FlightGear Version 0.7.4

["Curtis L. Olson" <curt@me.umn.edu>]

FlightGear version 0.7.4 is now available for download.  The
FlightGear Flight Simulator project is a free, open-source flight
simulator project.  Source code for the entire project is available
and licensed under the GPL.

There is a new 0.7.4 version of the base package that corresponds with
this new release.  Everyone that upgrades will need to download this
as well.  If you build FlightGear-0.7.4 from source, you will also
need to first download and install plib-1.2.0 and SimGear-0.0.12.

For more information on this project, please visit the Flight Gear web
page at:

    http://www.flightgear.org

Version 0.7.4 adds nicer clouds, a first start at airport runways, and
quite a few tweaks, bug fixes, and refinements.  Also, we did a
substantial amount of code clean up and reorganization that won't be
immediately visible from a user perspective.

Here is a more detailed list of changes.

* VOR reception now scales with altitude.
* Added differential braking support.
* Landing gear modeling code now works in JSBSim
* Overhauled cloud code substantially, new cloud textures.
* Added support for Ray Woodworth's 5 axis motion chair.
* Red light the panel at night and shade based on time of day.

* Fixed autopilot altitude hold increment bug.
* Fixed screen snap shot function.
* Fixed mach number for LaRCsim.
* --start-date-gmt option fixed.
* Fixes to uiuc includes and initializations
* Fixes to periodic scheduler.
* Fixed a tile loading bug if the load queue wasn't empty before a reset or
  teleport.

* Some additional MSVC5 portability fixes.
* Tweaks to build with newest gcc under Irix contributed by Erik Hofman.

* Clean out a pile of old junk in the material manager library from the
  pre-ssg days, and majorly overhauled it.
* Complete reengineering of the panel code in preparation for moving the
  configuration out into a data file.
* Lots of hashing around with Joystick support trying to achieve something
  that is flexible enough to handle the zillions of possible configurations
  out there.  Hopefully we are approaching a workable solution.
* Better windows support in our joystick module.
* View code simplifications and optimizations contributed by Norman Vine.

* Added support for $FG_SCENERY and --fg-scenery=path so scenery can have a
  different location from the base package.
* Moved drop in sky module, world time module, ephemeris module, and low
  level communications modules over to simgear.
* Replaced gdbm with metakit
* Added David Megginson's property manager

Curt.
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Curtis Olson   Human Factors Research Lab       Flight Gear Project
Twin Cities    curt@hfrl.umn.edu                curt@flightgear.org
Minnesota      http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt   http://www.flightgear.org
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