Little Navmap 3.2.3.beta released

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Windows

► Little Navmap Windows 64-bit Installer - preferred for Windows - LittleNavmap-win64-3.2.3.beta-Install.exe
► Little Navmap Windows 64-bit Zip - can run in portable mode - LittleNavmap-win64-3.2.3.beta.zip

► Little Navconnect Windows 32-bit Zip - required to connect to FSX or P3D - LittleNavconnect-win32-3.0.17.zip

macOS

► Little Navmap Apple macOS - Universal Binary for Intel and Silicon - LittleNavmap-macOS-3.2.3.beta.zip

Linux

► Little Navmap Linux - 64 bit, Ubuntu 26.04 - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-26.04-3.2.3.beta.tar.xz
► Little Navmap Linux Debian Installation Package - 64 bit, Ubuntu 26.04 - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-26.04-3.2.3.beta-1_amd64.deb

► Little Navmap Linux - 64 bit, Ubuntu 24.04 - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-24.04-3.2.3.beta.tar.xz
► Little Navmap Linux Debian Installation Package - 64 bit, Ubuntu 24.04 - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-24.04-3.2.3.beta-1_amd64.deb

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This is a beta/test release of Little Navmap which fixes crashes when running the web server, fixes broken offline maps and several other issues. It also adds support for historical weather in X-Plane.

See Version 3.2.1.beta and Version 3.2.2.beta for the recent changelogs.

Note that neither the program translations nor the user manual have been updated yet.

The menu layout and option pages have changed. See below in sections User Interface and Options in the version 3.2.1.beta announcement for more information. Use the search function in the options dialog window on the top left if you cannot find a setting.

Editing of features on the map has changed. See section Markers and Userpoints the version 3.2.1.beta announcement.

FSX or Prepar3D: Download and install the 32 bit version of Little Navconnect LittleNavconnect-win32-3.0.17.zip and connect through it to FSX or Prepar3D. See the included file README.txt.

See here if you would like to run the beta release besides your stable installation: Little Navmap - User Manual - Portable Execution.

Also update Little Navconnect and Little Xpconnect if you’re using one of these.

macOS: Keep in mind that you have to clear the quarantine flag when updating Little Xpconnect. See Little Navmap - User Manual - Clearing the Quarantine Flag on macOS.

macOS: Little Navmap is now built into a universal binary containing Intel and Arm architectures. Rosetta is not needed anymore to run Little Navmap and Little Navconnect.

Please note that when reverting to Little Navmap 3.0.18, file names may appear garbled and corresponding error messages may be shown if the paths contain special characters such as umlauts or accents. This can happen when loading files from one of the menus Recent, for example. You can ignore the error messages and adjust paths in options and simply reload the affected files normally to fix this.

Changes from 3.2.2.beta to 3.2.3.beta

X-Plane

• The minimum recommended version for Little Xpconnect is now 1.4.3.beta. Although you can still use older versions, Little Navmap will display a warning in this case. Reinstall Little Xpconnect from the menu Tools in Little Navmap to enable X-Plane historical weather.

• Now reading X-Plane historical weather. Winds aloft and METAR files are loaded depending on simulator settings and time. This might also improve #1353. Note that some inaccuracies cannot be avoided. The weather is reset to the current time when disconnecting the simulator.

• Added indicator Historical weather using simulator time. for X-Plane 12 weather in the airport information and in tooltips.

• Fixed wrong date and time calculation for X-Plane 12. This requires X-Plane version 12.4.1 or later.

• Note that custom weather is not detected for now. Little Navmap will still show real weather from the X-Plane METAR files if you build your own weather.

• Calculated simulator time can be off for an hour for X-Plane 11 since datarefs are missing for a precise calculation.

Markers

• Magnetic declination is now correctly saved with holding and measurement markers which resulted in a wrong course display. To fix this, any previously created markers must be deleted and added again.

Map

• Offline maps have been updated and display issues on Windows, such as missing country borders and city centers, have been fixed. Also corrected wrong cities shown in higher zoom levels on offline maps.

• Removed overlay plugins for maps drawn in background like web or printing. This fixes the crashes on startup when running the web server.

• Now reverting back to the previous map theme after showing an information dialog window if API keys or other required information is missing. This avoids polluting the map tile cache with watermarked tiles like API Key Required. Go to menu Tools -> Files and Directories -> Show Map Cache and delete the related map cache directory if needed.

Aircraft Trail

• Added function Go to last Aircraft Trail Position in menu Map. Use this to go to the last saved position of your aircraft.

• Added information dialog window on loading GPX files that shows the number of visible and the number of loaded trail points if points are hidden due to the setting Maximum number of aircraft trail points shown on options page Map Aircraft Trail.

• Corrected display of aircraft trail. Small segments are now shown when zooming out in spherical projection.

• Fixed issue where last trail position was invalid after loading from a GPX file.

• Lowered maximum number of shown trail points for new installations to 5,000 points to avoid performance issues. Note that points above this number are not deleted but only hidden. Internally up to 5,000,000 points are saved. Change the setting in options on page Map Aircraft Trail.

• Applied several optimizations to speed up drawing of the aircraft trail and other lines.

User Interface

• Changes in automatic waypoint numbering to start from zero similar to Garmin units.

• Added hint about automatic waypoint numbering in dialog window Edit Flight Plan Position window. User waypoints having idents like WP0 or WP10 are renumbered automatically in flight plan order.

