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Thanks to "Dame" for letting me use their song "Revolution war Gestern" for demonstration purposes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPet_VEcmpc

This release finally includes a useful man page, and adds support for a configuration file, which is automatically updated with the last "known good" configuration. Download here or from the Downloads section.

Fische was extended to include PulseAudio support. This should make it accessible to a wider audience.
The tarball is here, as well as in the Downloads section.

Release highlights:
- A new beat detection algorithm has been implemented and delivers more precise results
- Predictive beat detection can be used. This feature is to be considered experimental and is therefore not the default.
- Fische now builds on kfreebsd based systems with alsa emulation.
The tarball is here or in the downloads section - as usual.

This release includes an option flag to make the program exit when a mouse button is clicked. This comes in very handy when fische is used on a touchscreen!
On top of that, the README now includes more troubleshooting information, as well as some FAQs. Download from here or from the Download area.

Thanks to valuable input by Andrea Veri and others, many build problems and small annoyances have been fixed. tarball

This release includes a fix for a segfault bug caused by incorrect ALSA configuration ("default" device not readable), and an extended README with instructions for a common fullscreen problem. tarball

This release fixes a FTBFS on 32-bit architectures and includes a README with basic instructions. tarball
Thanks to Dave Jones and Christian Betz for valuable input!

Fische has been rewritten from scratch and in C++. With the experience gathered from v1.x and v2.x, fische has finally advanced from beta to stable.

Performance
Lots of performance optimisations have been implemented. Most notably, fische now supports SMP and makes full use of nowadays' multi-core CPUs. Furthermore, the blur algorithms have been intensively tested, in order to ensure maximum performance and minimum use of resources.

Features
Fische 3 does not introduce new features as compared to v2.0. Yet beat detection and vectorfields have been enhanced. Commandline options have been extended to include fullscreen startup, single-threaded operation and ALSA PCM device (now optional). In turn, runtime controls have been reduced to a bare minimum (ESC: quit, P: pause, F: toggle fullscreen).

Update
Starting with v3.1.0 fische also supports PulseAudio for audio input. It is my sincere hope that this feature makes fische accessible to a wider audience.

Download
You can get fische-3.1.1.tar.gz from here or from the Downloads section.

Feedback
If you have any ideas, or you would like to report bugs, please email to fische at 26elf dot at, or leave a comment below!

This release includes a lot of changes and important steps towards an alpha release:

AI pilot capabilities
The AI pilots are fully able to laterally navigate including standard routings, directs, headings, approaches and their combinations. Holdings and arbitrary intercepts will not be implemented before the first stable release. Until then, you will have to be able to handle the traffic :)

Aircraft API
The aircraft API has been redesigned to ease future additions and/or changes. In particular, aircraft components such as ADIRU (Air Data and Inertia Reference Unit), MCP (Mode Control Panel), FMS (Flight Management System), autopilot and pilot are now separate classes. These changes present all those aircraft components in a realistic way, meaning the programmer can let the pilot press buttons on the MCP, or enter routings on the FMS "LEGS page".

UI
The settings dialogs have been dropped in favour of docks. This provides quicker access and provides one positive sideeffect: The radarscreen becomes more quadratic, which better resembles real ATC displays.

Download
You can download Openapproach-prealpha6.tar.gz from here. Please bear in mind that this still is a prealpha release and hardly playable.

Feedback
If you have any ideas, or you would like to report bugs, please email to openapproach at 26elf dot at, or leave a comment below!