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@@ -1,35 +1,10 @@ +This is the README file for Subsurface 4.2 -This is the README file for Subsurface 4.1.94, the fifth Beta for 4.2 - -It turns out a number of problems were caused by us still relying on Qt4 -for the Windows (and Mac) binaries. In part that was because Qt5 32bit -installer for Windows were failing in strange ways. - -To work around this issues we made a rather drastic decision - there's now -a 64bit Windows installer that includes Qt5 (and the Mac binaries have -been moved over to Qt5 as well). - -While redoing the supporting cast we also switched to a newer Marble build -and a newer libdivecomputer for the Mac and Windows installers. - -This (plus a bunch of patches) seems to have fixed a respectable number of -bugs in Beta 4. Let's see how Beta 5 goes... - -Another new feature is a Russian translation of the manual, in addition to -English and Spanish. - -Please be very careful when using it on your real data - while this is -reasonably well tested by our developers, there's always a risk that this -could eat your data file in unexpected ways (as Beta 2 has shown). +Please check the ReleaseNotes.txt for details about new features and +changes since Subsurface 4.1 Report bugs and issues at http://trac.hohndel.org -Previous REAMDE -=============== - -This is mainly a bug fix release, but there are rather significant changes -under the hood. Check the ReleaseNotes.txt for details. - License: GPLv2 Subsurface can be found at http://subsurface.hohndel.org @@ -44,12 +19,12 @@ You can also browse the sources via gitweb at git.hohndel.org If you want the latest release (instead of the bleeding edge development version) you can either get this via -git checkout v4.1 (or whatever the last release is) +git checkout v4.2 (or whatever the last release is) if you have already cloned the git repository as shown above or you can get a tar ball from -http://subsurface.hohndel.org/downloads/Subsurface-4.1.tgz +http://subsurface.hohndel.org/downloads/Subsurface-4.2.tgz Basic Usage: @@ -58,8 +33,17 @@ Basic Usage: Install and start from the desktop, or you can run it locally from the build directory: +On Linux: + $ ./subsurface +On Mac: + +$ open Subsurface.app + +Native builds on Windows are not really supported (the official Windows +installers are both cross-built on Linux). + You can give a data file as command line argument, or (once you have set this up in the Preferences) Subsurface picks a default file for you when started from the desktop or without an argument. diff --git a/ReleaseNotes.txt b/ReleaseNotes.txt index 63202fd85..510ed0521 100644 --- a/ReleaseNotes.txt +++ b/ReleaseNotes.txt @@ -44,20 +44,28 @@ Some of the changes since 4.1 - 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 already been updated to Qt5 +- The Mac installer has also been updated to Qt5 - A current development version of libdivecomputer is used for the Windows and Mac builds. -- Dive Planner got added again, using the graphical profile editor - (we still cannot re-plan a planned dive - this is on the todo list) - print of the dive plan (without graphic profile) possible +- 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) +- Printing is much improved (but see above), including a "1 dive per page" + mode and better rendering of dives an (in our mind) better data + presented per dive. - Data entry for dives is much more intuitive and consistent -- Further work on the HTML exporter -- Support to import dive log files from Seabear dive computers -- user survey added to learn more about the needs of out users -- new user manuals in Spanish and Russian +- We have a reasonably functional HTML exporter for the dive log (it's + still work in progress but already quite powerful). +- 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: @@ -70,12 +78,10 @@ Known issues: e.g. Calibri. - (Windows specific) When upgrading from Subsurface 4.1, after saving of a - logfile the logfiles name may be listed a second time in the files menua + logfile the logfiles name may be listed a second time in the files menue because of a change in the representation of logfiles filename in the Windows registry. -Known bugs: - - 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 @@ -88,8 +94,10 @@ Known bugs: - When using the globe / map widget to edit dive locations, double clicks some times fail to set the correct position. -- Sometimes Marble will show the same pane several times. Try to zoom in - or out of the location. +- 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): |