Changelog 2024.1
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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)**
Nasal
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