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Subsurface Changelog

What's new in Subsurface 4.8.5

Jan 24, 2019
  • Shearwater import: add suppport for importing Shearwater Cloud logs
  • BT/BLE: all controller states other than powered off are valid (this works around issues on some Android devices where we didn’t find the Bluetooth controller)
  • Core: shift dive time in correct direction
  • Desktop: translate trip date
  • Dive computer support:
  • Fix support for Shearwater Teric with firmware v11
  • Add support for Oceanic Pro Plus X over BLE
  • Add support for the Cressi Goa and Cartesio
  • Add support for the Ratio iDive Color series
  • Add support for the Aqualung i300C

New in Subsurface 4.7.8 (May 25, 2018)

  • Desktop: Add Tags column in dive list view
  • Desktop: revert change that inadvertantly broke applying GPS coordinates to dives
  • Desktop: Fix format of CSV export for dive list and dive profile
  • Desktop: Change strategy when to allow to delete a cylinder
  • Desktop/Mobile: Format numbers according to selected Subsurface language
  • Desktop: combo box with fresh, sea water and EN 13319 in dive planner
  • Desktop: Changed “salinity” to “water type” at dive planner and dive info
  • Map-widget: try to match the zoom level in Google Maps
  • Map-widget: improve context menu texts
  • Dive pictures: Don’t load whole file for parsing EXIF data
  • Dive log import: Add imperial support for UDCF import
  • New dive computers supported:
  • Heinrichs Weikamp OSTC 2 TR
  • Scubapro Aladin Sport Matrix, Aladin Square
  • Seac Jack
  • Shearwater Nerd 2
  • Suunto EON Core

New in Subsurface 4.7.2 (Nov 21, 2017)

  • SmallUI fixes
  • Improvement to oxygen breaks code in planner
  • Write log messages into files when not started from a console on Windows
  • Improved detection of OpenGL versions (prevents potential crash on more operating systems with ancient gfx drivers)
  • Improve the map widget editing behavior. Allow updating the location of a marker that is being edited by entering new coordinates in the text field in “real-time”. Also, don’t place new markers at the 0,0 coordinate and instead place them at the current map center.

New in Subsurface 4.7.1 (Oct 24, 2017)

  • User interface changes:
  • New map widget. No more rotating globe, but much better support for the underlying widget -- so overall an improvement.
  • Many small bug fixes and tweaks.
  • Green gas change icon when switching to EAN100
  • Imports and exports:
  • Better support for importing dive data from Shearwater desktop, DL7, Datatrak and other 3rd party formats.
  • Dive planner:
  • Improved and more user friendly cylinder handling
  • Print delta pressure for minimum gas calculation in results
  • Identify overlapping dives when calculating dive plan
  • Compute plan variations: How does decompression time change when changing the bottom time by one minute or the depth by one meter?
  • Faster planning for long decompression times
  • Dive computer support:
  • Early and limited support for Bluetooth LE dive computers. Currently BLE isn’t supported at all on Windows due to lack of support for Windows in the underlying toolkit that we use. BLE appears to work reasonably well on Mac and works on Linux if Subsurface is built against Qt 5.9.2 or newer. Older versions of Qt will give you mixed results, depending on the specific dive computer you use. Side note for those on Windows or a Linux distro that doesn’t allow BLE support just yet: you can use Subsurface-mobile 2.0 or later on Android and download from your BLE dive computer there and then transfer the dive data via Subsurface cloud storage.
  • Support for multiple tank sensors reporting pressure at the same time. This is something that we hadn’t seen before outside of CCR dives, but some newer dive computers support this for example for side mount divers. We now correctly download these data from the dive computers that support it, store and retrieve the pressure data, and visualize multiple tank pressure readings at the same time.
  • Add support for the following dive computers:
  • Aqualung i200
  • Cochran Commander II, Commander TM
  • Dive Systems/Ratio iDive2 Deep, iDive2 Easy, iDive2 Free, iDive2 Tech+, iX3M Deep, iX3M Easy, iX3M Pro Deep, iX3M Pro Easy, iX3M Pro Tech+, iX3M Reb, iX3M Tech+
  • Heinrichs Weikamp OSTC+
  • Shearwater Perdix AI (only available where BLE is supported)
  • Suunto D4f
  • Add support for OSTC 4 configuration.

