### Voice Feedback No Longer Lowers Your Music for the Whole Session The audio session used for voice announcements was configured to duck (lower the volume of) other audio and was never deactivated, so once a single voice announcement had played, the racer's background music, podcast, or nav audio stayed quiet for the rest of the session. Voice feedback now mixes with other audio without holding a persistent duck, so your music returns to full volume between announcements. ### High CPU on Map Screens The Tiled and Reduced map screens could peg the CPU during active racing. Two hotspots were fixed: per-frame waypoint lookups that scanned the entire route linearly (now use a faster search), and racer-label rendering that rebuilt formatting work every redraw. This lowers CPU load and heat, and improves battery life while a map screen is open — especially on long routes and crowded courses. ### "Show Other Racers" — ALL Option Removed The "Show Other Racers" setting previously offered an **ALL** option, which could bury the map in markers and overwhelm the display at a large race start. ALL has been removed; the setting now caps at the nearest **34** racers. Racers who previously had ALL selected are automatically migrated to 34.

IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES * Better Offline & Low-Signal Reliability: The app no longer crashes if you launch it with poor cell service, keeping your navigation subscription active while offline. * Accurate Average Speeds: Resetting your speed now completely clears out older speed data so your new average speed is immediately accurate. * Battery & Tracking Fix: Fixed an issue that sent duplicate location updates when running multiple tracking features at the same time. * Faster Startup: The app loads much faster because it only loads the route of your active race instead of processing all stored races. * Quick Splits Refresh: Added a button to manually refresh checkpoint and split times directly on the Splits screen. * Clearer Dashboards: Simplified time fields on your dashboard to read clearly in hours, minutes, and seconds. * Account Privacy: Added a "Delete My Data" option in settings to quickly clear your name, phone, and boat number from the app. CROSS-PLATFORM ALIGNMENT * Reliable Checkpoints: Checkpoint arrival tracking matches the exact rules set by your race director. * No Duplicate Announcements: The app will no longer read aloud multiple checkpoint arrival voice notifications for a single stop. * Smart Voice Speed: Spoken announcements automatically speed up or slow down to match how often your location is updated. * Safe Setup: Prevents you from accidentally exiting the Setup screen if you missed any required details. * Rest Limit: Clamps maximum custom off-water rest calculations to 8 hours.

Modernized Interface: Enjoy a completely refreshed, cleaner, and more intuitive user interface designed for seamless navigation on the move. Enhanced Safety Features: Stay secure with direct administrative messaging and a built-in Self-SOS emergency trigger to alert officials and ground crews when you need assistance. Tiled Offline Maps: Maintain critical situational awareness even outside cellular range with reliable, high-performance offline map tiling. Hazard Overlays: Race smarter with real-time visual markers for course boundaries, obstacles, and potential hazards directly on your map.

Compatibility with updated RaceOwl.com network interfaces.

enhanced battery efficiency

- updated for 'distance from start' races (eg 24 Hours from home) - removed 'always' prompt from startup; we only need 'while using the app' for location services

bug fixes for - racer position - display of other racers when viewing team name rather than number

minor bug fix for percent complete display

General interface improvements such as auto-font scaling, Ability to register your satellite devices directly from the app rather than going to RaceOwl.com

Added support for the 24 hours from home challenge. This allows for racers to see themselves and others on a non-traditional race course (ie any where in the world).

Went to higher accuracy for GPS location while in background. This was needed to provide better estimated time of arrivals when space weather is not so good for GPS.

Bug fix for display freeze issue

Network monitor added to send queued data when a network becomes available rather than relying on a location update to align with network availability to trigger sends. This makes it more robust as a tracker in sparse network environments.

Battery saving optimization. Split times and ETA added. And additional data feedback such as time and distance to selected checkpoints.

Waypoint bug fix for REALLY short races (races with only 2 waypoints)

Added support for 24hours from home distance race. Also added the ability to register as a team.

Improved initial average speed and estimated time of arrival predictions at checkpoints. Expanded Race Event definitions.

Addition of average speed for display and use in estimated arrival times

Race selection bug fix

- add informational features: distance and time to next access point and check point - add distance from you to other racer status - add 'reverse route' for safety vehicles going upstream - add high contrast mode for sunlight screen reads

bug fix: new installations would require a restart to fully display race maps. This version addresses that issue

- Adds battery saving modes for tracking - Adds a special mode for safety volunteers to bypass in-app purchases

1.2.0: added battery status to location data packets sent to RaceOwl

Bug fix to better handle mobile data dropouts and to recover tracking once the network is restored.

Race routes are downloaded from RaceOwl.com rather than prepackaged with the app. This allows for access to new races and for routes to be updated with current information.