v1.9.0

• New VECTOR command, which can provide a player with a vector to a nearby compatible fuel tanker or a custom named location
• Updated controller behavior of when to choose BRAA vs Bullseye coordinate in THREAT calls
• Performance improvements, bug fixes, and more accurate speech recognition

What's Changed

• Upgrade whisper.cpp from v1.7.2 fork to upstream v1.8.4 by @dharmab in #651
• Fix THREAT call phrasing to omit "group" by @dharmab in #655
• Pre-size callsign slice and add collation benchmark by @dharmab in #658
• Pick THREAT call format from on-frequency receivers by @dharmab in #656
• Add support for custom locations and VECTOR command by @dharmab in #572
• Extract callsign parsing into pkg/callsigns by @dharmab in #675
• Fix nearby-group sorting by removing float-to-int comparator truncation by @Copilot in #670
• Fix callsign index collisions and stale entries by @dharmab in #676
• Update architecture diagram to reflect current data flow by @dharmab in #679
• Guard FindNearestGroupWithBullseye against nil group dereference by @Copilot in #669
• Fix grace period check blocked by ReadString during ACMI stream stall by @dharmab in #678
• Fix potential deadlock in updateObject by @dharmab in #677
• Replace gammazero/deque with dharmab/collections by @dharmab in #681
• Add controller handler unit tests and fix group aspect bug by @dharmab in #680
• fix(simpleradio): use atomic.Bool for secureCoalitionRadios by @SAY-5 in #672
• Fix sendUpdates holding RLock while blocking on unbuffered channel by @dharmab in #682
• Use sets package from dharmab/collections by @dharmab in #684
• Upgrade actions/checkout from v4 to v6 by @dharmab in #683
• Add STT variant entries to replacements LUT based on April 2026 data by @dharmab in #685
• Fix missing content in VECTOR responses by @dharmab in #686
• Clean up VECTOR implementation by @dharmab in #687

New Contributors

• @SAY-5 made their first contribution in #672

Full Changelog: v1.8.1...v1.9.0

v1.8.1

What's Changed

• Upgrade Go version to 1.26
• Significant improvements to the parser, increasing the success rate of understanding player callsigns
• Improvements to how radar contact track directions are reported.
  • Group track directions now consider all contacts in the group, not just one arbitrary contact
  • Group track direction can now be considered UNKNOWN in ambiguous situations
• SRS Message.ClientInfo field is now nilable

Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.8.1

v1.8.0

What's Changed

• Add A-6E to encyclopedia by @dharmab in #637
• Add experimental Transverse Mercator projection for spatial operations by @dharmab in #634
  • Hopefully improves accuracy of bullseye and BRAA calls on Kola and South Atlantic.
  • May decrease accuracy of bullseye and BRAA calls on some terrains. Disabled by default. See ADMIN.md for more information.
  • Thanks @red-one1 for investigating this issue and proposing the solution.

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.8.0

v1.7.0

What's Changed

• Update replacements through 2025-11-11 by @dharmab in #612
• Use assert instead of require where possible by @dharmab in #613
• Tune replacements to fix failing test by @dharmab in #615
• Add Claude context by @dharmab in #616
• Upgrade golangci-lint to v2.7.1 and fix linter errors by @dharmab in #623
• Update Go to 1.25.5 by @dharmab in #622
• Add F-14A-135-GR-Early variant to encyclopedia by @dharmab in #620
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.42.0 to 0.45.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #621
• Add volume control flag for audio output by @dharmab in #624
• Time out synthesis after 30 seconds by @dharmab in #617
• Rewrite parser by @dharmab in #627
• Update Siri voice docs for macOS 26 by @dharmab in #630

Full Changelog: v1.6.0...v1.7.0

v1.6.0

What's Changed

• Fix threat call subtitles by @dharmab in #603
• Upgrade Go to 1.25 by @dharmab in #604
• Adjust formatting of DECLARE responses by @dharmab in #605
• Note that speed filter is disabled with Tacview 1.9.5 beta 16 by @dharmab in #606
• Add make targets to download Whisper models by @dharmab in #610
• Fix radar returning some aircraft using trackfile coalition's bullseye instead of player coalition's bullseye by @dharmab in #609
• Add STROBE command by @dharmab in #571

Full Changelog: v1.5.1...v1.6.0

v1.5.1

What's Changed

• Update contributing guide by @dharmab in #598
• Fix Makefile for Windows by @gcask in #585
• Fix BOGEY DOPE traces using TTS text in subtitles/traces by @dharmab in #599
• Deduplicate composition calls in composer by @dharmab in #600
• Update golangci-lint by @dharmab in #601

Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.5.1

v1.5.0

What's Changed

• Handle some cases where STT outputs digits as words instead of numerals by @dharmab in #582
• Various misc cleanup too small for individual commits by @dharmab in #583
• Clarify maintenance status of SkyEye by @dharmab in #589
• Fix typo by @dharmab in #590
• Bump github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2 from 2.2.1 to 2.4.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #592
• Allow SkyEye voice to be recorded by clients by @dharmab in #593
• Add support for MiG-29 module by @dharmab in #591

Full Changelog: v1.4.4...v1.5.0

v1.4.4

What's Changed

• Update replacements data through May 2025 by @dharmab in #581

Full Changelog: v1.4.3...v1.4.4

v1.4.3

What's Changed

• Fix ordering of collated callsigns by @dharmab in #580

Full Changelog: v1.4.2...v1.4.3

v1.4.2

Developer's note: This release is only applicable to installations running the Linux container. SkyEye itself has not changed since v1.4.1.

What's Changed

• Install CA certificates in container by @dharmab in #576

Full Changelog: v1.4.1...v1.4.2