OpenCPN Version 5.10 Released

[bdbcat]

10 August, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The OpenCPN Development Team is proud to announce the release of OpenCPN Version 5.10.0.
OpenCPN Version 5.10.0 is available for immediate download.

This version is a service/maintenance release of OpenCPN.

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

Some features of OpenCPN include:

Quilted Raster(RNC) and Vector(ENC) digital chart display.
Support for MBTiles photo and geographical chart overlays.
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 github.com.

OpenCPN Version 5.10. series contains many new features and enhanced functions.

New:

Grib plugin adds direct GRIB file download capability, from multiple online resources.

Enhanced native NMEA2000 network interface capability, from numerous third party gateway devices.

Update core wxWidgets support to wx3.25.

Full support for Flatpak on virtually all linux distributions, for both x86 and Arm64 architectures.

Native support for generic Debian linux distributions, particularly plugin system.

Improved OpenGL graphics support and performance on all platforms.

Incorporate extensive user feedback to resolve various UI flaws and functional errors.

Improved embedded UserManual, mirroring evolving online Wiki presentation.

Improved reliability and stability across all platforms.


We hope you enjoy the new features of OpenCPN Version 5.10.0, and look forward to your continued feedback.

For Download links, plugins, documentation, and other useful information, visit our support website at:
https://opencpn.org/

The OpenCPN Development Team
Dave Register, Lead Developer

[Sailoog]

Version in PPA is 1:5.10.0 instead of 5.10.0. Is this intentional?

[Corsair63]

Already downloaded and installed in windows 11 and Raspi4 (Bookworm), seems to be stable, but still not available a direct access to the NMEA debug window.

thanks a lot for your efforts and job well done.

[houlejm]

Thanks to all the team for the good work.

Jean-Marie

[Sailoog]

Important for OpenPlotter users:

For OpenCPN 5.10 to work properly on OpenPlotter v4 you need to update the openplotter-opencpn-installer app to its latest version 4.2.0.

Changes:

- Support for the new version numbering in Ubutu PPA.

- If you had OpenCPN 5.8.4 installed from Debian backports and you run a regular system update, OpenCPN will be updated to version 5.10.0 from the Ubuntu PPA. The openplotter-opencpn-installer 4.2.0 update also contains the necessary changes so that you can continue using the plugins you were using in OpenCPN 5.8.4 without problems.

- The Debian backports version will probably take a while to be released, but you should have no problem running the PPA version, but if you have it, install the flatpak version.

[bdbcat]

Sailoog...


"Version in PPA is 1:5.10.0 instead of 5.10.0. Is this intentional?"


Yes, we are using a debian "epoch" version scheme to accommodate some prior versioning inconsistencies.


Thanks
Dave

[SoggyPaws]

Need to update the "whats new in this release" link on the website. It still links to a 5.8.4 what's new.
Navigating now with 5.10
Thanks for all the good work!

[SamH]

Raspi5/Bookworm/X - Flatpak
openGL fails after updating working system 5.8.4-> 5.10

Rolling back to 805191ab140141363a54f4be3d7fc47bf62e667d7f6159035b 9d561a2dab94fd fixes issue.

Symptom: openGL checkbox greyed out
Log:
OCPNPlatform.cpp:913 Starting OpenGL test...
OCPNPlatform.cpp:725 Starting OpenGL test utility: "/app/bin/opencpn-glutil" opengl-info "/home/sam/.var/app/org.opencpn.OpenCPN/config/opencpn/gl_caps.json"
OCPNPlatform.cpp:729 OpenGL test utility failed with exit code 1
OCPNPlatform.cpp:731 {
OCPNPlatform.cpp:731 "GL_ERROR" : 0,
OCPNPlatform.cpp:731 "GL_USABLE" : false,
OCPNPlatform.cpp:731 "GL_ERROR_STRING" : "Missing GL version"
OCPNPlatform.cpp:731 }
OCPNPlatform.cpp:731
OCPNPlatform.cpp:920 OpenGL test complete.
OCPNPlatform.cpp:922 BuildGLCaps fails.

Running opencpn-glutil manually:
error while loading shared libraries: libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

strace opencpn-glutil indicates possible path issues.

[verkerkbr]

The same problem here in the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5.

No OpenGl available. Setting the OpenGL to =1 in the O config file also does not work.

OpenCPN Flatpak version 5.10.

The same in Bookworm, Ubuntu Noble Mumbat and Fedora 40



Bram

[Baikal]

Regarding the problem with recording the active track, I added a video
https://github.com/OpenCPN/OpenCPN/i...ent-2283679526

[Cheyne]

I'm having a problem with the display of objects. User standard objects is greyed out. My install is was clean and I'm running on W11 Pro. I'm using ENC charts.

Cheyne

[P_Dub]

I confirm the same on Windows 10 pro. Impossible to change and choose.

[stevead]

You need to select User Standard from the Chart hamburger menu before enabling the selection of vector chart objects in the Chart Settings.

I know... counter intuitive....And the question has been raised....

[P_Dub]

Done, thanks.

[bdbcat]

SamH...


re: Running opencpn-glutil manually:
Please show:

$ ldd /usr/bin/opencpn-glutil

Thanks
Dave