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author | Willem Ferguson <willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za> | 2014-12-17 11:34:12 +0200 |
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committer | Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org> | 2014-12-17 07:51:58 -0800 |
commit | 8400776595f6865d6c84142fba5bf95f39fc0b7e (patch) | |
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Update of the release notes for V4.3
This updates the V4.3 release notes.
1) The release notes text is moved into a newly-created directory ReleaseNotes
2) Three images for the release notes are created in a subdirectory within
the ReleaseNotes directory.
3) Light editing of the complete text of the release notes was done.
Signed-off-by: willem ferguson <willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
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diff --git a/ReleaseNotes.txt b/ReleaseNotes.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 7ca6de2e9..000000000 --- a/ReleaseNotes.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,400 +0,0 @@ - Subsurface 4.3 - ============== - -Some of the changes since Subsurface 4.2 - -Subsurface now supports flexible filtering of the dive list. You can -specify a combination of different criteria like tags, people who were on -the dive, location, suit, etc. While filtering you can see how many dives -match any of the criteria, and how many dives match the combination of the -criteria that you selected. - -When editing dive, you can now cut and paste selected components of a dive -and paste them into one or more other dives. This makes it easy to add the -same equipment, buddies, tags or other aspects of a dive into others - -The information overlay on the profile now offers an easy to understand -tissue saturation visualization that shows your tissue saturation at any -point of the dive. - -Owners of the Heinrichs & Weikamp OSTC 2 and 3 as well as dive computers -in the popular Suunto Vyper family of dive computers can configure the -settings of their dive computers with Subsurface. - -For a number of dive computers Subsurface now downloads additinal data and -shows them in a new tab on the screen. This includes (depending on the -dive computer) information like battery levels, no fly times, Gradient -Factors used during the dive, etc. This feature is enabled in all official -Subsurface binaries; when building from source this requires a custom -version of libdivecomputer (as explained in the INSTALL file) oder a Uemis -Zurich SDA. - -In the dive profile you can now turn on an improved visualization of the -gases used during a dive (aka "tank bar"). - -The dive planner now offers the ability to re-plan dives and copy dive -plans in order to plan multiple scenarios. - -We added support for several new dive computers including the Suunto EON -Steel, Aeris A300 CD, and Aeris F11. - -Subsurface can now import dive logs from Liquivision and Cochran software -as well as the new Suuntu DM5. - -Additionally, dive logs from the Poseidon Mk6 CCR can be imported as well. - -We made many improvements for UDDF and CSV import, UDDF export now -complies with the latest version of the standard. - -Many issues with the HTML export were addressed. - -Initial support for CCR and pSCR was added. Visualization of dive logs as -well as dive planning should work - but this feature is fairly early in -its development and we assume that there may be a few bugs and -mis-features hidden in this area. - -Other, notable improvements: -- Import of manually logged dives (e.g., from an existing paper logbook) - is now much better documented in the user manual. Instead of having to - individually enter each dive with the graphical profile editor users can - add all their dives in a spreadsheet and import the data from there -- Many other small improvements to the planner -- Many small UI changes for better use on small displays (tighter columns - and column headers on the dive list, the toolbox of icons no longer - forces a minimum height of the profile, etc) -- Improvements on HiDPI displays -- We fixed an annoying bug where when starting to edit a dive the pop-up - with completions would cover the edit line (this usually happened when - editing tags) -- For the (rather unusual) dive computers that send a heading event in - every sample we automatically declutter the profile display now -- The Windows installer are smarter: the 64bit installer refuses to - install its binaries on a 32bit OS and conversely the installer warns - you when installing 32bit binaries on a 64bit OS -- Better synchronization with divelogs.de, including support for multiple - tanks - -Known bugs - -- this appears to be a bug in Qt. When changing the password needed - authenticate with a proxy, Subsurface will not use the new password - until after a restart - - Subsurface 4.2 - ============== - -The Subsurface developer team is proud