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Version 2.6.5

22 Sep 19:41

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  • Added workaround for P3D v4 add-on.xml files with inconsistent encoding (BOM / XML PI mismatch)
  • Added error reporting and boundary check when reading X-Plane dat files to avoid crash to desktop.
  • Added error collection for X-Plane compiler. Now only stops reading the current file on error.

Version 2.6.4

21 Sep 14:44

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  • Fixed crashes when reading X-Plane CIFP files with unknown approach type.
  • Fixed crash with older apt.dat files where runway name for VASI is missing.
  • Added support for all altitude restriction types.
  • Warnings now print full filename including path.
  • Fixed error where altitude restrictions were not recognized when given as flight levels.
  • Enabled support for older apt.dat files with version down to 850.

Version 2.6.3

16 Sep 21:16

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Version 2.6.3

  • Fixed error that caused a few hundred waypoints having invalid declination for X-Plane and FSX/P3D.
  • Updated database minor version to 1 to indicate above change.

Version 2.6.2 (not public)

  • Added compatibility flag for Mac OS X 10.8.
  • New flight plan metadata for used simulator database.
  • Better error handling in X-Plane compiler. Now checking for required files.
  • Corrected mapping for runway markings in X-Plane compilation.

Version 2.6.1.beta

  • Changed FS database schema for one-way airways and maximum altitude.
  • Adapted airway compilation for direction and maximum altitude.
  • Fixed error where number of attached airways was not assigned to waypoints.
  • Increased database version - needs a reload.
  • Now erasing wrong airway entries at departure and destination in flight plan.
  • Fixed error where Documents path was not selected as default if missing simulator.

Version 2.6.0.beta

  • Enabled database file exclusions and add-on override options to X-Plane loader.
  • Fixed crash when reading X-Plane add-on airports (KLAS).
  • Better error reporting when reading X-Plane scenery including file and line number.
  • X-Plane file codec is now set to UTF-8 to avoid problems with special characters.
  • Added detection of closed airports by name for X-Plane.
  • Improved detection of military airports in general and name capitalization for X-Plane.

Version 2.5.4.develop

  • Made all dialogs now application modal to avoid hiding behind main window.
  • Removed unneede schema generation in case of aborted compilation.
  • Fixed compilation not detecting abort/cancel condition for X-Plane.
  • Added tolerant distance match when merging TACAN and VOR to VORTAC.
  • BGL record length now checked to avoid endless loops and program freezing.
  • Added console application to avoid widget dependencies.
  • Added aircraft type codes.
  • Fixed crash when reading CIFP files.

Version 2.5.3.develop

  • Added support for full X-Plane scenery database except airspaces and ARINC files.

  • Multiple X-Plane related schema extensions. Speed limit, apron.geometry and runway.shoulder and more. New columns are optional.

  • Fixed wrongly placed speed limit columns in procedure tables.

  • Added reading of X-Plane metar files.

  • Can now load FMS, FLP and FS9 ini-style pln flight plan formats.

  • Added automatic format detection while loading flight plans in P3D/FSX/FS9 PLN, X-Plane FMS and FLP.

  • Added saving and loading of procedures to FLP format.

  • magdec.bgl file is read from simulator scenery or included file.

  • Magnetic declination for airports, waypoints and user defined points is now read from magdec.bgl.

  • Made database loading more robust for mixed case paths on case sensitive operating systems.

  • Databases can now be opened read-only.

  • Added fix for unnamed scenery entries in add-on.xml files.

  • Fixed reading of add-on.xml in UTF-16 encoding.

  • Now sorting of add-on packages by layer.

  • Added option to disable/enable reading and writing of add-on packages for P3D v3 and v4.

  • Updated to Qt 5.9.1

Version 2.5.2.develop

  • Fixed missing encoding in PLN XML files since changing to Qt 5.9.
  • Now generating scenery names if missing from add-on.xml files.

