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Release 10.4.3 - 3 Nov 2025

Fix a rare crash that could occur after loading a new track

Release 10.4.2 - 2 Nov 2025

Fix a crash that could occur when playing a race in track mode
Auto assign a valid colour to a new track that has no color defined.

Release 10.4.1 - 31 Oct 2025

Remove an inconsistency with how track colors are assigned when creating races. The Create Races function no longer overrides the existing track colorss. In its place, a new tools menu has been added to the Track Loader to assign "standard colors" to selected tracks.

Release 10.4.0 - 30 Oct 2025

Enhancements:

Rename "Tools" button in Tracks tab of Race Editor to "Edit"
Add a button to delete the selected track in the track edit dialog box.
Highlight tracks with a mismatching fleet in the Tracks tab and Select list.

Fixes to Create Races dialog:

First race automatically selected in Create Races dialog. Fixes a problem with the "Set Start" button not working before the race is selected.
Create Races dialog now creates races correctly with the specified start and finish times.

Release 10.3.2 - 9 Oct 2025

Improve usability when importing multiple track files at once.

Release 10.3.1 - 7 Oct 2025

Auto replay will rotate the map to make the rhumb line to the first mark up the screen at any time before the start.
Fix a bug writing the competitor schedule advanced handicap values to CSV.

Release 10.3.0 - 5 Oct 2025

Add current lat/long locations to the Current Placings report.
Support multi-selection of track files when importing tracks into the Track Loader. Allow name and detail information to be pulled from the file names.

Release 10.2.4 - 19 Sep 2025

Improve the Auto track algorithm to keep boats in play when sailing far from the rhumb line.

Release 10.2.3 - 18 Sep 2025

Fix the "Replace all tracks" checkbox in the race publisher, which was not always being respected.
Provide an option to delete unsent error reports.

Release 10.2.2 - 17 Sep 2025

Fix error reports from the Competitor Schedule editor and Select tab page.

Release 10.2.1 - 23 Aug 2025

Fix a gate crossing detection issue.

Release 10.2.0 - 12 Aug 2025

Always use secure communications with the tacktracker server

Release 10.1.7 - 8 Jun 2025

Fixed an error in the finish line detection algorithm introduced in 10.1.5.

Release 10.1.6 - 5 Jun 2025

Fixed the "Time Gained" reports for the case where a fleet has no competitors.
Fixed the "Handicap Positions Gained" and "Mark Rounding" reports which did not properly segregate by fleet.

Release 10.1.5 - 3 Jun 2025

TackTracker now accurately finds the start and finish crossing and times even when the line is moving. This fixes a problem where a finish time was not recorded correctly because the finish line was not in place until the boat was nearly finished.

Release 10.1.4 - 2 Jun 2025

Display current number of wind entries in the Race Editor Options tab and provide new buttons to import and clear wind entries.
Fix a problem where setting the average wind speed in the Race Editor would be overridden by existing wind entries.
Show a message rather than crash if TackTracker is unable to delete a race.

Release 10.1.3 - 25 May 2025

Prevent crash if saved wind speed value is out of bounds.

Release 10.1.1 - 19 May 2025

Fixed an issue parsing CSV track files from Vakaros devices.

Release 10.1.0 - 28 April 2025

Check for write access to the My Tracks folder on startup
Fix a problem creating a new race from a track causing the race duration to be truncated to 5 minutes. (Since 10.0.8)

Release 10.0.9 - 14 Mar 2025

Fix timesplitter control in the race editor, which was not correctly showing fleets that share the same start time.
Fix Wind editor to allow an existing wind entry to be modified.
Store wind speeds at a higher resolution to minimise rounding errors.

Release 10.0.8 - 16 Feb 2025

Fix crash loading a GPX with unspecified line colors.

Release 10.0.7 - 28 Jan 2025

TackTracker is pleased to announce Release 10 of the PC Player. With this major release TackTracker now supports multiple fleets all in the same race. Thank you to Tim from CCYC and Simon from SailRacer for beta testing all those preview versions.

