Ground contacts, Area Contest, and hike-and-fly • Ground contacts. Add safety contacts for when you fly. They can follow you live on the map, and get notified for takeoff, landings and ending your trip. Other pgpilot users and email are supported now, more integrations coming. • Area Contest. Fighting over land is as old as civilisation itself. Claim your ground on pgpilot.app/areacontest! • Hike and fly. We now segment your activities into hikes and flights automatically. Start pgpilot on the ground and track the hike up! Strava upload is coming. • Realtime livetrack. Track at 1 second resolution, for when you are NOT FLYING INSIDE CLOUDS with friends. • Flight sharing. New templates to share your flight: flight track, relief maps and more. • Floating comms button. Use pgpilot in the background and keep talking to your buddies. • AI assistant (early preview). Connect pgpilot to your favourite AI agent and do post-flight analysis. • Radio and device names. Pick your VHF channel width, and give your radios and varios names you actually recognise. • Radio fixes. Cleaner audio, better connection handling. • Airspace. Class error off by one. • XContest, LiveTrack24 and PureTrack fixes. • Instrument fonts. No more number clipping when system font was above normal. • Plus a pile of minor bug fixes.

The radio goes wireless • Your kv4p radio now connects over Bluetooth. No cable, no adapter, just pair it like any other device. • You can flash the radio's firmware straight from the app, in one tap. No computer, no holding tiny buttons. • Lightning now shows on the map. Strikes from the ground network and from satellite, so you can see a storm building before it finds you. • Everything voice now lives in one place under Settings: the agent, your channels, the radio, and which microphone you're actually using. • One channel at a time by default, like a real radio. Pick a channel and it leaves the last one. Turn on multi-channel in settings if you'd rather listen to several. • Navigation says what it's doing now: Direct, Route, or Competition. And your task edits finally stick, including renames, radius changes and reordering turnpoints. • PureTrack is now a connected service. Switch it on and your live track shows up there too. • Muting a channel actually silences it. Muting Local used to look muted and keep playing, sorry to everyone who hit that at a comp. • Your radio connects to your radio, not whichever one answered first, and it always unmutes again after a transmission. • Clearer radio audio in both directions, and the mic closes when nothing needs it instead of sitting open all flight. • A barometer hiccup at startup could quietly cost you altitude data for a whole flight. Fixed. • The map no longer goes blank mid-flight. We found two ways that could happen. • Your top speed and best climb no longer get thrown off by the odd GPS glitch. • Takeoff names on your own flights show up and stay put, and flights that got cut short still get a map preview. • Live tracking to XContest stays one flight now, instead of splitting when the app restarts mid-air. • Editing a competition start gate no longer overwrites the field while you're typing in it. • Group leaders can finally delete their own groups. • Preflight no longer tells you location permission is missing when it isn't. • Faster airspace and obstacle warnings, and lighter weather downloads.

Notifications, flight sharing, and a big stack of fixes • An in-app inbox: get notified when someone gives kudos or comments on your flights, right from the bell up top. • Share a flight to your Instagram story - a ready-made image with your track and stats - and add your Instagram handle to your profile. • Your flights now split themselves into segments - hike, fly, gondola, drive - so a hike-and-fly reads as what it actually was. • Steadier wind while ridge and coastal soaring - it no longer flips around to point downwind. • Smoother, more accurate vario on devices with a built-in barometer. • Exiting a replay can no longer start a phantom recording, and your group never sees the replayed position as yours. • XContest live tracking now works for every connected pilot, shows you as a single dot, and your auto-upload choice sticks across devices. • Sturdier map: rare error loops now recover on the spot, and auto-zoom works with a single tap on a fresh install. • Side View no longer freezes waiting on a GPS fix, and the sea now draws at sea level. • Task navigation: the goal cylinder stops glowing after you've reached goal, and the WP Arr / Task Alt colors are back. • Voice messages start faster, NOTAMs are more complete, and My Flights no longer shows other pilots' flights. • Tidier Home: your flights live on your profile now, and the feed is one simple list. • Bluetooth varios that share hardware with PTT buttons are recognized correctly again.

