This page contains older releases of Golden Cheetah. For the latest version, please see the download page instead.

Golden Cheetah

Version | Files | Description

2.0.0

Linux x86
Linux x86_64
Mac OS X Universal
Windows 32-bit

New Features

- Aerolab (Andy Froncioni)
- View ride in Google Maps (Greg Lonnon)
- Long Term Metrics (Mark Liversedge)
- User configurable ride metadata (Mark Liversedge)
- Ride editor and tools (Mark Liversedge)
- HR Zones and TRIMP Metrics (Damien Grauser)
- Twitter support (Justin Knotzke)

Internationalisation

- Updates to French translation (Damien Grauser)
- Japanese translation (Mitsukuni Sato)

New Logo and Icons

- Golden Cheetah Logo(Dan Schmalz)

Enhanced Ride Plot

- Ride plot stacked view (Damien Grauser)
- Scrolling Ride Plot (Mark Liversedge)

New Devices and File Formats Supported

- Support for Joule BIN File Format (Damien Grauser)
- Tacx CAF Ride File Format Support (Ilja Booij)
- Garmin FIT ride file support (Sean Rhea)
- Export to Google Earth 5.2 KML (Mark Liversedge)
- Training Peaks PWX ride file support (Mark Liversedge)
- Polar SRD ride file support (Mark Liversedge)
- Racermate CompCS/Ergvideo .TXT ride file support (Mark Liversedge)

Numerous enhancements and bug fixes from

- Julian Baumgartner
- Robert Carlsen
- Rainer Clasen
- Gareth Coco
- Dag Gruneau
- Jamie Kimberley
- Jim Ley
- Patrick J. McNerthney
- Austin Roach
- Ken Sallot
- Thomas Weichmann

Builds, testing and support

- Robert Carlsen
- Gareth Coco
- Jamie Kimberley
- Justin Knotzke

1.3.0

Linux x86
Linux x86_64
Mac OS X Universal
Windows 32-bit

Lots of new features:

Realtime Mode:

- Graph data as you ride (Mark Liversedge, Justin Knotzke, Steve Gribble)

Charts:

- Added Performance Manager (Eric Murray)
- Added 3D Modeling (Mark Liversedge and Greg Steele)
- Up to four y-axes on Ride Plot (Sean Rhea)
- Option to show work instead of power in Critical Power Plot (Sean Rhea)

Intervals:

- Configurable metrics for intervals (Sean Rhea)
- Find peak powers and add to intervals (Mark Liversedge)
- Highlight intervals in plots (Damien Grauser)

Device support:

- Serial port support on Windows (Mark Liversedge)
- Erase SRM memory without downloading (Sean Rhea)

Imports:

- New ride import wizard (Mark Liversedge, Jamie Kimberley)
- Support Computrainer 3dp file format (Greg Lonnon)
- Support WKO v3 file format (Mark Liversedge)
- Support files with Garmin "smart recording" (Greg Lonnon)
- New GoldenCheetah (.gc) file format (Sean Rhea)

New/improved ride metrics:

- Added Joe Friel's Aerobic Decoupling (Sean Rhea)
- Added training points system by running coach Jack Daniels (Sean Rhea)
- Better elevation gain estimates (Sean Rhea)

Support for more languages:

- French (Damien Grauser)
- Japanese (Mitsukuni Sato, Keisuke Yamaguchi)

Other new features:

- Group rides into seasons (Justin Knotzke)
- Better ride calendar (Berend De Schouwer)
- Ride list pop-up menu (Thomas Weichmann)

- Direct download from SRM (R. Clasen and S. Rhea)
- WKO+ file import (M. Liversedge)
- Qollector support (M. Rages)
- Altitude plotting (T. Weichmann)
- Manual ride entry (E. Murray)
- Power zones shading (D. Connell)
- Weekly summary histograms (R. Carlsen)
- Automatic CP estimation from CP graph (D. Connell)
- Support for running off a USB stick (J. Knotzke)
- OS-specific directory layout (J. Simioni)
- PF/PV plot improvements (B. de Schouwer)
- Memory leak fixes (G. Lonnon)

Thanks also to Jamie Kimberley for extensive testing.

1.2.0

Linux x86
Linux x86_64
Mac OS X Universal
Windows 32-bit

Lots of new features in this release, including:

- Direct download from SRM (R. Clasen and S. Rhea)
- WKO+ file import (M. Liversedge)
- Qollector support (M. Rages)
- Altitude plotting (T. Weichmann)
- Manual ride entry (E. Murray)
- Power zones shading (D. Connell)
- Weekly summary histograms (R. Carlsen)
- Automatic CP estimation from CP graph (D. Connell)
- Support for running off a USB stick (J. Knotzke)
- OS-specific directory layout (J. Simioni)
- PF/PV plot improvements (B. de Schouwer)
- Memory leak fixes (G. Lonnon)

Thanks also to Jamie Kimberley for extensive testing.

