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Release Notes
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OpenRocket 22.xx Beta 1
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(through PR1132)
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### Application
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* Update to Java 11
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* Distributed as packaged installers
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### New Rocket Design Capabilities
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* **Pods!**
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* **Drop-off Boosters!**
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* **Rail buttons!**
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* **Attach freeform fins to nose cones and transitions!**
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* **Coefficient of Drag override!**
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* **Added Dave Cook's rocket component library!**
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### Staging Improvements
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* Update CG correctly when stages are toggled
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* Display stage names instead of numbers in Stage enable buttons
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* Reported length reflects length of selected stages only
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* More reliable deployment of booster stage recovery device
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* Fixed booster tumbling behavior
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* Eliminate exceptions during multi-stage simulation
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* Improved accuracy of nose cone simulation
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### Simulation Improvements
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* Assorted CP calculation fixes
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* Properly run all simulations when any design change is made
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* Use actual burn time for determination of burnout event
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* Improve mass calculation accuracy for motors
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* Correct linear interpolation of motor CG
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* Copy Simulation results to clipboard
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* Report wind speed correctly
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* Improved ground hit velocity calculations
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* Run simulations all the way to the end
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* No more warning if recovery device is deployed while motor is coasting
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### Rocket Appearance
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* Support rendering of transparent or translucent components
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* Separate inside and outside color for tube components
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* Separate left and right appearance for fin components
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### User Interface
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* Option to display rocket stability as percentage of length
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* Improved layout on many windows and dialogs
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* Now use "Export" to save to RKT format
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* Improved File Dialog behavior
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* Multi-select/delete motor configurations
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* Improved UI appearance on Mac
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* Motor Selection
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* Automatically open motor selection dialog when adding new motor configuation
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* Added checkbox to hide motors which are out of production
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* Highlight motor mount in rocket display when motor is selected
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* Many improvements to freeform fin editor, including
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* More accurate insertion of new points
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* Highlight coordinates of selected point
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* Export fin profile to CSV file
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* Fixed scrolling and zooming
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* Improvements to Photo Studio
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* Respond instantly to design changes
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* Settings saved per rocket
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* Settings layout improved
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* Settings values can now be entered via keyboard
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### Misc
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* Updated motor list to latest data from Thrustcurve.org
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* Added additional fields to motors
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* Disable fin-thickness warnings on phantom tubes
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* Added warning message for phantom body tubes
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* Updated print dialog to allow simulation control
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* Improved Rocksim import
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* Added or improved Spanish, Dutch, and simplified Chinese translations
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..._plus many, many additional bug fixes and refinements_
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OpenRocket 15.03 (2015-03-28)
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OpenRocket now requires Java 1.7 for execution.
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New Features
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* Experimental support for tube fins
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* Updated thrustcurves
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* Scriptable simulation extensions
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* Fin fillet mass
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* Better icons for different kinds of masses - altimeters, computers, etc.
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* Configurable default mach number
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* Improved preferences UI
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Bug Fixes
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* Always use the correct filename extension when saving
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OpenRocket 14.11 (2014-11-02)
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New Features
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* Updated thrustcurves
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Bug Fixes
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* Fixed a couple of bugs.
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OpenRocket 14.06 (2014-06-25)
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New Features
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* Klima motor textures
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* Added knots to windspeed and velocity units
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* Updated thrustcurves
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Bug Fixes
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* Fixed annoying IndexOutOfBounds bug in tables.
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OpenRocket 14.05 (2014-05-21)
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New Features
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* Compute optimimum delay time when simulating
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* Display cg/mass overrides using icons in the component tree
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Bug Fixes
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* Bug fixes in the motor selection dialog
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* Updated thrustcurves
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* Updated 3d libraries to 2.1.5
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OpenRocket 14.03 (2014-03-20)
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New Features
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* Photo Realistic 3d rocket renderer
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Bug Fixes
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* Fixes to the flight configuration tab and motor selection dialog
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* Updated thrustcurves
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OpenRocket 13.11.2 (2014-01-01)
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Bug Fixes
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* Numerous bug fixes and usability improvements in the new
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flight configuration tab.