New in Subsurface 4.6.4 (Apr 27, 2017)

  • Allow direct entry of dive depth and duration for manually added dives
  • Improved table labels and tooltips in planner
  • Minimum gas calculation mode in planner
  • Better handling of notes when replanning dives
  • Many consistency changes for the terms used across the application
  • Support border width setting in printing templates
  • Fix situations in which cylinder pressures would incorrectly be marked in red
  • Many improvemens to CSV export and import
  • Small fixes to DivingLog import
  • Attempt to parse dive logs as Latin-1 if uft-8 parsing fails
  • Add support for importing latest Suunto DM5 format
  • Correctly sync unit system between Subsurface and Subsurface-mobile (using cloud storage)
  • Fix several rounding related problems
  • Fix several potential crashes
  • Better handling of Uwatec memomouse tank pressure values
  • Better handling of Cobalt imports with unused tanks
  • libdivecomputer:
  • fix bug in Subsurface version of libdivecomputer that could cause buffer overflow
  • several small bugfixes from upstream libdivecomputer

New in Subsurface 4.6 (Jan 18, 2017)

  • User interface changes:
  • Heatmap visualization of deco tissue loading
  • Re-designed Facebook access from Subsurface
  • Improved handling and visualisation of dive computer events in dive profile (grouping them into info, warning and alert -- best supported on Suunto EON Steel)
  • Display surface interval as well as dive runtime prominently in planner
  • Dive list indicates whether dives have associated photos
  • Add --user= command line argument that allows switching between different users from the command line
  • Add --cloud-timeout= command line argument that allows to wait longer (or shorter, for that matter) before we time out waiting for cloud storage. Very useful when in areas with poor internet connectivity
  • Separate deco models for log and planner
  • Many translation updates
  • Imports and exports:
  • Add support for importing Underwater Technologies AV1 log files
  • Add DAN DL7 import
  • Many fixes and improvements to CVS importer
  • Bugfix for parsing AP Divesight dive log
  • Fixes to Divelogs.de import and export
  • Fixes to UDDF exporter
  • SmartTrack .slg import (not available through the main application -- a custom importer can be built using the Subsurface sources)
  • Errors resolved:
  • Fixed problems opening pictures from picture tab
  • Fixed spurious errors when saving to cloud storage
  • Better handling of slow network connections when using cloud storage
  • Many small fixes to the dive planner
  • Many other fixes for various errors reported since 4.5
  • Other:
  • Many updates and improvements to the user manual
  • Updated Windows and Mac binaries to Qt 5.7.1 (and newer versions of several other support libraries).
  • Dive computer support:
  • Improved OSTC 4 support
  • Improvements to OSTC firmware update handling
  • Small fix to Uemis downloader for yet another corner case (Uemis downloader is known to be broken for some users -- it is no longer actively maintained)
  • Added support for additional divecomputers (through the great work of the libdivecomputer project)
  • aqualand: Citizen Hyper Aqualand
  • meridian: Scubapro Mantis
  • nitekq: Dive Rite NiTek Q, NikTek Trio
  • Aeris: 500 AI, XR-1 NX
  • Aqualung: i300, i550T
  • Beuchat: Mundial 2, Mundial 3, Voyager 2G
  • Cressi: Giotto
  • Hollis: TX1
  • Mares: Airlab, Smart Apnea, Puck 2
  • Oceanic: OCi
  • Scubapro: XTender 5
  • Sherwood: Amphos, Amphos Air, Vision
  • Subgear: XP-3G, XP-Air
  • Uwatec: Aladin 2G

New in Subsurface 4.6 Beta 1 (Dec 28, 2016)