1.1.325

Linux x86
Linux x86_64
Mac OS X Universal
Windows 32-bit

First official Windows release courtesy of Ned Harding. Ned put much effort into the port to make the download reliable and created a nice installer, too (Thanks Ned!). He also provided the long-awaited Split Ride feature - break up a ride file into separate rides easily using long time gaps and intervals.

- Ant+Sport PowerTap support.
- Split Rides by time gaps or intervals.
- Delete ride from list.
- Use distance or time for x-axis in Ride Plot (Thanks Damain).
- Numerous bug fixes (Thanks Tom, Dan).

1.0.277

Linux x86,
Linux x86_64,
Mac OS X Universal

*Note: Beginning with this release we are changing to a numbered versioning system. Minor point releases will generally indicate builds with new features, while bugfix releases will increment the final number, which represents the svn revision*

Several new features in this release: Critical Power calculator, find best intervals utility, Pedal Force / Pedal Velocity chart, iBike and Ergomo CSV import, GUI power zones creator, separate vertical axes for Power / HR / Cadence and Speed in the Ride plot, sorting rides with the most recent at the top of the list, and many bug fixes courtesy of JT Conklin.

You may need to install USB drivers from FTDI.

For posterity, the beta version for Windows, based on r295.

Mar 10, 2008 | Linux x86, Mac OS X Universal | This release introduces BikeScore™, a metric of training stress developed by Dr. Philip Skiba. It also fixes several small bugs in earlier releases.
Sep 23, 2007 | Linux x86, Mac OS X x86, Mac OS X PowerPC | Bug fix release. CVS imports weren't quite working in the last one.
Sep 18, 2007 | Linux x86, Mac OS X PowerPC | This release adds two small, but excellent features from Justin Knotzke: CSV file imports and visual interval markers in the ride plot.

Aug 7, 2007

Linux x86,
Mac OS X PowerPC

This release fixes a bug in the critical power intervals graph where you could get bad data if you started an interval after a long period of not moving. It also adds really basic zooming to the ride plot: use the left mouse button to zoom in and the right one to return to the previous zoom state. It's pretty crappy right now, but it's better than nothing.

Apr 26, 2007

Linux x86,
Mac OS X PowerPC

This release fixes some bugs and adds a whole bunch of new features:

- Now imports .srm files (direct download from SRM hopefully coming soon)
- New "Weekly Summary" tab shows total weekly hours, miles, and work
- Power zones can now be entered into a text file, after which GC will display time in each zone in the ride and weekly summaries; for more information on the zone file format, see this page.

Apr 1, 2007 | Linux x86, Mac OS X PowerPC | This release fixes a bug that was introduced with the hardware echo detection code. If you're using the CycleOps-supplied USB cable to download from your PowerTap unit, this release should make downloads more reliable. (Those using the KeySpan USB-to-serial adaptor or a plain-old serial port shouldn't see any difference.)
Feb 22, 2007 | Linux x86, Mac OS X PowerPC | Clicking on the Critical Power Plot now displays the interval duration, maximum power for that ride, and maximum power for all rides below the plot. Also fixes a bug for recording intervals longer than two seconds.
Feb 12, 2007 | Linux x86, Mac OS X PowerPC | Interval information now included in ride summary, rides can now be exported as comma-separated values for import into Excel, and better automatic detection of hardware echo. Also includes a number of bux fixes.
Jan 30, 2007 | Linux x86, Mac OS X PowerPC | Bug fix release.
Jan 6, 2007 | Linux x86 | First release for Linux.
Dec 25, 2006 | Mac OS X PowerPC | Adds the Power Histogram, which shows how much time a rider spent at each particular power level during a ride.
Sep 19, 2006 | Mac OS X PowerPC | Adds the Critical Power Plot, which shows the highest average power you've achieved for every interval length over all your rides and the selected ride. Also shows download progress in minutes of ride data downloaded.
Sep 7, 2006 | Mac OS X PowerPC | Adds speed and cadence to the ride plot. Fixes a bug found by George Gilliland where reseting the time during a ride could cause the GUI to crash.
Sep 6, 2006 | Mac OS X PowerPC | The first release of the Golden Cheetah GUI.

Older Stuff

These are the older, source-only, command-line distributions. I've left them up for historical purposes only; I don't recommend using them.

Date | File | Description
Aug 11, 2006 | gc_2006-08-11.tgz | ptdl now works with Keyspan USB-to-serial adaptor, after debugging help from Rob Carlsen.
May 27, 2006 | gc_2006-05-27.tgz | Adds the `cpint` program for computing critical power intervals and the `ptpk` program for converting from PowerTuned data files (see the User's Guide).
May 16, 2006 | gc_2006-05-16.tgz | The first code release, containing `ptdl` and `ptunpk`.