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{{FGCquote|1= As many people have noticed, the v3.6 release has been slightly delayed. The main reason is that too many key developers have been out of town for work or holiday this month. We are currently hoping for a mid-September release. We will post further updates once our release manager returns and we can regroup from all the end of the summer (northern hemisphere) :-) activities. Thank you, Curt.|2= {{cite web  | url    = http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/34407279/  | title  = <nowiki>[Flightgear-devel] Release v3.6 update</nowiki>  | author = <nowiki>Curtis Olson</nowiki>  | date  = Aug 26th, 2015  }}}}
{{FGCquote|1= As many people have noticed, the v3.6 release has been slightly delayed. The main reason is that too many key developers have been out of town for work or holiday this month. We are currently hoping for a mid-September release. We will post further updates once our release manager returns and we can regroup from all the end of the summer (northern hemisphere) :-) activities. Thank you, Curt.|2= {{cite web  | url    = http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/34407279/  | title  = <nowiki>[Flightgear-devel] Release v3.6 update</nowiki>  | author = <nowiki>Curtis Olson</nowiki>  | date  = Aug 26th, 2015  }}}}


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The FlightGear development team is delighted to announce the v3.6 release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator.  This new version contains many exciting new features, enhancements and bugfixes.  Highlights in this release include a reduced basde installation size and a massively improved Cessna 172P that is the default aircraft.
The FlightGear development team is delighted to announce the v3.6 release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator.  This new version contains many exciting new features, enhancements and bugfixes.  Highlights in this release include ... 


Founded in 1997, FlightGear is developed by a worldwide group of volunteers, brought together by a shared ambition to create  
Founded in 1997, FlightGear is developed by a worldwide group of volunteers, brought together by a shared ambition to create  
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FlightGear - Fly Free!
FlightGear - Fly Free!
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=== Major enhancements in this release ===
=== Major enhancements in this release ===
'''Project Organization'''
'''Project Organization'''
* The base package has been reduced in size to 1.3GB and moved to  http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/fgdata/.  All aircraft except the c172p and ufo have been removed.
* All core repositories have been moved to sourceforge.  They can be found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/flightgear/


After lots of hard work by Torsten D, a new, more compact [[fgdata]] repository ([[base package]]) has now been created. Located at http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/fgdata/, this new fgdata has had all aircraft (except for the [[C172p]] and [[UFO]]) stripped from it, as well as the histories of the Scenery, AI, and Models directories<ref>{{cite web
|url    = http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/33562106/
|title  = <nowiki>[Flightgear-devel] FGData - The Next Generation is ready.</nowiki>
|author = Torsten Dreyer
|date  = 2015-03-07
}}</ref>.  This has reduced its size to about 1.3 GB<ref>{{cite web
|url    = http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/33562630/
|title  = <nowiki>Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGData - The Next Generation is ready.</nowiki>
|author = Anders Gidenstam
|date  = 2015-03-07
}}</ref>.
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  |FlightGear has completely moved all its gitorious based material over to< sourceforge.  But it's nice to know a historical record will remain at gitorious.org as well as several other public locations not to mention on a myriad of personal computers.
  |{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/33832698/
    |title=<nowiki>[Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Gitorious.org is dead,
long live Gitorious.org</nowiki>
    |author=<nowiki>Curtis Olson</nowiki>
    |date=<nowiki>2015-04-15</nowiki>
  }}
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  |I have just added hooks to our our flightgear, simgear and fgdata<br/>
repositories that send a message to the flightgear-commitlogs mailinglist<br/>
for every commit (hopefully).<br/>
<br/>
Those who are subscribed to that list should get an e-mail for every<br/>
commit. It will include the commit log message, the diff and more.
  |{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/33827961/
    |title=<nowiki>[Flightgear-devel] flightgear-commitlogs revived</nowiki>
    |author=<nowiki>Torsten Dreyer</nowiki>
    |date=<nowiki>2015-04-15</nowiki>
  }}
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'''Core'''
'''Core'''



Revision as of 18:54, 17 September 2015

This changelog is a draft.

This changelog is currently being written for the FlightGear v3.6 release. Feel free to help! If you are aware of any FlightGear related changes, please add them to the changelog.
It's a good idea to check the newsletters since the last release and the commit histories for all main repositories:

FGData commit log
FlightGear source commit log
SimGear commit log

We also encourage people to help by translating the changelog and appreciate all contributions, however please keep in mind that this changelog is not yet final!


Cquote1.png As many people have noticed, the v3.6 release has been slightly delayed. The main reason is that too many key developers have been out of town for work or holiday this month. We are currently hoping for a mid-September release. We will post further updates once our release manager returns and we can regroup from all the end of the summer (northern hemisphere) :-) activities. Thank you, Curt.
— Curtis Olson (Aug 26th, 2015). [Flightgear-devel] Release v3.6 update.
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The FlightGear development team is delighted to announce the v3.6 release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator. This new version contains many exciting new features, enhancements and bugfixes. Highlights in this release include a reduced basde installation size and a massively improved Cessna 172P that is the default aircraft.

Founded in 1997, FlightGear is developed by a worldwide group of volunteers, brought together by a shared ambition to create the most realistic flight simulator possible that is free to use, modify and distribute. FlightGear is used all over the world by desktop flight simulator enthusiasts, for research in universities and for interactive exhibits in museums.

FlightGear features more than 400 aircraft, a worldwide scenery database, a multiplayer environment, detailed sky modelling, a flexible and open aircraft modelling system, varied networking options, multiple display support, a powerful scripting language and an open architecture. Best of all, being open-source, the simulator is owned by the community and everyone is encouraged to contribute.

Download FlightGear v3.6 for free from FlightGear.org

FlightGear - Fly Free!

Major enhancements in this release

Project Organization

Core

Launcher

The aircraft page of the Qt launcher for FlightGear 3.5 as rendered on Windows 7.

The built-in Qt launcher, developed by James Turner shipped by default with the Mac version of FlightGear 3.4, will be used for other OSes[1]. In addition, FGRun will be dropped in favor of this.

Note In future FlightGear releases, there will be an additional HTML5-based version (Phi, developed by Torsten D), and the Qt launcher, based on well-supported libraries, will be used as the main launcher (replacing FGRun). This parallel development is intentional[2], and it is likely that both will use a common service layer to provide the necessary data[3].

To learn more, see Integrated Qt5 Launcher

Aircraft Modeling

JSBSim

Atmospheric Light Scattering

  • The addition of volumetric grass to the random vegetation system.
  • Interior cockpit shadows
  • Interior glass reflections and shadows.

Environment Rendering

Performance

Usability

Internationalization

Scenery

Cquote1.png It adds a 4th layer to the sun (next to disc, inner halo and outer halo). While the inner/outer halos change with atmosphere conditions, the new layer is supposed to represent the effect of blinding brilliance - ideally it adds a suitable ray structure to the sun. The effect is most prominent in space (where I'm most keen on seeing it admittedly) because there all atmospheric halo effects are absent and we end with a really unrealistic white disc. Some screenshots and discussion there http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=27216
— Renk, Thorsten (Aug 26th, 2015). [Flightgear-devel] Sun brilliance SG patch.
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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
  • artix's Canvas/MapStructure and NavDisplay improvements[1]
  • Canvas failure manager GUI dialog (by Necolatis) [2]

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.
References