What Changed in December 2014

What changed between August and November 2014

Saturday 6 December 2014

• A patch so that linked to journeys now load successfully (broken in last release)
• At least partial fix of a bug for when search-engines try to fetch out-of-date "nearest" place information

→ Release 9.24.5.2

Monday 8 December 2014

• Pre-relase fix of issue 976 – one point was being omitted from route maps, which could under particular circumstances produce little loops.

Saturday 13 December 2014

• More complete fix of the bug around "nearest" place information

→ Release 9.24.5.3

Sunday 14 December 2014

• Code to improve resolution of summary route maps and daily itinerary maps - below a hard-wired size they fetch marker places as well

To Wednesday 24 December 2014

• Improvements to summary and itinerary maps - places now show when you mouse-over and a click will reveal the name.
• The gazetteer for places on your planned route says when you pass through them

→ Release 9.24.6 (to beta, to test performance of this new feature)

Thursday 25 December 2014

• Fixed a bug - the text about where you might be able to turn broke (with a poor error message) if you had your planning unit in "miles". Fixed both the output and the error message

[I was up early, and the bird was in the oven, so while I was waiting for everybody else to get up I needed something to do. It was this or tidying up...]

Thursday 26 December 2014

• Improvements to the places on the maps - it doesn't add them if the map contains too many, and there is a button to turn them all on
• Removed underlines on internal links in Itinerary.

→ Release 9.24.6.1 (to beta)

Sunday 28 December 2014

• Improvements to layout of boxes on options screen - they flow better and they stretch to fit their contents better.

Monday 29 December 2014

• Loading a saved route doesn't overwrite your default starting place (issue 974)
• Improvements to route entry wizard:
• buttons are cleared when you go back
• as is informative text
• Added "home mooring" to route entry wizard - implements (issue 753).
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't go back from "timings" if you'd selected cruising ring or furthest place

→ Release 9.24.7

Tuesday 30 December 2014

• Alias lists for places are deduped, and no two places can have the same alias. This implements half of issue 935 and the remainder can be merged into issue 848
• Trapped and reported file opening bugs from GD - fixes issue 945
• Work on boat draught and height as outlined in issue 857 and merged-in issues:
• Added two more boat-size fields to the options screen
• Added a help popup to explain how to use this and to show coverage
• Wrote a program to generate coverage statistics
• Integrated this into the daily update so it will never be more than a day out of date
• A couple of tweaks to the source code were all that was needed to get it planning around shallow or low-headroom waterways
• Added code to report the effects of draught and headroom if a route couldn't be planned

→ Release 9.25