Beta channel

1.3.0-beta.9

• Fixed a crash at quit while armed (seen on a Logitech Force 3D Pro, applies to all sticks): quitting could briefly restart the sim-connection logic mid-shutdown, racing device teardown. This was also what triggered the "previous session did not shut down cleanly" recovery message and the switch to software rendering for some users. If that happened to you: Hardware → Effects → "Test hardware effects" restores hardware mode.

1.3.0-beta.8

• SideWinder FFB2 on the DirectInput backend: fixed forces going wrong or dead during Flight Check. A MOZA-specific recovery behaviour was accidentally applied to every DirectInput stick, resetting the FFB2's effect memory on every re-arm — which its driver stack does not tolerate. Now correctly MOZA-only.
• If you inverted any axis or centering polarity while chasing this, undo it after updating — with the fix your forces are correct again and the inversion would reverse them.

1.3.0-beta.7

Flight Check fixes from FFB2 tester feedback:

• Force trim hold strength works again. A beta.2 regression made hold-strength changes silently never reach the stick once the hold was firm — adjusting the slider now changes the felt hold.
• The force trim Flight Check step now says what actually happens: the stick starts LOOSE and engages on first FTR use.
• SideWinder FFB2: gentler on the stick's control pipe (one input read per tick instead of three) and a more patient effect-table recovery on re-arm — addresses tests going silent until an app restart.
• Learning the force-trim on/off switch onto the same button as FTR no longer makes FTR appear dead.

If your Flight Check direction tests seem reversed, please UNDO any axis inversion you set as a workaround and send a support bundle (Support → Diagnostics) — we're chasing that report and the inversion also reverses live flying.

1.3.0-beta.6

• Fixed the broken layout of the update settings in Settings → General (the channel picker crushed the text into a one-word-wide column).
• First release published through the new auto-update channel — if you're reading this from the in-app "What's new" link, it worked.

1.3.0-beta.5

• Auto-update. FFB-Bridge can now keep itself current: it checks for a new version at startup (on by default — turn it off in Settings → General), shows what's new, and on Windows downloads the signed installer, verifies it, and updates in place. Choose the stable or beta channel in Settings. The check fetches a small public version file and sends nothing about you or your system.
• Release notes now live at ffb-bridge.com/releases.

1.3.0-beta.4

Helicopter force-trim update, driven by beta-tester feedback:

• Firm hold at the trim point. The force-trim hold now behaves like the real magnetic brake — it resists immediately at the trimmed position instead of easing in (the reported "null zone" is gone).
• Force trim on/off button. Optional second learned button that works like the pedestal FORCE TRIM switch: press once and the cyclic goes fully loose (hover work), press again and the brake grabs at the current stick position.
• Beep trim. Nudge the stick's hat switch to walk the trimmed position slowly — no setup needed; hatless sticks can learn four buttons instead.
• Follow-up trim (AFCS types). Optional per-profile behaviour: below 40 knots, steady stick pressure slowly re-trims toward the stick, as the EC135/H225 family really does.
• Every helicopter gets the right trim style automatically. Load any helicopter and the bridge picks classic force trim, AFCS trim, or no-force-trim-with-light-springs based on the real aircraft — plus a new Trim style picker in Tuning → Helicopter.
• MOZA AB9: fixed forces going dead after a disarm/re-arm cycle.

1.3.0-beta.1

The helicopter beta (testers wanted — see the community thread):

• Complete helicopter support: cyclic damper, force trim (FTR), ETL shudder, VRS buffet, and rotor feel pack 2 (two-per-rev, retreating blade stall, skid scrape, rotor rumble).
• Windows raw-HID input read: FTR and the damper now work on the default SideWinder FFB2 backend — no more DirectInput workaround.
• 200 Hz feel tick: the damper is stable at full strength on light sticks.
• Six new aircraft starters: XCub, DA40, P-51D, 737-800, Extra 300, and the Airbus H125.
• Glider support: proper speed-based control loading (≈ V²) and an AS 33 starter profile.
• Hardware settings moved to their own page; Flight Check covers far more (roll checks, autopilot, centering modes, helicopter steps).
• MSFS 2020: the bridge now finds and fixes the 2020 SimConnect config too.
• Brunner FFB-G joins the supported-device registry.

1.2.1

• MOZA AB9/AB6 hotfix: synthesised centering spring — MOZA bases accept but don't render the DirectInput spring effect, so the bridge now reads the stick position and renders centering itself. Restores self-centering and trim's hands-off hold on MOZA hardware.

1.2.0

• Flight Check: a per-effect diagnostic page — confirm every force the bridge makes, one guided step at a time, no sim needed.
• Elevator/aileron trim sign closure (live-MSFS validated) and a one-shot polarity reset for configs that carried workaround inversions.
• MOZA AY210 yoke base joins the supported-device registry.