The World Wind betas of 1.4 and 1.3.6 will be released in a few days (last minute tweaking of the code is going on now).. I know I said today, but deadlines are meant to be passed :)

Here is a start of what is new and inproved in World Wind:

Fixes/Improvements:

  • Camera shakes/jitters/jumps fixed
  • New WMS Control
  • Time Control Added
  • KML Importer Improvements
  • New XML Configurations
  • Placemarks served via WFS
  • Boundaries served by WMS
  • Enhanced Compass plugin
  • Satellite Tracker plugin

New Items:

  • 3D Lighting
  • Atmospheric Scattering
  • Effects and Multi-Texturing
  • Scalebar Legend
  • Widgets code
  • Waving Flags + CIA World FactBook plugin
  • HTML Browser
  • Line Feature
  • Polygon Feature
  • Model Feature
  • Animated 3D Clouds plugin

For detailed information of some of the new additions and improvements, check the related wiki page.

* Fixed an "oops" a bullet went away and combined two items.