OpenCPN News

RELEASED 08 May 2013

The OpenCPN Development Team is proud to announce the release of OpenCPN Version 3.2.2
OpenCPN Version 3.2.2 is available for immediate download.

This version is a maintenance release and update of OpenCPN Version 3.2.2.  It corrects several non-critical operational faults and special case configurations.   

Version 3.2.0:
OpenCPN is a cross platform electronic navigation system (ECS) supporting a variety of cartography standards and hardware interface protocols.  Versions are available for linux, Windows, and Macintosh computer architectures.

Some features of OpenCPN include:
 - Quilted Raster(RNC) and Vector(ENC) digital chart display
 - Industry standard GPS receiver interfacing, with "moving map" on-screen vessel tracking.
 - AIS receiver interfacing with configurable target safety monitoring
 - Integrated Route, Track, and Waypoint database, with industry standard Import/Export capabilities
 - Tide and Current prediction, with on-screen overlay of predicted data.
 - Broad International Language support
 - PlugIn architecture allowing on-going third-party functional enhancements.

OpenCPN is released under the GPLV2 license.  The executable program and its source code are available for immediate, free, and unlimited download from sourceforge.net.

As a successor to OpenCPN Version 3.0, OpenCPN Version 3.2.0 contains many new features and enhanced functions.  Among them are:

-  Complete update of user Options dialogs and context menus, incorporating modern graphics and uniform styles.

-  Significantly enhanced navigation instrument input and output options, including extensive network connection capabilities supporting TCP, UDP, and GPSD data sources.

-  New User Interface theme support, with OpenCPN traditional as well as two new low profile themes.

-  Enhanced clipboard support, including interfaces to external KML data sources.

-  Enhanced Tide and Current dataset support, including modern fully binary datasets.

-  Various improvements in the display and tracking of AIS data targets.

-  Automatic Great Circle route generation options.

-  Significant enhancement of the Dashboard PlugIn, including new user interface options and a variety of stylish, new instruments.

-  Improved sound system support for linux hosts.

-  Major update to embedded Users Manual.

-  Measurably improved performance and reliability over all supported platforms.

We hope you enjoy the new features of OpenCPN Version 3.2.2, and look forward to your continued feedback.

Download OpenCPN Version 3.2.2 at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencpn

For PlugIns and other useful information, visit our support website at
http://opencpn.org

The OpenCPN Development Team
Dave Register, Lead Developer

RELEASED 27 February 2013
The OpenCPN Development Team is proud to announce the release of OpenCPN Version 3.2.  OpenCPN Version 3.2 is available for immediate download.

This version is a major feature upgrade and maintenance release of OpenCPN.

OpenCPN is a cross platform electronic navigation system (ECS) supporting a variety of cartography standards and hardware interface protocols.  Versions are available for linux, Windows, and Macintosh computer architectures.

Some features of OpenCPN include:
 - Quilted Raster(RNC) and Vector(ENC) digital chart display
 - Industry standard GPS receiver interfacing, with "moving map" on-screen vessel tracking.
 - AIS receiver interfacing with configurable target safety monitoring
 - Integrated Route, Track, and Waypoint database, with industry standard Import/Export capabilities
 - Tide and Current prediction, with on-screen overlay of predicted data.
 - Broad International Language support
 - PlugIn architecture allowing on-going third-party functional enhancements.

OpenCPN is released under the GPLV2 license.  The executable program and its source code are available for immediate, free, and unlimited download from sourceforge.net.

As a successor to OpenCPN Version 3.0, OpenCPN Version 3.2 contains many new features and enhanced functions.  Among them are:

-  Complete update of user Options dialogs and context menus, incorporating modern graphics and uniform styles.

-  Significantly enhanced navigation instrument input and output options, including extensive network connection capabilities supporting TCP, UDP, and GPSD data sources.

-  New User Interface theme support, with OpenCPN traditional as well as two new low profile themes.

-  Enhanced clipboard support, including interfaces to external KML data sources.

-  Enhanced Tide and Current dataset support, including modern fully binary datasets.

-  Various improvements in the display and tracking of AIS data targets.

-  Automatic Great Circle route generation options.

-  Significant enhancement of the Dashboard PlugIn, including new user interface options and a variety of stylish, new instruments.

-  Improved sound system support for linux hosts.

-  Major update to embedded Users Manual.

-  Measurably improved performance and reliability over all supported platforms.

We hope you enjoy the new features of OpenCPN Version 3.2, and look forward to your continued feedback.

Download OpenCPN Version 3.2 at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencpn

For PlugIns and other useful information, visit our support website at
http://opencpn.org

The OpenCPN Development Team
Dave Register, Lead Developer

View even earlier release notes, here.