What's new in OpenRocket 14.11
Nov 4, 2014
- New Features:
- Updated thrustcurves
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a couple of bugs.
New in OpenRocket 14.06 (Jun 27, 2014)
- New Features:
- Klima motor textures
- Added knots to windspeed and velocity units
- Updated thrustcurves
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed annoying IndexOutOfBounds bug in tables.
New in OpenRocket 14.05 (May 21, 2014)
- This release contains some minor features, bug fixes and updated thrust curves. New motor vendors Klima and Southern Cross Rocketry are included. The simulation will now compute optimum delay based on actual coast time. Components with CG and mass overrides are decorated with an icon in the component tree.
New in OpenRocket 14.03 (Apr 5, 2014)
- New photo realistic renderer (in the Tools menu) which allows one to visualize the rocket in the air. There are various bug fixes in the configuration and motor selection windows as well.
New in OpenRocket 13.11.2 (Apr 5, 2014)
- Bug fixes, usability improvements, and layout fixes.
New in OpenRocket 13.11.1 (Nov 15, 2013)
- This release contains bug fixes including fixing Tube Coupler configuration, various exceptions in the flight configuration tab, updated 3d libraries
New in OpenRocket 13.11 (Nov 8, 2013)
- This release simplifies flight configurations by replacing the dialog with the configuration tab.
- Motor filtering in the motor chooser dialog has been enhanced.
- Chinese translations have been added and Russian translations updated.
- Updated the 3D libraries, and squashed some bugs introduced by Java 1.7.0_45-b18.
New in OpenRocket 13.09.1 (Oct 7, 2013)
- This is a bug-fix release, and includes updated 3D libraries and new thrust curves for Aerotech C3 and D2.
New in OpenRocket 13.09 (Sep 9, 2013)
- This release contains a number of bug fixes, updated 3D JOGL libraries, and separates simulation edit and plot dialogs.
New in OpenRocket 13.05 (May 7, 2013)
- This release contains a huge number of improvements, the main ones including realistic 3D rendering with decals, flight configurations, lower stage descent simulation, boosted dart support and new translations for Portuguese and Japanese
New in OpenRocket 12.09.1 (Sep 29, 2012)
- This is a bug-fix release, fixing numerous bugs introduced in 12.09.
- The only new feature is the option to automatically open the latest design file on startup (in Edit → Preferences → Options).
New in OpenRocket 12.09 (Sep 17, 2012)
- 3D rocket design view
- Component Presets
- Custom expressions in simulations
- Printing for centering ring and clustered centering ring components.
- Support simple arthmatic in dimension entry
- Support deploying recovery device at stage separation
- Support for fractional inches (1/64) for unit length
- Added preference for windspeed units separately
- Added "most recently used files" in File Menu.
- Improved printed accurracy in fin marking guide
- Calibration rulers added to printed templates
- Translations in Czech and Polish, numerous updates
New in OpenRocket 12.03 (Mar 19, 2012)
- In this release the version numbering scheme has been changed to be "YY.MM" indicating the year and month of the release.
- Enhancements in the desktop version include saving designs in RKT format thanks to Doug Pedrick, freeform fin set import from images by Jason Blood, configurable stage separation events, guided help tours and displaying the computed motor designation class. The application has also been translated to Italian by Mauro Biasutti and Russian by the Sky Dart Team.
- This also marks the first release for Android devices. In this first release you can open files and examine existing simulations, stability data and motor files. The Android port is thanks to work by Kevin Ruland.
New in OpenRocket 1.1.9 Beta (Nov 25, 2011)
- This release calculates rocket flight in real-world coordinates and
- takes into account geodetic effects (including coriolis effect) thanks
- to work by Richard Graham. Printing of transitions, nose cone
- profiles and fin marking guides is available thanks to Doug Pedrick.
- It also contains some usability features and bug fixes.
New in OpenRocket 1.1.8 Beta (Aug 26, 2011)
- This release contains bug fixes to the optimization methods. It also contains a workaround to a JRE bug that prevents running OpenRocket on Java 7.
New in OpenRocket 1.1.7 Beta (Aug 13, 2011)
- This release contains automatic rocket design optimization functionality. However, be cautious when using it and take the results with a grain of salt.
New in OpenRocket 1.1.6 Beta (Jul 22, 2011)
- Internationalization support thanks to work by Boris du Reau and translations by Tripoli Spain, Tripoli France and Stefan Lobas (ERIG e.V.).
- The release also contains rocket design scaling support and numerous bug fixes.
New in OpenRocket 1.1.5 Beta (Jun 11, 2011)
- Removed native printing support. Printing is now handled via PDF viewer, which should make printing much more reliable and less bug-prone.
New in OpenRocket 1.1.4 Beta (May 31, 2011)
- Initial printing support by Doug Pedrick, and various bug fixes.
New in OpenRocket 1.1.3 Beta (Oct 7, 2010)
- Support for drag-drop moving and copying of components.
- Fixes a severe bug in the undo system.
New in OpenRocket 1.1.2 Beta (Sep 7, 2010)
- Support for loading RockSim rocket design files (.rkt)
New in OpenRocket 1.0.0 Beta (Mar 11, 2010)
- Added numerous new motor thrust curves from thrustcurve.org, and fixed
- a few more bugs.
New in OpenRocket 0.9.6 Beta (Feb 18, 2010)
- Updated aerodynamic calculation methods to be more in line with the
- Barrowman method and enhanced simulation time step selection. Fixed
- numerous bugs.
New in OpenRocket 0.9.5 (Dec 16, 2009)
- Fixed a serious defect which prevented adding a tube coupler and
- centering ring on the same body tube. Other minor improvements.