FlightGear cvs-bin-2009907 has been released

FlightGear/CVS snapshot package as of Sep-07-2009 has been released. The changes from the last snapshot (as of Jul-08-2009) are:

New Features

  • JSBSim updates as of 2009/09/05
  • Shader effects
  • Generic input device support (Advanced Input subsystem) for Linux and Mac OS X
  • processing the ICAO.ils.xml scenery data into ILS/LOC nav records

Improvements

  • More precise matching of ILS records to navaids
  • Update FGRunway to process information from threshold.xml files
  • Enable EffectCullVisitor
  • Supports random objects, vegetation, and static models on fgviewer
  • Allow the joystick hat to move the view, even when the sim is paused
  • Correct logic to determine if we really have a hit (on scenery)
  • fgviewer can be invoked from fgfs using --figviewer option
  • Start supporting "In-scenery" airport data (described in scenery files)
  • Add Bertrand Coconnier's latest landing gear code to JSBSim
  • a means of looking up scenery elevation is improved

Bug-fixes

  • Division by zero problem in JSBSim, dme
  • Fix the rendering of the KLN89 on the 2D panel that was broken during the move to osg
  • Small fixes to generic protocol
  • Fix the fgfs crash at exit (happened when deleting subsystems)
  • Minor bug fix patch for terrasync
  • Fix transmission of float and double values in generic protocol
  • Fix the fgjs crash on Mac OS X (caused by PLIB)

Misc

  • Refactoring and cleaning up the code
  • Xcode project updated for FG/SG as of 2009/09/06

Mac specific changes

  • terrasync finally works on Mac OS X 10.4
  • fgcom starts running on Mac OS X 10.4, but it still gets error due to OpenAL(?) restriction
     (it works fine on OS X 10.5 or later)
  • improvement on installer.
  • Fixed the bug that mpserver cannot be changed on the GUI Launcher.

You can download it from here