Plane: prepare for plane 3.8.0 release

ArduPlane/release-notes.txt

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+Release 3.8.0, 5th August 2017
+------------------------------
+
+The ArduPilot development team is very proud to announce the release
+of APM:Plane 3.8.0. This is a major release, with a lot of new
+features and improvements. The release has been a long time coming,
+and the dev team would like to thank everyone who has contributed,
+in terms of code and documentation as well as the many testers of beta
+versions of the code.
+
+To help with migration from the 3.7.1 release to 3.8.0 there is a
+migration guide here:
+
+  http://ardupilot.org/plane/docs/plane-3-7-to-3-8-migration.html
+
+All users should read the migration guide carefully. While the
+firmware will try to auto-migrate most settings, please do very
+careful ground tests before your first flight with 3.8.
+
+In total there have been over 4 thousand changes in the ArduPilot git
+tree since the 3.7.1 release, with over four hundred of those specific
+to fixed wing aircraft. Listing all of them in these release notes is
+not practical, but the following list will give some of the larger
+changes:
+
+ - addition of EKF3 support (disabled by default)
+ - new SERVO parameter system for servo output configuration
+ - support for MS5525 airspeed sensor
+ - support for a wide range of tiltrotor quadplanes
+ - support for tailsitter aircraft (including vectored tailsitters)
+ - support for twin-motor aircraft, with differential thrust
+ - new system for elevon, vtail, flaperon and differential spoiler setup
+ - support for deep stall landings
+ - support for dual-gps blending
+ - support for masking compass types for driver loading
+ - completely new DMA based and high sample rate IMU drivers
+ - support for px4pro board from Drotek
+ - several new compass drivers, new IMU drivers and new GPS drivers
+ - new MANUAL_RCMASK system for fine-grained MANUAL flight setup
+ - support for log rotation on disarm
+ - numerous quadplane improvements
+ - fixed loiter behaviour with Q_GUIDED_MODE=1
+ - allow rudder arming in CRUISE and FBWB modes
+ - fixed bug in transmitter tuning support
+ - fixed bug in attitude integrator zero on mode change
+ - added SYSID_ENFORCE parameter
+ - fixed support for vtail rudder-only planes
+ - greatly improved automatic landing accuracy
+ - support for high update rates on all servos with SERVO_RATE parameter
+ - greatly improved UAVCAN support, with parameters now in CAN_ parameter space
+ - support for prop-hang on 3D aircraft
+ - improved quadplane PID logging
+ - smoother takeoffs for quadplanes
+ - logging of side-slip and angle-of-attack estimates
+ - added AETR, pre-mixer logging
+ - automatic thermalling support
+
 Release 3.8.0beta5, 1st May 2017
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ArduPlane/version.h

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 #include "ap_version.h"
 
-#define THISFIRMWARE "ArduPlane V3.8.0beta6"
-#define FIRMWARE_VERSION 3,8,0,FIRMWARE_VERSION_TYPE_BETA+5
+#define THISFIRMWARE "ArduPlane V3.8.0"
+#define FIRMWARE_VERSION 3,8,0,FIRMWARE_VERSION_TYPE_OFFICIAL
 
 #ifndef GIT_VERSION
 #define FIRMWARE_STRING THISFIRMWARE