With Release 10, the User Guide has been completely re-written from scratch, and now has much better navigation support and search. Those familiar with the old guide will see huge improvements.

New Club Regatta features

Fleets: Most yacht clubs run multiple fleets in a race session and TackTracker can now track multiple fleets within the same TackTracker race. Each fleet can have its own start time and is scored independently. Fleets can even sail different courses!
Country Flags: If your club or regatta runs international classes, you can now display a country flag against each competitor.
Competitor Schedule enhancements: The competitor schedule editor has been enhanced, with unused columns omitted by default and a tool provided to add any needed columns. Also performs data validations for columns with constrained values such as COLOR or CRAFT.

Player Enhancements

Increased font size throughout to suit today's higher resolution displays.
Many cosmetic and usability enhancements throughout.
Fixes to the calculation of interim variable laps placings

Release 9.4.2 / 9.4.3 - 6 Oct 2024

Fix crash seen when loading a race.
Republished as 9.4.3 to resolve a problem with installing over the top.

Release 9.4.1 - 14 Jul 2024

Improve accuracy of leaderboard display for a variable laps race.

Release 9.4.0 - 30 May 2024

Add support for importing CSV track files from Vakaros devices.

Release 9.3.7 - 27 May 2024

Fix leaderboard display when handicaps in use and a boat did not start correctly.

Release 9.3.6 - 20 May 2024

Fix problem in reports not displaying elapsed times (since 9.3.4).

Release 9.3.4/9.3.5 - 22 Mar 2024

Fix a rare crash in the lap times report.
Republished as 9.3.5 on 2 May 2024 as build 9.3.4 was not versioned correctly.

Release 9.3.3 - 22 Feb 2024 Nav Rally fixes relating to the optional scoring settings.

Fix loading a Nav Rally event from the library when an optional scoring setting such as XTD is by default on (in Nav Rally Settings). The race would incorrectly assume the XTD value from the default setting, but the correct behavior is to use the race's saved setting. With the fix applied, the race will have XTD off if not saved with it turned on. You can turn on XTD for a race in the Rally Rules dialog.
Fix the rally results report, which was adding the XTD value twice to the total score.

Release 9.3.2 - 7 Feb 2024

Fix an anomaly in the Distance to Finish calculation which could occur when a boat does not complete the course.

Release 9.3.1 - 5 Feb 2024

Fixed handicap placings reported in an edge case where a boat's first track point is at the start
Interpolate the reported Distance to First place and Distance to Finish between track points. This fixes an apparent anomaly where a visually closer boat may a larger distance to finish.

Release 9.3.0 - 27 Nov 2023

This release brings a range of usability enhancements to the race editor to make the process easier and faster:

The Track Loader now lets you select by Date without first unselecting the "Show Just Loaded" checkbox.
Show only tracks travelled so far in the "Create New Races" dialog. This makes it much easier to find the start.
With multiple races, when selecting the next start time, we show only the track tails from the previous start time. This makes it much easier to separate tracks for each race.
When copy/pasting race editor settings, the race is immediately re-analysed to avoid the need to save and re-open the race.

Fixes:

Remember the selection for Name or Details mode. Previously, the user selection would revert each time a race is loaded.
Selecting a landmark in the "list nearby" view displayed an unrelated landmark.
Upgrade the background map to use the latest (version 3) HERE raster maps tile service.

Release 9.2.2 - 11 Nov 2023

Fixed a crash seen when loading a corrupted CSV file
Fixed a missing column problem with the nav rally results report when penalties are used.

Release 9.2.0 - 20 Sept 2023

General enhancements

Improved the color assignment algorithm when creating a race from loaded tracks. Will now preference bright and contrasting colors and try to avoid duplicates.
Fixed the color list box drop down, which was displaying multiple copies of each color
The help guide is now packaged as a PDF file, as modern Windows versions do not support .chm any more

Navigation Rally enhancements

Added a new scoring option to compute the gate penalty in meters. This is acheived by multiplying the raw time penalty by the boat speed (in m/s).
If boats are assigned judged penalties, the nav rally results report now shows an extra column for the raw score excluding the judged penalties, as well as the total score column.

