PSA: do NOT upgrade to latest TWS version (979.3e) > critical bugs.

Discussion in 'Interactive Brokers' started by d0rian, Feb 5, 2020.

  1. congrats

    congrats

    hmmm..... where is backward compatibility designed in these releases???
     
    #11     Feb 5, 2020
  2. I always run the stand alone, and usually back up the DIR first, but haven't been lately,. Will start doing that again.

    A major version number installs to its own dir, but minor overwrites.

    suggest backing up the dir before updates, or restoring from your latest backup files

    you do backup your system , right ?
     
    #12     Feb 5, 2020
  3. El_Cubano

    El_Cubano

    Do you still have the downloads for the previous standalones?
     
    #13     Feb 5, 2020

  4. sorry, i dont, i just delete them as there have been very few problems for a long time.

    i have my personal dir backups , but would be messy to pass those on.
    cmon , you must have a system image within the last month , no ?
     
    #14     Feb 5, 2020
  5. El_Cubano

    El_Cubano

    I backup files, but not the whole system
     
    #15     Feb 6, 2020
  6. Bro, how can you not backup the whole system in case of a crash or failure? Been doing it for decades and have never had to restore an entire drive. But I sleep at night

    And if you're backing up files, how do you not have the TWS install backed up ?

    Cmon

    Next thing, you'll tell me you sold TSLA 800 calls, and covered at the high. dont think there aren't people walking the earth that didnt
     
    #16     Feb 6, 2020
  7. d0rian

    d0rian

    Just checking in on this...did they ever fix/patch/roll back this disastrous update? Is DDE order submission (broken by this update) in the "LATEST" version of the software functional again?
     
    #17     Feb 9, 2020
  8. d0rian

    d0rian

    Update(?): TWS "Latest" auto-installed a version numbered v978.1j this morning...that sounds like a roll back of the 979.3e "Latest" version that sent everything haywire...(not sure the exact version # of "Latest" that existed prior to 979.3e).

    The huge-font issue seems to be gone...however, order submission via the Legacy DDE API seems to still not work -- can anyone test and confirm?
     
    #18     Feb 11, 2020
  9. El_Cubano

    El_Cubano

    I was still having performance issues where I wasn't before. Not sure what's going on. I'm sticking with the ugly glitch "stable" for now
     
    #19     Feb 11, 2020
  10. mskl

    mskl

    yes. performance issues again.

    going back one
     
    #20     Feb 11, 2020