Release/5.2.0-beta1

Copyrights

Please see the docs/Licenses directory for copies of any
licenses for software we use with EDMarketConnector, either at runtime, or to
produce the Windows executables and installer.

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• We now test against, and package with, Python 3.9.7.

  As a consequence of this we no longer support Windows 7.
  This is due to
  Python 3.9.x itself not supporting Windows 7.
  The application (both EDMarketConnector.exe and EDMC.exe) will crash on
  startup due to a missing DLL.

  This should have no other impact on users or plugin developers, other
  than the latter now being free to use features that were introduced since the
  Python 3.7 series.

  Developers can check the contents of the .python-version file
  in the source (it's not distributed with the Windows installer) for the
  currently used version in a given branch.

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Pre-Release 5.2.0 beta1

• Now built using Python 3.9.7.

• Update button is disabled if CQC/Arena is detected.

• Frontier CAPI queries now run in their own thread. There should be no
  change in functionality for users. This affects both EDMarketConnector
  (GUI) and EDMC (command-line).

• File > Status will now use cached CAPI data, rather than causing a fresh
  query. Currently if data has not yet been cached nothing will happen when
  trying to use this.

• File > Save Raw Data also now uses the cached CAPI data, rather than
  causing a fresh query. This will write an empty JSON {} if no data is
  yet available.

• New docs/Licenses/ directory containing all relevant
  third-party licenses for the software this application uses.

• Settings > Output > File Location 'Browse' button will now always be
  available, even if no output options are active.

• The 'no git installed' logging when running from source is now at INFO
  level, not ERROR. This will look less scary.

• EDMarketConnetor command-line arguments have been re-ordered into
  logical groups for --help output.

• Support added for several new EDDN schemas relating to specific Journal
  events. Until the live EDDN server is updated (planned for 2021-10-21) you
  will see minor error logging when this fails due to 'unknown schema'.

  Schema support added for:

  • codexentry/1
  • fssdiscoveryscan/1
  • navbeaconscan/1
  • navroute/1
  • scanbarycentre/1

Bug Fixes

• A bug preventing --force-localserver-auth from working has been fixed.

• horizons and odyssey flags should now always be set properly on all
  EDDN messages. The horizons flag was missing from some.

Developers

• New journal_entry_cqc() function for plugins to receive journal events
  specifically and only when the player is in CQC/Arena. This allows
  for tracking things that happen in CQC/Arena without polluting
  journal_entry(). See PLUGINS.md for details.

• Command-line argument --trace-all to force all possible --trace-on to be
  active.

• Contributing.md has been updated for how to properly use trace_on().

• EDMC.(py,exe) now also makes use of --trace-on.

• EDMarketConnector now has --capi-pretend-down to act as if the CAPI
  server is down.

• Killswitches now have support for removing key/values entirely, or forcing
  the value. See docs/Killswitches.md for details.

• state['Odyssey'] added, set from LoadGame journal event.

• You can now test against a different EDDN server using --eddn-url
  command-line argument. This needs to be the full 'upload' URL, i.e. for
  the live instance this is https://eddn.edcd.io:4430/upload/.

• New command-line argument --eddn-tracking-ui to track the EDDN handling
  code's idea of the current Journal and Status.json Body(Name|ID).