Release notes

What changed in each FFB-Bridge build, newest first. The desktop app links here when it finds an update.

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.