+New in 0.7.8
+* July 13, 2001
+* Updated to the latest JSBSim flight dynamics model (http://jsbsim.sf.net)
+* First release of a bundled utility: fgjs which assists you in creating
+ a joystick/button configuration for your setup.
+* Updated airport data file with taxiways at many major airports.
+* Better support for using an external browser to view online help
+ components. Windows support for this will be included in the next
+ revision.
+* Now using plib-1.4.x which supports more than 3 concurrent sounds.
+* Most of the README's and documentation has been reviewed and brought
+ up to date.
+* Support for ultra-hires screen dumps suitable for large scale
+ printed output.
+* Updated, more flexible binary scenery format.
+* Support for using digital axes (i.e. a hat) as a pair of buttons
+ which can be mapped to any function a button could be mapped to.
+* Added user documentation to the base package
+* Added a c172 mini panel.
+* Improved c172 panel graphics.
+* Added units to configuration files
+* Fixed X15 panel
+* External view panning fix ups.
+* Fixed the segfault on exit bug.
+* Lots of property manager tweaks. Appened units to property name to
+ make it explicit, adjusted read/write/archive bits and defaults
+* MSVC fixups.
+* gcc-3.0 fixups.
+* Irix fixups.
+* Fixed a potential segfault in radio station lookup/search code.
+* Fixed a bug in the audio system intialization order that could cause
+ a segfault in some circumstances.
+* Fixed a typo in the 2nd tank property name so it's value is now accessible
+ from the instrument panel.
+* Fixed a bug when loading the "old" binary scenery which prevented ground
+ lighting from being generated.
+* Jettison old conditionally compiled plib-1.2.x code, we now require
+ plib-1.4.x or higher.
+* Eliminated some convoluted that generated a harmless, but confusing
+ "*** NO TIMEZONE" error message,
+* Fixed doubled bindings for joystick buttons.
+* Threading fixups.
+* Fixed a bug with the time warping/offset code. You can again
+ startup with a proper time offset if you like.
+* Fixed a couple memory problems ... attempting to access/use/write to
+ previously freed memory.
+
+New in 0.7.7
+* June 20, 2001
+
+* Cleaned up various warning messages
+* Various Cygwin fixes.
+* Various MSVC fixes.
+* Various Irix Mips fixes.
+
+* Check for null panel before passing mouse events to panel object.
+* Fixed panel edge artifacts (due to unwanted texture wrapping.)
+* Fixed a typo in the base/materials file.
+* Various property manager fixes.
+* Various property manager lookup optimizations.
+* Fixed a bug in the autopilot altitude hold that crept in.
+
+* Converted from hardcoded to configurable keyboard bindings.
+* Added an FGSubsystem base class so subsystems can be managed with a
+ common api.
+* Keyboard commands are now completely remapable. Removed BFI and
+ keyboard in place of remapable inputs.
+* Started to impliment a command manager. This along with the
+ property manager will go a long ways toward building infrastructure
+ for scripting.
+* Started laying infrastructure for creating ultra-high-res tiled
+ screen shots suitable for printers.
+* Synced with a recent version of JSBSim.
+* GUI code split into smaller logical subcomponents.
+* FGOptions converted to use property manager directly.
+* "delta-t" and fdm interface timing fixes and tweaks.
+* Added a sound effect manager class at the FlightGear level.
+
+* Support for setting a starting position as and offset distance (and /
+ or radial) from your specified starting postition. This allows you to
+ initialize on final x miles out at y altitude.
+* Many updates to make a much more realistic single engine and prop model
+ with atmospheric and velocity dependencies. Fuel flow now modeled.
+* Straightened out magnetic offset issues with VOR stations so we can
+ navigate properly from real avaition charts.
+* Added a direct network interface support for the "Atlas" moving map
+ program. (Output radio stack settings so current VOR and OBS can be
+ visualized.)
+* Autopilot made to work more like a real world autopilot (rather than
+ based on perfect values.) Autopilot wing leveler is slaved off the
+ turn coordinator. Heading hold is slaved from the DG (which drifts).
+ Nav and ILS holds slave off the needle position.
+* Backcorse ILS needle should move in correct direction now.
+* Identing of NAV radios (and individual volume control) now work.
+* Don't play DME ident if no colocated DME.
+* VOR/ILS/ADF range pickup realistically modeled as per AIM.
+* Added support for marker beacons.
+* Support for loading and saving the current 'simulator state' using
+ an xml formated file.
+* Added threaded tile paging for systems with pthread support.
+* Added high level support for creating airport taxiway and runway signs.
+* Many updates and fixes to the "installation and getting started" manual.
+* Support for adding static objects to the scenery.
+* Many updates and new features for the xml configurable panel engine.
+ Many corresponding improvements to the default instrument panel.
+* Support added for incrementally numbering screen snapshots.
+* Added support for a new, smaller, faster binary scenery format.
+* Added an xml configurable HUD engine.
+* Added interface glue to propogate wind values to LaRCsim.
+
+New in 0.7.6
+* December 15, 2000
+* Added night ground cover lights with user controllable densities on
+ a per texture basis. Lights have a bit of a "fog punch through" effect.
+* Support added for "shaped" instrument panels.
+* Added support for virtual panels that are larger than the screen
+ space which can scroll.
+* Added waypoint and route flying support to the autopilot and HUD.
+* New highly detailed runway textures with accurate markings.
+* Added a basic piston engine model, with support for rpm, egt, cht, mp,
+ and mixture.
+* Many tweaks and improvements to the c172 instrument panel.
+* Corrections and additions to the airport and navaid database.
+* Added an external interface to the property manager so you can
+ "telnet" into a running copy of FlightGear, cd through the property
+ tree and examine and even change values, all from a remote computer.
+* Improvements to flight model initialization.
+* Fixes and improvements to the save/restore code.
+* Added a load/save dialog box for saving/restoring your current flight.
+* Program notes max texture size for your card/driver so it can load
+ higher resultion textures if they are available and if you can use
+ them.
+* Added a visibility= command line option for setting intial visibility
+ distance.
+* Range of tiles loaded and drawn are now directly calculated from the current
+ visibility distance so that the ground always blends smoothly into sky.
+* Rewrote the tile caching scheme so it is now more flexible, more dynamic,
+ simpler, and more robust.
+* Updates to the FDM bus.
+* Many clean ups with the view code to prepare the way for a greater
+ variety of external views.
+* MSVC project files now included in the source distribution.
+* Fixed a view bug that could make the aircraft model appear rotated
+ incorrectly
+* Fixed a bug with the autopilot rate of climb hold.
+* Internal property manager tweaks.
+* Additional materials can be aliased to an existing material to save
+ texture space (at the expense of less texture variety)
+* MSVC tweaks.
+* MacOS tweaks.
+
New in 0.7.5
* September 18, 2000
* Aircraft now starts at end of runway closest to desired heading.
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