7.24 18/6-2010
- Profile graph allows comparing two depth databases
- Minor: Night dimmer, Canadian tidal web files for Wassp postprocessing
- Minor: Backup split files naming scheme
- Bug fixes: Autospeed process overflow, Wassp pulse lengths
- Bug fixes: Plotter time filter, 80kHz Wassp hardness
7.23 14/5-2010
- Still improved automatic sound speed profiling
- Wassp bathymetry scaled by sound speed value on the Olex Settings menu
- Large backups split into file_0, file_1 etc
- Minor: Plotter objects time filter, negative time stamps
7.22 2/5-2010
- Improved automatic sound speed profiling
- Removes WASSP bottom detection wiggle
- Improved multibeam center beampunch filter
- Bug fixes: Network link to WASSP
7.21 12/4-2010
- First official automatic Wassp sound speed profiling
- Minor: Autopilot XTE, overlapping hardness, file name characters
- Bug fixes: Workarounds for various Wassp V50 issues
- Bug fixes: Wassp raw file logging, heading via MBES, HDOP nomenclature
7.20 15/3-2010
- Experimental automatic Wassp water sound speed
- Plot layer improvement: More layers, time filter
- Full or partial automatic 3D camera
- MRU external speed now optional
- Minor: MRU heave filter, plotter speed
- Bug fixes: Wassp V50 rollbias, ISO files under Fedora 11
7.19 25/12-2009
- Supports Fedora 12
- Tightened criterias of Wassp fish detections
- Improved conversion of OFCC seabed cable data
- Minor: AIS track lifespan selections, Nobletec converter
- Bug fixes: Serial port handling on M1 with Fedora 8
- Bug fixes: Magnetic heading, Fedora 9 startup failure
- Bug fixes: File browsing, keyboard installation
7.18 17/11-2009
- Full support for upcoming Wassp v50
- Faster browsing of large directories
- Selective demo playback in demo mode
- Bug fixes: Wassp hardness calibration, database export, F11 keyboard
7.17 27/10-2009
- Partial support for Wassp v50, both 80kHz and 160kHz
- Improved Wassp fish detection and visualisation
- Faster and better Wassp hardness calibration
- Bug fixes: Fedora 11, Kongsberg tidal files
7.16 30/9-2009
- Manual database name ordering
- Optional heading output on port mentioned in headingport
- Bug fixes: Fedora 11, disk capacity
7.15 17/9-2009
- Supports Fedora 11
- Accepts new ChartWorld producer code 49
- Supports TSS DMS335 and Minisence CDL for Wassp attitude
- Stops recording Wassp raw data before disk runs full
- More lenient water current calibration, new helpful error messages
- Various WASSP improvements, but no support for 80kHz hardness yet
- Improved support for TSS DMS05 and its TSS1 sentence
- ROV heading optionally through NMEA HDT/HDM/HDG
- File browser remembers last directory and sorting mode for each device
- Minor: ROV heading, NMEA error count, RTK/DGPS correction timeouts
- Bug fixes: File browsing, database import, FC2/FC3 install authorizations
7.14 13/5-2009
- 3D watercolumn data from Wassp
- Selective disabling of vector charts
- Export and import of complete depth databases
- Supports IXSEA Octans and TSS DMS-05 for pitch, roll and heave
- Minor: AIS depth transfer, database management, relief colours
- Bug fixes: WASSP issues
7.13 4/2-2009
- New colorful palette for hardness and bottom zoom
- Normal resolution seafloor models for systems without WASSP or MBES
- Minor: Software API to create or delete plotter objects
- Bug fixes: 24-bit graphics, hardness scaling, WASSP attitude
7.12 16/1-2009
- Improved adaptive WASSP hardness calibration
- Bug fixes: File browser, MRU speed control
7.11 14/1-2009
- Official support for tidal files from the Norwegian Hydrographic Office
- File browser can remove or export files to removable media
- Experimental support for RTK-GPS as tidal reference
- Supports import of complete depth databases
- Minor: WASSP improvements, manoeuver log speed resolution
- Bug fixes: XML plotter data colors, database backup resolution
7.10 18/11-2008
- Self-learning adaptive calibration of WASSP seafloor hardness
- More careful handling of the Kongsberg MRU
- Experimental support for tidal files from the Norwegian Hydrographic Office
- More WASSP improvements: Pitch, Maretron, center filter, hardness errors
- Converts marks from the ECC Globe
- Bug fixes: Loran-C adjustments, profile graph hardness
- Bug fixes: USB memory sticks, water currents
7.9 26/9-2008
- Automatic logging of WASSP raw files
- Own ship position as either lat/lon or Loran-C
- Better support for JRC JLR-20 with WASSP
- Bug fixes: Intertidal mapping, slow poweroff
7.8 7/9-2008
- Numerous WASSP improvements
- Improved noise detection for WASSP and other multibeam sounders