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* Fix couple of layout issues
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* Updated Spanish, French and Chinese translations
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OpenRocket 13.11.1 (2013-11-15)
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Bug Fixes
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* Added back the TubeConfiguration Configuration dialog
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* Seems the jogl update didn't happen in the 13.11 build.
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* Made the motor filter remember previous settings
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* Fixed various exceptions in flight configuration tables due to column reordering
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* Fixed NPE when deleting a configuration
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OpenRocket 13.11 (2013-11-08)
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New Features
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* Chinese translations
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* Replaced flight configuration dialog with more efficient configuration tab
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* Improved filtering in motor chooser dialog
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Bug Fixes
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* Updated jogl to correct 3d problems on various platforms
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* Fixed NPE introduced by changes in Java 1.7.0_45-b18
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OpenRocket 13.09.1 (2013-10-05)
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This release contains a number of bug fixes, updated 3D JOGL
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libraries. Added preliminary thrustcurves for Aerotech C3 and D2 18mm
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reloads.
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OpenRocket 13.09 (2013-09-08)
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This release contains a number of bug fixes, updated 3D JOGL
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libraries, and separates simulation edit and plot dialogs.
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OpenRocket 13.05 (2013-05-04)
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New Features
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* Added support for decals on rockets. Added two new 3d views - 3d finished and 3d unfinshed. Added support to export and
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apply decals (images) to rocket components. Added ability to launch external graphics editor to edit decals and monitor
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file for writes to update the rocket view.
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* Added simulation of tumble recovery based on experimentation done by Sampo Niskanen. This is particularly useful
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for low power staged flights.
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* Extended "motor configuration" concept to cover more properties. The concept was renamed "Flight Configuration" and
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allows the user to override stage separation, recovery deployment, and motor ignition per flight configuration.
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These configurations are stored in the ork file with each component. If no override is specified then the user specified
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default is used (set in the component edit dialog). The flight configuration dialog was reworked to make it more
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usable. The user selects the configuration in a drop down with buttons for "add", "delete" and "rename". After selecting
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the configuration, the tabbed area below allows the user to change the configuration for this simulation.
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* Allow simulation of stages without a motor. Users in the past have attempted to simulate separate recovery of payload
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and booster by tricking OpenRocket using a dummy motor with trivial thrust curve. Now the user does not need to do this.
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There is an example of this provided in TARC Payloader.ork and Boosted Dart.ork
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* Simulate recovery of boosters. The simulation engine will create new FlightDataBranches for each stage after
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separation. The data for the boosters begins at t=separation. The simulation plot allows the user to select
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which stage's data to show (or all).
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* Modified the zoom and pan controls in the simulation plot. Added zoom in, out, and reset buttons. Added
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scroll with mouse wheel. If the alt key is used with either of these, only the domain is zoomed. Richard
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contributed a more logical mouse controlled zoom - right click and drag will zoom (either domain, range or both).
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OpenRocket 12.09.1 (2012-06-28)
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Bug-fix release for 12.09, fixing numerous bugs. Only new feature is
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the possiblity to automatically open the latest design file on startup
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(in Edit -> Preferences -> Options).
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OpenRocket 12.09 (2012-09-16)
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Numerous new features by many contributors
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- 3D rocket design view
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- Component Presets
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- Custom expressions in simulations
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- Printing for centering ring and clustered centering ring components.
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- Support simple arthmatic in dimension entry
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- Support deploying recovery device at stage separation
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- Support for fractional inches (1/64) for unit length
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- Added preference for windspeed units separately
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- Added "most recently used files" in File Menu.
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- Improved printed accurracy in fin marking guide
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- Calibration rulers added to printed templates
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- Translations in Czech and Polish, numerous updates
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OpenRocket 12.03 (2012-03-17)
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In this release the version numbering scheme has been changed to be
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"YY.MM" indicating the year and month of the release.