  • Fixed spurious errors when saving to cloud storage
  • Better handling of slow network connections when using cloud storage
  • Add --cloud-timeout= command line argument that allows to wait longer (or shorter, for that matter) before we time out waiting for cloud storage. Very useful when in areas with poor internet connectivity
  • Add --user= command line argument that allows switching between different users from the command line
  • Many fixes to CVS importer
  • DAN DL7 import
  • SmartTrack .slg import
  • Fixes to Divelogs.de import and export
  • Fixes to UDDF exporter
  • Small fix to Uemis downloader for yet another corner case (Uemis downloader is known to be broken for some users -- it is no longer actively maintained)
  • Improved handling of dive computer events (grouping them into info, warning and alert -- best supported on Suunto EON Steel)
  • Add heatmap visualization of deco tissue loading
  • Many small fixes to the dive planner
  • Many fixes for various errors
  • Added current libdivecomputer with support for additional divecomputers:
  • aqualand: Citizen Hyper Aqualand
  • meridian: Scubapro Mantis
  • nitekq: Dive Rite NiTek Q, NikTek Trio
  • Aeris: 500 AI, XR-1 NX
  • Aqualung: i300, i550T
  • Beuchat: Mundial 2, Mundial 3, Voyager 2G
  • Cressi: Giotto
  • Hollis: TX1
  • Mares: Airlab, Smart Apnea, Puck 2
  • Oceanic: OCi
  • Scubapro: XTender 5
  • Sherwood: Amphos, Amphos Air, Vision
  • Subgear: XP-3G, XP-Air
  • Uwatec: Aladin 2G

New in Subsurface 4.5.5 (Apr 11, 2016)

  • Update to latest libdivecomputer:
  • Add support for Cochran Commander and EMC
  • Add support for Uwatec Aladin Sport
  • Add support for Suunto Zoop/Vyper Novo, Suunto D4i and D6i with latest firmware
  • Add support for Heinrichs & Weikamp OSTC4
  • Add support for Aqualung i450T
  • Add support for Cressi Newton
  • In the dive planner, switch pressure unit when planning in recreational mode and setting a tank reserve
  • In the dive planner, show the correct VPM-B + conservatism on the profile when planning in VPM-B mode and show the planner specific gradient factors in Bühlman mode
  • Enable showing a VPM-B based “ceiling” on the profile
  • Fix bug regarding depth parameter in OSTC/OSTC3 configuration
  • Fix bug in CSV export
  • Fix bugs in Suunto DM5 import
  • Fix potential race when immediately switching to Add dive or Planner while accessing cloud storage
  • Fix issue for some users with cloud storage passwords

New in Subsurface 4.5.4 (Mar 22, 2016)

  • Update to latest libdivecomputer:
  • Fix a number of issues in the parsing of dive computer data (Shearmos Amphos Air, Shearwater Predator, several Oceanic models)
  • Add support for Oceanic / Aeris F11, DiveSystem iX3M, Shearwater Perdix
  • Fix several issues with imports from CSV, divelogs.de and other sources
  • Add better support for OSTC3 configuration
  • Fix potential rounding error when exporting weight systems
  • If XML file contains actual salinity (instead of the density value that we call salinity), correctly interpret that value
  • Add statistics by dive type
  • Small UI fixes

New in Subsurface 4.5.2 (Nov 8, 2015)

  • This release only adds a few small updates to our dive computer support, including support for downloading dives from OSTC dive computers with the latest firmware.

New in Subsurface 4.5.0 (Oct 14, 2015)

  • Additional ways to store divelogs. Subsurface cloud storage is now available for a user’s dive data. Now it’s simple to call up your data from any computer running Subsurface, protected with a user name and password. You can even access your data via the web.
  • Dives now reference to dive sites, making it easier to maintain a set of set of sites that can be used again when the user repeatedly dives at the same location. Notes and descriptions of dive sites can now be added as well.
  • GPS data can be used to look up the closest body of water, country, or city
  • Improved print support, letting users customize formats for printing
  • Improved Bluetooth device support
  • VPM-B support for dive planning, giving users a choice of deco algorithms (now works with both Buhlmann ZH16 and VPM-B)
  • Recreational dive planner mode which computes the remaining bottom time for a diver that avoids mandantory decompression stops and stays within the given amount of gas
  • Improved support for freediving
  • Improved image import and management
  • Partial Undo/Redo functionality added
  • Ability to load dives exported with OSTCT tools
  • Additional upgrades include fixes for importing third party files and CSV files, support for more GPS coordinate formats, better SAC rate calculations and many other fixes.

