This release brings a larger set of improvements focused on radar usability, feed management, coverage visibility, aircraft data, and overall stability.
New Features
- Added a new Coverage view for merged feeds, with live and archived reception footprint visualization.
- Added support for password-protected merged feeds.
- Added Radar Display settings, including configurable aircraft list columns.
- Added Operator Aliases to display friendlier operator names.
- Added Aircraft Model Mappings to improve aircraft type/model display when database data is incomplete.
- Added support for importing ADS-B Exchange aircraft database data.
- Added a nightly/stable update channel option.
- Added a new Phosphor CRT radar/admin theme.
Radar Improvements
- Improved map performance with smarter aircraft clustering and viewport-based rendering.
- Improved aircraft trails, including longer retention and smoother selected-aircraft tracking.
- Added a military-only radar filter.
- Improved aircraft list search, sorting, and column customization.
- Improved mobile radar layout and selected-aircraft detail behavior.
- Improved emergency squawk handling and visual priority.
Feed & MLAT Improvements
- Improved smart feed setup for common ADS-B and MLAT ports.
- Improved merged feed handling, including nested merged feeds and hidden source feeds.
- Improved feed diagnostics with clearer warnings for common configuration problems.
- Reduced noisy reconnect logging for idle or unavailable feeds.
- Improved handling of unstable or overlapping feed data.
Aircraft Database Improvements
- Improved AircraftDB import/export and merge behavior.
- Added better duplicate ICAO/Mode-S handling.
- Added support for aircraft data source tracking.
- Added LocalAircraft import support for civil/military category overrides.
Stability & Maintenance
- Improved connection retry behavior and backoff handling.
- Improved background service resilience.
- Improved update checking.
- Improved logging behavior, especially around MLAT and feed connectivity.
- Added many internal tests covering feeds, merged feeds, aircraft data, coverage, configuration, and licensing.
Documentation
- Updated and expanded the operator documentation, including feed setup, MLAT, merged feeds, coverage, resources, aircraft database, and troubleshooting.