Small bugfixes • Map stability • Auto-zoom • XContest login

Meet the pgpilot agent, a new Home, and better replays • Meet the pgpilot agent - a voice assistant for the whole app. Ask it to zoom the map, navigate somewhere, or catch you up on the last messages in the chat, all hands-free. It's brand new and still learning, so let us know how it does for you. • Better analysis and replays. Every flight now has an analysis page - your climbs, glides, and how the flight really went - and the photos and videos you grab in the air show up on the map as you replay, right where you took them. • A new Home screen. We've split the non-flying features out from the flying ones and built a Home screen. We've got big plans for it going forward - for now it's your flights feed, who's in the air, and your season at a glance. • Support mode. I've spent countless nights on this project and I never expect it to make me rich, but if you like it, you can now show some support by backing it with a coffee a month. It'll be highly appreciated 3 • Another big round of performance work - the flight screen stays smooth and light on the battery, even with a lot of traffic and a long track on the map. • Steadier altitude while you fly: the app now trims your QNH continuously instead of locking it once at takeoff. • Small camera improvements: pick the front or back camera per shot, and set a cover photo for a flight. • Replays now show thermals properly - yours and your buddies' - and the altitude widget no longer dips below the ground. • Fewer car and bike trips get logged as flights by mistake. • A proper light mode for flying in bright sun, plus easier-to-read text in dark mode. • Bugfix for a rare map crash.

In-flight camera • New in-flight camera: tap once to grab a short clip from the front and back cameras at the same time, or snap a photo - all without leaving your flight screen. It runs off to the side so your vario and sensors keep humming. • Live preview with a 3-2-1 countdown before each shot, so you can see the cameras have framed and focused before it fires. • Set how long each clip runs right on the camera widget, and your clips and photos save straight to your phone's gallery with the selfie view tucked into the corner. • Terrain side-view now shows on the flight summary page too. • Wind estimate is steadier and more accurate while you're cruising between thermals. • Obstacle and airspace warnings now come up reliably even in the first moments after launch. • Live tracking to XContest only kicks in once you're actually airborne - no more 0 km ground flights. • Battery-saver no longer blanks the screen while you're rearranging your instruments.

Obstacle and airspace warnings • New obstacle and airspace warnings: a heads-up with a distinct sound when you're near a cable, mast or tower and low enough for it to matter, or approaching airspace. • New Sounds & alerts panel (Settings → Flying): every in-flight sound and pop-up on or off, mute all with one switch, and preview any. • Battery-saver mode can show bigger instruments where the map usually sits, instead of going black. Off by default - Kjell's idea. • The kv4p radio's physical PTT button now keys the mic and transmits. Thanks Christophe. • A quick tap on push-to-talk now wakes the screen and reconnects, so you're ready the moment you hold to talk. • Fixed the Offline Maps panel silently killing your GPS mid-flight. • Side view shows thin features like a river again, instead of collapsing to one color. • The app now records crashes so we can fix them faster.

Wind stations update in flight again • When you send a bug report, the app now attaches the last stretch of diagnostics on its own - much easier for us to track down what went wrong, and one less thing for you to describe. • Wind stations on the map update again while you fly. They were quietly freezing at their first reading until the screen was toggled - now they refresh every few minutes like they should. Thanks Kjell for the sharp report. • The same fix un-froze other live map details, so things like markers dimming as their data ages tick along properly again. • If you fly with a Bluetooth vario that reports position in two parts, speed and heading are smoother now - the app merges them into one clean update instead of two half-updates. • After a rare graphics hiccup the map no longer gets stuck flickering while it tries to recover forever - if it truly can't, it says so and lets you reload.

