elisa wrote: I am working with a 5-DOF robotic arm.
The major changes in 2.8x from 2.7x were to better support robots and gantries.
However, I'm afraid the .ini file won't work. In fact, I read in the wiki that in case of updating the .ini file must also be updated but there are no details on how to do it. Do you have any suggestions?
The required changes are documented in section 3 of
"Updating Linuxcnc" in the docs.
But, in general, the "update_ini" script should run automatically and make the required changes for you.