The FlightGear Release Team* have decided to delay the 2018.3 release until early October. We want to make it a "big" release with fewer bugs and more polish than usual so that we can showcase the new release at FSWeekend in The Netherlands on 3rd November.
Release candidates are available from http://download.flightgear.org/builds/rc/
To make it the best release possible, we need your help.
Firstly, please submit bugs to the bugtracker https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/codetickets/.
Secondly, to make the most of the new launcher, we need help adding meta-data to all the aircraft. This includes
- Ratings http://wiki.flightgear.org/Aircraft_rating_system
- Tags http://wiki.flightgear.org/Catalog_metadata
- Desciptions http://wiki.flightgear.org/Aircraft-set.xml#Name_.26_Description
- Preview images http://wiki.flightgear.org/Aircraft-set.xml#Previews
If you have a particular favourite aircraft (or indeed just choose one at random) without meta-data, please take the time to create it. You should submit it in the first instance to the maintainer of the aircraft, but if they are unavailable, then please submit it to me or Thorsten Renk and we'll get it checked in.
Thanks in advance to everyone for their help in making 2018.3 the best FlightGear release yet!
-Stuart
* This is a name I've just made up for the people who are usually involved in preparing the release. See the -devel list archive for the discussion.