+New in 0.6.0
+* Tons of improvements with scenery creation. Inter-tile gaps have been
+ fixed, distorted textures have been fixed, real coastlines have been added,
+ and many other subtle improvements.
+* Tools for parallelizing the scenery building tasks. For instance by using
+ 20 machines in parallel, scenery for the entire USA can be regenerated in
+ just over 4 hours vs. 70+ hours on a single machine.
+* Texture scale can be specified (and changed)( in the materials file. The
+ sim must be rerun for the change to take effect.
+* Windows now uses plib joystick code so rudder pedals should now work.
+* Now builds against Steve Baker's plib (portable game devel library)
+ distributed separately (www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker/plib/)
+* Many source code changes for the MacOS port contributed by Darrell
+ Walisser (the port isn't quite there yet ...)
+* Source code changes for better compiling with the Borland compiler.
+* Source code changes for better compiling with the native Irix compilers.
+* Fixed a bug so you can now fly across the international date line (or
+ more precisely the division between longitude = +/-180.
+* Tweaks to the Astro section contributed by Durk Talsma.
+* Autopilot improvements contributed by Norman Vine.
+* Fonts/characters now drawn with texture maps for increased speed.
+* Instrument panel can be toggled on and off with "P".
+* GUI interface for tweaking some autopilot parameters.
+* HUD appearance and layout changes contributed by Norman Vine, includes
+ faster font drawing for much better performance.
+* Reset function added to reset you to your starting conditions.
+* GUI function to enter a new airport id (and be transported there)
+* Added serial output support for an "in-development" full motion cockpit.
+* "Just in time" texture loading to reduce initial sim loading time.
+
+
+New in 0.59 (This is an intermediate/stepping stone release. Skip this
+ release if you are interested in stability.)
+* IRIX portability changes and support for native SGI compilers.
+* Solaris portability tweaks
+* Incorporated some MacOS portability changes (although the port is not
+ yet complete.)
+* Changes to allow adjustment of the autopilot settings while it is
+ activated.
+* Began complete overhaul of scenery generation tools.
+* Fixed a view frustum culling bug.
+* separated lib GPC (generic polygon clipper.) GPC is not "freeware" and
+ the author has explicitely refused our request to distribute source code
+ for this library with Flight Gear.
+* updated installation and getting started guide
+* switched to a simpler, lighter weight frame rate calculation method.
+* new tile division scheme.
+* GPS serial *output* fixes.
+* Added a nifty halo to both the sun and moon. Preparation for allowing
+ subtle moon lighting effects at night.
+* Incorporated Jon Berndt's new C++ flight model rewrite.
+* Autopilot settings can be adjusted while active.
+* Updates to the instrument panel.
+* Fixed AOA reading on the HUD.
+* Added random splash screens.
+* Modified scenery loader to accept tri-fans.
+* Other non-backwards compatible changes to scenery file format and tile
+ layout.
+
+
+New in 0.58
+* Added JSBsim alpha code ... this is Jon S. Berndts alpha FDM rewrite.
+ Still lots to do, but you can watch a balistic flight for a short time.
+* Renamed Simulator/Flight to Simulator/FDM
+* Tweaks to assist building FGFS on solaris platforms.
+* Moved Lib/DEM to Tools/DEM
+* Started preparations for scenery generation tools overhaul.
+* More MSVC++ support.
+* Removed code that made the sun bigger at the horizon since this is just
+ an optical illusion in real life.
+* Bug fixed so that the sim can start out at an airport below sea level.
+
+New in 0.57
+* Converted to a simpler frame rate counting method.
+* Fixed the AOA reading on the HUD.
+* Removed gpc from the Lib section of distribution by request of the
+ gpc Author. The gpc license is unfortunately not compatible with
+ the GPL. I may look for an alternative library, or just require
+ that developers download this library separately.
+* First slew of changes from the MacOS porting effort contributed by
+ "Robert Puyol" <puyol@abvent.fr>.
+* Support for an arbitrary number of serial ports + additional serial port
+ output tweaks.
+* Serial output tweaks to make things more robust and act more like a GPS.
+* Portability enhancements for Borland, Solaris, and SGI.
+* Some internal class renaming and reorganizations. fgFLIGHT becomes FGState.
+ fgCONTROLS becomes FGControls.
+* Started work on an "external" flight model so the sim can be driven from
+ external input (serial port, network, file, etc.)
+* Fixed a problem that creeped in with setting the initial startup altitude.
+ This could cause an unrecoverable bounce and you'd end up flipped on your
+ back. Should be fixed now.
+* Sun now appears to grow in size as it gets very low in the horizon.
+* Fixed a view frustum culling bug where the scene was not accurately culled
+ when your view was anything other than straight forward.
+
+New in 0.56
+* Changed default HUD units to the more standard feet units. You can still
+ use meters by specifying the command line option "--units-meters".
+* Added some initial joystick support using Steve's joystick interface class.
+ This works great under Linux, but Steve's class now needs to be ported to
+ Windoze and other platforms.
+* Also added a fall back to the GLUT joystick routines for windows (until
+ we can find better joystick support.)
+* Added some initial serial port support for acting like gps and outputing
+ nmea data such that could be fed into a flight map software package.
+* Miscellaneous code clean ups, portability improvements, and optimizations.
+* Switched to a streams based error/debug logging system that can be
+ completely stripped out for a release build (./configure --without-logging)
+* Support for cygwin32 b20 compiler (latest release)
+* Continued progress on instrument panel
+* Support for starting fgfs at higher resolutions.
+
+New in 0.55
+* New version of gpc (generic polygon clipping library) from
+ http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/
+* Brakes (use "b" to toggle)
+* Added an altitude hold module to the autopilot. Lock your current altitude
+ with "ctrl-a", "cntr-a" again will deactivate. (Also lock your current
+ heading with "ctrl-h", and again to deactivate.)
+* Added a terrain following module ... "ctrl-t" to activate.
+* Added an autothrottle ... "ctrl-s" to activate.
+* Fixes so that terrain tools will work in windoze.
+* More STL & Compiler compatibility fixes.
+* Changes to use a Point3 class.
+* Fixed win95/98 time problem that limited fps to about 18.3
+
New in 0.54
+* Implimented audio envelopes so that pitch of engine changes with throttle
+* Textured moon, and rewritten/restructured Astro code.
* More optimizations and code cleanups. (Norman Vine, Bernie Bright, Charlie
Hotchkiss.)
* Bug fixed that was causing odd display artifacts due to a degenerate
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