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A big thanks to you! As you may have noticed, EasyVFR 4 is now released to the appstores across all of Europe! Without your feedback, we would not have been able to realize this.
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In this email, we would like to share with you, as one of our valued beta testers, some extra insights on where we are standing on the roadmap and what the future will look like. Also, we would like to share our thoughts on how beta testing of EasyVFR 4 will look like in this future. You read it correctly, beta testing is not over! If interested, you can continue working as a beta tester. More on this below!
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New beta workflow
Your input is of the utmost importance. Development is a continuous process and therefore we would like to keep you on board as a beta tester. For this we tried to keep the beta workflow you and I got used with during the first development stage as it was, but a few adjustments needed to be made.
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On your device within 'My EasyVFR' you can check the box 'Participate as beta tester' which will make you a beta tester for the software on that particular device. You then will get a message when a new beta version is available. The new versions will also still be available on our forum page.
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The way we would like to receive your feedback will also change a bit. The feedback can be placed on the forum sorted by the beta version. By doing this, there will not be one big feedback place for all versions together anymore, but a more focused one on the version your feedback is about. Of course the rest of the forum can be used for general discussions, support questions and your suggestions. We also will keep using the 'Vote' on Wishlist items system at the forum.
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Dev Statistics and Roadmap
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With the release of EasyVFR 4 in the appstores last Friday we are now facing a new stage. But let us first recap shortly the past 2 years. In January 2019 we started with beta testing EasyVFR 4 with a select group of beta testers. This group became bigger and bigger and every input was written down as a to-do. In the end this resulted in 617 checked off to-dos covered by 54 public beta releases. This means 1 release per 2 weeks with an average of 13 bug fixes/new features per beta release!
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23 months of public beta
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Right now the focus of optimizing stability and performance is shifted more towards making the software even more user friendly, enhancing existing functionalities and adding whole new features. Of course we do not forget stability and performance, so we are always working on optimizing the software with every new version as you got used from us.
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So about this new stage, how will this development process look like? For this we created a development process that consists out of three cycles for future releases.
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- Internal
This first stage is about bug fixing and testing new functionalities internally.
- Public beta
This second stage is when you come into play when the public beta is released. For each version we will mention on the forum what the points of attention/new features are.
- Release in appstores
With your input regarding the public beta versions the third stage will be reached where the new version is released in the appstores.
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Concluding Remarks
We invite you to share EasyVFR 4 with your friends and colleagues. Every new EasyVFR 4 user can explore 30 days for free - no strings attached. Feel free to share the subscription link: https://easyvfr4.aero/create-account/
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To conclude this newsletter we would like to thank you once again for all your feedback and input for EasyVFR and we hope to keep you on board as a beta tester!
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