Snapshot 2024-11-15

Headline Items

• mwp is migrated to Gtk4.
• Please see the migration guide for system requirements etc. and migration from the legacy version.

• Survey / Search / Area planner integrated into mwp (no longer an external tool)

  • Area Plan
  
  • Expanding Square
  
  • Spiral
  

Recent changes

• INAV 8 Geozones support
• Make startup MSP processing entirely event driven
• Fix saving of relocated missions
• Add "Measure" (distance) function to menu
• Add setting to further size symbols for touch screens
• Set GSK_RENDERER=cairo if not otherwise set
• Add cliterm --sitl (tcp://localhost:5760 shorthand) option
• Default setting bluez-disco to true
• Replace Process.spawn() with Subprocess() and async-io

Janitorial notes

• Other bug and regression fixes.
• Please raise Github issues for stuff that is broken / regressions
• The prior master (Gtk+-3.0) branch has been renamed to legacy, is no longer maintained and is read-only.
• The User Guide contains updated documentation.

Installation

• A Debian archives is provided below.
• Arch Linux AUR package
• Other platforms / OS please follow the documented build instructions.

For the Debian package:

# download
$ curl -LO https://github.com/stronnag/mwptools/releases/download/x.y.z/mwptools_x.y.z_amd64.deb
# install
$ sudo apt install ./mwptools_x.y.z_amd64.deb

Where x.y.z. represents the version tag (e.g. 24.11.15)