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v4.5.12 Release - September 12 2024

New Hardware Support

• Added support for the Invelion YR9700 Decoder (Serial). This decoder is intended for go karts, running, cycling, and other sports
• Added support for the iRace Decoder

Features and Usability Improvements

• Added global minimum lap time in settings. Impacts quick start race, quick start practice, restart race, and setup race
• (Beta) Increased settable race time limit for races and practice just over 69 days. The prior limit was nearly one hour
• Widen race time, streak, and minimum lap time fields to allow for more characters to be displayed
• Performance improvements to duration and timer displays
• Updated voice director to say "Lap under minimum time" instead of "Invalid lap. Too short" when a lap is not counted due to being under the minimum lap time
• Add standard deviation to participant statistics
• Add total consistency percentage to participant statistics
• Updated "race completed" sound effect

Bug Fixes

• Fix streak lap percentage calculation to remove first lap from the calculation
• Linux version now uses speech dispatcher for voice director

Accessibility improvements

• Hotkeys for zooming in and out for windows and linux
  • Increase font size ctrl and +
  • Decrease font size ctrl and -
  • Reset zoom level with ctrl and 0
• Hotkeys for mac
  • Increase font size ⌘ and +
  • Decrease font size ⌘ and -
  • Reset zoom level with ⌘ and 0

v3.5.3 Release - June 15 2023

• Fixed data sync error after uploading track with no image

v3.5.2 Release - January 26 2023

• Fixed crash on boot the first time the application was run

v3.5.1 Release - October 10 2022

Pro Racer Subscribers

• PRO Added a virtual director that announces scoring

New Hardware Support

• (Beta) Support for Vostok Electronics Timing devices
• (Beta) Support for Zround devices
• (Experimental) Support for Neon Timing devices. This is an experimental open race api

A huge thanks to our PRO subscribers supporting us! We know these may be the least exciting features to those who already own hardware. But we love enabling new racers to use our software.

Features and Usability Improvements

• Added pace time to race stats
• Added sound settings to the settings page. You can still access these settings directly from the race screen. We have just enabled both options
• Simpler default race name
• Added meta information to race display screen
• Made it easier to change race format during race setup by allowing the race format settings to be clicked
• Fixed alert dialogs from displaying incorrectly in some scenarios
• Added transponder to each participant on the race screen
• Moved "time over" sound effect now plays after the race has completed instead of when the race time is over to avoid racers thinking the race has ended prematurely
• Added confirmation dialog when stopping an active race and practice
• Renamed leader and interval stat to behind lead and behind next for easier understanding
• Small track layout icons to fit more on screen

Fixes

• Removed "personal track" option during race setup as it is no longer valid option
• Fixed issues with sound volume controls displaying incorrectly and resetting on each application boot
• Fixed a few issues causing delayed device connections
• Fixed dnf participant's progress bar continuing after the race has been completed
• Fixed list sort order on member, track layout, and race formats
• Fixed playback order issues in voice director
• Disallow racers to auto join a race after the race has started to end

Device Support Release - October 17 2021

• Mac and Linux device support for EasyLap and Robotronic timing devices.
• Various other minor fixes.

Track Layouts Release - July 27 2021

• Track layouts! You can now add track layouts and upload an image for those tracks.
• Associate track layouts to races. Races are synced online with track layout information.
• Faster data sync. We reduced the time it takes for data to sync so racers can access it quicker. Down from five minutes to just one minute.

New Race Statistics

We added a bunch of statistics for racers enjoy.

• Longest streak, how laps can you make it before you break your streak?
• Average, what is the average of all your lap times for the entire race?
• 3 fastest laps, did you get lucky or are you consistently fast?
• Leader, how far behind are you from the leader?
• Interval, how close are you to catching up to the person in front of you?
• Total streak laps, how many streak laps did you get during the race?

Improved Race Setup

Our goal is to get you racing as fast as possible. We hope these improvements help with that!

• Quick start now uses settings from your last race.
• Race setup memory. The settings from your last race will be used when setting up a new race.
• One screen race setup. We made it easy to select and add race formats and track layouts right on the race setup screen.
• Streak laps were simplified and moved into race formats to allow for easy race configuration.

