Changelog 2016.3

This changelog is a draft. This changelog is currently being written for the FlightGear v2016.3 release. Feel free to help! If you are aware of any FlightGear related changes, please add them to the changelog.

Major enhancements in this release

Core

• New XML sound expression support
• Enable the Qt GUI inside the simultation (FGData commit 654a34)

Atmospheric Light Scattering

• Configurable artificial light sources have been added.

Environment Rendering

• Night lights in Earthview

Nasal Scripting

• Emesary MPI framwork and multiplayer bridge has been added (FGData commit c350d7).

Highlighted new and improved aircraft

• Cessna 150
• Cessna 172
• Icaro Laminar 13 MRX
• de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
• Cessna 182S

Other

• Removed console and --console option (reinstated in Template:Changelog).
• New 7- and 14-segment font family added.

Bug fixes

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