v7.0_preview17

Version 7.0 - not yet released

• LUA scripting
• user interface
  • screen layout with 12 infoboxes on the left, vario+3 infoboxes on right
  • new translations: Catalan, Traditional Chinese, Telugu
  • new Logger-setting "CoPilot"
  • new setting "Thermal Averager needle"
  • select position of Thermal Assistant
  • new setting "Cruise/Circling mode switch period"
• data files
  • optimise the terrain loader
  • support runway width in CUP files
• devices
  • parse wind from standard NMEA sentence WMV
  • driver for XC Tracer Vario
  • driver for KRT2 radio
  • driver for Air Control Display altimeter
  • show detailed error message in device list
  • FLARM/OGN - make it possible to set/download registered device database
  • device manager: show flag if device provides data from
    environmental sensors (temperature, humidity)
  • combine traffic from all FLARM devices (support both FLARM and OGN devices on board)
  • GliderLink: new driver
  • AirControlDisplay: read radio frequencies from PAAVS,COM sentence
  • driver for LXNano modified, so declaration contains copilot
• weather
  • merge all weather data in one dialog
  • allow showing both terrain and RASP
  • RASP download from various well-known providers
  • show satellite images from pc_met (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
  • show wave forecast from pc_met (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
• calculations
  • merge redundant waves
  • task restart
• tracking
  • use DNS to resolve SkyLines server IP (#2604)
  • enable SkyLines traffic display on Windows
  • add option to show SkyLines traffic names on the map
  • show thermals obtained from the XCSoar Cloud server
• analysis
  • enhanced graphics: minor tics, color scheme, layout
  • key labels drawn on lines in several pages
  • task turnpoint label drawn on relevant pages
  • barogram: improved working band ceiling and floor calculation
  • climb history: new display uses time of climb as width of bars
  • new page: vario histogram in climb and cruise mode
  • new page: maccready cross-country speed
  • glide polar: dolphin speed line drawn on polar
• map display
  • new display: glide range line drawn to working floor
  • per page zoom state
• thermal band
  • new algorithm, with improved statistics
  • separate active climb and encounter-averaged bands
• infoboxes
  • improved formula for the title font size
  • added ":1" unit for gradient type displays
  • new infobox: % time non-circling climb
  • new infobox: % climb chart showing proportions of time spent circling climb (gray), cruise,
    climbing cruise (green), circling non-climb (orange)
  • improved auto-scaling of vario-like graphical infoboxes
  • new infobox: "Number Of Satellites"
  • new infoboxes for radio frequencies, including setting the frequencies
• Windows
  • drop support for Windows CE
  • require Windows Vista or later
  • allow starting multiple XCSoar instances
• Linux
  • drop support for SDL 1.2
  • display rotation
• Android
  • drop support for ARMv6 and MIPS CPUs
• Kobo
  • support Kobo Glo HD
• Raspberry Pi
  • resizable mouse cursor