Well, wouldn’t you know it we found some last-minute bugs that popped up during some flying recently. So, we are still in a holding pattern on the release. There was an issue in the audio system that was causing “ducking” of the audio from other sources (like the iPod app) to not work as expected. There were also some other minor issues with the barcode scanner that needed to be dealt with. Functionality-wise, none of these were the end of the world, but they were annoying enough to fix.

The audio bug in particular proved to be really hard to track down. I still have no idea why what changed fixed the problem – the audio code was (mostly) unchanged from 3.8.x, where it worked fine. In any case, it appears to be working as of this evening.

Things look clean again, but now we have iOS 6 looming in a little over a week. The question is do we hold off until iOS 6 is out to get a quick beta in or just run some limited testing on the GM release that was made available to developers today. There’s also been some other changes in the latest tools that have implications for our planned support for iOS 4.2 (basically, iPhone 3G).

Decisions, decisions.

There’s a bug in 3.8.1 that can cause RCLogbook to crash when working with helicopters that log fuel. The crash can happen on either the flight complete or the flight edit pages of the UI. The bug has been isolated and squashed and a fix is on its way in release 3.8.2. While we were in the code, we tweaked a few other things to improve stability and robustness.

To work-around the crash, your best option is to turn off fuel logging while flying and record fuel usage the old fashioned way. Once 3.8.2 is out, you should be able to go back into the flight editor and update the fuel consumed.

The update was submitted this evening, should be out sometime next week depending on how busy Apple’s app approval gnomes are these days.

Apologies, as always, for the inconvenience…