5.2.0

This is the first NREL Radiance release we’ve done since the last official release, posted during the Radiance Workshop back in September of 2017.

Note we have completely revamped the CMake build files, allowing for much more reliable automated building AND testing of the Radiance source code. NREL is now performing CI on this source tree; we will continue manually posting new release installers, but on a more frequent schedule from here on out – likely coinciding with OpenStudio quarterly releases.

Note we have also abandoned the ‘combined’ branch on the GitHub mirror, letting branch ‘master’ reflect the current status of cvs ‘HEAD’. We have updated/fixed the very small and not terribly rigorous set of tests (ctest) on the repository, as well as added some resource files for them, and relocated all of that to /resources in the source tree. I hope to add some documentation on the use of the CMake system at some point, but hopefully our more frequent updates will suffice for most. The CI server itself is and will likely remain private, but we will be posting the automated build/test results to the GitHub mirror soon so you all can follow along. =)

A big shout-out is due @axelstudios (Alex Swindler) for setting this all up!

• Rob Guglielmetti (@rpg777)