to announce the release of the -next update of Subsurface. - -Subsurface is an open source divelog program that runs on Windows, Mac -and Linux. - -With Subsurface the user can download dive information directly from a -large number of supported dive computers. Subsurface is able to track -single- and multi-tank dives using air, Nitrox or TriMix. It displays -a dive profile with all related information including air consumption -and alarms. It also allows logging of information like weights and -exposure protection used, dive masters and dive buddies, and enables -the user to rate dives and provide additional dive notes. - -With Subsurface the user can track dive locations including GPS -coordinates (which can also be conveniently entered using a map -interface). Subsurface calculates a wide variety of statistics of the -user's diving and keeps track of information like the user's SAC rate, -partial pressures of O2, N2 and He, calculated deco information, and -many more. - -Subsurface allows the user to print out a detailed log book including -dive profiles and other relevant information. The program is localized -in about 20 languages and well supported by an active developer -community. This community also made new and shiny offline manuals in -Spanish and Russian possible. - -One of the major strengths of Subsurface is its support of a wide range -of dive computers (most common dive computers are supported with the help -of libdivecomputer); a detailed list is in the SupportedDivecomputers.txt -file. Subsurface can also import existing dive logs from several sources -including MacDive, Suunto DM3/DM4, JDiveLog and divelogs.de. Another -strength is its ability to visualize the depth profile (and, if -available, the tank pressure curve) in very innovative ways that give -the user additional information on relative velocity (and momentary -air consumption) during the dive through the coloring of the graphs. - -Some of the changes since 4.1 - -- The Windows installer is now a 64bit installer including Qt5 -- There is still a deprecated 32bit installer including Qt4, but that has - several known issues (among others, printing has a number of bugs that - were fixed in Qt5). -- The Mac installer has also been updated to Qt5 -- A current development version of libdivecomputer is used for the Windows - and Mac builds. -- A Dive Planner got added again, using the graphical profile editor; it - supports different ascent speeds, backgas breaks during deco and many - other interesting features; it allows the user to print just the dive - plan (without graphic profile); one shortcoming is that currently one - cannot re-plan a planned dive, i.e., once you save a dive plan, you can - no longer edit / change the plan; you have to start from scratch again. - This is on the todo list. -- Pictures can be associated with dives and shown in the profile -- Printing is much improved (but see above), including a "1 dive per page" - mode, better rendering of dives (in our mind) and better data - presented per dive. -- Data entry for dives is much more intuitive and consistent -- We have a reasonably functional HTML exporter for the dive log (it's - still work in progress but already quite powerful, even though lacking - localization support). -- Support to import dive log files from Seabear dive computers. -- We added a user survey to learn more about the interests and needs of - out users -- improved and extended user manuals -- new translated user manuals in Spanish and Russian - -Known issues: - -- (Windows specific) Many Windows fonts don't support specific characters, - specifically subscript "2" (eg in pO₂). New installations of Subsurface - will automatically pick a font that contains this character, but if you - had Subsurface installed on a specific system before, it likely has - saved the previous font in its settings. In that case the best solution - is to manually change the font to one that contains this character, - e.g. Calibri. - -- (Windows specific) When upgrading from Subsurface 4.1, after saving of a - logfile the logfile's name may be listed a second time in the files menu - because of a change in the representation of logfiles filename in the - Windows registry. - -- There are a number of small inconsistencies in the UI when editing - multiple dives. For example, if multiple dives are edited and some of - them already have coordinates set, under certain circumstances the - changes aren't saved. To circumvent this bug only edit dives with the - same coordinates or edit the dives individually. - -- (Windows specific - only 64bit) If an ad blocker is used and set to - offline mode, the manual check for an update crashes subsurface. - -- When using the globe / map widget to edit dive locations, double clicks - some times fail to set the correct position. - -- Sometimes the globe will show the same pane several times. Try to zoom - in or out of the location and give