• All marked issues under Windows Mobile 5/6 are fixed;
• Support of internal GPS receiver of HP iPaq HW65xx;
• Support of SiRF binary protocol;
• Satellites used for fix are now visualized for NMEA-0183 protocol;
• The colours showing satellites status in page "Satellites" are enhanced;
• Support of COM0;
• Square screen (240x240) support is enhanced, and controls layout in most of windows is enhanced for the landscape screen orientation;
• Showing icons in menus;
• Most of windows are redesigned to use toolbars;
• Accelerated map zooming allows to switch scale much faster;
• Drawing POI icons is made faster;
• Automatic hiding the map balloon tip in 10 s;
• Optional showing map crosshair (may be enabled in 'Settings');
• Position of the GPS-cursor on the map takes data fields into account;
• New file open/save dialog box is implemented to overcome limitations of similar OS-supplied one, which was used in previous versions;
• Application icon is associated with RUS and IMG formats, and tapping the icons in File Explorer runs RUSSA;
• Import and export of waypoints in OziExplorer WPT format;
• The menu item 'Waypoints' has been moved to 'Find';
• Tapping waypoints icons on map shows ballon tip;
• Showing large list of waypoints is accelerated;
• Waypoints sorting takes language rules and character case into account;
• Removing all waypoints;
• Waypoints may be deleted using context menu in 'Map' page;
• Page 'Map', context menu item 'Properties...' allows to change properties of a selected waypoint or get properties of a map feature (including type);
• Double-tapping a waypoints opens 'Properties' box;
• Context menu is available in the waypoints list;
• Each waypoint may be shown as symbol with name, symbol only or symbol with description;
• In the waypoints list, columns width, order and sorting is preserved;
• In the search result lists, columns width and order is preserved;
• Waypoints and search results list header: context menu allows to turn off unused columns;
• In the waypoints list, the columns "Display" and "Elevation" are added;
• Waypoint elevation is now optional attribute;
• Overlapped waypoints labels are now correctly handled;
• Saving waypoint while 'Map' page is not active is fixed;
• Automatic GPS epoch fix-up (useful provided that GPS receiver outputs incorrect year);
• Optional elevation fix-up for GPS receivers that mistakenly output elevation over WGS84 ellipsoid instead of elevation over mean sea level (the tab 'GPS' in the settings, button "Advanced...");
• New data fields: ordinal of current zoom level in map, number of POIs/polylines/polygons drawn;
• 10 new polygons and 7 points types are introduced for RUS format;
• Memory leakage introduced in the update 26.8 is fixed (the temporary data for maps with postal address items);
• Opening maps with huge number of indexed cities (over 65 500) is fixed.

RussaSetup1-1-26-8 (29 August 2005, 405 Kb, ActiveSync installer for Windows)

• Menu 'Tools | Find' - 4 kinds of object search are introduced, they work both for separate maps and atlases. (NOTE: some search kinds require maps supporting additional data like postal addresses etc);
• Map balloon tips showing for tapped objects;
• 47 new object types are introduced in RUS format;
• Colors of some types are enhanced;
• One-way roads visualization;
• Waypoint icons selection;
• Automatic synchronization of PDA system clock with GPS time (may be turned off in the settings);
• New folder selection window is used for atlases creation;
•  Support of encrypted maps which are protected by License Key;
• Export of waypoints to MPS and GDB format is fixed: non-unique names of points are not ignored now;
• "Satellites" page - the height of SNR bars is fixed;
• Automatic reset of map rotation after GPS connection turning off (if map 'Track up' setting is enabled);
•  Numerous minor improvements of GUI.