New year, new version: Firebird 1.6

New features:

• New dialog for creating Flash images, which is also available in the Mobile UI! (#262)
• Running as 64bit application on Windows is supported now (#234)
• Polish translation is available now (#207)
• CX II (/-T/CAS) calculators can now be emulated (#165)! However, with the current dumping programs you will not get a complete bootrom and booting the OS will fail.

Improvements:

• Multiple files can be sent in the Mobile UI and by dropping them into the main window on desktop (#279) Reimplemented emulation speed control: Now it's more accurate, especially on Windows
• GitHub actions now performs automated builds for Android (armeabi-v7a and arm64-v8a in one APK), macOS and Windows (32bit and 64bit) on releases and pull requests (#283, #284, #285)
• The "installer" for OS 4.5.3.14 (and later?) works now. It requires fastboot RAM to persist state across reboots, which is now implemented.
• More accurate emulation of the On button: It's now possible to enter Press-To-Test mode (#271)
• Faster saving and loading of snapshots (#231)
• More reliable USB file transfers
• The debugger console now includes entered commands in the log
• Support for PIE (position-independent executables) on x86_64. Previously, care needed to be taken that PIE was disabled, otherwise it would crash on start. (#211)
• Building the JIT is disabled automatically if the platform does not support it (#197)
• Firebird builds on FreeBSD now (#228, #248)

Bugfixes:

• File access on Android got fixed (#202 and its various duplicates)
• Fix placement of keypad buttons in the touchpad area (#41)
• Various fixes for the Mobile UI layout (#201)
• The kit configuration page in the Mobile UI no longer causes the keyboard to pop up by default (#257)
• Connecting with GDB on windows works now (#259, #260)
• Some shades of grey were not displayed properly when emulating pre-CX models (#270)
• Fix crash on AArch64/arm64 when executing certain instructions
• The keypad reacts to touch events in the desktop version as well now (#292, #293)
• Some places were no longer translated correctly after the introduction of language switching in 1.5
• Keys could get stuck on focus changes. Now they're all released when the keypad loses focus (#287)
• The Ctrl key now changes color when pressed
• Emulation speed no longer remains unlimited after a failed file transfer

Repo for Arch, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and openSUSE: via OBS.

There is work in progress to implement and improve support for running in the browser on Qt for WebAssembly (#294). A preview is available on https://nspire-emus.github.io/firebird/wasm/

NOTE: BundleIdentifier changed in this version and automatic updates have been disabled until manual install occurs.