Release 9.1.4 - 21 Jul 2023

Fixed a problem in which magnetic bearings would sometimes not be displayed even when the magentic bearing setting is checked.

Release 9.1.3 - 16 Apr 2023

Fixed a problem with the BL-1000ST upload driver that could cause a track to be truncated when automatically resetting after upload.

Release 9.1.2 - 8 Apr 2023

Fixed the magnetic bearing calculation used for Nav Rally.

Release 9.1.1 - 27 Feb 2023

Fixed some teething issues with the rally simulation.

Release 9.1.0 - 24 Feb 2023

Introducing some cool Navigation Rally enhancements - including a pre-race simulation!

A new button lets you create simulated tracks for your rally event - so you can simulate the event before it is run to see where on the course boats will be scheduled to pass each other. Use this simulation to identify and avoid dangerous situations ahead of time to ensure a safe event for everyone. Simulated tracks are not saved, and won't be created if you have real tracks in the event.
Add a new option for rally scoring: you can now select "Use fractional scores", in which fractional seconds early or late are included in the score.
The start gate is now locked at the start position - as moving this gate will generate invalid scores.

Release 9.0.8 - 9 Feb 2023

Fixed the Landmark Add button when a previous landmark was not selected.
Update security settings when communicating with the TackTracker cloud.

Release 9.0.6 - 10 Jan 2023

Fixed right click Delete Track menu item.

Release 9.0.5 - 9 Dec 2022

Added support for loading SailMon CSV files.

Release 9.0.4 - 7 Dec 2022

Fixed the Error Reporting mechanism so that error reports may be sent to TackTracker if a problem occurs.
Fixed an error seen when Loading Tracks from a GPS.

Release 9.0.1 - 4 Dec 2022

A major new release adds built-in support for the QStarz BL-1000ST logger, which offers highly accurate GNSS tracking and ultra fast upload and reset times, and there is no need to install the USB serial driver.

Added full support for the QStarz BL-1000ST logger.
Re-developed the Settings / Landmarks dialogs which are now much easier to use. The process to create a new landmark now has its own dialog and many bugs have been addressed.
Across the board button styling updates give a more modern look and better highlight the call to action for a dialog.
Simplified the Create Races dialog - removing the live race schedule component, which is better done in the cloud.
Fixed the Geo location search in the Add Landmarks and Create Races dialogs.
Navigation Rally:Fixed a problem in which the "Show/Hide Results" button would get out of sync.
Navigation Rally: Fixed a rare issue preventing a gate being inserted after the initial Gate A-A.

Release 8.5.8 - 13 Oct 2022

Update map API credentials.

Release 8.5.7 - 12 Jul 2022

Fix for the feature introduced in R8.5.6 to allow the use of '|' to share mark tracks. An unwanted extra mark is no longer created when the race is loaded.

Release 8.5.6 - 10 May 2022

A single tracker may be used to share mark tracks for multiple marks using the '|' character, where one of the marks is a start or finish mark or pin. For example, if the Start and Finish boats are the same boat, you can use one live tracker named "StartBoat|FinishBoat" to service both marks. Or you can name a tracker "FinishPin|C" to use the same tracker for the Finish Pin and mark "C". Note, this complements the support for the '&' character added in release Release 7.05.0

Release 8.5.5 - 21 Mar 2022

Two fixes specific to Variable Laps races:

Save the start and finish mark tracks if present
Fix a rare corner case where a boat was not correctly finished

Release 8.5.4 - 16 Feb 2022

For variable laps races, correctly finish a boat even if it rounds the next mark after the finish is crossed.

Release 8.5.3 - 31 Dec 2021

For variable laps races, ensure that the boat completes the lap before finishing.

Release 8.5.2 - 21 Nov 2021

Prevent the "Mark Rounding" report from showing finish times for boats not yet finished.

