchUp 2021 or higher. Refer to the OpenStudio Application Compatibility Matrix and the OpenStudio SketchUp Plug-in Compatibility Matrix for more information.

• Download and run the correct OpenStudio Application v1.7.1 installer for your platform. Select components for installation. Note that OpenStudio Application is a standalone app and does not require you to install OpenStudio SDK.
• (Optional) Download the OpenStudio SketchUp Plug-in v1.7.0 RBZ package. Launch SketchUp 2021 or higher and install the RBZ package.
• New - The new GitHub based Building Component Library (BCL) no longer requires an account to access online building components and measures!
• Note that the Mac installers are currently not signed by the OpenStudio Coalition. To run these installers, the user must ctrl-click the file and select open. Additionally, Mac OS may add a quarantine attribute to the dmg file that prevents it from opening. This attribute can be removed using the command xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine at the command line.
• Note that the current version of SketchUp 2023 (Version 23.1.341) on Mac is currently affected by OpenStudio SketchUp Plug-in crashes on launch on Mac (x86_64 and ARM) with SketchUp 2023 #133. For Mac users, it is advised to use SketchUp 2022 with the OpenStudio SketchUp Plug-in until this issue is resolved.
• Note that PAT and DView are not included in either the SDK or Application installers. You will need to install PAT separately which is distributed on the OpenStudio-PAT GitHub page and DView at the Dview home page.
  Installation Notes

For help with common installation problems and more detailed instructions please visit, https://openstudiocoalition.org/getting_started/getting_started/.

Changelog

Date Range: 2024-02-01 (v1.7.0) - 2024-04-14:

New Issues: 20

Closed Issues: 14

Accepted Pull Requests: 12

Total Open Issues: 141

Total Open Pull Requests: 3

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Closed Issues: 14

• ➕ #672, BCL Viewer Human Readable Descriptions
• ✔️ #681, Dragging construction set from library is very slow
• ✔️ #683, Unable to edit Water Use Equipment Definition
• ✔️ #684, District Heating meter name
• ✔️ #686, Crashing Issue in OpenStudio When Accessing Thermal Zone Tab
• ✔️ #688, OpenStudio Application unusable on MacOS14 with M2
• ✔️ #689, Mac CI failing on GMP
• ✔️ #691, EnergyPlus does not recognize Zone Sizing is Initialized
• ✔️ #693, Defaults for Zone and System Sizing
• ✔️ #694, Default is missing ZoneAirDistribution object
• ✔️ #695, Error when running Create Typical Building from Model Measures
• ✔️ #696, Local copy of BCL folder gets wiped/overwritten
• ➕ #701, Update to Qt 6.6.3
• ✔️ #707, No response after online bcl selects categories

Accepted Pull Requests: 12

• ✔️ #678, Add early failure for too old macOS, XCode or target macOS version
• ➕ #682, Speed up controllers
• ✔️ #685, Fix inspector in loads tab
• ✔️ #690, Fix Mac CI
• ✔️ #692, Upgrade to Qt 6.6.2 to fix #688
• ✔️ #697, Fix #672 - Add description, modelerDescription, UID and version UID to bcl results
• ✔️ #699, Install openstudio to bin directory so it can be found relative to lib
• ✔️ #700, Correctly remove old measures when downloading new ones
• ✔️ #702, Fix 696 2
• ✔️ #703, Update to Qt 6.6.3
• ✔️ #705, PR to master for 1.7.1-rc1
• ✔️ #710, Remove pre-release tag for 1.7.1

Total Open Issues: 141 (#130, #132, #111, #112, #142, #113, #143, #158, #133, #134, #172, #135, #136, #162, #139, #174, #157, #166, #175, #138, #167, #137, #121, #176, #114, #144, #152, #171, #141, #115, #140, #122, #116, #164, #170, #165, #151, #154, #148, #117, #150, #123, #169, #153, #124, #160, #155, #125, #156, #105, #159, #161, #120, #127, #118, #119, #128, #129, #146, #147, #168, #19, #42, #78, #101, #96, #104, #179, #199, #206, #213, #217, #224, #234, #239, #253, #254, #262, #263, #271, #272, #273, #278, #279, #280, #289, #293, #298, #300, #322, #335, #336, #337, #338, #357, #371, #377, #380, #381, #389, #396, #400, #410, #411, #416, #417, #423, #472, #475, #481, #485, #491, #493, #495, #512, #520, #529, #542, #555, #557, #561, #571, #612, #615, #620, #633, #649, #656, #658, #659, #668, #669, #670, #671, #679, #680, #687, #704, #706, #708, #709)

Total Open Pull Requests: 3 (#236, #470, #698)