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New in 3.2 (target release: early May):

• Click on currency status for most non-regulatory currency to view details
• Support Total Time in search
• Added two new AutoTotal options: block time and flight-start-to-engine-end (some military use this)
• Support alternative definitions for night time and night landings
• Show more information in Recent Flights
• Watch app queues flights for later submission
• Support for named queries
• Press-and-hold on Hobbs Start to pre-fill with best-guess ending hobbs
• Add Request Signatures to training
• Search Form defaults to only active aircraft
• Numerous bug fixes, database updates

Since 3.1.2:

• Search form is just active aircraft by default.

Since 3.0.7:

• Repeat and Repeat+Reverse a flight
• New Approach types
• Bias towards ICAO over FAA identifiers for nearest airport.
• Better property sorting
• Yet more bug fixes.

In 3.0.7:

• Lots of bug fixes, threading issues, handle iOS 11/XCode 9
• Update database

In 3.0.2:

• Search for flights that have associated images.
• Switch to proper keyboard (rip out the old hack one)
• High-resolution recording
• Lots of bugfixes for old code, remove warnings
• View signatures for signed flights
• Download properties in the background
• Updated database
• Watch fixes

New since 3.0.1:

• Option to show/hide images for flights.
• truncate seconds in datetimes for cleaner math
• 24-hour mode for datepicker when using UTC (vs. local time)

New since 2.9.7.1:

• Updated webservice (enables clickable totals for types, updated flightquery stuff, removed a bunch of obsolete calls).
• Round auto-detected night to nearest tenth of an hour, if appropriate.
• DefaultImage for an aircraft
• Approach helper.
• Press-and-hold to append an ad-hoc location in map view.
• Fixed a crash where video didn't work (because we weren't asking permission to use the microphone)
• Show "noimage" when there is no image for a flight or aircraft
• press-and-hold on total to display a time calculator for adding up different segments
• Fixed bug in watch where it would lose its connection to the phone.

New since 2.9.6:

• fixed a rounding bug that caused numbers like 155.0 to display in HH:MM as 154:60.
• Preserved cookies for things like ratings progress.
• Added registraiton renewal to maintenance
• Support for powered paraglider.
• Use WSDLToObjC that is under source control
• Fix a bug with route field overlapping buttons with long routes.
• Fix a crash when using the camera
• Upgraded swift code
• Search for airports from within visited airports.

New since 2.9.5:

• improved watchkit communications?
• Allowed longer tailnumbers, reduced the minimum # of digits post country code (Oman, A4O, only has two characters after that).
• Fixed property issue with decimals that aren't times (e.g., fuel added) so that they don't switch to HH:MM
• Possibly fixed a bug that caused the glance to show a local time where it should show UTC
• Sample security questions for new account creation
• Aircraft image now uses aircraft ID for pre-existing aircraft.

New since 2.9.4:

• Search for model name.
• Pulled round-to-tenth option into main settings.
• Fixed totals view on apple watch
• Updated copyright to 2016.
• Support for property descriptions.
• Clickable totals
• Fixed bug when clicking away from property where we weren't refreshing the property (wow!)
• Autocompletion of text properties based on previously used values.
• Import of GPX from BadElf, etc., will use and update starting hobbs from New Flight screen if it's in a basically initial state.
• Get geotag for pictures on camera roll, not just from camera.
• Fixed bug where you couldn't view in-progress track from imported GPX/KML

New since 2.8:

• Multitasking/split screen support!
• Switched a ton of stuff to autolayout.
• Apple watch!!
• Worked around some deprecation issues.
• Switched to base localization
• Raised minimum deployment to 7.1
• Fixed bug in KML import when app hadn't been initialized
• Fixed a bug in FlightQuery where aircraft list could be out of sync with model list.
• Fixed another potential crash in recent flights where we could have been storing into a dictionary with a nil key, both in rendering the cells and at async image load time.
• Segregate favorite from non-favorite aircraft in aircraft list.
• Enabled long-press of nearest button for ad-hoc location
• Upgraded XCode and fixed a bunch of warnings
• Switched to all HTTPS for app security.
• Search for electric aircraft
• Updated database

New since 2.7:

• View schedules for aircraft
• Option (buried) to round autocompleted times to the nearest 10th of an hour.
• Altitude (in feet)
• Fixed a bug for users with "&" in their passwords.
• Fixed a bug with next/previous setting focus to the wrong field.
• Disable camera, library if not available to the user.
• Compute night flight if autodetect is on.
• Fixed bug where delete didn't work for multi-line notes (e.g., in Aircraft)
• Updated database

New since 2.6.8:

• Support for ad-hoc fixes (@####N#.###W coordinates), including ability to append current location. New since 2.6.7:
• Video upload!
• Press-and-hold cross-fill in time-based properties.
• Removed (reworked) initwithcoderhack in webservice
• Fixed a bug in swipe-to-delete of properties.
• Sorted the list of models in the FlightQuery page.
• Release build excludes test telemetry
• Search for flights containing properties

New since 2.6.6:

• Updated airport database, customproperty types
• Countrycode table in database
• Turn off autocorrect for email in new-user form.
• Propose country code based on region.
• Verified that you can type a tailnumber
• Fixed iphone 6 plus icons (@3x images)
• Worked around WaitView issue that apple broke in iOS 8 by fucking with orientation.
• Search for flights in particular categories/classes

New since 2.6:

