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October 2026

  1. App Store screenshots in Navionics and Aqua Map

    Signal K AIS plugin 0.6.3

    Release AIS

  2. Accurate course, heading, and turn rate from NMEA 2000 receivers

    Signal K AIS plugin 0.6.2

    Release AIS

  3. Renamed to Open Waters AIS

    Signal K AIS plugin 0.6.1

    Release AIS

  4. Stations named after your boat, and signed token requests

    Signal K AIS plugin 0.6.0

    Your station on aiscast takes your boat's name, the vessel name set in Signal K, while Share my own ship is on. Turning that switch off removes the name, so the station never says where the boat is.…

    Release AIS

September 2026

  1. Works with the new contributor station names

    Signal K AIS plugin 0.5.2

    Release AIS

  2. Names, call signs, and dimensions on chartplotters

    Signal K AIS plugin 0.5.1

    Release AIS

  3. Open Waters AIS traffic on NMEA 0183 chartplotters

    Signal K AIS plugin 0.5.0

    New Receive setting, on by default: Send aiscast traffic to NMEA 0183 output. Targets injected from aiscast are re-emitted as !AIVDM on the nmea0183out event, so chartplotters and tablet apps reading…

    Release AIS

  4. Fewer SD card writes while offline

    Signal K AIS plugin 0.4.0

    The offline queue writes far less to the SD card. Each queue file used to be rewritten from scratch every fifteen seconds as sentences were added to it, so a boat at anchor hearing a slow trickle of…

    Release AIS

  5. Offline backlog uploads in full after reconnecting

    Signal K AIS plugin 0.3.1

    Release AIS

  6. Follow buddy boats beyond VHF range

    Signal K AIS plugin 0.3.0

    Buddy boats: vessels on signalk-buddylist-plugin's list are followed on aiscast wherever they are, far beyond VHF range, in every receive mode. The buddylist plugin keeps raising its buddy flag and p…

    Release AIS

August 2026

  1. Share your position from GPS when there's no AIS transponder

    Signal K AIS plugin 0.2.0

    New Share setting: Fallback to self-reported AIS position. When an AIS transponder is not available, the plugin builds class B position and static reports from Signal K (like @signalk/aisreporter) an…

    Release AIS

  2. Tokens no longer expire

    Signal K AIS plugin 0.1.4

    Release AIS

  3. Connects over Starlink, satellite, and slow cellular links

    Signal K AIS plugin 0.1.3

    Release AIS

  4. Dashboard clears the "No token" error once connected

    Signal K AIS plugin 0.1.2

    Release AIS

  5. Starts sharing once the network comes up

    Signal K AIS plugin 0.1.1

    Release AIS