Dear Cruisers,

Right on the heels of Open CPN 5.0 I'm happy to report that the MultiRadarPlugin team has just released the first production release of the super-duper new plugin with multi-brand radar support.

Here is what they worked on over the past 18 months:

• New major features in this release:

• Support for Open CPN V 5.0 and multi canvas with simultaneous overlay of two different radars

• Revised multi radar type architecture. Adding a new radar only requires radar knowledge and can reuse the existing display technology.

• Support for four simultaneously active radars. Multiple brands can be mixed.

• Display and UI:

• Real time true motion image

• Multi canvas support with simultaneous overlay of two different radars

• Look forward and look aft in radar windows

• Dragging and zooming in radar windows

• Performance and stability improvements

• Radar support

• Garmin HD and xHD radar support

• Navico “new” 3G support. Older 3G radars are still supported via the BR24 type

• Navico HALO-3, HALO-4, HALO-6 and HALO24 support

The Ubuntu PPA should update in the following days.

This release means that as of now, it is highly recommend that you use this plugin. Not only is it the only released radar plugin that works with O5, it is also much improved over the existing Garmin and Navicoplugins.

Let me know what you guys think,

arcticmuse