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Enhancements in the desktop version include saving designs in RKT
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format thanks to Doug Pedrick, freeform fin set import from images by
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Jason Blood, configurable stage separation events, guided help tours
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and displaying the computed motor designation class. The application
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has also been translated to Italian by Mauro Biasutti and Russian by
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the Sky Dart Team.
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This also marks the first release for Android devices. In this first
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release you can open files and examine existing simulations, stability
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data and motor files. The Android port is thanks to work by Kevin
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Ruland.
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OpenRocket 1.1.9 (2011-11-24)
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This release calculates rocket flight in real-world coordinates and
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takes into account geodetic effects (including coriolis effect) thanks
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to work by Richard Graham. Printing of transitions, nose cone
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profiles and fin marking guides is available thanks to Doug Pedrick.
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It also contains some usability features and bug fixes.
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OpenRocket 1.1.8 (2011-08-25)
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This release contains bug fixes to the optimization methods.
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It also contains a workaround to a JRE bug that prevents running
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OpenRocket on Java 7.
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OpenRocket 1.1.7 (2011-08-12)
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This release contains automatic rocket design optimization
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functionality. However, be cautious when using it and take the
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results with a grain of salt.
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OpenRocket 1.1.6 (2011-07-22)
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Internationalization support thanks to work by Boris du Reau and
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translations by Tripoli Spain, Tripoli France and Stefan Lobas
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(ERIG e.V.). The release also contains rocket design scaling support
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and numerous bug fixes.
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OpenRocket 1.1.5 (2011-06-10)
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Removed native printing support. Printing is now handled via PDF
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viewer, which should make printing much more reliable and less
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bug-prone.
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OpenRocket 1.1.4 (2011-03-05)
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Initial printing support by Doug Pedrick, and various bug fixes.
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OpenRocket 1.1.3 (2010-10-06)
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Support for drag-drop moving and copying of components. Fixes a
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severe bug in the undo system.
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OpenRocket 1.1.2 (2010-09-07)
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Fixes a severe bug that prevented adding stages to rockets.
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OpenRocket 1.1.1 (2010-09-03)
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Major rewrite of the simulation code, enhanced support for thrust
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curve loading and selection, faster startup time and bug fixes.
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Old simulation listeners are incompatible with this release.
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OpenRocket 1.1.0 (2010-03-21)
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Support for loading RockSim rocket design files (.rkt) thanks to
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Doug Pedrick.
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OpenRocket 1.0.0 (2010-03-10)
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Added numerous new motor thrustcurves from thrustcurve.org, and fixed
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a few more bugs.
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OpenRocket 0.9.6 (2010-02-17)
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Updated aerodynamic calculation methods to be more in line with the
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Barrowman method and enhanced simulation time step selection. Fixed
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numerous bugs.
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OpenRocket 0.9.5 (2009-11-28)
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Fixed a serious defect which prevented adding a tube coupler and
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centering ring on the same body tube. Other minor improvements.
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OpenRocket 0.9.4 (2009-11-24)
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Added through-the-wall fin tabs, attaching components to tube
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couplers, material editing and automatic update checks, and fixed
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numerous of the most commonly occurring bugs.
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OpenRocket 0.9.3 (2009-09-01)
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Numerous bug fixes and enhancements including data exporting, showing
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flight events in plots, example rocket designs, splitting clustered
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inner tubes and automated bug reporting.
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OpenRocket 0.9.2 (2009-07-13)
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Fixed imperial unit conversions. Significant UI enhancements to the
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motor configuration edit dialog, motor selection dialog and file
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open/save.
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OpenRocket 0.9.1 (2009-06-09)
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Bug fixes to file dialog and saving; initial support for cut/copy/paste
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of simulations.
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OpenRocket 0.9.0 (2009-05-24)
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Initial release.
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