See the thermals • Thermals now show on the map - yours and nearby pilots'. Each climb draws from where it was entered to where it topped out, colored by how strong the lift was, and drifting with the wind so you aim for where the core is now, not where it was. • The side view shows them too: climbs appear as colored columns on the terrain profile, so you can see at a glance how high a thermal ahead of you went. Handy for coming back to a climb you left. • If you have the thermal hotspots overlay on, it now also shades the terrain in the side view. • The vario reacts quicker. We now blend the phone's motion sensor with the barometer, so it picks up lift the moment you hit it instead of a second later. Phones without a motion sensor keep working exactly as before. • Wind estimate while circling got a proper accuracy pass - it used to over-read light wind and under-read strong wind. Speed and direction should now track much closer to reality. Thanks Kjell for the report and the reference data. • Battery settings are simpler: pick a Normal, Saver, or Extreme preset instead of fiddling with sliders. Display settings that apply everywhere now sit at the top of the Pages panel. • In Plan mode, pressing push-to-talk no longer yanks the map back to your own position - you stay where you were browsing. • Tracked down another case of the app re-announcing itself over and over during flight - live positions and voice should hold up even steadier now.

Smoother push-to-talk and steadier live voice • Your connected radio and the app's group voice can now bridge both ways - what you say in the group can go out over the radio too, so radio-only and app-only pilots hear each other. Still fresh, so let us know how it holds up. • Push-to-talk is smoother. Keying up no longer causes a quick reconnect, so the very start of what you say comes through cleanly instead of getting clipped. • Live voice holds up much better on a flaky signal. We tracked down a loop where the app kept re-announcing itself and got throttled - it now stays connected calmly instead of dropping the first moment of a transmission.

Help us sharpen the vario • There's a new 'Benchmark logging' switch in your vario settings. If you fly with a Bluetooth vario, flip it on and your flights will quietly log both the phone's own sensors and the connected vario side by side. That lets us see how fast each one reacts and make the vario sharper for everyone. It's off by default and completely optional - but if you turn it on, it's a real help. • Tidied up the close and back buttons across all the slide-up panels - an X in the top-right to close, a back-arrow in the top-left to step back, the same everywhere instead of a mix of styles. • Map follow stays put when the map is rotated - the little dead-zone that keeps you centered only kicks in when the map is north-up now, like it should.

Vario reconnects on its own, and tidier instruments • Your vario reconnects on its own now. If the Bluetooth link drops mid-flight, the app keeps trying and picks it back up instead of going quiet until you notice and fiddle with it. • Instrument widgets can shrink all the way down to a single cell. Handy if you like to pack a lot onto one screen - the numbers auto-scale to fit instead of getting clipped. • Closing Settings snaps straight back to the map now, instead of hanging for a beat. • Rain radar no longer disappears when the map redraws itself - it stays on the map. • Pop-ups like the delete-account and input-learning dialogs now show up centered on screen instead of tucked off in a corner. • Side View labels stay crisp and upright when you resize the widget - no more squished text.

Clearer FAI triangle helper on the map • The FAI triangle helper on the map got a proper polish. The arcs showing where to fly to grow your triangle are clearer (dark outline so they read against any map background), the distance rings now thin out or fill in as you zoom, and it no longer flickers or jumps when you shift around - including when you scrub back through a flight. • Fewer brief disconnects from chat and live pilots. After a flaky signal the app could pile up reconnect attempts and briefly drop you; it now reconnects once, calmly.

Crisper maps, a wind arrow on the map, and a smoother Side View • The maps got a proper refresh and read much better now. Terrain relief is stronger so ridges and valleys pop, the main roads stand out clearly, contour lines and elevation labels are easier to pick out, and the slope-steepness shading moved to a calmer yellow-to-amber ramp instead of the old alarmist red. All the map styles got the same treatment. • There's a wind arrow now that sits right on your position on the map, so you can read the wind without taking your eyes off where you are. • You can drop a waypoint straight from the navigation settings, handy for marking a spot to head for. • Side View got proper ground colors so the terrain under you actually looks like terrain - fields, water, rock - instead of a flat band. • You can now reclaim the screen edges for your layout right in the widget editor. Tap an edge band to grow your instruments into the notch or rounded-corner area, and tap again to give it back. Bands only show up where your device actually has an edge to reclaim. • Fixed the map coming up blank right after an app update if you had maps saved for offline use. Until now the only way out was deleting your offline maps - it sorts itself out on its own now, and your downloaded maps stay put. • Fixed the map sometimes going black and staying that way. It now notices when the graphics drop out and rebuilds itself instead of leaving you with a blank screen. • Your custom map theme now follows you across your devices instead of living on just the one. • Tidied up a duplicate heading in Settings.