Updated Design

• Improved button readability. Enhanced contrast of colors used for text and background.
• Redesigned race formats screen to show streak settings.
• Improved forms by making field size more appropriate for field data.
• Improved race participant laps layout on different screen sizes.
• Added icon legend to race screen to help racers and directors learn what the icons mean.
• Modals now close when you click outside of them.
• Improved dashboard by adding a setup member button (even after you add your second member).
• Updated navigation icons.

Bug Fixes

• Longstanding Bug Fixed! Opening the race participant menu during a race would often close. The menu was replaced with different functionality.
• Added access denied dialog to community switcher when user has insufficient permissions to direct a community.
• Fixed issue where login would display during initial authentication check.
• Stopped side menu from toggling during form submissions when using enter to submit them.
• Added minimum window size to fix issue on mac where window would collapse into nothing.
• Various other minor fixes.

Communities Release - April 11 2021

Data Sync

• Data is automatically synced online. Behind the scenes we will backup your races, member data, and race formats. You and your community members can access their race history online.
• Offline mode is available! Don't worry, your data will sync automatically when you are back online.
• Start races faster by using race formats. Race formats are presets for your race configuration which makes getting a race going that much faster.

Updated Design

• Redesigned menu for easier access. The menu can also be hidden to save room for smaller screens.
• Optimized race screen to allow for more racers on the screen at the same time.
• Updated the dashboard to help get new users set up their timing device, members, and their first race.
• Improved design contrast to increase readability. We have darkened the application background and various components to increase the contrast between the background and the test.
• Improved touchscreen experience by adding buttons to increase/decrease race time limits, laps, and other number fields.

Other Features

• Start practice button added. You no longer have to dig through the race screen to start a practice session!
• Race exports now include more data. Racer's NLT Tag and fast lap is now included when exporting a race to CSV.
• Improved debug tools for when things are going wrong. We don't like it when things break but when they do we want to be able to help.

Beta Linux Release - August 29th 2019

• Use linux and great racing software
• We have been testing with Ubuntu
• Most decoders have been tested and are working. EasyLap USB is not compatible with Linux at this time
• Please leave us feedback

v1.5.0 Updates - February 28th 2019

• Added feature to allow setting race lap length
• Added feature to allow setting race start type staggered start
• Fixed bug with Robitronic decoders that caused them to not be able to start a race
• Added Core Speedway decoder support

v1.4.0 Updates - November 14th 2018

• Added feature hide timer for last few seconds of start countdown to prevent racers from peaking at the countdown timer
• Added feature to mark race participants as DNF if they did not complete a race and complete if the race mode is practice
• Added feature to detect when decoder is disconnected to error and stop the race
• Added feature to allow cancelling the race before the race has left staging
• Fixed bug with USB EasyLap decoders and USB Robitronic decoders that caused them not to be able to connect in some situations
• Fixed bug with EasyLap and Robitronic decoders that caused times to not be calculated correctly during the race
• Fixed bug where first lap included the time from the race start to the fist pass on the decoder
• Fixed race participant pace calculation to be based on based on racer elapsed time instead of racer lap time totals
• Fixed bug where race complete noises would occur when the race had been already completed manually

v1.3.4 Updates - October 24th 2018

• Fixed a bug that occurred when assigning a race participant to a racer that caused the application to crash

v1.3.2 Updates - September 9th 2018

• Added support for the EasyLap Serial Device for windows and mac machines
• Added support for the EasyLap USB Device for windows machines
• Added support to print race results after a race is complete
• Added ability to assign racers transponders recently detected transponders
• Added ability to assign racers transponders manually
• Added sound settings on race screen to control voice and sound properties
• Enhanced lap view when looking at the full lap view
• Fixed bug when assigning racers within a race that caused the dialog to close when the racer changed positions
• Fixed bug where only the first comm port device would be selected when auto searching even after failure
• Improved performance by splitting the rendering and api processes
• Improved analytics collection (If you share your analytics thank you!)

v1.3.0 Updates - June 25th 2018

• You can now create and assign a racer without leaving the race to create the racer.
• New dashboard page with the most used features right up front.
• Timing hardware is now auto detected and if found auto connects.
• You may now export data after a race has been complete.
• After a race has been completed you may now repeat a race with the click of a button.
• Significant updates to the design. Huge shout out to Michael Kramer.
• Mac client now available.
• Most sounds have been removed from races to keep racers focused on completing laps. They have not been removed from practice.
• Navigation now follows you as you scroll.
• Analytics added to monitor application crashes to make fixing bugs easier.