• Fixed bug where autodetect was ALWAYS working.
• Updated database.
• Public/private notes on aircraft
• migration to ARC!
  • Switched to autoreleasepool
  • Switched to blocks vs. selectors in a number of scenarios.
• Fixed fucking bug where recompiling with iOS 8 causes location services to stop fucking working. Fuck-you, Apple!
• New telemetry model: read/write GPX and KML
• Can now import GPX/KML (if timestamped) and auto-fill it. If not timestamped, it can just do starting/ending airports; if timestamped, it can do the whole smorgasbord.
• Switch to modern syntax.
• Type aircraft tailnumbers if you have a hardware keyboard
• Fixed selection of default aircraft - made it a proper property, have it respect hidden aircraft if possible.
• fixed some bugs (table rowheight) that showed up in the ios8 sim, cleaned up some analyzer warnings about calling superclass.
• Added launch screen to take advantage of iOS 8
• In iRate, ask people to contact us to make a problem right
• About includes reference to the patent.
• Add TZOFFSET column to telemetry
• Fixed/worked around some iOS bugs:
  • Was broken if you launched on iPad in landscape view (lame!!!)
  • File upload in the browser was broken if you hadn't built with iOS 8 SDK (e.g., endorsements) - LAME
• Added mapping options to general

New since 2.5.4:

• Fixed a bug with deleting a flight on a 64-bit system.
• Removed signData: warning
• Expando/collapso make-model selection page
• Fixed bug with showing/hiding toolbar when selecting a model
• Request iTunes ratings
• Removed deprecated location manager code (will hopefully be more efficient too!)
• Confirm on reset
• Removed deepsleep preventer
• Link to FAQ
• Link to Endorsements
• Fixed bug where we were returning nil in recent flights for the cell?
• Updated database, use rounding to bias towards preferred (ICAO) airport codes.
• Fixed rotation.
• Fixed recentflights refresh bug where we would pick up old flights due to bad offset.
• Removed the forcing of total landings to be equal to sum of full-stop
• Added cut/paste in numeric fields
• URL for flight import
• Fix bug where canceling property search left empty property list.
• GPX export for CloudAhoy - hits the server (for flights stored there) and sends GPX. Available from Nearby Airports.
• Fixed some bugs in autodetection.

New in May 2014:

• Fixed a bug when deleting multiple flights
• Fixed a bug that resulted in duplicate submissions of pending flights
• Fixed a deadlock bug when submitting flights after network acquisition
• More aggressive (and cleaned up!) refresh of authentication state.
• Reworked network detection code to better decide if MFB really is/is not reachable
• Camera on iPad is now full screen and rotates
• Updated Sqlite Database
• Added search for instance type, engine type
• Added support for airport aliases from visited airports (e.g., phog picking up ogg)
• Search from clicking on a visited airport

New since Dec 2013:

• Hide aircraft from new flights and select auto-fill on a per-aircraft basis
• Support for number type in totals (to format currency/vanilla decimals correctly)
• Fixed a bug with in-line editing of string properties
• fixed a bug where datetime picker was always in local time.

New since Oct 2013 (release 2.5.1):

• Fixed bug with geodesic arc and single airport

• Fixed a bug where you couldn't navigate after creating an account!!!

• Fixed bug when navigating editing between properties.

  New since May 2012 (2.4.1):

• Fixed bug with searching for properties (couldn't click boolean properties)

• Fixed bug with resetting date of flight on flightstart/enginestart

• Fixed some iOS spacing issues.

• Fixed some mapping bugs that predated iOS 7 and a whole bunch that were introduced with iOS 7

• Added geodesic lines (iOS7 only) and switched to overalay architecture (works better for routes)

• Added Sign-out option, cleaned up the architecture around notifications/invalidation. (2 levels: invalidate on data changed, or invalidate all)

• Tail selector now shows model.

• Enable pinch zoom in ImageComment (uses a webview now).

• Anonymous aircraft, a bunch of UI cleanup in new aircraft

• Fixed maintenance labels not showing up

• Infinite scroll in recent flights

• Swizzle to avoid problems with duplicate initWithCoder/encodeWithCoder definitions

• Cleaned up various static analyzer issues.

• Pull to refresh models.

• Updated airports/Customproperties database

• Removed obsolete ImageAnnotationView

• Request donations on profile page.

• Link to online preferences.

• Suppress maintenance for sims or anonymous aircraft.

New since Nov 2012 (2.3.3):

• Tap & hold to make a property a favorite (always available!)
• Redid options screen. Now has live updates, HHMM, local time, and heliports options.
• Redid flight edit screen:
  • Properties display inline
  • Images display inline
  • Add images directly from that screen
  • Expand/collapse
  • Properties flash a lot less now.
• Search filter in makes and properties
• Cleaned up a bunch of EXF code.
• Better filtering of bogus GPS samples (discard 0 kts if in flight)
• Search for signed flights, trailing 30 and trailing 90 and motor gliders.
• Direct editing of properties.
• Removed ptModel
• Updated DB tables for airports/properties.
• Redid sign-in, create-user screens.
• DateRangeSelector is now a tableview, not a UIScrollingView
• Redid aircraft screens
• Aircraft maintenance now shows due dates.
• Cleaned up UIButton hack
• Cleaned up animations
• Landings >= FS Day + FS Night
• Preserve In The Cockpit collapse state
• Map type options in settings.
• Cleaned up icons, added more @2x versions.

New since August release (2.3.2):

• Higher res itunesartwork (Verify!!)
• Updated airport DB
• Better display of integers in totals.
• Signed flights get icon
• button to sign flights
• Delete aircraft
• Utilize full-screen on iPhone 5
• re-enable rotation in iOS6.
• Fixed a few warnings with upgraded iOS
• Fixed timezone bug in flightquery custom dates.
• Fixed spacing issue in Profile page that was cutting off text
• Added 00- through 99- prefixes for aircraft tailnumbers
• Fixed timezone bug in maintenance for aircraft
• Fix auto-detect of night-time takeoffs