New in Subsurface 4.4.0 (Feb 5, 2015)

  • Subsurface supports posting a dive with profile pictures and some of the relevant data to a user’s timeline on Facebook.
  • Subsurface now allows the user to select which of the dives downloaded from a dive computer will be added to the dive list.
  • We have added more capabilities to the CSV import for manually kept dive logs; this now includes start and end pressure for the main tank as well as air and water temperatures.
  • There is also a new interactive dialog that makes it much easier to identify the meaning of various columns in CSV import.
  • Subsurface can now import dive databases from the Cobalt divelog program.
  • Subsurface profile drawing has been sped up significantly which also improved the situation when using the visual editor to add dives or plan dives.
  • We have made more progress with PSCR support -- still not fully functional, but getting closer. It is now possible to select the type of a dive (OC, CCR, PSCR) in the UI.
  • Changes to a dive location on the globe now trigger dive edit mode and can be rejected. GPS coordinates are shown immediately when selecting a dive site on the globe.
  • For owners of the Heinrichs & Weikamp OSTC 3 and OSTC Sport Subsurface now supports updating the firmware and informs users of new firmware releases.
  • Add support for importing logs from the Divesoft Freedom
  • Dropped the 64bit Windows binary and went back to a single 32bit binary that works on all versions of Windows, 32 or 64bit, all the way back to Windows XP.

New in Subsurface 4.3 (Dec 19, 2014)

  • Subsurface now supports flexible filtering of the dive list. When the filter is opened,one can specify a combination of different criteria like tags, people who were on the dive, dive site, suit, etc. While filtering one can see how many dives match any of the criteria, and how many dives match the combination of the selected criteria.
  • When editing a dive, one can now copy information about a dive and paste it into one or more other dives. This makes it easy to add the same equipment, buddies, tags or other aspects of a dive into a group of dives with similar characteristics.
  • The dive profile now offers an easy to understand tissue saturation graph that shows tissue saturation at any point during the dive.
  • In the dive profile one can turn on an improved visualization of the gas combinations used during a dive.
  • Owners of the Heinrichs & Weikamp OSTC 2 and 3 as well as dive computers in the popular Suunto Vyper family of dive computers can configure the settings of their dive computers using Subsurface.
  • For a number of dive computers Subsurface now downloads additional data and shows them in a new tab on the screen. This includes (depending on the dive computer) information like battery levels, no fly times, Gradient Factors used during the dive, etc. This feature is enabled in all official Subsurface binaries and includes the Uemis Zurich SDA. When building from source this requires a custom version of libdivecomputer (as explained in the INSTALL file).
  • The dive planner now offers the ability to re-plan dives and to create duplicate dive plans in order to plan multiple scenarios.
  • We added support for several new dive computers including the Suunto EON Steel, Aeris A300 CD, and Aeris F11.
  • Subsurface can now import dive logs from Liquivision and Cochran software as well as the new Suunto DM5.
  • We made many improvements for UDDF and CSV import, UDDF export now complies with the latest version of the standard.
  • Many issues with the HTML export were addressed.
  • Initial support for closed circuit rebreathers (CCR) and pSCR was added. Dive logs from the Poseidon MkVI CCR can be imported. Visualization of dive logs as well as dive planning should work -- but this feature is fairly early in its development and we assume that there may be a few bugs and mis-features hidden in this area.
  • Other notable improvements:
  • Import of manually logged dives (e.g., from an existing paper logbook) is now much better documented in the user manual. Instead of having to individually enter each dive with the graphical profile editor users can add all their dives in a spreadsheet and import the data from there into Subsurface in one single operation.
  • Many other small improvements to the planner
  • Many small UI changes for better use on small displays (tighter columns and column headers on the dive list, the toolbox of icons no longer
  • forces a minimum height of the profile, etc)
  • Improvements on HiDPI displays
  • We fixed an annoying bug where when starting to edit a dive the pop-up with completions would cover the edit line (this usually happened when editing tags)
  • For the (rather unusual) dive computers that send a heading event in every sample we automatically declutter the profile display now
  • The Windows installer is smarter: the 64bit installer refuses to install its binaries on a 32bit OS and conversely the installer warns you when installing 32bit binaries on a 64bit OS
  • Better synchronization with divelogs.de, including support for multiple tanks

