Version 2.6.2

Bugfixes from the xplane.org community

Published 2026-03-12

A thread on the xplane.org forums about DataRefTool has been a huge part of shaping DRT since it came out in 2014.

These fixes are all from issue that surfaced in that thread. Thanks for your feedback!

Fix: on Linux, there is a drop in frames every 1 second; the drop is linked to filesystem traffic. The cause is the "Reload plugins on modification" feature, which monitored plugin files for changes via notify even when the feature was disabled. The feature is now fully off when disabled. (Thanks caribu, RandomUser and others on xplane.org forums)
Fix: DRT now loads correctly after using "Reload plugins". Previously, it failed to load due to a redundant initialization of the logging system. (Thanks G John on the xplane.org forums)
Fix: Keyboard configuration files for Windows are now parsed correctly. (Thanks to Jeff2122 on the xplane.org forums for a post that brought this to my attention.)
Improvement: Refinements to the error messages for OBJ files that don't match the file format spec, trying to improve the noisy error messages that Jeff2122 on the xplane.org forums pointed out.