Release Notes

v2.4.0 (6th September 2024)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - Planned Flights - use this feature to find other pilots to fly with. Flying with other pilots is one of the best ways to improve your skills and build your hours. You can propose a planned flight or browse other existing flights nearby.
  • - Sort Feed and Explore All flights by Flight Date or Upload Date
  • - App store review button in "More" options
  • - The layout of flight cards has removed padding and a photo counter. If photos exist, the first photo is shown by default.

v2.2.0 (24th July 2024)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - Flight photo limit increased to 25, indicating in the UI how many photos have been selected for clarity
  • - Registration date added to profile pages

πŸ› Fixed

  • - You can now "Read all" notifications again
  • - You can now share flight passports directly to other apps on Android

v2.1.0 (15th July 2024)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - Social Logins - you can now login with Google (iOS and Android) and Apple (iOS only)
  • - Email upload instructions: log flight by emailing upload@avinet.app
  • - Updated partners section: include Pooleys and Wings Taking Flight
  • - You can now click on URLs in flight descriptions
  • - Sign out and Delete Account moved to "More" tab

v1.21.0 (15th May 2024)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - 4th tab is now 'More' which houses non-primary navigation items in the app
  • - New Partners section which gives details on our partnerships and affiliate links that you can use to support us.
  • - You are now warned about leaving the edit flight page if you have unsaved changes

v1.20.0 (11th May 2024)

πŸŽ‰ Improved

  • - Long fields now have a character counter in the bottom right, showing when the length limit is reached

πŸ› Fixed

  • - You can no longer use just spaces as your name on signup

v1.18.2 (5th May 2024)

πŸ› Fixed

  • - Further maintenance upgrading dependencies and cleaning things up
  • - Long names no longer run off the side when creating your Flight Passport

v1.18.1 (3rd May 2024)

πŸ› Fixed

  • - Maintenance release, upgrading dependencies and migrating from deprecated libraries

v1.18.0 (3rd May 2024)

πŸŽ‰ Improved

  • - Welcome screens have had a total revamp
  • - Feedback screen has been tidied up to focus on what matters, your feedback
  • - Flight comment screen no longer dismisses the keyboard when you scroll, making it a nicer experience to chat

v1.17.0 (1st May 2024)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - You can now pinch and zoom on flight photos to see them in more detail.

v1.16.0 (22nd April 2024)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - Flight passports. Now share a summary of your flight to socials!
  • - Profile stats. Now you can see and compare stats and activity right on the pilot's profile.
  • - Loading screens have been tidied up a bit
  • - Text inputs look more native
  • - Feedback message field and flight description max lengths have been increased to 2000 chars.
  • - We now explain about the visibility of your flight upload on the log flight page.
  • - You can now hide the altitude and speed charts of your flight if you wish.
  • - The app now lands you on the signup page when you first open it, as we assume most people seeing this page are new.

πŸ› Fixed

  • - Edit flight button now floats above the keyboard, not underneath it.
  • - Feed flight thumbnails now show the correct thumbnail all of the time.
  • - "You and 1 other HAVE liked...": correct the grammar of the flight like text.

v1.15.0 (15th April 2024)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - Log flight has had a rethink! Pilots now start with uploading the files, and then land on the flight edit page which is a much better representation of how the flight will look once completed.
  • - Moved the notification icon to the left of the app header.

v1.14.0 (7th April 2024)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - Explore flights by location. You can now search for flights by searching a location in the explore page.
  • - Editing your profile from the 'Getting started checklist' will redirect back to your feed once done.

πŸ› Fixed

  • - Sign up/in pages now have a white background for all devices.
  • - Placeholder text in Location search bars now appear grey on all devices.

v1.13.0 (4th April 2024)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - There is now an 'Explore' tab with a public feed, showing all flights on AviNet regardless of if you follow them or not.
  • - Your profile tab now lives in the top right of the app header.

v1.12.5 (2nd April 2024)

πŸ› Fixed

  • - New loading overlay on successful flight upload/edit now dismisses properly after editing a flight

v1.12.4 (2nd April 2024)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - Scroll to top arrow added to feed and profile page, you can also now tap the feed or profile icons on the bottom to perform the same action (i.e. refreshing that page and scrolling to the top)

πŸ› Fixed

  • - Searching for a user's name with a rogue space left at the end of the search term (e.g. 'John ') now successfully returns the search results.
  • - Flights without data now handle that state much nicer than before.
  • - Only plot positive values on altitude and speed charts.

v1.12.3 (1st April 2024)

πŸ› Fixed

  • - Flight uploads sometimes appeared blank (no data graphs or track thumbnail) if you moved off the upload screen before the upload was complete. We've added a loading overlay to stop this happening by accident.

v1.12.2 (31st March 2024)

πŸ› Fixed

  • - A bug in the authentication code meant there was a 5 minute window where no network requests would go through due to an expired token. This manifested as an 'Unknown error, Please try again later or contact support' notification. This has now been corrected.

v1.12.1 (31st March 2024)

πŸ› Fixed

  • - Scrolling to the bottom of a pilot profile now reliably triggers loading the next page of flight data.

v1.12.0 (30th March 2024)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - Flight graphs now look a little nicer (thanks to a version upgrade)
  • - Sentry has been added for error logging

πŸ› Fixed

  • - This is a maintenance release. All dependencies have been upgraded to their latest stable version to ensure security and that latest bug fixes / features are available to us. If you notice anything wrong, please let us know.

