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Release 0.11

Sky Dolly v0.11 has just been released. While superficialy not much new functionality is to be seen this is one of the biggest - if not the biggest - update in the history of Sky Dolly, with 505 changed files with 9,564 additions and 6,963 deletions.

Many changes have hence been made “under the hood”, such as:

  • Less RAM usage
  • Refactored notification system (“Qt signals and slots”)
  • Refactored plugin managers
  • Generated code (“C++ templates”)
  • Modernised build system (CMake)

However there are also some user-visible new features and improvements, as follows.

New Features

  • A truly minimal user interface mode, which - by default - only shows the very essential buttons (configurable in the settings)
  • A new Set relative position option in the Formation module allows to let the aircraft start from its current location when recording
    • So if you want to record “play chicken” with two aircraft starting from the opposite ends of a runway… this is now possible :wink:
  • With the help of the new GeographicLib (open source, third-party) the undulation values are now correctly calculated, converting between WGS84 reference ellipsoid and EGM2008 geoid altitudes
    • The conversion is applied in the GPS and IGC import/export plugins

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Note that even this minimalistic user interface is fully functional, including formation flight recording and automatic storage of the recorded flights in the logbook. It does not get simpler than that!

Improvements

  • Improved AI object management, causing less aircraft flickering when changing e.g. the user aircraft in the Formation module
  • Table columns are now movable, alternating row colours
  • Confirmation dialogs before and after logbook optimisation, including before and after disk usage (file size)
  • Additional tooltips
  • Consistent dialog titles
  • Small user interface layout tweaks and pixel-perfected icons

Further usability and minor bug fixes, please refer to the complete CHANGELOG on github.com.

Sky Dolly v0.11 binaries are available here:

Source and binaries are also available here:

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