Release 8.5.1 - 12 Nov 2021

Improve the smoothing of speed and VMG data.

Release 8.5.0 - 27 Oct 2021

Navigation Rally now lets you enter the course using magnetic bearings - and calculates true bearing using the magnetic declination for your date and location.

A new rally setting checkbox lets you choose whether to show bearings as magnetic or true.
Regardless of the setting, you can enter bearings as either magnetic or true.
The Rally Course report shows the magnetic bearing for each turn
Fixed a problem loading Rally rules saved with a specfic rally event.

Release 8.4.6 - 12 Sep 2021

Move map tile cache from "Documents\My Tracks" to "C:\Program Data\TackTracker\". When Windows stores the Documents folder on OneDrive, deleting the map cache may have generated annoying notifications that many files were deleted. So we've moved the map cache out of Documents.

Release 8.4.5 - 30 Jun 2021

Improve speed smoothing algorithm to give better speed charts and report more realistic minimum and maximum speeds.

Release 8.4.4 - 14 Jun 2021

Automatically select the winning boat when loading a race.

Release 8.4.3 - 18 Apr 2021

Fix a problem with detecting Nav Rally start for some competitors if a start gate is not used.

Release 8.4.2 - 20 Mar 2021

Fix a problem loading a race with a Hazard named like a gate mark (with a dash)

Release 8.4.1 - 2 Mar 2021

Race reports now interpolate the finish time, estimating the line crossing between recorded track points. This yields more accurate finish placements that are consistent with the player's leader board.

Release 8.4.0 - 13 Nov 2020

Our old code signing certificate has expired and we have installed a new one which will expire in 2023. The new 8.4.0 install program is signed "The Trustee for TackTracker Unit Trust".

Old installations of TackTracker are unaffected, but old versions of the install program will issue an error.
Windows takes several weeks to grant reputation - until that time, you will see an "Windows Protected your PC" dialog when installing TackTracker. You must proceed anyway to continue the installation.

Release 8.3.2 - 22 Oct 2020

Landmarks in race area are now included when publishing a race that doesn't yet have tracks.

Release 8.3.1 - 10 Oct 2020 Introducing support for automatic race results

New Race Editor option to Detect Start.
When Detect Start is selected, leg times reports show boats OCS and DNS.
Fix problem loading some Variable Laps races.

Release 8.2.1 - 9 Aug 2020 Race Reports tuning:

Scratch Leg Times report now reports cumulative times for each leg.
Changes under the hood to prepare for web based reports.

Release 8.2.0 - 20 Jul 2020

New "Lap Times" report for Variable laps racing.

Release 8.1.0 - 23 Jun 2020

Added keyboard shortcuts for common operations:

Press spacebar to toggle Play and Pause
Press "," and "." to move back and forward one point
Press "+" and "-" to zoom in and out

Navigation rally: added XTD score column to the rally results tab and the rally results report - if XTD penalty is enabled.

Release 8.0.0 - 12 Jun 2020

Add MPH option for speed units
Navigation Rally: Refine XTD rally penalty settings dialog.

Release 7.07.3 - 19 May 2020

Fixes to Free Start algorithm
Navigation Rally: Add experimental Cross-Track-Distance (XTD) penalty option

Release 7.06.19 - 13 Jan 2020

Restore the "Install License" link which had been pushed off the splash screen by the previous update.

Release 7.06.18 - 1 Dec 2019

Update splash screen styling and provide additional visual cues on how to proceed.
Race Editor Tracks Tab: Ensure "Get tracks matching this race" button is enabled even when no tracks are in the race.

Release 7.06.17 - 26 Nov 2019

Additional fix for the GPS Week Number Rollover Bug seen on some QStarz devices. The original fix was delivered in R7.06.8. This new fix resolves an additional case seen in the field.

With the fix, TackTracker automatically corrects dates reported by affected devices when uploading tracks.

