The latest indieVelo update V0.2.30 released January 1, 2024, focuses on infrastructure, scaling, and preparing for a successful future!
A New Year’s message from indieVelo developer Dr. George Gilbert!
“Firstly, and most importantly, I wanted to wish you a Happy New Year. Your support and encouragement throughout last year was incredible, and I really can’t thank you enough. It’s amazing to think of how far we’ve come already, and the huge potential that lies ahead.”
This week’s release (see below for full details) switches focus to infrastructure and scaling indieVelo up for the future. It also includes a wide variety of improvements across performance verification, group rides, and AI, along with the usual tweaks to the UI and general quality-of-life improvements to help make indieVelo as easy as possible to use.
Note for Mac Bluetooth users: If you find that the Bluetooth icon on the pairing screen has turned red, please follow the instructions linked from https://wiki.indievelo.com/docs/apple-mac-ble-permissions/ to first completely remove, and then re-add, permission for indieVelo to use the Mac Bluetooth connection.
Do you want to steepen your indieVelo learning curve? Check out our How-to-Guides page for details!
If all has gone well, you shouldn’t have to do anything to get the new version, as indieVelo will 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
Please note that, depending on when you installed indieVelo, you may see a warning message recommending that you update the installer/launcher to the latest version. If you see this, download it again from https://indievelo.com/downloads, and the update will automatically apply. The entire process typically takes a minute or two, often much less.
The full patch notes are below!
“As we now move into the new year, there’s a lot more hard work to come. Please do keep your ideas, comments and suggestions coming for what you would like to see – I can’t wait to see what we can build together in 2024!
indieVelo founder Dr. George Gilbert
Patch Notes – V0.2.30 – Key changes from the last version:
- Added ability to scale up to 5,000 concurrent users.
- Added option to cancel change of a paired device.
- Added January challenge events.
- Added version checking for mobile releases.
- Added more teams & event brandings.
- Improved real-time performance verification for miscalibrated trainers.
- Improved accuracy of event time checks.
- Improved rubberbanding when speeds are high.
- Improved rubberbanding when freewheeling.
- Improved rubberbanding on hills.
- Improved rubberbanding at extreme forward & backward stretches.
- Improved default direction choice on split roads in group rides.
- Improved bot AI for going into supertuck position.
- Improved variance between different bot AIs.
- Improved flow for organisers to spectate their own events.
- Improved visibility of route profile graphs.
- Improved handling of bot-only events.
- Improved server load balancing.
- Improved server performance.
- Improved server resilience.
- Fixed bug with leaving event pen, then rejoining as a late entry.
- Fixed bug with permissions on creating a broadcast folder.
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