Version 2.5.1.develop

  • Fixed excessive logging of warnings in invalid airport records and waypoints.
  • Now skipping airports where the first record is already invalid.
  • Fixed problem with unnamed scenery areas from add-on.xml files.

Version 2.4.4

04 Jul 18:09

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Version 2.4.4

  • v4 runways, aprons and taxiways are now read correctly. This affects all BGL files that are created using the v4 SDK compiler.
  • Fixed crash with P3D v4 BGL files.
  • Added support for P3D v4 add-on.xml packages. #111
  • SimConnect is now loaded dynamically. #110

Version 2.4.3

01 Jun 09:37

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  • Codec can now be given for reading the scenery.cfg.
  • Fixed several METAR parsing problems
  • Added support for P3D version 4.

Version 2.2.4

07 Jan 12:48

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Version 2.2.4

  • Waypoint id length is now limited to 10 for flightplans.
  • Fixed wrong (negated) UTC offset in SimConnect user aircraft.
  • Terminal waypoints are not deleted anymore for add-on airports.
  • Removing invalid waypoints now.
  • Jetway indication for gates is correct now.
  • Updated database minor version to 1.
  • Html entities are replaced with quotes now in flightplan to ensure better third party compatibility.

Version 2.2.2.beta

  • Added airport deduplication and optimizations to airport delete processor.
  • Increased distance for VOR and NDB deduplication.
  • Printing duplicated airports into log before deleting.
  • Now appending scenery path and bgl filenames in airport table.
  • Added result set printing to sql script.
  • Added number of starts to airport for proper delete handling.
  • Added table airport_file to collect all sceneries containing an airport.
  • Added compiler option for deduplication.
  • ILS of add-on airports are not deleted anymore. Optmized copying of add-on airport values.
  • Added deletion of duplicate ILS.
  • Optimizations for database: removed unused indexes.
  • Fixed problem of wrong elevation adjustments overwriting add-on airport.
  • BGL files are now read ordered by name to get more determinstic behavior.
  • Only line comments are allowed now in ini files and scenery.cfg to avoid problems with
    filenames containing "#". Behavior is now equal to flight simulator.

Version 2.2.0.beta

  • Navaids with invalid coordinates are now filtered out by BGL reader.
  • Queries for deleting duplicates now work properly also considering distance.
  • Added more indexes.
  • Duplicate airways are now removed before writing them to the database.
  • Reduced logging.
  • Fixes to approach and ils handling in delete record.
  • Fixed old error that caused fragmented airways.
  • Fixed loading problems for FSAD data.
  • Added support for online help in HelpHandler.
  • Added METAR parser.
  • Support for AI and weather requests added in SimConnect data.
  • Major cleanup and fixes in SimConnect code.
  • SimConnect can now be compiled as a dummy.
  • Fixed error on too small BGL files. (#51)

Version 2.0.5

16 Oct 14:48

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Stable release to be compiled with Little Navmap 1.0.5 and Little Navconnect 1.0.1

  • Fixed scenery loading error for airports without city names.
  • Improvement to error handling dialogs to allow instant access to contact and log file.
  • Scenery.cfg reading is now more error tolerant, only prints warnings and ignores invalid entries.
  • Fixed exclude and include directives for scenery not working for relative paths containing "..".
  • Added static methods and support for fragments to help handler to allow direct linking to anchors.

Version 1.5.0

20 Jan 15:25

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Version 1.5.0

  • Added FsPaths class - Flight simulator installation directory and files directory are now automatically detected
    for all simulators.
  • Added filter that removes incomplete logbook entries on loading.
  • Fixed error handling on wrong or not accessible logbook.bin files.
  • Current database information is now kept if opening a file fails (added proper transaction handling).
  • Locale specific fixes to number format, etc.

atools 1.0.0

20 Jan 14:53

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atools first release version 1.0.0 for Little Logbook 1.0.x