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== Development news == | == Development news == | ||
<!-- News about FlightGear itself. The FlightGear mailing list and/or core developers are a good source. --> | <!-- News about FlightGear itself. The FlightGear mailing list and/or core developers are a good source. --> | ||
===2020.3 LTS | ===2020.3 LTS released=== | ||
Release notice: | Release notice: | ||
'''2020.3''' was [https://www.flightgear.org/download/ released]. | '''2020.3''' was [https://www.flightgear.org/download/ released] on November 6th 2020. Read the release notice and [[Changelog_2020.3|changelog]] for what's new. | ||
2020.3.x is a [[Release_plan#General_release_concept|Long Term Stable release]] (LTS). Bug fixes will be backported, and the build maintained, for a much longer period than development preview builds. | 2020.3.x is a [[Release_plan#General_release_concept|Long Term Stable release]] (LTS). Bug fixes will be backported, and the build maintained, for a much longer period than development preview builds. | ||
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[[Keflavik_Airport|Keflavik Airport]] (BIKF), in south-west Iceland, is the featured airport. | [[Keflavik_Airport|Keflavik Airport]] (BIKF), in south-west Iceland, is the featured airport. | ||
There is an additional development preview binary of the work-in-progress [[Compositor]] bundled with the LTS, like in 2020.1 preview. | There is an additional development preview binary of the work-in-progress [[Compositor]] bundled with the LTS, like in the 2020.1 preview build. | ||
OSM2City scenery for the whole of Iceland was built for the LTS earlier this year, but is not bundled due to the innosetup installer size limit. It is available from the [[Areas_populated_with_osm2city_scenery|OSM2City download list page]]. | |||
The first version released on the flightgear.org website is labelled 2020.3.2. 2020.3.1 was a preliminary soft release to find bugs and installer issues. | |||
For upcoming point releases of the 2020.3.x LTS, the current plan is to include some minor improvements like launcher UI tweaks, as well as bug fixes. | |||
===The road ahead=== | ===The road ahead=== | ||
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''See [[FlightGear_Newsletter_October_2020#Help_wanted|Help wanted]]. | ''See [[FlightGear_Newsletter_October_2020#Help_wanted|Help wanted]]. | ||
There are a lot of big infrastructure changes already underway and planned for the LTS after 2020.3.x. To name a couple: Compositor, | There are a lot of big infrastructure changes already well underway and planned for the LTS after 2020.3.x. To name a couple: [[Compositor]],[[World_Scenery_3.0_roadmap|World Scenery 3.0]], [[Virtual_Planet_Builder|Virtual Planet Builder]] instead of terragear for terrain building, replacement of the in-sim UI, infrastructure for regular world builds, runtime airport generation, move to a higher version of OpenGL, OSM2City world build and [[OSM2City]] tech improvements etc. | ||
The 'next' branch will build towards the next Development Preview release, and ultimately the next LTS. As always nightly builds of the next branch are available at [http://download.flightgear.org/builds/nightly/ download.flightgear.org] | The 'next' branch will build towards the next Development Preview release, and ultimately the next LTS. As always nightly builds of the next branch are available at [http://download.flightgear.org/builds/nightly/ download.flightgear.org]. | ||
====Updates to the FG homepage==== | ====Updates to the FG homepage==== | ||
Developers, there is a wiki [[2020_LTS_Keflavik_news_post_draft|draft page here]] to write a description of improvements since 2018.3 LTS to your craft or feature, with several accompanying screenshots. | Developers, there is a wiki [[2020_LTS_Keflavik_news_post_draft|draft page here]] to write a description of improvements since 2018.3 LTS to your craft or feature, with several accompanying screenshots. | ||
James has said he is willing to review and update the homepage if material is submitted to the wiki, or otherwise handed over. These will be published as news posts after 2020.3 LTS release, about a week apart, or when material is available. If there is not enough material several small items can be collected into a news post. | James has said he is willing to review and update the homepage if material is submitted to the wiki, or otherwise handed over to him: | ||
:: ''James Turner [[https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/37145199/ 1]] : If anyone wants to do an article on a particular aircraft or feature for the Website, that would be excellent: don’t be shy: if you can provide some text and a couple of screenshots, it can be turned into a post easily.'' | |||
These will be published as news posts after 2020.3 LTS release, about a week apart, or when material is available. If there is not enough material several small items can be collected into a news post. | |||
For screenshots, it's possible to pause the sim and [[Howto:Make_nice_screenshots|turn up]] settings, if you normally have settings lower on an older laptop or similar - there may be suitable screenshots already submitted SOTM section in the [https://forum.flightgear.org/viewforum.php?f=88 forum] under CC-BY-SA-4.0 that have not been [[Special:UploadWizard|uploaded]] to the wiki [[:Category:Screenshots at high settings|high settings screenshots category]] yet. | For screenshots, it's possible to pause the sim and [[Howto:Make_nice_screenshots|turn up]] settings, if you normally have settings lower on an older laptop or similar - there may be suitable screenshots already submitted SOTM section in the [https://forum.flightgear.org/viewforum.php?f=88 forum] under CC-BY-SA-4.0 that have not been [[Special:UploadWizard|uploaded]] to the wiki [[:Category:Screenshots at high settings|high settings screenshots category]] yet. | ||