Changelog 3.6

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Major enhancements in this release

Project Organization

I am going to commence reducing FGDATA this weekend. The reasons for that action have been discussed here and on the forum in epic detail, so I won't repeat them. The result will be a new and much smaller git repository and it will only have the c172p and the ufo remaining. To avoid any unnecessary extra work, I will temporarily remove all contributors with write access except 2 or three admins on Friday afternoon (Central European Time Zone). — Torsten Dreyer (2015-03-05). [Flightgear-devel] FGData size reduction. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

Next, I'll do a initial commit of the base package aircraft to fgaddon/svn. Following that, I create a new git repo for a smaller git fgdata and push it to sourceforge. Finally, we re-add contributors with push permission. If anything goes wrong, the original fgdata will remain intact and can serve as a fallback. — Torsten Dreyer (2015-03-05). [Flightgear-devel] FGData size reduction. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

Core Launcher

We now have a built-in Qt launcher that's shipped by default on Mac and will be used on other OS in the coming release. FGRun will be gone by then, therefore I'm closing this issue. [...] FGRun will be gone with the next release of FlightGear, in favour of a built-in launcher. Therefore, I'm closing this issue to prevent anyone from spending a lot of time on fixing things in FGRun. — Gijs (Sun Jan 11). Issues #1591, #1529, #1295, #1003, #911, #1348. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

Aircraft Modeling

• Tooltips can now be positioned at a specific place on-screen.
• Nasal wing flex module added
• Bug-fixes and improvements to the Failure Manager.
• <variant-of> tag in the *-set.xml file has been added. Example: Boeing 777-200ER → <variant-of>777-200</variant-of>. Commit

JSBSim

Atmospheric Light Scattering

• The addition of volumetric grass to the random vegetation system.

Environment Rendering

Performance

Usability

Internationalization

Scenery

Canvas System

• Canvas-based maps now support a new property for child elements to be automatically rotated/aligned with the heading of the map, to avoid redundant Nasal code doing this. This has the advantage of better peformance, as it is now done in C++. Commit

Nasal Scripting

Documentation

Highlighted new and improved aircraft

Misc/Uncategorized

Bug fixes

• See our bugtracker for an extensive, yet incomplete, list of the bugs fixed in this release.