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• 1: Release Builds
• 2: Development Builds
• 3: Logo Images
• 4: Vixen 2.x Builds
• 5: Vixen 3 License

1 - Release Builds

Overview

Release builds are typically made available in the second half of the year prior to the holiday season. The typical development cycle starts at the begining of the year and progresses towards stable builds that can released to the general public.

Donate

Donate to the Vixen project if you have found the software useful. You can also contribute to the development of the software. We are always looking for people who would like to contribute to the application itself or these document pages. See the Developer section if you are interested donating your time.

Installation

See the section on Installing for details on system requirements and how to install the software.

Latest Release

This is the latest release build of Vixen 3. Most users will want the 64 bit build on modern computers.

Previous release builds can be found on Github.

2 - Development Builds

Overview

The Vixen team makes regular development builds available so that users can help out by testing brand new features and bug fixes. If you would like to participate and use the development builds, there’s a few things you should know.

Before using the development builds, please take the time to create an account on our Bug Tracker. If you run into any issues while using a development or release build, please create a ticket describing the problem. You may want to scan thru the recent tickets to make sure it’s not already reported. If it is, please comment on the existing ticket with any additional information you may have relating to the issue.

Development builds may not be stable especially early in the year. They are built by an automatic system and are not tested at all before being made available online. These builds are for testing the software prior to formal release. AS we get near the typical show season in the last quarter of the year we become more cautious about the changes we introduce.

It is very important to make a backup copy of your entire data folder before installing a development build. If you are unsure how to do this, see the section on the Zip Wizard.

There is the potential of corrupting all of your data, or getting stuck in a loop that you cannot recover from and a backup will ensure you can restore to a working setup.

While our developers test their own work, there are several independent programmers working on the application. When their work comes together, there are times when one person’s changes conflict with another. These development builds are where the problems are discovered.

Installation

See the section on Installing for details on system requirements and how to install the software.

Latest Development Build

Previous development builds can be found on Github.

3 - Logo Images

Overview

If you’re looking to show your pride as a Vixen 3 user, you might want to include our official logo image in your forum signature, here’s a few graphics files you might use to get started.

Logo Name Over Gray Background

Logo Name Over Transparent Background

Logo Transparent Background

4 - Vixen 2.x Builds

Overview

Vixen has been around in the lighting community for a very long time. There are still a few users who use the legacy 2.x versions of Vixen. The legacy 2.x versions of Vixen were superseeded by Vixen 3 back in 2014.

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Vixen 2 Artifacts are provided for historical purposes.

5 - Vixen 3 License

Copyright 2023 Vixen Team

Vixen is free to use.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

• Source code for derivatives must be made available.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

3rd Party Licenses

Vixen uses many 3rd party libraries or code derivatives that are required to be present on the path for the full functionality. Those libraries or code are covered under the following licenses.

NLog License

DockPanelSuite, DockPanelSuite.ThemeVS2015 License

Newtonsoft.Json License

NShape GPL v2.0

ZedGraph License

Some portions of the Effect editor code are based on work that is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

NumericTextBox is derived from NumericalTextBox control licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.