Offline maps download cleanly again • Downloading maps for offline use works again. It was quietly hitting a storage limit and failing partway through, especially over areas with lots of wind stations. Now even large areas save cleanly, and you can grab a few regions back to back without trouble. • Fixed the map sometimes coming up black instead of loading. It should come up reliably now.

Not all updates are this visible — mostly under-the-hood this time • We spent most of this update on things you won't directly see: the app does a lot less work every second while you fly, so it stays smooth and sips less battery — especially with the instruments and Side View open. • Thermal Assist now has the lift rose built right in. The ring showing where the lift was strongest around your last few circles lives in the widget itself, so you can read which way to widen at a glance. • Distance rings around your position, with the range written right on each ring. • Obstacles like power lines and cables show up from further out, so you catch them while planning rather than when you're already on top of them. • The map's easier to read — labels and your own marker got contrast halos, and airspace borders stay crisp over the thermal heatmap. • The Side View runs smoother — it keeps up as you turn instead of redrawing the whole picture every moment, and the terrain holds steady while just your glider tracks across it. • Taking off no longer auto-points your nav arrow back at launch. • A calm wind estimate now shows as zero instead of a dash, so you know it's actually working. • A single bad altitude reading can't wreck your flight's max climb and sink anymore. • Pilots stop vanishing from the map when they bunch up close together in a gaggle. • Vario and alert sounds now play even when you're not touching the screen. • Your position keeps reaching the traffic networks while the app's in the background. • Trying to join a private group while signed out now tells you what to do instead of just failing quietly. • The low-volume warning moved into the status bar instead of floating over your map. • The map stays fast even when one of its data servers is having a bad day.

Not all updates are this visible — mostly under-the-hood this time • We spent most of this update on things you won't directly see: the app does a lot less work every second while you fly, so it stays smooth and sips less battery — especially with the instruments and Side View open. • Thermal Assist now has the lift rose built right in. The ring showing where the lift was strongest around your last few circles lives in the widget itself, so you can read which way to widen at a glance. • Distance rings around your position, with the range written right on each ring. • Obstacles like power lines and cables show up from further out, so you catch them while planning rather than when you're already on top of them. • The map's easier to read — labels and your own marker got contrast halos, and airspace borders stay crisp over the thermal heatmap. • Taking off no longer auto-points your nav arrow back at launch. • A calm wind estimate now shows as zero instead of a dash, so you know it's actually working. • A single bad altitude reading can't wreck your flight's max climb and sink anymore. • Pilots stop vanishing from the map when they bunch up close together in a gaggle. • Vario and alert sounds now play even when you're not touching the screen. • Your position keeps reaching the traffic networks while the app's in the background. • Trying to join a private group while signed out now tells you what to do instead of just failing quietly. • The low-volume warning moved into the status bar instead of floating over your map. • The map stays fast even when one of its data servers is having a bad day.

A big Bluetooth rework, a sharper Side View, and a thermal bubble you can put where you like • We rebuilt how the app talks to your vario over Bluetooth. Connections come back far more reliably after a dropout, you can run more than one vario at once, and you choose per device whether to use the vario's own climb readings or the app's. If your vario reports temperature and humidity, you'll see those too. • The Side View got a proper cleanup — it's one widget now, with a switch for whether it follows your heading or the route to your next waypoint. Airspaces, contrast, and waypoint markers are all easier to read at a glance. • The thermal bubble is now a widget you can place wherever you like — it no longer has to sit in the middle of the map, so you can tuck it out of the way and keep your view clear. • Tap a pilot on the map for a lot more: navigate straight to them, mark them as a buddy, jump to their group, or grab a share link. • XContest does more than sync now — your flights upload to XContest straight from the app. • The terrain hillshade is now lit by the real sun position for the time of day, so the relief looks the way it actually does out there. • New true-black map style that's easier on the battery on OLED screens. • The Side View is much smoother now. It was quietly redoing a lot of work several times a second, which could make the whole app feel sluggish with it open — that's sorted. • When you replay a flight, your own marker shows as an arrow again instead of the walking icon. • Auto-recenter behaves better — it backs off the moment you pan, and stays put while you've got a menu open. • Voice you missed while the app was in the background now recovers properly instead of going quiet. • Tapping the compass does the right thing whether you're in north-up or track-up. • Vario connections rank devices more sensibly, so the app stops latching onto things that aren't your vario. • A keyed-up wake tap no longer fires push-to-talk by accident.