New in Subsurface 4.2 (Aug 9, 2014)

  • The Windows installer is now a 64bit installer including Qt5
  • There is still a deprecated 32bit installer including Qt4, but that has several known issues (among others, printing has a number of bugs that were fixed in Qt5).
  • The Mac installer has also been updated to Qt5
  • A current development version of libdivecomputer is used for the Windows and Mac builds.
  • A Dive Planner got added again, using the graphical profile editor; it supports different ascent speeds, backgas breaks during deco and many other interesting features; it allows the user to print just the dive plan (without graphic profile); one shortcoming is that currently one cannot re-plan a planned dive, i.e., once you save a dive plan, you can no longer edit / change the plan; you have to start from scratch again. This is on the todo list.
  • Pictures can be associated with dives and shown in the profile.
  • Printing is much improved (but see above), including a “1 dive per page” mode, better rendering of dives (in our mind) and better data presented per dive.
  • Data entry for dives is much more intuitive and consistent.
  • We have a reasonably functional HTML exporter for the dive log (it’s still work in progress but already quite powerful, even though lacking localization support).
  • Support to import dive log files from Seabear dive computers.
  • We added a user survey to learn more about the interests and needs of our users.
  • Improved and extended user manuals
  • New translated user manuals in Spanish and Russian

New in Subsurface 4.1 (May 9, 2014)

  • improved CVS import and added CVS export
  • import of exported log files from Sensus (CSV) and Shearwater Desktop (XML)
  • improved UDDF and divelogs.de support
  • generalized import dialog
  • much improved consistency for dialog boxes, keyboard shortcuts, etc
  • improved error handling when downloading from divecomputer
  • export an HTML world map with dive sites
  • make backups before overwriting XML files
  • don’t display unused cylinders in the equipment tab (this can be turned off and the old behavior restored in the preferences)
  • lots of code cleanup, style fixes, improved consistency
  • improved Qt5 support (but there are still some visual oddities)
  • many improvements to the build infrastructure (out of tree builds, ability to build without Marble, make WIP planner a config option)
  • more than 50 bugs fixed
  • new translation (Greek, British-English, Latvian, and Romanian)
  • experimental “check for updates” feature (mostly for Windows and Mac)
  • experimental (and undocumented…) alternative storage format

New in Subsurface 4.0.2 (Jan 10, 2014)

  • Fixed potential crash when importing dive data without dive computer model information
  • Improve parsing of equipment data; this now accepts localized units as well as input in units that are not the display units (so if you run Subsurface in metric, but went diving in a place where weights are in US Pounds (lbs), you can now enter the weight in lbs and Subsurface does the right thing)
  • Fix temperature conversion when downloading data from Uemis SDA
  • Improve autocompletion to always be case insensitive
  • Improve selection handling in the dive list
  • Include event data in libdivecomputer dump
  • Improve profiles generated for dives with no depth samples and no average depth

New in Subsurface 4.0.1 (Jan 6, 2014)

  • Fixed several bugs handling non-ASCII text both in dive info text fields as well as in Windows file names
  • Added support for generating libdivecomputer log and dump files
  • Many improvements for import and export of other file formats
  • XSLT files are built-in as resources, avoiding issues with not finding them
  • Support more GPS coordinate formats
  • Fixed several bugs around editing of manually entered dives
  • Fixed several bugs with entering data for weights and tanks
  • Increase the number of tracked weight systems to 6
  • Fixed font setting in preferences
  • Improved look and feel when running dark themes
  • Support older versions of Mac OS/X with default DMG (>= 10.5)