the system time to download the map - tiles in the background - on slower network connections this can take a - while. - - -New in version 4.1 (compared to Subsurface 4.0.3): --------------------------------------------------- - -- new and improved profile widget with animations, better info box, and - a new toolbox to turn on and off many of the additional graphs and - information displays -- improved CSV import and added CSV export -- import of exported log files from Sensus (CSV) and Shearwater Desktop - (XML) -- improved UDDF and divelogs.de support -- generalized import dialog -- much improved consistency for dialog boxes, keyboard shortcuts, etc -- improved error handling when downloading from divecomputer -- export an HTML world map with dive sites -- make backups before overwriting XML files -- don't display unused cylinders in the equipment tab (this can be turned - off and the old behavior restored in the preferences) -- lots of code cleanup, style fixes, improved consistency -- improve Qt5 support (but there are still some visual oddities) -- many improvements to the build infrastructure (out of tree builds, - ability to build without Marble, make WIP planner a config option) -- more than 50 bugs fixed -- new translation (Greek, British-English, Latvian, and Romanian) -- experimental "check for updates" feature (mostly for Windows and Mac) -- experimental undocumented alternative storage format - - -New in version 4.0.3 (compared to Subsurface 4.0.2): ----------------------------------------------------- - -- fixed unitinialized variable bug that caused errors downloading from - divecomputers - -New in version 4.0.2 (compared to Subsurface 4.0.1): ----------------------------------------------------- - -- fixed potential crash when importing dive data without dive computer - model information -- improve parsing of equipment data; this now accepts localized units - as well as input in units that are not the display units (so if you - run Subsurface in metric, but went diving in a place where weights - are in US Pounds (lbs), you can now enter the weight in lbs and - Subsurface does the right thing) -- fix temperature conversion when downloading data from Uemis SDA -- improve autocompletion to always be case insensitive -- improve selection handling in the dive list -- include event data in libdivecomputer dump -- improve profiles generated for dives with no depth samples and no - average depth - -New in version 4.0.1 (compared to Subsurface 4.0): --------------------------------------------------- - -- fixed several bugs handling non-ASCII text both in dive info text - fields as well as in Windows file names -- added support for generating libdivecomputer log and dump files -- many improvements for import and export of other file formats -- XSLT files are built-in as resources, avoiding issues with not - finding them -- support more GPS coordinate formats -- fixed several bugs around editing of manually entered dives -- fixed several bugs with entering data for weights and tanks -- increase the number of tracked weight systems to 6 -- fixed font setting in preferences -- improved look and feel when running dark themes -- support older versions of Mac OS/X with default DMG (>= 10.5) -- enable https in Windows binaries - -New in version 4.0 (compared to Subsurface 3.1): ------------------------------------------------- - -With version 4.0 the Subsurface team switched to a different UI -toolkit. This caused the need to do a complete rewrite of a large -chunk of the Subsurface code base. We decided to keep much of the -logic and core of the existing code around, but used the opportunity -for quite a bit of cleanup and many improvements. - -The basic concepts are the same, most of the basic features are the -same, but trying to create a concise list of changes that summarizes -the more than 1600 commits that have gone in since version 3.1 seems a -daunting task. - -Here are some of the highlights: - -- new map widget with a spinning globe to visualize dive locations -- much more "native" look and feel under Windows and Mac -- ability to edit dives "in place": simply click on an entry in the - Dive Notes or Equipment tabs to start editing -- more data about each dive is presented in the Dive Notes and can - be edited without separate dialogs and without having to go through - context menues -- graphical editor for dive profiles for manually added dives -- better information overlay for the dive profile -- addition of a "ruler" tool in the profile window that allows - measuring of many properties between two points in the profile -- better tag system with both predefined user-specified free text tags -- better integration with divelogs.de (upload & download support) -- ability to show the user manual from within the application without - a life internet connection and without opening the manual in an - external browser window -- better statistics (with per-trip