- test(xcontest): run coros on a dedicated-thread loop to fix xdist event-loop clash (#825) - release: 2026.6.5.1346 — reliable PTT on weak signal + LiveTrack24 live tracking (#824) - feat(voice): join-first PTT - wait for channel rejoin before transmitting (#822) - docs(livetrack24): fix stale push docstring (livetrack_enabled, no feature flag) (#823) - fix(comms): reconcile PTT connection indicator with real channel state (#818) - fix(voice): broadcast v2 chunks during channel reconnect ('connecting') (#816) - chore(backlog): TASK-462.1 done (LiveTrack24 push merged, PRs #811 #821) - feat(livetrack24): enable push for all users via livetrack_enabled toggle (#821) - fix(flightlog): badge reads the sync root so uploaded flights stop showing "Not uploaded" (#820) - feat(classifier): drive rule + stats fallback for trackless flights (#817) - fix(sync): resync from real live_tracks coverage, not the lying count column (#819) - chore(backlog): TASK-464 XContest live-push follow-ups (PR #813 merged) - feat(xcontest-push): relay pilot positions to the XContest live map (owner-gated) - chore(backlog): TASK-463 resync staleness fix (PR #819) addresses chunk-backfill gap - feat(livetrack24): backend push relay of live flights (TASK-462.1) (#811) - chore(backlog): TASK-463 app flights lose cloud track when live_tracks never sync - chore(backlog): TASK-450 quiet-period outcome - still blocked, likely range-level - fix(airspace): show on ground, distance-only line fallback, compact status pill (#815)

- release: 2026.6.4.2113 — airspace overhaul, task line, metres-when-close, hike/fly (#814) - Airspace overhaul: unified analysis, status pills, single instrument, datum correctness (#809) - feat(flights): hike/fly split — fix activity data loss, distinct hike color, bulk delete (#812) - chore(backlog): TASK-462.1 in progress (push PR #811) - fix(task): full optimized line for task distance/altitude, meters-when-close, waypoint sounds (#810) - docs(backlog): validate XContest Live push protocol end-to-end - chore(backlog): add LiveTrack24 integration tasks (TASK-462 push/pull) - docs(backlog): reverse-engineered XCTrack XContest Live push protocol - ci(android): wire store-listing icon/graphics sync to Play Console (#807) - chore(backlog): add battery next-frontier task - docs(backlog): iOS battery experiments report (dedup validation, deadband, journey, next frontier)

