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Release - Jul 8, 2026

June 2026 Updates to Gaggle

June was a busy month at Gaggle, we introduced some big features and squashed over 100 bugs!

  1. New Features

    • Airspace advisories: Spot FAA NOTAM-backed advisory areas faster, filter what matters to your flying, and optionally help approved drone operators with anonymized advisory signals.
    • Competition leaderboard management tools: New section for competitions, that shows real time scoring, live leaderboards, and pilot management.
  2. Other Improvements

    • Challenge UI improvements for partner logo visibility.
    • Use correct profile name in challenge leaderboard.
    • Additional visual improvements to recording replay when viewed with an obstacle course.
    • Allow negative altitude displays, when flying below sea level.
    • Add recorder traffic size setting.
    • Add route planner bearings, so pilots can see the bearing from a selected waypoint to the next.
    • Add optional organizer-controlled task windows to obstacle-course leaderboards.
    • IGC import improvements, especially when importing large files.
    • Spectator live tracking now keeps the device display awake while the viewer is open.
    • Add help descriptions to the scoring method setting in the leaderboard task configuration flow.
    • Improved web map tile loading.
    • Hide bottom navigation bar when scrolling on all root pages.
    • Improve recording persistence and restore from backups, specifically on long flights.
  3. Notable Bugs Fixed 🐜

    • Fix obstacle course replay score that should reset when pilot abandons course.
    • Fix AIR3 tablet compatibility.
    • Fix weather forecast failing to load if certain pressure values were missing.
    • Fix certain airspaces polygons not rendering as expected.
    • Fix the rain radar overlay disappearing on normal site-map zoom levels.
    • Fix bug where personal airspaces were showing up in the official airspace list.
    • Fix the replay overlay score for obstacle-course challenge flights where the stored score and replay score diverge.
    • Fix KML export bucket edge cases.
    • Fix crash when location services are disabled during recorder startup.
    • Fix web email sign-in redirect.
    • Fix shared links opening the app without routing.
    • Fix personal airspace audio cues that would sometimes be skipped.
    • Fix recorder crashing when adding a new waypoint.
    • Fix emergency contact loading crash.
    • Fix manual flight log crashing on save.
    • Fix downloaded airspaces not always updating.
    • Remove duplicate Ireland official airspace.
    • Ensure profile stats stay updated.
    • Keep manual flight log equipment selections consistent.

We also made improvements to the Gaggle website.

  1. Website
    • New and improved meetups page.
    • Complete revamp of the help section.
    • Updated paramotor school directory.