# SoftBank Robotics documentation What's new in NAOqi 2.8?

# Release Notes – Synthesis – from 2.1 to 2.8

## Welcome back NAO!

This release is fully dedicated to the new version of NAO.

### Check compatibility!

2.8 runs exclusively on NAO V6.

- It cannot run on a former version of NAO.
- It is not available on Pepper.

## Interacting with NAO

### Semantic Engine: a new power for NAO!

NAO can learn!

Thanks to his Semantic Engine, NAO is able to:

- keep in mind some information,
- acquire new information, and
- use this knowledge in order to answer your questions and requests.

Note

For now, NAO has a short-term memory, persistent from startup to shut-down. He will forget all his knowledge each time he reboots.

For further details, see: Semantic Engine - What NAO knows.

### Stop, Sleep, & Awake tactile commands

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Stop an Activity: Put your hand on robot’s head (palm on camera and fingers on its head tactile sensor) for 1s. | Exiting an Activity
Put your NAO to sleep: Put your hand on robot’s head (same way) for 3s. | Putting NAO to sleep
Awake your NAO, while he is asleep: Touch its head tactile sensor. | Awaking NAO

## Developing Applications - new guides

### Your robot is alive!

Developing quality applications for a living robot must take the robot’s life into consideration, and the following guides will help you to do so:

- Programming for a living robot,
- State machine management,
- Autonomous Abilities,
- Extractors management.

### Robot Application Standards

Before publishing your Application on the SoftBank Robotics Store, take a few minutes to read and understand the following requirements. Make sure your application is compliant with all of them before publishing it on the SoftBank Robotics Store.

For further details, see: Robot Application Standards.

### Security

SoftBank Robotics robot makes sure he is in a safe position when starting Life and adds a notification if he is not in a safe position.

### Notifications

All system notifications which are either a warning or an error are now formatted the same way: prefixed by their severity and their ID number.

For further details, see: Event and state notifications.

## New tool: Robot settings

Robot settings replaces the former NAO Web page. Running on your computer, it allows you to configure your NAO.

- Available on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
- Available in English, French, Chinese and Japanese, and soon available in 17 more languages.

For further details, see:

- Get Robot settings, and
- Robot settings.

## WiFi network settings

### WiFi advanced configuration: MAC addresses displayed

If you need to configure the MAC address filtering of your WiFi access point, you can now display NAO‘s MAC adresses.

For further details, see: Network information.

## Supported Operating Systems

### Mac OS: Sierra

MacOS Sierra is now supported

Mac OS X previous versions are not supported.

### Linux: 64bits only

Linux32 support is not provided anymore.

### Linux: Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr)

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise) is not supported.

Linux Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) is supported.

### Windows: 7 and 8.1

Windows XP is not supported.

Windows 7 and 8.1 are supported.

For further details, see:

- Choregraphe requirements,
- Python SDK - Supported Operating Systems,
- C++ SDK - Supported Operating Systems.

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