OpenCPN Version 3.2.2 Released

[bdbcat]

8 May, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The OpenCPN Development Team is proud to announce the release of OpenCPN Version 3.2.2
OpenCPN Version 3.2.2 is available for immediate download.

This version is a maintenance release and update of OpenCPN Version 3.2.
It corrects several non-critical operational faults and special case configurations.

OpenCPN is a cross platform electronic navigation system (ECS) supporting a variety of cartography standards and harware interface protocols. Versions are available for linux, Windows, and Macintosh computer architectures.

Some features of OpenCPN include:
- Quilted Raster(RNC) and Vector(ENC) digital chart display
- Industry standard GPS receiver interfacing, with "moving map" on-screen vessel tracking.
- AIS receiver interfacing with configurable target safety monitoring
- Integrated Route, Track, and Waypoint database, with industry standard Import/Export capabilities
- Tide and Current prediction, with on-screen overlay of predicted data.
- Broad International Language support
- PlugIn architecture allowing on-going third-party functional enhancements.


OpenCPN is released under the GPLV2 license. The executable program and its source code are available for immediate, free, and unlimited download from sourceforge.net.

As a successor to OpenCPN Version 3.0, OpenCPN Version 3.2 contains a many new features and enhanced functions. Among them are:

- Complete update of user Options dialogs and context menus, incorporating modern graphics and uniform styles.

- Significantly enhanced navigation instrument input and output options, including extensve network connection capabilites supporting TCP, UDP, and GPSD data sources.

- New User Interface theme support, with OpenCPN traditional as well as two new low profile themes.

- Enhanced clipboard support, including interfaces to external KML data sources.

- Enhanced Tide and Current dataset support, including modern fully binary datasets.

- Various improvements in the display and tracking of AIS data targets.

- Automatic Great Circle route generation options.

- Significant enhancement of the Dashboard PlugIn, including new user interface options and a variety of stylish, new instruments.

- Improved sound system support for linux hosts.

- Major update to embedded Users Manual.

- Measurably improved performance and reliability over all supported platforms.


We hope you enjoy the new features of OpenCPN Version 3.2.2, and look forward to your continued feedback.

Download OpenCPN Version 3.2.2 at
OpenCPN | Free Science & Engineering software downloads at SourceForge.net

For PlugIns and other useful information, visit our support website at
OpenCPN | Official OpenCPN Homepage

The OpenCPN Development Team
Dave Register, Lead Developer

[AISEAG]

Thanks to you guys

Serge

[dweller]

Just tried the new version 3.2.2 on Mac OS.

Still finding a few problems with routes and waypoints:

When activating the viewablility of a route (clicking on the X-ed eye), the text for all the routes disappears. You have to close and re-open OpenCPN to get the routes to show again.

When I right-click on a route, click on properties, and try to remove a waypoint from the route, a message pops up ("Are you sure you want etc..."), the program freezes. Only solution is to force-quit and re-start program.

So far, I've seen no other problems.

Ron Dwelle

[bdbcat]

Ron....

Sorry, I do not understand the first part of your message. What "text for all the routes", please? Screenshot?

Thanks
Dave

[dweller]

It is the text in the "Route Name" column. The Route Names will all be blank,though if you re-start the text of the Route Names will re-appear.

[matriks]

also speedometer gauge over 12 knots announced,but seems nothing in this version,everything works fine on win7 x64

[bdbcat]

Ron...

I assume we are looking only at the RouteManagerDialog. Sorry, but I cannot reproduce this bug. Works fine for me on SL.

A screenshot, or two, may be helpful.

Thanks
Dave

[bdbcat]

matriks...

Speedo over 12 knots was not announced for 3.2.2. It will show up in 3.3.x

Thanks
Dave

[matriks]

thanks bdbcat

[petter5]

Hi ! I just upgraded Opencpn on my xinutop 13.03b USB stick with the new opencpn_3.2.2-1_i386.deb . After installing the update, opencpn craches when loading the opplication.

[nohal]

petter5...
Any chance we could get some more info that could help us identify the problem, like the log, from which version you updated, etc.?

Thanks

Pavel

[petter5]

Hi !!

I upgraded from opencpn_3.2.0-2_i386.deb Last lines in the log is " loading CM93 cell ,,,,, I has tried to restart Opencpn many times now, and somtimes the program starts but when I try to rezize to full sixe ( not F11 full screen) the map does not rezize only the frame rezizes ands then the program just crach/closes down.

[bdbcat]

petter5....

Are you familiar with the debugger called ddd? It is available in the standard linux repos.

If you install ddd ($sudo apt-get install ddd), and then run opencpn under the debugger as

$ddd opencpn

Make it crash, then go to ddd screen and look at the Status->Backtrace tab. Take a screenshot, and post it here. This is the fastest way for the developers to debug a linux crash.

Thanks
Dave

p.s. Interested writers are invited to document the use of ddd in the wiki, for eventual inclusion in the user manual. I dunno how many times I have explained this process in the forum

[petter5]

I has tried as suggested. The backtrace only reports > No stack

/Petter

[bdbcat]

petter5....

OK. We will try a fresh configuration load.

Please save a copy of ~/.opencpn/opencpn.conf.

Then,
$rm ~/.opencpn/opencpn.conf
$rm ~./opencpn/navobj.xml

Then try opencpn as usual.
$opencpn

If this works, please post the contents of opencpn.conf and navobj.xml here.

Thanks
Dave