Release 7.06.16 - 17 Nov 2019

Update startup logo

Release 7.06.15 - 12 Nov 2019

Track Loader: Default the "Auto-Save" checkbox to unchecked to avoid tracks being saved unintentionally to the wrong race.

Release 7.06.13 - 13 July 2019

Competitor Schedule enhancements (Club Regatta License)

Editor layout improved with row controls on the side
New button to delete a column
Fix bug loading a new schedule if it conflicts with an existing schedule

Release 7.06.12 - 6 July 2019

Race Editor: Allow start times to be entered as hh:mm and default the seconds component to zero.
Full screen mode: Adjust the margin to keep the control on screen. Also prevent the logo overlaying the race name.

Release 7.06.11 - 1 July 2019

Race Editor: Improve behavior when setting the start time. Race span will now be preserved.

Release 7.06.10 - 25 Jun 2019

Race Editor: Fix behavior of the race trim control in the Race Editor start tab. Previously the race would be trimmed at an offset to the specified time.

Release 7.06.9 - 9 May 2019

Update to a new online maps account so that maps will continue to be displayed.

Older versions of TackTracker will stop displaying maps when the old account is deacticated.

Release 7.06.8 - 7 Apr 2019

Automatically correct for the GPS Week Number Rollover Bug seen on some QStarz devices. TackTracker automatically corrects dates reported by affected devices when uploading tracks.
Provide additional options for TackTracker software installation in server environments.

Release 7.06.4 - 21 Feb 2019

Add support for open starts to Variable Lap races
Race Editor: Fix long wait needed sometimes when saving a race after a change to the start

Release 7.06.3 - 27 Jan 2019

Current Placings Report: Add a start time offset column. (The start offset will vary by boat when using Open Start)
RaceAPI: Add a getter and setter for Open Start.
Race Editor: Fix a hang seen when setting Finish On Station time earlier than the Start Time.

Release 7.06.2 - 21 Jan 2019

New "Open Start" feature allows informal handicap style races where competitors are free to start when they wish. To use, check "Free Start" in the Race Editor Start tab.
Timeline shows Start and Finish labels to help first time users
The Leg Times report correctly puts competitors who did not complete the course last

Release 7.06.1 - 13 Dec 2018

Fix track matching to a gatemark when track is already in use for another mark
Race API fix to allow StartBoat and StartPin location to be queried for a variable laps race

Release 7.06.0 - 2 Dec 2018

Improve Autoplay behavior - now smoother to watch and the leading boats always stay on the screen
Race editor: prevent extra spaces in the course creating a blank mark
It is now possible for a start or finish tracker to be shared with a course mark. For example, name a tracker "FinishPin&C" to use the same tracker for the Finish Pin and mark "C".

Release 7.05.9 - 26 Nov 2018

Fix error loading come variable laps races

Release 7.05.7 - 7 Nov 2018

Fix variable laps hang when loading some races.

Release 7.05.6 - 19 Sep 2018

Fix variable laps finish calculation when finish time on station is specified.

Release 7.05.5 - 4 Sept 2018

Fixed an anomaly with finish placings seen if track points are missing at the finish line
Added an API method to retrieve track data

Release 7.05.4 - 19 July 2018

Fixes to Mark Roundings Report: Omit finish times if boats not correctly finished. Fix errors in mark rounding counts.

Release 7.05.3 - 6 July 2018

Fix crash in Rally Schedule Elapsed Report

Release 7.05.2 - 11 May 2018

Guard against invalid race location specified when creating a race
Rename Close button to Continue on splash screen

Release 7.05.1 - 5 Apr 2018

Fix a problem with clearing the course in the Race Editor, Course & Marks tab.

Release 7.05.0 - 3 Apr 2018

You may now optionally specify a Finish "On Station" time on the Race Editor Start tab. Before the Finish On Station time, the finish line is not shown, and no finish will be recorded. This feature can save the day when you have boats passing through the finish area prior to the actual finish.
The mark drag feature has had a number of fixes, particularly when the mark has an associated track.

