Releases

🛠️ Minor QoL Update

This release focuses on small but meaningful quality-of-life improvements, especially around how DNF/DSQ states are handled and displayed.

What’s new & improved

• DNF / DSQ visibility in the Timing Tower
  Cars that are DNF or DSQ are now clearly labeled in the timing tower overlay, so there’s no confusion about why a car has dropped out.

• Smarter pit rejoin predictions for DNF / DSQ cars
  Pit rejoin calculations now correctly account for cars that have retired or been disqualified, keeping predictions accurate for the rest of the field.

• DNF / DSQ shown in the Engineer View
  The engineer view now reflects DNF and DSQ status, giving you a more complete picture at a glance.

• Cycle through future sessions in the Engineer View
  You can now cycle through upcoming sessions directly in the engineer view, making it easier to plan ahead without jumping between screens.

• Improve settings tooltip alignment with checkbox

🙌 Credits

• Engineer View improvements were implemented based on a request from Discord user PettableCat — thanks for the great suggestion!

Version 3.1.6

New Features

• Configurable tyre wear threshold (MFD - Tyre Wear page)
  Added a setting to control the tyre wear threshold used by the MFD Tyre Wear page when selecting the end lap for wear predictions.
  Settings Location: Overlays → Tyre wear threshold for MFD (Tyre Wear Page)

• Searchable launcher settings
  The launcher settings dialog now supports search with result highlighting, making it easier to quickly locate specific options.

Quality of Life Update

This release focuses on quality-of-life improvements: reducing visual noise, improving clarity during sessions, and giving you more control over how information is presented - without changing core workflows.

What’s New & Improved

HUD Customization & Clarity

• Track Radar auto-fade behavior: The track radar now fades out when no cars are nearby and smoothly fades back in as cars enter your vicinity.
• Configurable track radar idle opacity: Control how visible the radar remains while idle.
• Configurable Timing Tower columns: Choose which columns are shown in the timing tower directly from the HUD settings UI.
• Estimated qualifying position in lap timer: The lap timer overlay now shows a live, dynamically updating estimate of your qualifying position.
• Improved label layout: Estimated time labels have been repositioned for better readability.

Tyre Wear & Strategy Views

• Smarter tyre wear end-lap selection on the tyre wear page:
  • Uses the first lap exceeding the puncture threshold (75%), if available.
  • Falls back to the final prediction lap otherwise.

MFD Interaction Enhancements

• New MFD interaction input: A configurable input action allows interaction with the currently open MFD page.
• Extended weather forecast access (F1 24+): Future session forecasts can now be viewed via the MFD (for example, checking race weather during qualifying).

Performance & Responsiveness

• More efficient race table updates: Race data is now sorted once centrally before being broadcast to HUD elements, improving responsiveness when multiple views consume the same data.

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This update is intentionally incremental, focusing on polish, usability, and day-to-day driving clarity rather than major feature changes.

🚑 Critical Hotfix Release

⚠️ This hotfix resolves a major breakage in the previous release. Updating is strongly recommended.

🔥 Critical Fix

• Fixed a severe startup crash that rendered an entire subsystem unusable
  • In the previous version, the application could fail during initialization and become non-functional.

🛠️ Stability & Reliability Improvements

• Safe handling of configuration updates
  • Newly introduced overlays now load correctly with default layouts instead of causing crashes.
• More robust startup behavior
  • Missing or outdated configuration data will no longer break the app on launch.

✅ Regression Protection

• This issue is now fully covered by automated checks
  • Additional safeguards are in place to ensure this class of breakage does not reoccur in future releases.

✨ Quality of Life

• Added a “Reset to Defaults” option in Settings
  • Quickly recover from broken or misconfigured settings without manual intervention.

⚠️ Action Required

If you installed the previous release and experienced crashes or failed startup, please update to this hotfix immediately. Full functionality is restored.

🏁 Release Notes

NOTE: Please skip this release. The overlays/HUD is broken

✨ New Features & Enhancements

• Software rendering support (optional): Added support for software-based rendering for environments where GPU acceleration may be unavailable or unstable (disabled by default).
• MFD migrated to QML: The MFD has been reworked in a way to enable more consistent scaling.
  • The same visual design and functionality has been maintained over the rework
• Smoother MFD animations: Fixed animation issues for a cleaner, more polished visual experience.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Timing tower penalty fix: Stop-and-go penalties now correctly appear in the timing tower.
• HUD restart reliability: Fixed an issue where the HUD subsystem wouldn’t restart correctly when enabling or disabling the track radar overlay.
• IPC reset command fix: Resolved an issue where reset commands were not behaving as expected.
• Default configuration fix: Corrected the default config file name handling when launching subsystems via command line.
• Configured telemetry interval not being applied fix Corrected the periodic push interval for local telemetry updates
  • This is the interval for race table and mfd updates from core to HUD

⚙️ Configuration & Data Handling Changes

• Improved race table update timing: Race table updates now align better with the local telemetry rate for smoother live updates.
• Automatic config migration: Legacy png_overlays.json is now automatically migrated into png_config.json. The old file disappearing is expected.
  • This is a day 1 design issue where the HUD subsystem maintained its own overlay layout config.

📦 General Improvements

• Reduced log clutter: Removed incorrect error logs and excessive informational logs for a cleaner debugging experience.
• Better handling of startup failures: Improved messaging and handling when subsystems fail to start due to configuration or port conflicts.

⚙️ Performance & Optimization Improvements

• Smarter overlay update handling: Overlays now use message priorities to reduce unnecessary processing.
  • When an overlay window is not visible, low-priority messages (telemetry/data updates) are automatically dropped.
  • High-priority control and system commands are always delivered, ensuring correct behavior.
  • This results in lower overhead and better overall performance, especially when multiple overlays are enabled but not currently on screen.

No action is required from users for this update unless you rely on deprecated config files—those will be migrated automatically.