statistics available) - -Known issues: - -- Filter->Select Events is not implemented -- Dive planner has been disabled for now -- https support for divelogs.de on Windows is disabled - - - -New in version 3.1 (compared to Subsurface 3.0.2): --------------------------------------------------- - -- track tags for dives (things like 'boat', 'shore', 'deep', etc) -- enable filtering by tags -- ability to modify events from a context menu in the dive profile - (this includes the ability to add gaschange events) -- direct export / upload to the divelogs.de online logbook -- import of Suunto DM4 files -- improved printout formatting and printer dialog -- support for color printing -- dive planning: add option for last stop at 6m/20ft -- added support for Heinrichs Weikamp OSTC3 and Suunto DX -- native support for the Shearwater Petrel (much faster download) -- various bug fixes - - - -New in version 3.0.2 (compared to Subsurface 3.0.1): ----------------------------------------------------- - -This update was mainly triggered by a bug in the handling of pO₂ -values read from CCR / rebreather dive computers. This bug can lead to -incorrect data being stored in the Subsurface XML file. Installing -Subsurface 3.0.2 and re-downloading the dives will correct the -incorrect data. In order to re-download the dives connect your dive -computer (this should only affect people with certain tec dive -computers like the Shearwater Petrel or Predator that store pO₂ values -read from a pO₂ sensor in their dive log), open the download dialog, -check the box "Force download of all dives" and download your -dives. After you save your data file the correct pO₂ data should be -stored in the samples. - -If you are using one of those dive computers, have saved data files -with Subsurface 3.0 or 3.0.1 and have since deleted those dives from -your dive computers, please contact the developers as we also have an -experimental script that should be able to fix incorrect XML files - -but re-downloading the data is the much more reliable way to address -this issue. - -In addition to this bug fix, 3.0.2 brings a number of other improvements: - - A Portuguese localization of Subsurface was added. - - Subsurface now remembers its window size and pane layout the next time - it is started. - - Several importers for data for third party dive software were improved. - - Dives from the Heinrichs & Weikamp DR5 and from kenozooid can now be - imported into Subsurface. - - A crash with localized versions of Subsurface on Mac was resolved. - - The map provider for the GPS maps is now configurable. - - The layout of some dialog boxes was changed to improve usability on - small screens. - - It is now easier to edit date and time of existing dives (and you can - now edit duration, maximum and average depth for dives that were - manually entered). - - Several small bugs were addressed. - - -New in version 3.0.1 (compared to Subsurface 3.0): --------------------------------------------------- - -- Several bug fixes for importing log files from other divelog software; - especially imports from DivingLog should work much better now, but - also new importer functions for UDDF and UDCF -- Fixes for SAC calculation and gas volume estimates at high pressures - (air and nitrox are NOT ideal gases in the physics sense) -- Added Help link to the online user manual -- Improved the user manual -- random other bug fixes - - -New in version 3.0 (compared to Subsurface 2.1): ------------------------------------------------- - -- Many new divecomputers supported, bugfixes for existing divecomputers - - Cressi Leonardo, Seemann XP5, Mares Matrix, Mares Puck Pro, Mares - Nemo Wide 2, Shearwater Petrel, Shearwater Predator, Aeris A300 - AI, Hollis DG03 - - significant improvements for the Heinrichs Weiskamp OSTC -- Significantly improved selection of divecomputers for direct download -- Map display of GPS locations of dives and ability to enter and edit those -- Improved automatic dive numbering -- Data overlay for profile plot (with additional statistics information) -- Zoom function for profile plot -- Dive planner -- Improved printing support -- Improved dive trip handling -- Support for downloading dives from multiple computers (so for example - both your main and your backup computer) -- Added ability to import existing divelogs from Suunto DM3 (no manual - unpacking needed anymore), MacDive and divelogs.de -- Lots of features to make tec divers happy: - - Experimental deco calculation with optional display of a calculated - ceiling (Buhlmann ZH16 with gradient factors) - - Display of deco information from some divecomputers that support this - - TriMix support - - CCR support (fixed or variable setpoint, on dive computers that support - this) - - Optional pO₂, pN₂ and pHe graphs - - CNS tracking for supported divecomputers -- Lots of bug fixes - - -License: GPLv2 - -Subsurface can be found at http://subsurface-divelog.org |