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Latest Beta Release Notes
4.10k 2024-10-20
This beta requires at least macOX 11 (Big Sur). If it ever escapes beta, it will become version 5.0.
New
- The new Messages setting 'Enable message chaining' allows you to control whether or not tapping a message send key while a message is sending either ignores the tap or queues the message. The default is to enable chaining, which is the usual behavior.
- Major changes to Practice mode, ready for beta testing. New Practice window, massive underlying code improvements including glitch-free audio, new terminology partially documented in Guide. (f) Considerable additional work addressing reported issues and implementing behavior for scenarios beyonds 1T1R Run. (g) Considerable additional work. (h)And even more work, it's getting less common to discover issues and easier to fix them. (k)Yet more work addressing issues and adding features (sorry for the lazy note; the full details are of interest to a very limited audience that communications using Signal).
- (e)Fixed a sporadic crash when ending a Practice session. Thanks CT1DRB.
- (e)Improved behavior of Max Pileup Size in Practice; see Guide. Thanks JH5GHM.
- ARRL DX Contest log type replaced by four types for CW/SSB Inside/Outside.
- (h)First attempt to support the main receiver Panadapter window for IC-7610 radios, using "Spectrum Scope" data obtained via the USB connection. Ask if you have this radio and want to try it. Also, if you have any Icom radio, let me know if I have broken its support.
- (j)Clean up many issues with IC-7610 panadapter support in 2T2R. Thanks JH1GHM, JA1BJI.
- (k)Reduce 7610 Panadapter spectrum display vertical range from 100 dB to 50 dB.
- (k)Change Panadapter spectrum frequency grid line spacing to be 1, 2, or 5 kHz or multiples of 10 of those values, depending on span.
- (k)Add sanity test for 7610 receive bandwidth.
- (k)Instead of polling for Spectrum Scope data, just issue one command that tells the radio to begin sending data.
- (k)Remove apparently unecessary "civ bus is busy" test that causes silent stall of 7610 communication.
Changed
- Changed the Romanian district code for Bucharest from BI to BU, and made BU the alternate code for BI. Thanks CT1DRB.
- Added voice keyer QSY message, distinct from CW message.
- Made Status Messages window content not editable. Can still select content for copy-paste.
- Panadapter grab with no nearby activity now rounds frequency to nearest 100 Hz. (k)Removed this mis-feature.
- Attempt to automatically re-enable a radio or YCCC SO2R Mini when a device reports that the serial port for the device has disappeared. Thanks JH5GHM.
- Preliminary changes to ICOM radio code, preparing to support IC-7610 "Scope waveform" data in Panadapter windows. Please report any changes in current behavior. Thanks K3LR for loaner radio.
- (f)Changed All Activities filter in activity tables to pass all spots, instead of rejecting not not viable and duplicate spots. Thanks JH5GHM and W6FB.
- (f)Fussed with Activity table column "automatic" resizing behavior to prevent size changes across restarts.
Fixed
- QSO entry status was reported incorrectly for some text commands.
- Some text commands confused partials matching.
- Features meant to be hidden were exposed to all users, including a 30° Green Heron rotator controller "slip" correction. Thanks MØTDZ.
- The RxNr log column was missing in contests like WAE where the received exchange is a serial number. Thanks JH5GHM.
- CWT was always pre-filling the member ID field for DX stations with their country code instead of their ID when known from Exchange Archive or from previous QSOs in the log. Thanks K1IG.
- An alert was falsely reporting that DVR play was unavailable for Elecraft KX3 radios. This bug may also have affected several Yaesu radios, please report if you discover issues. Thanks NK4O.
- SkookumLogger was unable to create a log for Kansas Qso Party In Kansas. Thanks KK6MC.
- The sent exchange for new logs was being prefilled incorrectly for some contest rules.
- Rare crashes, possible but hard to reproduce, addressed in activity processing code.
- Ending Practice due to exceeding the successful QSO count limit sometimes caused a hang.
- In YODX, entering one of the characters AENO or T in the info field when the call field was a YO station converted the letter to a digit. Thanks CT1DRB.
- Spots for KH6 stations were not appearing in Activity tables for Hawaii QSO Party Outside Hawaii.
- Spots for possibly needed calls in any Outside QSO Party were being assigned 'Needed QSO' font/color instead of 'May be multiplier' font/color.
- Broken might-be-multiplier testing for all Inside QSO Parties.
- Missing zone table column for contests with received zone in exchange.
- Was allowing Asians to work their own country in All Asian DX Contest.
- Borked behavior trying to use Icom radios for both Radio 1 and Radio 2. Thanks JH5GHM and JA1BJI.
- Revised code that determines whether or not a radio has a DVR and CAT support for playing DVR messages to handle Elecraft KX3, which always has a DVR that isn't exposed by the options query. Thanks NK4O.
- (f)Spots in activity tables were sometimes changing needed status when a new spot for the same activity arrived.
- (f)Fixed a crash in previous betas when opening the Audio Recorder.
- (g)Removed not-functional Track Radio checkbox for Amplifier 1. Thanks KA1IS.
- (g)Accept "--" in info field for CQWW RTTY Inside for QSOs with DX. Thanks WA1Z.
- (h)Cabrillo output for PAQP Outside included signal reports -- which caused their log processor to report "bad" Cabrillo. Thanks W2CS, N5EP.
- (k)Deal with harmless "*** Out if sync message" in Icom radio code.
- (k)Rules change: multipliers are now per-mode for Worked All Germany. Thanks W2RU, WA1Z.
- (k)Two related bugs were failing to explain why a QSO was marked as Suspect, and were turning off the Suspect flag when rescoring a log. Example failure: in CQP Inside, logging "W0BH 1 KA" didn't explain that KA isn't a valid state or province code. Thants AI6W.
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