The latest update V0.2.3 released June 26, 2023, significantly boosts performance on Mac, teams, and quality-of-life making use smoother.
Empowering athletes to do what they do best – race – is at the heart of indieVelo’s mission. The latest release now available today (see below for details) continues to build on this by allowing you to quickly and easily see your own custom events, created whenever you want, however you want.
From an in-game menu, just select your ideal configuration for what kind of race you would like to do, and immediately see what the course profile will be and the positions of any sprint points (if you want those too!). When you’ve created your masterpiece, then just hit the schedule button to add it to the event roster so you, and anyone else, can go and ride it.
If all has gone well, then you shouldn’t have to do anything to get the new version, as indieVelo will just self-update the next time you start it up.
If you find any problems however, instructions on how to manually update are on the website:
https://wiki.indievelo.com/docs/updates
The full patch notes are below!
“This, and all the other updates, came from suggestions made by athletes and team managers. With 100% of indieVelo’s roadmap decided by the community, please do keep your ideas coming for what you would like to see and how you would like indieVelo to continue to grow and develop, so that they can be included in future releases. Many thanks again for your continued support!”
indieVelo founder Dr. George Gilbert
Patch Notes – V0.2.3 – Key changes from last version:
Added dynamic route profile to event organisation menu.
Added ability to award double points at finish of custom points races.
Added in-game messaging to note eliminated riders in elimination races.
Added support for Stages powermeters.
Added ability to filter challenge leaderboards by country.
Added ability to filter challenge leaderboards by active team.
Added The Hub button to directly exit to desktop.
Added fonts for Slavic character sets.
Added lots more teams.
Improved Mac BLE performance.
Improved UI for in-game messages (e.g. points scored in sprints)
Improved smoothness of avatar leaning in corners.
Improved broadcast mode to hide menu buttons.
Improved visibility of return to self camera options.
Improved behaviour of mouse hiding when not being used.
Improved font size / alignment on event roster.
Improved in-game documentation on how to join a team.
Improved in-game documentation of FIT file location.
Improved in-game documentation of dual recordings.
Improved in-game documentation of hot-keys.
Improved disallowed word filter.
Fixed bug with occasional cadence drop outs.
Fixed benign error log when changing accounts.
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