Changelog 3.6
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There is currently no defined status of 3.6 due to lack of (human) resources.
Some of us have thought about refactoring the release schedule due to the fact that a free around Christmas and a release during summer holidays is very unfortunate. So far, there are no clear results from these thoughts available. The entire process is somewhat volatile at the moment. Sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause. Torsten— Torsten Dreyer (Nov 9th, 2015). Re: [Flightgear-devel] Status of Release 3.6.
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Major enhancements in this release
Project Organization
- The base package has been reduced in size to 1.3 GB and moved to http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/fgdata/. All aircraft except the Cessna 172P and UFO have been removed.
- All core repositories have been moved to SourceForge. They can be found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/flightgear/.
Core
- Interactive traffic system re-enabled, having been disabled by mistake some releases previously.
- Various security improvements, including the disabling of system.fgfsrc.
Launcher
The built-in Qt launcher is available for all of FlightGear's supported operating systems.
Aircraft Modeling
- Tooltips can now be positioned at a specific place on-screen.
- wing flex module added, controllable via Nasal or Property Rules.
- Bug-fixes and improvements to the Failure Manager.
<variant-of>tag in the *-set.xml file has been added. See FlightGear Newsletter March 2015.- Automatic checklist execution, which can, for example, be used for autostart.
- 8.33 kHz spacing is now supported on comms radios.
JSBSim
- Sync with the latest version of JSBSim.
- The pitot angle can now be tweaked with the
<pitot_angle>tag in the<metrics>block. - The refuel rate is now configurable with the
<refuel-rate>tag in the<propulsion>block.
Atmospheric Light Scattering
- The addition of 3D grass to the random vegetation system.
- Tree shadows.
- Interior cockpit shadows.
- Interior glass reflections, frosting and fogging.
- Interior panel backlighting.
- New thruster effect (can be used for afterburners flames, rockets, etc.).
Usability
- Many improvements to Phi, the built-in web interface.
- GUI cleanup to improve support for multiple GUI styles.
Scenery
- Regional texture definitions for Florida, Brazil, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Southeastern Asia.
- stgmerge tool added to merge objects in a scenery tile into a smaller number of meshes.
Highlighted new and improved aircraft
- Complete refresh of the default Cessna 172P, including engine options, various tire sizes and floats.
- Major enhancements to the Space Shuttle. The Shuttle can be flown as per the Crew Operations Manual from launch to touchdown.
- The following aircraft have also received significant updates:
Misc/uncategorized
- Improved support for KDI572-574 DME equipment
- Update the World Magnetic Model to version 2015.0.
Bug fixes
- See our bugtracker for a list, albeit incomplete, of the bugs fixed in this release.