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The current stable [[Cumulus Versions|version]] is 1.9.4 (28 November 2014). If you want to use it, download patch 2 (28 Jan 2020) as that patch has changed the drop down year selectors to allow selection of future years (to 2030) as well as past years. The non-patched version will accept any dates, but the drop-down selectors end run from 2000 to 2020 only.
=== Cumulus 2 ===
This is no longer available as it never worked satisfactorily.
Some of its features were incorporated into Cumulus 1.9.x and from there into Cumulus MX.
Some other ideas like standardising on ISO format for dates; separating the engine and admin interface; and a few more; formed the basis for Cumulus 3.
So despite Steve Loft feeling he wasted a lot of time working on Cumulus 2, as only a small number of users did use it, most of the ideas he worked on then have now been given an ongoing existence in MX! Plus the design of Cumulus 3 (MX) is much more robust, because it has learnt from the pitfalls of Cumulus 2
=== Cumulus 3 aka MX ===
[[Cumulus MX]] is newer, and still being actively developed, it will run on a number of operating systems and has the advantage that it consists of an engine that reads the AWS, does the calculations, and creates a web server. There is then a separate user interface that runs in this web server, and lets you see a number of dashboard type web pages and edit settings. This separate user interface can run on any device connected to your local network (LAN) or wifi, as it just just needs a private link to the device running MX. Despite MX being more complicated to get to know, it does offer more features and can connect to more AWS than Cumulus 1. This is not the place to list all extra features, but it can output to a database, it maintains its file of extremes for a month and year beyond the end of those periods, and adds the ability to process a file only at end of each day.
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