Beta 2.90.5 goes public

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OSTC firmware 2.90 introduce some changes (eg. a separate gas list for CCR diluants), giving OSTC Planner some trouble to communicate with your dive computer.
An update is under way: it is in a near stable state now, so I decided to make it available to the public, as it is definitively helpful for those of you who upgraded their dive computer with the latest firmware.

Download:

The latest OSTC Planner 2.90.5 beta is available here:

Translations:

The next big step for the final 2.90 release, is to update all translations (or at least French and German). The current status is:
French:   finished 80%, unfinished 20%.
German: finished 58%, unfinished 21%, missing 21%.
Italian:     finished 44%, unfinished 18%, missing 38%.
Russian: finished 45%, unfinished 18%, missing 37%.
Spanish: finished   8%, unfinished 41%, missing 51%.
(missing means to translation was proposed. unfinished means the proposed translation should be validated by another volunteer).
If you which to help, you can download the translation kit is here:
It should be installed after the beta, and contains the Qt Linguist tool to edit and/or validate the translation files.
–> Please contact info ostc-planner.net to volunteer for translations, so I can coordinate efforts, and output the release quickly.

Known issues:

  • On some platform, probably too fast, connection to the OSTC computer is a bit prone to transmission errors. OSTC Planner should handle this in most case by retrying transfer. Screen Dump still fails on some machines.

Fixed by 2.90.5:

  • With several travel mix taken before ascending to the first stop, gas volumes where wrong. This was a bug in the OSTC firmware.

Fixed by 2.90.4:

  • bug #34: installation error on Windows 8.1, due to Visual 2010 C++ redist.
  • bug #32: minor error rounding SP value in decoplan.
  • bug #33: CCR dive with bailout and two deco mix: the first one does not show in decoplan or plots.
  • OSTC Planner now manages all gas switch between bottom and first stops.

Fixed by 2.90.3:

  • bug #30: CCR bailout gas are from OC list, since fw 2.70. Should be written in the console and the plots too.
  • CF descriptions should be translated in CF Editor.
  • many cleanups in user message, to ease translations.
  • Twicked timeout for the serial communication: seems to be more reliable for ScreenDumps.

Fixed by 2.90.2:

Thanks to your reports, there have been a few bug fixed:

  • Messages truncate to 1024 bytes in console, effectively trashing the end of long deco plans.
  • Messages ending by % overlapping each others.
  • Accents in messages trashing the console.
  • Make console message asking for language translation.
  • CCR mode first diluent taken from the regular (bailout) gas list.
  • CCR mode forbidding 100% He diluent.
  • Ability to run a single script.
  • CF41 is unused.
  • Installed package structure, so it find every bits when it starts.
    … and many minor cleanups.

New in 2.90.1:

  • Support for the 2.90 OSTC firmware