v0.9.10 updates.

NEWS

@@ -1,5 +1,111 @@
-New in 0.9.9-pre2
-* November 9, 2005
+New in 0.9.10
+* April 5, 2006
+
+* Many improvements to the multi-player mode.  Other airplanes are now
+  updated smoothly.  There is a really nifty google maps based moving
+  map that anyone can use to track all online activity.
+* AI planes have improved ground following and are smarter about
+  selecting the active runway.
+* Include the ability to send ATC and AI aircraft communication to a
+  local festival server to be converted to spoken speech output.
+* Added a detailed model of the Honeywell MK VIII EGPWS ground
+  proximity warning system.
+* Complete overhaul/redo of terrain textures based on USGS satellite imagery.
+* Added background ATC chatter.
+* Updated/improved rain cone rendering.
+* Updated manual.
+
+* Upgraded to JSBSim v2.0
+* Fix a discrepancy in sign of twist and incidence values in YASim
+  between code and documentation.
+* Updates to YASim for more fine grained propeller modeling.
+* UFO will now honor elevator trim value so that it will respond to
+  the autopilot altitude hold module.
+* UFO can adjust it's speed range so you can use it for super high
+  speed world exploration, or extremly fine grained precise positioning.
+* Much work and progress with carrier interaction and launch/recovery
+  modeling.
+
+* Add a feature that allows the end user to click any where on the
+  terrain.  The system will compute a ground intersection and report
+  back the lon, lat, and elevation of the click point.  The click
+  point is reported in the property system so it can be read by just
+  about anything including external programs.  Later we added the
+  ability to place an object at the click point as well.
+* Add a feature to play one-off wav files.  These are qeued and played
+  sequentially.  This was then leveraged to build an ATC background
+  chatter module in nasal that can be turned on/off at run time.  This
+  could also be leveraged for tutorials or other interactive type
+  scripts to play prerecorded messages at specific times or under
+  specific conditions..
+* Allow clock to report local time as well as universal.
+* Add a model of a KLN89 GPS.
+* Allow nav radios to be slaved to the gps.
+* Allow enabling/disabling of menu entries.
+* Replace old hardcoded frame rate display with a much more flexible
+  nasal/gui version.
+* Add a listener function to properties so that nasal code can be
+  triggered whenever a property changes.  This is more efficient than
+  polling.
+* Add a save-on-exit option to save user preferences.
+* Add support for point sprites.
+* Add support for emissive layers (such as lights) on 2d panels.
+* Updated gui styles.
+* Updated airport and navaid data.
+* Added a new Nasal/XML based tutorial system.
+
+* Fix a bug in the metar (real weather) threading that could lead to
+  long pauses and even crashes.
+* Various compiler/platform fixes.
+* Fix various valgrind complaints.
+* Better use of exceptions in places.
+* Fix the 2d compass texture handling.
+* Many tweaks and improvements to our keyboard input handling system.
+* Added a first attempt at MS-VC8 project files.
+
+* Updated aircraft:
+  - A4/A3F (cleanups and updates, functional drag chute)
+  - A-10 (3d cockpit, fdm tuning, munitions, drop tanks)
+  - AN-225 (fdm tuning)
+  - B1900D
+  - BO105 Eurocopter (new livry/logo options.)
+  - B-29
+  - B-52F (major overhaul)
+  - Boeing 314 (3d cockpit, fdm updates)
+  - 747 (modeling fixes)
+  - Cirrus SR20 (improve interior a bit)
+  - C172 (added KLN89 gps)
+  - C310 (many modeling updates)
+  - Citation Bravo (many modeling updates, Primus 1000 PFD)
+  - Concorde (updated to v2.1, new views, sounds autopilot, fdm
+    updates, new systems)
+  - DHC2 Beaver
+  - F-16 (modeling and munitions updates)
+  - Hurricane
+  - Hunter
+  - MiG-15bis (adds some 3d cockpit instruments)
+  - PC7 (various cleanups)
+  - Seafire/Spitfire
+  - Seahawk (general tidy up, cannon, heat haze, catapault launch strop)
+  - T37 (geometry, sound, fdm updates)
+  - YF-23 (misc model updates)
+
+* New aircraft available:
+  - Boeing 707
+  - 737-300 (Brand new version)
+  - Canberra BI8
+  - English Electric Lightning (F.1A)
+  - Lockheed 1049 Constellation
+  - Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star
+  - Messerschmitt Bf 109
+  - Ogel (a for-fun fantasy airplane.)
+  - New OV-10 with Clickable 3D cockpit
+  - Piper PA24-250 Comanche 250 (N7764P)
+  - Piper Aerostar 700
+
+
+New in 0.9.9
+* November 17, 2005
 
 * New well integrated volumetric clouds by Harald Johnsen
 * Removed 'old' 3D clouds code.
@@ -78,8 +184,8 @@ New in 0.9.9-pre2
   several memory leaks fixed.
 
 * New aircraft available (in various stages of developement): A380,
-  Boeing 314 (seaplane), Citation Bravo (glass cockpit), F-8E
-  Crusader, Hurricane IIb, MiG-15bis, TU-114, B29, C150, and SR20.
+  Boeing 314 (seaplane), Citation Bravo (glass cockpit), Hurricane IIb,
+  MiG-15bis, TU-114, B29, C150, and SR20.
 
 * Aircraft that have had updates since the last release: 737, A-10,
   AN-225, B-52F, BAC-TSR2, Citation-II (550), Comper Swift, Concorde,

Thanks

@@ -621,6 +621,17 @@ Roy Vegard Ovesen <rvovesen@tiscali.no>
   autopilot designers.
 
 
+Stuart Buchanan <stuart_d_buchanan@yahoo.co.uk>
+  Substantial additions to the Getting Started Manual
+  Enhancements to the Cessna-310 3d model.
+  Added a generic yoke model, a generic throttle quadrant model and a 
+  generic pedal set model.
+
+
+Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
+  Added the save-on-exit option to save the user preferences at program exit.
+
+
 Space Imaging, Inc  http://www.spaceimaging.com/
   Space Imaging has allowed us to use the images in their archive for
   commercial and non-commercial use, provided the original image can't be