What’s New: Release Notes for the Map, Squawker PC and the Website

Summary: The What’s New page lists what has been added, improved and fixed across UKAFG’s products, and can notify you when something new is released.

The What’s New page at ukafg.co.uk/whats-new/ is the running record of changes to the Interactive Map, Squawker PC and the website’s tools. You’ll find it in the site menu under Updates & Submissions and from the link on the front page. Anyone can read it; you don’t need to be logged in.

Reading the Page

Entries are listed newest first. Each one shows:

• the product it is about, its version where there is one, and the date;
• a title and a short summary in plain words;
• a list of the changes, each tagged New, Improved or Fixed, new things first;
• a Read more link beside a change that has a knowledge base article, taking you straight to it.

Buttons at the top show All products or just one. Several small releases close together are gathered into one entry, so the page reads as “what changed this week” rather than a list of version numbers.

Being Told When Something Is Released

Logged-in members see a Notify me bar on the page. Press it and allow notifications when your browser asks; from then on you get a notification when something new is added, and clicking it opens the page. Press it again to switch it off.

• It uses the same browser notifications as the Updates page (see Update Notifications – Browser Alerts), so if you already have those switched on there is nothing extra to set up and you won’t be told twice.
• Notifications are per browser and device. Switch them on wherever you want them.
• If the page says notifications are blocked for this site, allow them from the padlock in the address bar and reload.

How It Differs From the Updates Page

What’s New is about the products: features, improvements and fixes. The Updates page is about the data: which frequencies, callsigns and licences have been added, changed or removed. Between the two you can see everything that has moved.