diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b95dcd4bd..efad035d2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,70 @@ +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 cockpit (work in progress) but many things are + animated and working. +* 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