Plane Finder ADS-B Client changelog
Here's a historical look at the changes made to the Plane Finder ADS-B client over time.
5.0
- Redesigned receiver setup flow
- Consolidated 2D and 3D map views
- Consolidated map and data views
- Improved 2D map experience
- The ability to show all aircraft tracks simultaneously
- The ability to change map tile appearance
- The ability to render dynamically updating polar diagram and adjustable range rings
- Improved 3D map experience
- Now includes 3D terrain
- The ability to change map tile appearance
- The ability to render adjustable range rings
- Improved data view
- MLAT and positionless traffic now more clearly labelled
- Altitude arrow indicator to show vert rate of aircraft
- Improved aircraft detail view
- Fully redesigned, with a new layout
- Now includes gallery of up to 6 aircraft photos
- New map settings
- Settings remembered across multiple visits
- Choose units for speed, altitude, distance, temperature and pressure
- Ability to customise range rings
- Ability to limit aircraft trail lengths
- Ability to filter aircraft by altitude
- Ability to choose up to 4 lines of text for aircraft labels
- Ability to render GeoJSON on the 2D map view
- Ability to restore defaults
- Bug fixes
- Fixed issue where log view would sometimes not load
- Various issues impacting markers on the map view
4.1
- All new 3D view so you can see the aircraft in glorius 3D on a globe
- Added OSM view as default 2D map
- Added new polar diagram to the 2D map
- Added new range rings to the 2D map
- Added dashed elements to the flightpaths to show breaks in coverage
- Added NTP within the client so it's no longer needed locally
3.7
- Improvements to ADS-B decoding
- New GPS view for Plane Finder Radar receivers
3.5
- Brand new map view including aircraft labels, photographs and additional metadata lookup
- Added colour-coded flightpaths to represent altitude
- Added the ability to mouse over flightpaths to view their speed and altitude at that any given point in time
- Improved Data View layout. Added the option to filter by additional fields
- Added the ability to set a Google Maps API key for users wishing to share their client webpages publicly (this is optional and not necessary when accessing the client locally)
- Rewritten HTTP parser to handle browser communication more reliably
- Various other bug fixes and improvements
3.4.61
- Minor fixes to ModeS extended attributes
3.4.25
- New 3D view to help you improve your reception
3.3.222
- Fixes for crashing on Windows
- Map now centers on receiver location when no planes are tracked
3.3.146
- Support for Plane Finder Radar unit
- Better checking of data packets from RTL devices
- Better error handling with not so great internet connections
- Display different aircraft icons depending on aircraft category
- Decoding of extra data from the ADS-B packets
- Dropped support for 30003 data formats
3.1.201
- Now correctly displays MLAT traffic fed from Dump1090
3.0.2080
- MLAT now compatible with Radarcape units
- Resolves an issue with an upcoming FlightAware Dump1090 release
- Various other bug fixes and improvements
Beta 3
- Fixed an issue with 30003 input format
- Fixed an issue where client would consume all system resources
- Ability to update core code remotely
- Added an echo port on 30054
- Various other bug fixes and improvements
Beta 2
- Futher work to improve CPU and memory usage
- The setup process will now pre-populate existing settings when reconfiguring the client
- Improved client termination and clean-up
- Made the web log viewer more resilient to errors
- Added periodic logging of successful uploads
- Improved timestamp handling
- Various other bug fixes and improvements
Beta 1
- Brand new web-based setup for easy configuration
- Searchable and sortable tabular data view
- Auto-updating log viewer
- Live statistics and traffic visualisations
- Vastly improved CPU and memory usage
- Improved the accuracy of data collection