• Now hiding the navaid numbers when loading the MSFS 2024 scenery library database with the Navigraph navdata update installed in the simulator. Also showing an indication Navigraph navdata update found in simulator. No navaids loaded. for installed navdata update. Install the navdata update directly in Little Navmap using the Navigraph FMS Data Manager if you see missing navaids. Also enable Select Automatically in menu Scenery Library -> Navigraph.

• Change timezone indication (CEST and others) to an offset based indication like +01:30 since the Qt library gives wrong timezone names.

• Timezones and offsets in the status bar and the airport information now consider daylight savings time. This is calculated based on real time or simulator time. Removed (no DST) indication in all timezone displays.

• Avoiding Empty Flight Plan when saving GPX without a plan.

• Now showing country when entering coordinates in several dialog windows like from menu Map -> Go to coordinates.

• Unused base path in load scenery library dialog window is now blank for MSFS 2024 to avoid confusion.

• Corrected missing cross map cursor on Linux Wayland.

• More user interface improvements and optimizations.

Development

• Fixed compilation for Qt versions later than 6.5. Lowered deprecation level to 6.5 and fixed map::MapBase. The program can now be compiled using Qt 6.5 to 6.12. #1343

• Added include to allow compilation on macOS 27. #1394

• Fixed debugging build on Windows to allow the use of the Marble library again.

See the included CHANGELOG.txt or here online for a complete list across all versions.

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Note: There are always a few false positives on the installer while the majority of 60 to 70 anti-virus see no issue. Download and unpack the Zip archive it if this scares you.

Hi Alex,

I noticed that an old bug still persists (and, maybe an impression) got even worse: when a route (or airway) line is very long respect to the zoom view it tends to disappear... like a route of 3000NM, if you zoom in in the middle or drag to a navaid, at smaller zoom the route line simply disappears... not happening if there is closeby a route point to which the line is attached to.

32 minutes ago, arrex said:

I noticed that an old bug still persists (and, maybe an impression) got even worse: when a route (or airway) line is very long respect to the zoom view it tends to disappear... like a route of 3000NM, if you zoom in in the middle or drag to a navaid, at smaller zoom the route line simply disappears... not happening if there is closeby a route point to which the line is attached to.

Ok. I have a case where I can reproduce this now. Will check for the next beta.

Alex

Other bugs remaining from previous version:
1. User interface font selected not applied in all menus. Workaround: manually select another font, apply it, then select your desired tond and apply again. Then will work everywhere. But next restart same problem reappears

2. Call me paranoid, but the online map service is screwed from version 3.0.18. Especially (but not exclusively) Carto. After some time of use, the download seems not to work anymore (goes in kind of timeout) and is blocked for the whole session (can wait hours or days), does not download anymore that type of map. Restart the program, and magically it restarts downloading normally

Edited 22 hours ago22 hr by arrex

1 hour ago, arrex said:

Other bugs remaining from previous version:
1. User interface font selected not applied in all menus. Workaround: manually select another font, apply it, then select your desired tond and apply again. Then will work everywhere. But next restart same problem reappears

I could not reproduce this here on Windows. I already had to apply a ton of workarounds for the buggy Qt 6 release to get it halfway stable. I guess there is nothing I can do about this.

1 hour ago, arrex said:

Call me paranoid, but the online map service is screwed from version 3.0.18. Especially (but not exclusively) Carto. After some time of use, the download seems not to work anymore (goes in kind of timeout) and is blocked for the whole session (can wait hours or days), does not download anymore that type of map. Restart the program, and magically it restarts downloading normally

CARTO seems to restrict map access temporarily. Even more if you use two parallel connections. But I use CARTO Voyager all the time when testing and have no problems (default one connection limit). I'll remove the map themes if they continue to cause issues.

Other map themes have absolutely zero issues here when flying. Do you have an unstable network or a VPN?

Alex

2 hours ago, arrex said:

Other bugs remaining from previous version:
1. User interface font selected not applied in all menus. Workaround: manually select another font, apply it, then select your desired tond and apply again. Then will work everywhere. But next restart same problem reappears

2. Call me paranoid, but the online map service is screwed from version 3.0.18. Especially (but not exclusively) Carto. After some time of use, the download seems not to work anymore (goes in kind of timeout) and is blocked for the whole session (can wait hours or days), does not download anymore that type of map. Restart the program, and magically it restarts downloading normally

BTW: I can have a look at the font issues if you send me an issue report. Maybe I can reproduce it using your settings file.

Alex

Hi,

please tell me what do you need for the issue report (can contact me also via email if you prefer).

PS: for the maps: this timeout thing starts with CARTO, but once the "download routine" is blocked, it extends to all other maps.... And it's not really a blacklisting this time, because if i restart LNM it restarts working immediately

1 hour ago, arrex said:

please tell me what do you need for the issue report (can contact me also via email if you prefer).

LNM menu "Tools" -> "Create Issue report". The dialog window explains everything.

1 hour ago, arrex said:

this timeout thing starts with CARTO, but once the "download routine" is blocked, it extends to all other maps.... And it's not really a blacklisting this time, because if i restart LNM it restarts working immediately

I still cannot reproduce this here. Maybe the CARTO server keeps connections open which block the other downloads.

Does this also appear if you do not use CARTO maps?

Check the files .../Little Navmap/data/maps/earth/cartovoyager/cartovoyager.dgml, .../cartolight.dgml and .../cartodark.dgml if they contain the limitation to one connection:

...
         <downloadPolicy usage="Browse" maximumConnections="1"/>
...

The installer normally takes care of this.

Alex