- New center mode of ship onscreen position through middle mouse button
- Minor: Graceful exit when installing on untenable CF cards
- Minor: File browser sorts by either name or age
- Bug fixes: Loran-C, slow file browsing, map compilation on Fedora 9
7.7 10/7-2008
- Attitude corrected WASSP heave
- More complete support for Loran-C
- Combines Maretron and Furuno sensors for better WASSP pitch and roll
- Better support for raw files from older EM sounders like the EM1000 and EM12
7.6 19/5-2008
- Partial support for Loran-C
- Various WASSP improvements
- Minor: Better memory caching for CF-based computers
- Bug fixes: No caching if no CF, proper FDB and XYZ import recognition
7.5 1/4-2008
- Smoother operation on CF-based computers
- Supports JRC JRL-20 for WASSP attitude
- Various WASSP improvements
- Minor: ES60 zero temperature, optional maneuver logging
- Minor: Demo tides, HPR Cartesian E/N, mouse wheel
- Bug fixes: Pacific dateline, distant tides, multiple XYZ import
- Bug fixes: heading window, bluetooth discovery, malformed import files
- Bug fixes: Norwegian Obstructions Database
7.4 24/1-2008
- Supports Fedora 8
- Supports the WASSP multibeam sounder
- Depth database management through menues
- Corrects for delayed GPS positions
- Browser import of multibeam raw files and XYZ data
- Bug fixes: multiple boot entries, tides, slow CF based computers
7.3 22/10-2007
- Minor: French and Icelandic translations
- Bug fixes: Boot logo, file browser, 3D object shadows
7.2 26/9-2007
- Seagrass height mapping through ES60
- Optional shorter hardness radius
- Search and destroy old vs new soundings
- Improved extrapolation of sounding positions
- Fresh installs gets display choice at boot time
- Improved multibeam noise detection
- TAB key opens active mark for editing - for Kenneth Gaudet
- Individual chart removal
- Minor: Profiles, file browsing, vector chart building
- Bug fixes: Water current mapping, EM710 datagrams, vessel attitude
- Bug fixes: SOSI, map movement
7.1 2/7-2007
- Bug fix: Saving own depth script failed to store the data
7.0 21/6-2007
- Supports Fedora 7
- Full Russian translation
- Higher vertical depth database resolution
- Still better storage device handling, including CD/DVD image file browsing
- Lesser CPU load when ship locked to edge or center
- More ergonomic water speed calibration
- Minor: Spanish and Icelandic translations, XML routes and tracks
- Minor: ROV positioning via LinkQuest LQF, experimental SeaScan/RoxAnn graph
- Minor: simultaneous true and relative vind, heading via AIS
- Bug fixes: 16 and 24 bit relief, multibeam noise, spaces in directory names
- Bug fixes: depth window font, floppy detection, watercurrent map crash
- Bug fixes: 3D crash during language change or window/top menu reconfig
6.10 20/3-2007
- Configurable locking of own tracks
- Wider choice of AIS track lifespans
- Improved support for USB storage devices
- File browser displays sizes and time stamps
- Minor: AIS Class B names, current calibration, zip file error detection
- Bug fixes: foreign plotter data recognition, night mode AIS names
- Bug fixes: snag file converter, browser chrash on unreadable files
- Bug fixes: Primar permits, defective SOSI files
6.9 19/2-2007
- Allows creation of directories during storage handling
- Minor: Installation issues, storage ergonomics
- Bug fixes: snagfile converter, floppy handling, empty kartliste
6.8 4/2-2007
- Embryonic Russian support
- Improved support for AIS Class B
- Converts marks from C-Map-based plotters through XML
- Minor: Water speed from NMEA VBM, Primar/IC-ENC compilation, translations
- Bug fixes: Storage handling on FC2/FC3/FC4
6.7 25/1-2005
- Minor: Text messages, translations, S57 magnetic variation lines
- Bug fixes: Vector chart installation
6.6 24/1-2007
- First official release of the new storage handling system
- Improved ergonomics in case of erroneous system authentification
- Minor: Alaskan snagfile converter
- Bug fixes: S63 on systems older than RH8.0, install issues, translations
6.5 7/1-2007
- Supports Fedora Core 6
- Improved currents mapping
- Proper support for multiple Primar CDs
- Faster seafloor calculation in sparse areas
- Important bug fixes regarding large ChartWorld charts
- Important bug fixes regarding North American tidal data
- Easier id/nokkel-exchange during software installation
- Unfinished: Next-generation storage device handling
- Minor: Italian translations and fathoms, dual screen overview map
- Bug fixes: Simrad ES38-10, old style 3D
6.4 29/8-2006
- Takes GPS data from own ship AIS if no GPS directly attached
