X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ddba72f32b840a2c5a7c25879bf594ff78e9a748;hb=cade7aad701ff1cc53a6e6598b83ed446885f243;hp=85108a1ca99f9d35d58c1c27dc2e70a61b89d702;hpb=0164b7ab4ea124af6b0ac788da8d2e867618de52;p=flightgear.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 85108a1ca..ddba72f32 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,189 @@ +New in 0.7.10 +* April 20, 2002 + +* Much work on drawing and animating 3d aircraft models for things like the + chase and tower views. Propellers spin, control surfaces move, gear + retracts, etc. +* Overhauled mouse handling code and make it user configurable. +* Added a new environment (as in weather) subsystem. +* Added a new logging module +* Aded a new ATC subsystem. +* Virtual 3d Cessna 172 cockpit (work in progress) but many things are + animated and working. +* Virtual 3d Cessna 310 cockpit. +* Instrument panel background can now be a set of tiled textures so we can + achieve *much* higher resolution. + +* Major property manager overhaul. +* Major view code overhaul. All views are now configurable via config files. +* Major overhaul of the sound manager, it is now much more + configurable with many sound effect improvements. +* Seperate XML I/O opertions into a separate header. +* Impliment a standard FGSubsystem interface for module consistency. +* Add waypoint dialog now shows entire current waypoint list in a scroll box. +* Elevator trim position now shown on the HUD. +* Use an LED font for radios (and added infrastructer/support for + additional fonts.) +* Continued work on developing a generalized network interface to an external + flight dynamics model running as a separate process on the same or different + machine. +* Initial glideslope and climb rate can be specified from the command line. +* Fixes and improvements to make ground trimming more robust. +* Many JSBSim updates and improvements, JSBSim now exports all it's + interesting internal state via the property manager. +* Many updates to UIUCsim including support for non-linear models, flaps. +* Move tower view location when teleporting to a new airport. +* Created a new /devices subtree in the property manager to display + current device status. + +* Many YASim updates and bug fixes, autogen contact points for + collision detection, support for full engine startup procedure, + minimal support for magnetos, support skid objects (non-rolling gear + objects), reduce idle power a bit, export gear compression amount to + the property tree, include wind when computing airspeed, + +* Fixes to the property picker/browser. +* Fixes and updates to the configure script. +* Several potential memory abuse bugs detected (valgrind) and fixed (Melchior) +* Fix an instrument panel text bug ... an integer overflow could prevent + the text from displaying if the panel was turned off for more than 37.8 + minutes. +* Fixed a segfault when trying to audibly ident a nav station. Changes in + the sound manager code broke some assumptions. +* Fixed a bug (another int overflow) which could trick the event + manager into thinking the next time to run the events is *way* in + the future. +* Various performance optimizations. +* More work on saving/restoring flights +* Of all the ILS stations of the specified frequency, pick the one the most + directly points at us. +* Various restructures in the scenery loading code in preparation for + more flexible runway lighting support. +* Fixes/improvements to the scenery/line interesection code. + +* Various IRIX fixes. +* Various MSVC fixes. +* Various compiler warning messages fixed. + + +New in 0.7.9 (final) +* February 16, 2002 + +* Fixes to the Thanks file. +* Fix --time-offset in the man page and options help. +* Fixed the spelling of Celsius. +* Cleaned up some stray cout's +* Removed some redundant FG* class qualifiers in various headers. +* GUI dialog box fixes for autopilot. +* Ensure that initial engine settings are copied over from FlightGear + to JSBSim. +* FreeBSD fix from JSBSim. + + +New in 0.7.9pre2 +* February 13, 2002 + +* JSBSim FGPiston mixture improvements +* Enable Audio by default in MSVC builds +* Added a clock freeze option. + + +New in 0.7.9pre1 +* February 12, 2002 + +* Switch to JSBSim (jsbsim.sf.net) as our default flight model. +* Added additional aircraft: Cessna 182, Cessna 172 (ifr panel), + and a Cessna 310 (twin prop). +* Added an entirely new set of flight dynamics modeling code by Andy Ross. + Includes several aircraft such as a 747, A4, and DC-3. + This is (Y)et (A)nother Flight Dynamics (Sim)ulator. It is a first cut + of a "different take" on FDM design. It's intended to be very simple + to use, producing reasonable results for aircraft of all sorts and sizes, + while maintaining simulation plausibility even in odd flight conditions + like spins and aerobatics. It's at the point now where one can + actually fly the planes around. +* Added an optional embedded http server that provides a property + manager interface to external programs and scripts. +* Added an optional embedded http server that can serve out live + screen shots to anyone on the web. +* Sync with the latest JSBSim code. +* Added simple ATIS support. +* More flexible autopilot that can be tuned per aircraft. +* Many updates to the HUD to allow it to handle a much bigger set of + symbology and functionality +* Support for back course ILS approaches. +* Implimented DME ETE and speed. +* Added support for rudder and aileron trim. +* Many improvents with piston engine and propeller modeling. Engine + startup procedures work, and engine guages work. +* Added support for retractable gear. +* Added 'master freeze' and 'fuel freeze' modes. Would like to add + other freeze modes soon. +* Added a 'high' level aircraft config file that specifies things like + the FDM code to use, the aircraft config file, the 3d model, the + instrument panel, autopilot config, etc. +* Added a neat external 'chase' view control panel. +* Added a GUI interface to the property manager system. +* Moved keybinding definitions to a config file. +* Many additions and improvements to the sound effects including + stall horn, tire squeek, ground rumble, wind noise, flaps, etc. +* Enable introduction music in windows (off by default on all platforms) +* Added support for the OpenGC glass cockpit project. +* Added support for flying ILS approaches in both runway directions if the + same frequency is used in both cases. + +* Added an autogen.sh script for those compiling from CVS code. +* Attempt to support more incompatible varients of the + automake/autoconf tools. +* Added basic man pages. +* Removed old remnants of plib-1.2.x support. Plib-1.4.x is now required. +* Added support for building mandrake packages (other packaging system + contributions welcom.) +* Various initialization and startup sequence fixes and tweaks. + This helps get the flight dynamics model going reliably and robustly. + It also helps get initial time of day effects correct. +* Fixed a config problem that could lead to bogus builds for people with + Voodoo cards. +* Better support for running with an alternate time/date for when we + are being slaved to an external data source. +* Fixed (simplistic) terrain following autopilot mode. +* Fixes to problems with window aspect ratio that could surface if the + window was resized. +* Fix several off by one errors in hud_card.cxx +* Fix gauge spelling error. +* Modified FGSubsystem::update() to take an int parameter for delta time. +* Many internal fixes and enhancements to the core code that manages + instrument panel modeling and rendering. +* LaRCsim EGT doesn't show 'running' values while cranking. +* Fixes to JSBSim so that the slip/skid ball is much more realistically modelled +* Added support for an unlimited number of fuel tanks. +* Multi-engine throttle fixes. +* A round of updates to the UIUC flight dynamics model. +* Fixed an annoying tile cache scheduling bug. This makes tile paging + much more robust even with teleporting and reseting. +* Fixed a potential mouse freeze up condition on windows. +* Converted the materials file to xml. +* Tweaked and updated initial option and config file parsing to be + more intuitive and robust. +* Check for the proper version of the base file and exit gracefully + if not found. +* Fixed a problem with the initial view offset being lost. +* Various floating point / initial value bug fixes +* Added support for tracing property manager reads and writes (for + debugging purposes.) +* Fixed the problem where the simulator clock time would go goofy + when scenery was being loaded. +* Make the tile cache system more tolerant of situations where the tile + cache is full, but no entry qualifies for removal. + +* MSVC fixes. +* IRIX fixes. +* FreeBSD fixes. +* Mac OS X fixes. +* Better cygwin and mingwin support. +* Better support for gcc-3.0 + + New in 0.7.8 * July 13, 2001 * Updated to the latest JSBSim flight dynamics model (http://jsbsim.sf.net) @@ -15,6 +201,11 @@ New in 0.7.8 * 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. 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