Highlights
- Add keyboard shortcuts for all sorts of actions (feature#17463).
- A new widget to show the current weather on track, including a forecast.
- New optional announcements for position changes and leading lap (feature#19967).
Smaller Features & Improvements
- A new widget to show the current event status as a LED display.
- An F1 style grid light countdown sound as an alternative to the spoken countdown.
- The ghost car lap skipping now supports up to 20 ghost cars instead of 10 (feature#19629).
- Polish voice overs have been re-added since the translations have been updated. Thanks to Witold!
- You may now add empty columns to the race screen to further customize your own screen structure.
- The VSC now also works with Mini Race Challenge (only visual effects, feature#19655).
- The grid countdown sound can now be selected for analog/MRC mode (feature#19566).
- An option to disallow refueling/tire change/damage repair directly after serving a penalty.
- Drivers may now receive a penalty if they cross the first sector check lane while still in “in pits” mode.
- The penalty dialog now allows to disqualify drivers (feature#19215).
- The penalty dialog now only shows active drivers by default (feature#19618).
- The penalty dialog now allows to add a lap for a driver (feature#19603).
- Tire changes in races with weather enabled will now only happen if the driver doesn’t already have the appropriate tires (configurable, feature#13389).
- You may now configure your own points scheme for championships (feature#17054).
- Announcing the lap time for each driver can now be disabled for races.
- You may now disable all animations (e.g. on low performance devices; settings > appearance > general).
- Laps of damaged cars might now no longer be counted (configurable).
- Championship standings now show results up to 10th place.
- An option to suppress best lap and sector times announcements during the early phase of a race.
Bugfixes
- DRS would sometimes also change the brake settings for cars which got DRS.
- Mini Race Challenge: (Re)connecting is now more reliable and faster.
- SmartRace Connect would not update the lap count accordingly when laps where added through check lane missed laps detection.
- Overall best sector times coloring would sometimes not be correct.
- The countdown sound would sometimes continue to play after a jump start.
- Retiring cars with empty fuel tank should only happen in races (issue#19700).
- Laptimes for damage calculation no longer include pit stop times (issue#19540).
- The “standing start” option should only affect races, not qualifyings.
- Disabling the lap time based fuel simulation for certain controllers would also disable the fuel bar if the CU fuel simulation was used.
- DRS would not be re-enabled after rain stopped.
- The qualifying finish sound would be played even if disabled.
- Bookings (warnings) were not displayed correctly in side by side timetable style.
- CSV downloads in the history module would sometimes not work correctly.
- Sliders wouldn’t work correctly if global display size was below 100% (issue#19512).
- Using the cable connection to the Control Unit on Android would sometimes cause SmartRace to crash.
- Deleting championships would not correctly unlink history events.
Maintenance
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Updated translations for several languages. Thanks to all translators!
SmartRace Connect 5.0
- Added: A new leaderboard view which shows the current event standings (feature#19026).
- Added: SmartRace Connect can now run in background and still make announcements (e.g. for usage with Carrera Hybrid).
- Added: Support for up to 30 drivers.
- Added: Pit radio message when receiving DRS (configurable, feature#19553).
- Added: Sound for when a car crosses a hotspot (feature#18819).
- Added: Polish translation, thanks to Witek!
- Fixed: Widget settings buttons were below the bottom bar (issue#18094).
- Fixed: Purchases were sometimes not detected correctly (issue#18300).
