FlightGear-git-20100821 has been finally released!

After a long silence (yeah, I got a long vacation again :-p), FlightGear-git snapshot package as of Aug-21-2010 has been finally released!!

The changes from v2.0.0 are:

New Features

  • JSBSim updates as of 2010-08-14
  • New Autopilot subsystem
  • Local Weather system
  • Map Dialog
  • Shader Effects
    • Urban Effects and Persistent Contrails
    • Snow Level adjustment
    • Performance vs Quality adjustment
  • --fg-aircraft option, and aircraft dir path list.

Improvements and Updates

  • Make ident/name searches on FGPositioned case-insensitive
  • Instruments can be re-inited by reloading XML files on reset
  • Removed the old AI system
  • Support ICAO identifiers with more than four characters, in the AirportsList
  • Expanded ATC communication between AI aircraft and Airport ground control.
  • So many minor updates, bug-fixes, cleanups, and refactoring
  • So many new and updated aircraft

Mac Specific Changes

  • Supports ALUT.framework instead of patching OpenAL
  • Some more help items like "get start" manual
  • New build scripts for building universal binary App Bundle
  • Fixed a bug that kills FG with "unexpected exception"
  • Fixed 3D cloud flickers on some nVidia chips

You can download it from Downloads page.

Have a nice flight!