Today (July 17th, 2011) the branches for the next release have been created in our GIT repository.
In the next few days, our first release candidates will be ready for testing. Beta-testers are very welcome and requested to report bugs to the bugtracker. Those who are familiar with GIT and build from source may checkout the branch release/2.4.0 to build the release version or stick to next/master which are now running the version 2.5.0.
As allways, make sure your version of FGDATA matches those of FlightGear and SimGear.
Thanks to all for the patience during the feature-moratorium over the last four weeks which helped to us create a stable code base. And special thanks to all who make this release possible by contributing their time and knowledge.
The official release is scheduled for Aug, 18th 2011. Details about the release process are published at The Release Plan.