Release 7.04.5 - 28 Mar 2018

Update the manage races link in the Race Editor
Add more license error information.

Release 7.04.4 - 26 Mar 2018

Adjust license checking code to accommodate PC's experiencing network errors.

Release 7.04.3 - 11 Feb 2018

Ask Nav Rally users if they wish to create a Nav Rally event when clicking Create Races button.
Rename "Name 1" and "Name 2" in text dropdown to "Name" and "Details" for consistency of terms.

Release 7.04.2 - 2 Feb 2018

Offer "Name 1" and "Name 2" option for name display - drawing from Name and Details fields respectively.

Release 7.04.1 - 28 Jan 2018

Remove Publish Credits from race publishing process - now that publishing is free.
Record API race views separately from PC, Mac, iOS and Web

Release 7.04.0 - 9 Jan 2018

Race Editor: New Copy/Paste feature makes it easy to copy course and marks from one race to another
Get Tracks matching race wizard has been moved from Library right-click menu to Race Editor Tracks tab
Track Tools button has been moved into the Race Editor Tracks tab
Fixed a bug displaying empty races

Release 7.03.0 - 13 Nov 2017

New Create Races button makes it easier to create new races and to split a race session into multiple races
Create Races dialog is simplified and Edit Course/Marks button removed
Track Loader now shows a "Get Cloud" button alongside the other two track sources
Update the code-signing certificate (previous certificate had expired).

Release 7.02.8 - 5 July 2017

Fix calculation of distance to finish and place in the last leg of the race (for some races).

Release 7.02.6 - 13 June 2017

Fix a problem in the Track Loader in which a recently loaded track from a GPS does not automatically match a race as it should.

Release 7.02.5 - 12 June 2017

Several fixes for Variable Laps races:

Fix a crash when viewing a Variable Laps race containing a mark "StartBoat" or "StartPin"
Correctly locate the finish in a Variable Laps race if it is moved during the race.
Allow trackers to be used on start and finish lines for a variable laps race.

Release 7.02.2 - 21 May 2017

Use any tracks present to define the displayed course area when the course is not set. Also automatically set the default race location from the first track if it was not set when the race was created.

Release 7.02.1 - 25 April 2017

Improve detection of tacks and gybes - where the tacking angle is smaller.

Release 7.02.0 - 25 March 2017

Rename the "Training Session" event type to "Variable Laps Race". This mode now supports a type of handicap race where boats do one or more laps of a course, and the faster boats must complete more laps than the slower craft.
Navigation Rally replay now has a leader board. Display the "Select" tab to see the progressive scores as the boats navigate the course.

Update 7.01.8 - 18 March 2017

Fix problem with Close button on splash screen not being enabled - sometimes seen on first time installs.
Round estimated boat times to the nearest whole second in the Nav Rally Schedule dialog and reports.

Update 7.01.7 - 22 Jan 2017

Trim Lat/Lon coordinates in the Rally Course report to three decimal places.

Update 7.01.6 - 14 Nov 2016

Fix a rare issue occassionally causing tracks to not be trimmed properly when being saved to a race

Update 7.01.5 - 3 Nov 2016

Change wording "Login/Logout" to "Sign in/Sign out"

Update 7.01.4 - 16 Oct 2016

Adjust the size of the Sign In panel so that scroll bars are not needed
Update the web browser control to use the most recent browser.

Update 7.01.3 - 19 July 2016

Tune the background color to better match the new maps.

Update 7.01.2 - 16 July 2016

Remove the clear map cache button in Settings. The cache is now managed automatically.

Release 7.01.1 - 13 July 2016

Switch the map provider to HERE Maps. Maps are better looking, and satelite maps are now available in all countries.

Release 7.0.0 - 10 July 2016

Live Tracking is now accessible to everyone! The free license now includes the Race Editor for creating, editing and publishing races to the TackTracker cloud. With the free iPhone and Android apps, your smart phone becomes a live tracker. The only ongoing costs to you are tracker rights and publish credits.