Software Upgrades
Current Release: FPS Version 6.75

These updates may be downloaded by anyone, but will only work on your local computer if FPS was pre-installed from an FPS Version 6.60 or later CD-ROM. Do not mix these downloads with previous versions of FPS because these will overwrite those older components rendering them non-functional.

FPSZero 2008 database --- 2.3MB(updated 12/18/2008)
This is an empty copy of the FPS database structure. Additional columns have been added to accommodate carbon outputs. Also, the new structure allows for seamless migration between an MS Access database and an Enterprise database such as MS SQL Server, ORACLE, DB2 or other.

Version upgrade 6.75 --- 6.9MB(updated 12/18/2008)

***Attention*** this software update will require an upgraded FBRI library file. Please email your FBRI representative for a copy of this file if updating to 6.75

Copy to your /Fps folder, extract and overwrite previous files.

Version 6.75 is a recommenced update to version 6.60. This is an internet only release of the software and requires and install of version 6.60 or later. This update includes:

• Fixed bugs with cruise compiler regarding merch heights and defect by log segments.
• Refinements in projections of small trees and a new interface for early silviculture.
• Performance enhancements resulting in increased processing speed.
• Enhancement to the harvest scheduler to allow "hardwiring" stands for harvest in any period. Not just the first.
• Correct cruise compiler occasionally writing out the incorrect Site Species on designated site trees.
• Enhancement that allows topwood to be merchandized separately from saw log volume.
• Software now functions with the 10-meter site methodology
  
  All updates in this beta release will be incorporated in the next major release due out in November of 2008.

Version upgrade 6.62
This update includes minor changes and bug fixes to the cruise compiler, growth model, Harvest Scheduler, Silvicultural regime builder, Stand Visualization utility and database integrity checker. Please refer to the section below for full details of this update. (This is a recommended download)

FPSUpdate662 - 24-Sept-07
(1.61MB WinZip file). Copy to your /Fps folder, extract and overwrite previous files.

Cruise Compiler

• Treatment of field taper measurements: If you have a field measurement of taper, then it will be used in the Cruise Compiler. If field measurement is blank, then the FBRI Library is the default unless the same species has other field taper measurements in a taper/dbh regression. Taper is never defaulted to another species in the same cruise. Height, Age, and Crown ratio will default to other sampled species in the cruise. Field taper measurements are accepted from 5% to 55% of tree height. As a rule of thumb field taper measurements should be between 10%-50% of tree height.
• Site Trees: The Cruise Compiler was not displaying the correct species in the Admin table, Site_Spp column when the Reference species was not Douglas-fir. The only case where this occurs is in the Arcata FBRI Library where Redwood is the Reference species for physical site index. It is now corrected in this update. When using designated site trees (Status code = 8) in Plots table, the Cruise Compiler always returns the Reference species site index and species in the Admin table Site_Ind and Site_Spp columns. This is not new, just a verification of methods. The designated site trees may include more than one species, therefore the conversion to reference species for application.

Growth Model

• Corrected a problem in version 6.61 where silvicultural costs were not being calculated and recorded correctly. This affected NPV, IRR and SEV calculations.
• A bug in version 6.60 was preventing age based silvicultural treatments from being invoked during growth for forest planning. This is now corrected in the update.

Database Integrity Checker
The database integrity checker was failing to add several columns used for biomass calculations to the YEILD table. It now detects these columns and adds them if needed

Find information on previous upgrades here.