v1.11.0 (26th March 2024)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - Search users by location. You can now search for a location and receive back the other users on AviNet closest to this location.
  • - Flight comments containing links will now be clickable, so you can open them in a browser.
  • - Added a timezone to the flight time - we still need to work on localising this to the flyer not the viewer!

v1.10.2 (17th February 2024)

πŸ› Fixed

  • - Handle no internet connection with an information screen, rather than incorrectly showing email verification.

v1.10.1 (14th February 2024)

πŸ› Fixed

  • - Removed file type restrictions so Samsung users can pick GPX files

v1.10.0 (12th February 2024)

πŸŽ‰ New

  • - You can now use multiple files to upload a flight. The motivation for us to do this comes from how SkyDemon exports flights if you shut down somewhere. Assuming they're actually all in the same flight, you can now combine them all in one upload.

v1.9.1 (11th February 2024)

πŸŽ‰ Improved

  • - Increased the feedback message max length to 1000 characters.
  • - Increased the flight comment max length to 256 characters.

v1.9.0 (10th February 2024)

πŸŽ‰ New

  • - Add location to pilot profiles on search page. (Proximity sorting coming soon!)

v1.8.0 (3rd February 2024)

πŸŽ‰ New

  • - You can now share a flight outside of AviNet App!

v1.7.0 (10th January 2024)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - You can now upload photos with your flights.
  • - You can now upload your flights from your desktop at https://www.upload.avinet.app.
  • - You can now add your home airfield to your profile.
  • - The 'Like' flight and 'Comment' on flight buttons now have an improved look.
  • - A new getting started checklist is now shown on your feed.

v1.6.0 (30th December 2023)

πŸŽ‰ New

  • - You can now like comments on flights!

v1.5.2 (29th December 2023)

πŸŽ‰ Improved

  • - You can pull to refresh the main feed even if it's empty now.
  • - Some main submit buttons are now floating buttons, this makes the app experience feel a bit cleaner.
  • - Flight cards now have distance and duration icons.

πŸ› Fixed

  • - Much better flight upload error handling. You should now be warned about something being wrong rather than the app trying something and getting into a broken state.

v1.5.1 (24th December 2023)

πŸ› Fixed

  • - Flight upload form submit button is now correctly disabled/enabled based on user inputs

v1.5.0 (24th December 2023)

πŸŽ‰ New

  • - We now support flight uploads using the .igc file format and the .onflight binary file format.

πŸ› Fixed

  • - Notifications from users who have deleted their profile no longer cause in-app error popups. You're also no longer able to click on the disabled notifications.

v1.4.0 (22nd December 2023)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - .kml files can be now be used to upload a flight (e.g. from ForeFlight Mobile).
  • - New look and feel for the flight comments page, including network cache invalidation on push notification receipt, so the comments update for the receiver as soon as the sender has sent it.

πŸ› Fixed

  • - Deleting flight loading view is now styled properly again.

v1.3.1 (20th December 2023)

πŸŽ‰ New

  • - Now released to North America, most of Europe and Australia

πŸ› Fixed

  • - Flight upload form now resets every time you open it. Previously it was persisting the last page you were on when editing a flight.

v1.3.0 (18th December 2023)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - Emails now require verification before you can proceed.
  • - Simplified the signing in and out logic within the code so we can more easily make sure the app is secure to use.

πŸ› Fixed

  • - You now only see a feed if you’re signed in.

v1.2.1 (11th December 2023)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - Removed the extra β€œX” when commenting on a flight.
  • - More space has been added between sign up buttons.
  • - Automated mailing list subscription and un-subscription.
  • - Instructional text regarding GPX files added.

πŸ› Fixed

  • - When searching for users, phone keyboard no longer hides the last few search results.
  • - When reporting content, you can now immediately select the 'Harassment' option for the reason of the report.
  • - Flight maps now works for iOS.

v1.2.0 (6th December 2023)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - "Elevation" to "Altitude" on the flight page as that better reflects the data it is showing.
  • - Uploading a profile picture now uses the device gallery rather than the device file system.

πŸ› Fixed

  • - You're now able to see the unfollow button after pressing follow when viewing a user's profile.

v1.1.1 (28th November 2023)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - Flights now use a 24-hour timestamp.

πŸ› Fixed

  • - Upgraded almost every 3rd party library to their latest version to ensure upstream security and receive their latest bug fixes.
  • - Edit flight now always shows the flight's values in the input fields.
  • - Fixed user profiles crashing occasionally on iOS (upstream bug).
  • - Fixed user stuck in limbo loading state after login/signup.
  • - Stopped unwanted network requests after signing out or deleting your account.

v1.1.0 (18th November 2023)

πŸŽ‰ New and Improved

  • - You can now block users you no longer wish to interact with.
  • - Privacy policy and terms of service now shown on sign up page.
  • - Email address to contact now copied to device clipboard when shown the user account suspension notification.

πŸ› Fixed

  • - Push notifications should now register correctly for your device.
  • - Welcome founder message is now scrollable so users on smaller screens can progress when signing up.
  • - User profile avatars now show greyed out user icon if the account no longer exists.

v1.0.0 (25th October 2023)

πŸŽ‰ New

  • - Personalised user profiles for a unique experience.
  • - Seamless user connection for a vibrant community.
  • - Easily access other users' flights on profiles and activity feeds.
  • - Share your journey with uploaded flight tracks.
  • - Explore interactive maps within the app for an immersive view.
  • - Engage with flights via likes and comments.
  • - Ensure the app is a safe space with offensive content reporting.
  • - Stay updated with push notifications for all in-app interactions.