The seventh maintenance release of XCSoar 6.8 fixes two potential crash bugs and one minor SkyLines live tracking bugs.

The sixth maintenance release of XCSoar 6.8 fixes various bugs:

• a good number of crash bug fixes
• support LXNAV Nano 3
• support USB-OTG for Kobo Glo HD and Kobo Touch 2.0
• show takeoff time after landing
• use task speed unit for OLC speed InfoBox
• update SkyLines server IP

The fifth maintenance release of XCSoar 6.8 fixes various bugs:

• fix crash on malformed NMEA time stamp
• add option to disable external wind
• improve Bluetooth LE compatibility
• reduce ghosting on old Kobo models
• update circling percentage only when flying
• fix circling height gain calculation

The fourth maintenance release of XCSoar 6.8 fixes various bugs:

• several crash bugs
• fix broken terrain loader on Windows
• improve landing detection at high wind speeds
• cross section hides unwanted airspaces

Feature changes:

• support MATZ airspaces
• improved support for Kobo Glo HD, Kobo Touch 2.0
• Australian units for weight are kg

The third maintenance release of XCSoar 6.8 fixes various bugs:

• distorted terrain when zoomed out
• missing airspaces in cross section when zoomed in
• wrong landing time display
• wrong AAT range display
• bogus arrival heights on watched waypoints when GPS unavailable
• crash in airspace parser
• crash in XML parser
• crash in SkyLines tracking
• two OziExplorer bugs

Feature changes:

• support Kobo Glo HD, Kobo Touch 2.0
• update SIS-AT to 2016 scoring rules
• the GTAltimeter driver has been removed
• save user.cup after edit

The second maintenance release of XCSoar 6.8 fixes various bugs:

• one crash bug
• save settings after copy&pasting an InfoBox set
• task progress display after finish achieved
• wrong baud rate after task declaration
• fix wrong IP address display on Kobo
• fix all RS232 permissions on Android

Feature changes:

• Rubik R-26S polar
• support the “escape” key on Android
• support digit and letter keys on Raspberry Pi / Cubieboard

The first maintenance release of XCSoar 6.8 fixes various bugs:

• two crash bugs
• NMEA over TCP fixed on Windows
• fix overlapping text on the Kobo
• fix USB-RS232-OTG permissions on Nook

We are proud to announce the new major version 6.8! We have been working for nearly two years on this release. There were 2,902 individual changes by 81 contributors since version 6.7. More than 11,000 people have installed the pre-releases on Android via Google Play (we don’t know how many people downloaded directly from our web site).

Highlights:

• new waypoint editor
• RASP improvements
• improved drivers for LXNAV products and CAI302
• driver for ATR833
• wave assistant
• more accurate distance calculations
• improved EKF wind
• support large legs in the FAI triangle renderer
• task manager cleanup
• menu cleanup
• airspace warnings with map display
• profile manager
• password-protected profiles
• improved support for hi-res screens
• improved support for Raspberry Pi and Cubieboard
• improved keypad support
• various SkyLines live tracking improvements
• new IOIO driver, supports OTG and Bluetooth
• Bluetooth LE
• various Kobo improvements
• lots of bug fixes

The second beta of the upcoming XCSoar version 6.8 has been released. It fixes several crash bugs.

The upcoming XCSoar version 6.8 is feature complete, and this is the first beta version. From now on, we’ll concentrate on fixing the remaining bugs.

Changes since 6.8_alpha9:

• more improvements to waypoint editor
• save new markers and waypoints automatically
• cleanup in “Config” menu
• fix problem with Android versions older than 2.3
• show SkyLines traffic even if we have no GPS fix yet
• show nearby waypoint in SkyLines traffic list
• show SkyLines traffic altitude
• new option to show all nearby SkyLines traffic
• improved support for Kobo Aura
• the buggy and unmaintained KRT2 driver has been deleted permanently