- Current related calibration of heading and water speed sensors
- Bug fixes: Animated lights, unicode fonts, network interfacing
- Minor: Japanese translations, water currents
6.3 8/8-2006
- Automatic water current detection and mapping
- Search and destroy stray soundings
- Bug fixes: Screenshots under FC5
- Minor: NMEA manufacturer id, heading, attitude
6.2 10/6-2006
- Plotter objects in 3D may be turned on or off
- Supports NMEA MWD as source of true wind
- Bug fixes: FC5 serial detection, plotter import, great circle 3D objects
- Minor: Large/small 3D objects, 3D ergonomics, track line smoothing
6.1 29/5-2006
- Supports the new XYZ88 depth datagram from Kongsberg multibeam sounders
- Improved and corrected smoothing of own ship track
- Bug fixes: FC5 RegenStore, own ship in 3D, keyboard position input
- Minor: Various ergonomics
6.0 15/5-2006
- Supports Fedora Core 5
- Better 3D camera ergonomics
- Converts ASCII plotter data from WinPlot
- Shows plotter objects and Arpa/AIS targets in modern 3D
- Many AIS improvements: depth transfer, track storage, sorted target list
- Bug fixes: AIS messaging, TCPA, locked tracks, plotter import
- Minor: Depth database resolution layout, RegenStore, SH80
5.39 21/2-2006
- Automatic transmission of depths to other boats over AIS
- Improved tides for Iceland, Thailand and Isle of Man
- Minor: AIS track colors, Spanish translations
- Bug fixes: multibeam, RoxAnn, ChartWorld in Exeter, tides
5.38 25/1-2006
- Improved automatic regeneration of lost seafloor database files
- Better GPS position type and quality details, especially for MBES
- Bug fixes: some 3D night colors, FC4 USB floppy, CPU temp, white screen
5.37 23/12-2005
- Darker 3D at night
- New 2D night relief mode
- Moon phase even when outside tidal range
- Minor: Autopilot XTE digits, relief, Greek language, MBES tides, water speed
- Bug fixes: EM710, auto 3D, script unicode, ChartWorld status, FC4 diskette
5.36 23/11-2005
- New auto 3D mode with depth dependent camera distance
- Constant 3D camera to ship angle
- Bug fixes: Chart building, CD timeout, relief, RegenStore, plotter import
- Minor: Faster startup, French translations, ChartWorld permits
5.35 24/10-2005
- Bug fixes: SELinux, chart building errors messages, fisheries database
5.34 13/10-2005
- Supports both Fedora and Red Hat versions back to RH6.1
- Space saving optimizations of foreign plotter data
- Improved search for bad depth data
- ChartWorld chart and permit summary
- Minor: 3D camera, dual screen, installer, sonar, FC4, charts, translations
- Bug fixes: Get camera, hardness percentage, SOSI, fisheries database
5.33 6/9-2005
- Minor: Vector chart timestamps, 3D camera behaviour
- Bug fixes: Fonts FC1/FC2, seafloor calculation, plotter import
5.32 29/8-2005
- Greek language support
- Much faster terrain modelling of dense areas
- Improved plotter data import from both CD and diskette
- Minor: AIS, UTF-8, FC4, VHW, Unicode, fonts, lights, S57 areas
- Bug fixes: Chart building, terrain profiling, busy CD
5.31 15/6-2005
- Tentative support for Fedora Core 4
- Minor: UTF-8, own ship tracking, S63
- Bug fixes: Autonav, plotter conversion
5.30 27/5-2005
- Imports foreign plotter data from diskettes
- Configurable flagging of own track start and stop
- Minor: Plot layers, Icelandic translations, S57, SOSI
5.29 18/5-2005
- Supports polygon constrained hardness removal
- Bug fixes: bottom zoom, SOSI, Trackpoint, rotated relief
5.28 20/4-2005
- Traditional or hot bottom zoom colors
- Configurable echosounder water sound speed
- Better support for hardness from JRC echosounders
- Improved plotter object selection by area or layer
- Minor: Colors, translations, baud rates, S63, non-latin characters
- Bug fixes: Volume calculation, hardness, multibeam, water temperature
5.27 30/3-2005
- Much improved relief mode
- AIS target names, if applicable
- Subtle background colours of names and texts
- Persistent static AIS data of other vessels
- Minor: Various speedups, ChartWorld names and permits, ES60 noise threshold
5.26 11/3-2005
- Bug fixes: ChartWorld permits, missing fiksturdata
5.25 10/3-2005
- Supports Fedora Core 3 with SCSI and SATA hard drives
- Faster zooming through partial screen redraws
- Selective export and import of plotter objects
- Faster import of vector charts
- Supports the ER60 with parameter polling
- Various ChartWorld improvements
- Minor: Translations, AIS, chart line features, 10% speedup due to new gcc
- Bug fixes: large vector chart sets, baud rates, soundings ownership, Lino
5.24 12/1-2005
