Changelog 2016.1

This changelog is a draft. This changelog is currently being written for the FlightGear v2016.1 release. Feel free to help! If you are aware of any FlightGear related changes, please add them to the changelog.

FlightGear - Fly Free!

Major enhancements in this release

Core

• Broken particles system has been fixed.

Aircraft Modeling

JSBSim

Atmospheric Light Scattering

• Lightning effects have been added to FlightGear

Environment Rendering

Performance

• Improvements: Many users report better frame rates.

Misc/Uncategorized

Usability

Internationalization

Scenery

• Gsagostinho and Thorsten have worked together to create runway skid marks.
• Gsagostinho has worked hard on regional textures.

Canvas System

Nasal Scripting

• createViaTo() added
• createDiscontinuity() added
• activate() method added to flightplan ghost object

Documentation

Highlighted new and improved aircraft

• Dragon
• Beagle_Pup

Other

Bug fixes

• See our bugtracker for a list, albeit incomplete, of the bugs fixed in this release.