OpenCPN 3.2.0 Released

[bdbcat]

27 February, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The OpenCPN Development Team is proud to announce the release of OpenCPN Version 3.2.
OpenCPN Version 3.2 is available for immediate download.

This version is a major feature upgrade and maintenance release of OpenCPN.

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 extensive network connection capabilities 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, and look forward to your continued feedback.

Download OpenCPN Version 3.2 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

[bdbcat]

Ahoy Shipmates!

Well, we have done it again.
Another successful OpenCPN Release is complete and ready to sail.

Bravo! My hat is off to all.

And once more it has been my great pleasure to work with the finest group of developers and testers in the OpenSource universe. And while we might not always have been coming at the inevitable problems from the same perspective or emphasis, we did come to reasonable and workable solutions in every case. And the result shows this level of thoughtful attention.

It is not possible to name each and every contributor to this Release and the Release process. But I believe you know who you are, and you should all be proud. Proud of your persistence, proud of your dedication, and above all proud of your collective accumulated knowledge about Electronic Charting. I hope you carry that knowledge forward, in whatever direction the winds take you.

So, you ask, "What's next?"
Maybe a bit of a code break, as it were, to allow the neurons to recharge. And then we will be back in the saddle. There are some interesting PlugIn ideas circulating, and I believe these may be profitably addressed...


With humble thanks to all
Dave

[bdbcat]

Team...

Two quick points:

1. Please feel free to copy the Press Release to any and all interested parties by email, carrier pigeon, message in bottle, whatever. Spread the word

2. Mac Release is (surprise) delayed pending available bandwidth for the upload. Might be a couple of weeks until I get back onto a fast grid. Sorry....

Thanks
Dave

[RonSouthworth]

Thanks Dave and the team for your excellent work

Much appreciated here .Glad to hear you guys are having a well earned rest it will give me time to understand all the new stuff you all have done

- so I can try some instrumentation "tweaks" in an effort to build a few more items for the dashboard !

Happy Sailing - One and all.
Ron

[George64]

To Dave and all others involved in the process for this release, a great applause and thank you for all the work you did. Grab a drink and cheerse to this new version!

[Hakan]

Congratulations to Dave and all others.
This is the best tool for a convenient, safe and affordable sailing . Though a new participant in this association I do feel the contributive attitude and willingness to unselfish chair knowledge and ideas to make every detail as good as possible.
The release timing is excellent as well. Ice begin to loosen up and it wont be long before I can loosen the ropes and test the new OCPN live.

Thanks and Happy Sailing.
Håkan

[bcn]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

27 February, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

OpenCPN Version 3.2 is available for immediate download.

Just to mention that the OpenCPN.org download page is not updated yet.

Anyhow - thanks everybody for the efforts.
The bottle of cava ( the catalan champagne) is in the fridge ready to give a welcome to the new version .

Hubert

[Rik-lu]

Thank You Dave



ps: did nobody find a newer version of cm93 than 2011 ?

[Gilletarom]

Bravo Dave !

Merci pour ces longues heures passées à lire nos post et nos demandes, parfois amicales, parfois râleuses mais toujours passionnées elles aussi.

Je voudrais aussi remercier tous les autres passionnés,et en particulier, ceux qui écrivent les plug-in et ceux qui rédigent le site web opencpn.org.
Je voudrais les citer mais je sais que je vais en oublier. Qu'ils me pardonnent si je ne donne pas de nom.

Amicalement à tous

Depuis la France, Gilletarom.

[armido]

Is there a git link for 3.2.0?

armido

[NEVERMIND]

Hi,
Thank for this new version.
It appears now on the website:

Pratiques et Techniques de la Plaisance

JP

[Zoef]

Originally Posted by Rik-lu

Thank You Dave



ps: did nobody find a newer version of cm93 than 2011 ?

The latest is December 2011. Waiting for Chinese Seaman....

[houlejm]

Thank you all.

It even updated automatically.
Thanks nohal

Jean-Marie

[sailvayu]

Thanks to everyone who puts in the time and effort for this great program. You guys are the best!

[conachair]

I'm getting this trying to install onto debian..

Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i opencpn_3.2.0-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 137642 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace opencpn 3.2.0 (using opencpn_3.2.0-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement opencpn ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of opencpn:
opencpn depends on libtinyxml2.6.2; however:
Package libtinyxml2.6.2 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing opencpn (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
opencpn

Am i doing something wrong?

Huge thanks for everyones hard word as well