- Multiple base CDs from S63 providers
- Easy way to erase S63 and S57 charts and permits
- Supports the ES60 38/200W extra wide transducers
- Alternate ES60 hardness algorithm better suited for wide transducers
- Minor: Maptech converter, ES60 errors, manual Turdata repair, translations
- Bug fixes: S63 permit providers, Sami placenames, S63 charts
5.23 9/11-2004
- Minor: SOSI, installer, Icelandic translations
- Bug fixes: Permits, charts from ChartWorld and 7C
5.22 15/10-2004
- User-selected depth range also for Lino
- Vind strength units according to language
- Minor: 3D camera, abortable chart compilation
- Bug fixes: Isometric 3D, chart building, AIS base station headings
5.21 21/9-2004
- Plot layers in Lino just as in Olex
- Imports SOSI land vector charts from CD
- Supports the Simrad EM3002 multibeam echosounder
- Flags bad soundings in multibeam raw data files
- Experimental seafloor hardness from JRC echosounders
- Adjusts serial line baud rates only the first five minutes
- Minor: French translations, demo files, data export, multibeam
- Bug fixes: ChartWorld light sector, national names, Simrad D1/D2/D3-depths
4.11 23/12-2002
- Shows the current lunar phase together with the tide
- Enhanced filtering of duplicated plotter objects
- Many important bug fixes regarding the date line in the Pacific Ocean
- May allow hardness calculation in shallow water if the shortest pulse length is used
- Small changes: Computers without serial ports, relief, xterm, small and large symbols
4.10 23/11-2002
- Repaired a bug which induced installation error with RH6.2
- Small changes: Mer defencive computer independent compiling
4.9 22/11-2002
- Several new echosounder transducers
- Better installation routines for RH80
- Can use USB floppy, configured by /etc/mtools.conf
- Compiled with gcc 3.2, 5 to 10% faster seafloor calculation
- Handles underwater targets from Trackpoint by NMEA PORE
- Recognizes NMEA WPL and TLL as ARPA-like special targets
- Small changes: Magnetic heading by NMEA HDG, video clock from DVCAM, relief
4.8 22/10-2002
- Various AIS improvements
- Suggests parameters for BI500 bottom values
- Improved relief: Finer contrast adjustment, left or right light source
- Bugfixes: ARPA names, graticule, triple clicking, NoDDC, range info
4.7 4/10-2002
- Adapted to Red Hat 8.0
- Automatic repair of damaged depth files
- Bugfixes: 3D exaggeration, graticule, special targets, XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps
4.6 8/9-2002
- Both distance and course under marker during ranging
- Better compression of large depth files by alternative seafloor data format
- Sets system clock during shutdown
- Tracking of e.g tuna helicopters by NMEA $xxRMC
- Bugfixes: Date/time during installation, gyro heading, EM3000D
4.5 21/8-2002
- Ping buffer instead of time for hardness filtering
- More robust against defect CDs from C-MAP
- Many bugfixes: 3D trawl, vertical scaling, 3D camera
4.4 6/8-2002
- Various cosmetic improvements
- Bugfix: Rewinding of echo image
4.3 4/8-3003
- Better saving of large amounts of plotter data
- Clearer heading vector
- Simple system logging in the file startstopplog
- ES60: Plulse length adjusted depths, optional channel, improved support for 200 KHz
- Small stuff: Colour of own depths, RegenStore, special bugs in lagkart
4.2 1/7-2002
- Heading, roll and pitch from Thales satelite gyro
- Can show simulated mini echosounder instead of resent depth
- Can apply plotter layers to old and imported unlayered data
- Adapted to offisial compiling under RH73
- Shows different colours on own and imported contra CD shipped depth boxes
- Increased resolution of positioning for multibeam data
- Does not calculate ES60 hardness if the pulse length is too long
- Better and mor good-looking treatment of high and low quality ES60 depth measurements
- Primitive translater for nobletech and RS2500
- Small stuff: USB, temperature, 3D hardness, Raystar 590. HPR400, vector lines
4.1 16/5-2002
- Adapted to RH73 and XFree86 4.2
- Probes serial ports (PCI and USB) and language during first time installation
- Various work with AIS
- Improved handling of multibeam sounders
- Optional default colouring of own tracklines
- Accepts magnetic compass as heading if real gyro do not exist
- Accepts both relative and absolute radar ranging
- Small stuff: Depth decimals, urban areas, remote screendumps, profile, bottom zoom
4.0 13/2-2002
- Can be compiled in RH6.2 for complete backward compatibility
- Connection to multibeam is depending on the nokkel file
- Small bugfixes: Fast repetition of NMEA depths