- Release 2026.6.3.2245 — Grenoble pass 1 (release notes) (#806) - fix(fai-assist): bend FAI assist arcs into iso-perimeter ellipses (FAI-clipped) (#799) - chore(backlog): mark TASK-459 + TASK-458 Done (shipped in #803) - perf(map): persistent setData de-dup + fix GPS-inject seam (TASK-459, TASK-458) (#803) - feat(network): @capacitor/network as native connectivity trigger + cadence input (TASK-460) (#805) - feat(instruments): thicker black outline on instrument values for legibility (#804) - chore(backlog): renumber map-gate de-dup task 457->459 (457 taken by merged voice task) - chore(backlog): add TASK-457 (map-gate persistent de-dup) + TASK-458 (fix GPS-inject seam) from iOS battery investigation - fix(voice): re-fetch chat history on Realtime reconnect to recover missed PTT (TASK-457) (#801) - chore(backlog): renumber duplicate TASK-454 (resume→455, roger-beep→456; iOS-bg keeps 454) - feat(voice): background PTT playback on iOS via silent-audio keep-alive (Sleep-gated) (TASK-454) (#793) - fix(voice): always deliver unheard PTT messages via listen-outcome model (TASK-454) (#795) - fix(voice): play PTT opener roger-beep before mic opens so it isn't transmitted (#797) - fix(comms): give PTT button the frosted shadow halo other buttons have (#800) - chore(backlog): TASK-453 done (brightness arbiter + iOS plugin fix, PR #794) - Centralized brightness arbiter + ON/OFF-Auto model (TASK-453) (#794) - fix(flight): cross-check Doppler speed vs ground movement to stop false indoor takeoffs (#798) - fix(map): correct flight-track z-order + consolidate map layer ordering (#796) - chore(backlog): TASK-453 in progress (PR #794) - chore(backlog): add brightness arbiter + ON/OFF-Auto task

- chore(release): 2026.5.25.2200 — font size, nicknames, obstacles fix (#760) - feat(display): font size scale setting (0.8x-1.6x) (#759) - feat(profile): pilot nickname for compact map labels (#756) - fix(sw): obstacles 8s timeout aborted cold cache, killed the layer (#758) - feat(presence): align position-reporting timers to wall-clock multiples (#757) - fix(ios-ptt): self-heal stuck recorder state on next press (#754) - fix(comms): bump group-channel recreate delay 500ms → 5s (#755) - chore(map): tune non-buddy pilot icon sizes (#753) - fix(comms): force-recreate group channel on CHANNEL_ERROR/TIMED_OUT too (#752)

- chore(release): 2026.5.24.2100 — sticky BLE reconnect, terrain styles - fix(ios-ble): keep retrying auto-connect like Android (TASK-438) (#747) - chore(map): shrink non-group pilot icons (buddies 60%, others 20%) (#746) - feat(map): add Google Terrain and Hybrid raster styles (#745) - fix(ios-auth): keep pilots signed in across app backgrounding (#744) - feat(altitude): auto-QNH calibrates baro to GPS pre-takeoff (#742) - chore(backlog): add task-high.98 — move data_pipeline scheduler to dedicated thread (#743) - chore(backlog): record task-441 (bubble thermal-assist freeze fix, PR #740) (#741) - fix(thermal-assist): re-sample bubbles on every fix, not just at activation (#740) - chore(backlog): add task-high.98 — move data_pipeline scheduler to dedicated thread (#738) - docs(healthcheck): add HEALTHCHECK.md + incident log (draft) (#737) - perf(realtime): double broadcast flush intervals to halve Supabase load (#736)

- chore(release-notes): expand 2026.5.23.2002 with PTT, comms, backend fixes - chore(release): 2026.5.23.2002 - fix Vegard 7h ghost flight + dedup cloud chunks - fix(flight-cloud): make track chunk upload idempotent (TASK-439) (#735) - fix(flight): auto-stop stale sessions on extended GPS silence (#734) - fix(backend): bound httpx pools + retain orphan asyncio tasks (#732) - fix(comms): throttle comms_channel_state_change emission at source (#733) - chore(ops): add Fly -> Axiom log-shipper runbook + setup script (#731) - fix(nav): stop navigation_started event storm tripping Supabase readonly (#728) - feat(events): per-event-name rate limit to cap analytics storms (#729) - fix(realtime): mirror channel.state on worker proxy (TASK-438) (#727) - chore(ops): add Supabase emergency recovery script (#730) - chore(voice): revert v2 default to off pending receiver regression (#725)

- chore(release): 2026.5.21.2138 — orientation + edit-mode + safe-area + landing fixes (#723) - fix(display): reapply safe-area override after native re-injection (#721) - fix(landing): reset detector on wake gap to prevent Android brief-background false trigger (#722) - fix(instruments): center edit toolbar + displace widgets on resize (#720)