Changelog 2024.1

This is a draft.

Work in progress This article or section will be worked on in the upcoming hours or days. See history for the latest developments.

General

• Many crashes and memory leaks fixed.
• Preview of World Scenery 3.0. This is a new scenery system that uses multiple levels of detail to provide higher frame-rates and lower memory occupancy at bigger visibility ranges.
• Many improvements to the FlightGear launcher.

Graphics

• Compositor multi-pass rendering.
• Real-time shadows and lights.
• Improved photoscenery support.
• Improved scenery object support, including defining and rendering large numbers of scenery lights in STG files, and support for generic instantiation of objects (e.g. windmills, pylons).
• Add the Milky Way to the night sky.
• Optional ShaderVG, a shader based version if ShivaVG.

Interfaces

• Flight data can now be saved to file as a continuous uncompressed file stream.
• Compressed video encoding is now supported.
• IO channels can be re-initialized and are exposed on the property tree under /io/channels/.

FDM

• Synchronization with JSBSim v1.1.11.
• Better support for frozen lakes.

Environment

• Update for world magnetic model data set from WMM2015 to WMM2020.
• Replace season selection (--season) with improved climate modeling, including seasonal variation, ocean temperatures, dew point, snow line and other environmental factors.

Translations

• Localization support for add-ons as well as aircraft
• Improve translations for the following languages:
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Polish
  • Italian
  • German
  • Dutch
  • Slovak
  • Georgian
  • Russian
  • Chinese

Hardware Device Support

Support for the following hardware devices has been added or updated:

• Honeycomb Alpha Flight Controls
• Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant
• Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedals
• Saitek Pro Flight Switch Panel
• CH Combatstick
• Logitech G25 Racing Wheel
• Thrustmaster T-Flight Rudder Pedals

AI Traffic & Liveries

• Many improvements to make AI aircraft behavior more realistic.

Traffic and/or liveries have been added for the following airlines:

• Delta Airlines
• United Airlines
• AeroUnion Mexico
• AeroMexico
• AeroMexicoConnect
• Amerijet Cargo
• Airest Cargo
• Air Caraibes
• DHL
• Amazon Air
• EuroWings
• Polar Air Cargo
• Northern Air Cargo
• Eastern Airways UK
• ANA Wings
• Ibex Japan
• Solaseed Japan
• AirHongKong
• AirHongKong Cargo
• AirChina
• UNI Air Japan
• Southern Air Cargo
• SATA Air Acores
• Azores Airlines
• European Air Transport Leipzig
• SykyLeaseCargo
• Blue Air
• Cyprus Airways
• DirectFlight Airtask Shetland
• Corsair
• LOT Polish Airlines
• Braethens
• Transavia NL
• Transavia France
• Tunisair Group

Traffic and/or liveries have been removed for the following airlines:

• GermanWings (defunct)

Canvas

fc16b827a Fix OSM imagery in the canvas map (fixes #2912)**

**f0a740333 Remove OpenAIP map support from Canvas Map (see #2913)**

Phi

**7b36d498f Fix a variety of broken or unsupported maps in Phi

725ce7d3f Phi: Add map option to disable repositioning own aircraft by dragging

fc3b7b8b5 Phi: Highlight "follow aircraft" button if enabled

5626dc51f Phi: Remove unused css rule

88788dc6a Fix attributes for multiplayer and AI airplanes in Phi (fix #2274)

660fda829 Phi: automatically use latest AIRAC cycle for OpenFlightMaps

57483a999 Phi: fix midnight time offset

Aircraft Carriers

The following Aircraft carriers have been added:

• Admiral Kuznetsov
• Liaoning

Misc.

f9ad4124f Route manager add total dist, dist remaining, ete, flight time

• Highlighting tool enabled by setting /sim/highlighting/enabled=true which highlights any animated objects under the pointed along with any other objects animated by the same or related properties.

Legacy

• Remove Rembrandt command-line options

User Interface

• Improved property browser dialog
• Standardized dialog title bars
• Improved input device interface