NEWS

NEWS for version 4.x

Version 4.0.4

  cw scanner
    . adds multi signal scanner / browser
  Sound Card
    . keep input and output sound card devices open for duration of
      fldigi execution
    . Corrected tune output device
    . Changed tune, wfid, video and cw id to use tx offset
  CW QSY
    . Correct QSY when transceiver in CW and CW-R type modes
  CALL field size
    . Increased CALL, OP_CALL, STA_CALL from 15 to 30 chars
  LOG area controls
    . Resize controls to add County entry control.  Allow user
      to select which extra qso field is displayed; country or
      county.

Version 4.0.3

  CW code update
    . Changed all element timing to number of samples
      both CW and CW scanning detectors
    . Removed FIR filter. FFT filter only for CW signal path.
    . Removed Hilbert transform from CW signal path
    . Update CW documentation

  OS X Wizard
    . Discovered cause of Wizard failure on OS X
      - newly created dialogs cannot be accessed until actually shown.

  CW wait
    . Correct Windows performance at end of CW Tx text
      - program should wait for keyboard input
      - terminate with the ^r character pair
      - terminate with control-r
      - terminate with the T/R button

Version 4.0.2

  Revert "wefax"
    . This reverts commit 5609415222335e9376defc325f20ae29c5c8c8ca.
    . Modifies wefax.cxx iaw request from Remi, wefax author

  Lotw Match
    . fix failure to mark logbook as dirty when records are matched

  flrigi bw synch
    . Improve bandwidth table / selection sync with flrig when changing 
      xcvr mode from fldigi

  Clang 8.1.0
    . Correct warning notification with latest Clang compiler on
      macOS Sierra 10.12.4

  Sound card
    . Changed to separate Rx/Tx soundcard instances
      - only open/close when samplerate changes
      - attempt to reduce incidence of lost sound card in OS X

  IFKP image processing
    . Rx processing failed to return to TEXT state upon conclusion of 
      image transfer

  Macro Save
    . Corrected issue with macro tag "Save"

  CW end of transmit
    . Add <LF> character to Rx echo text when going from Tx to Rx
      - provides visual separation of Tx and Rx text in the Rx panel
      - color rendition still applies.

  Font Initialization
    . Force all font initialization to be name dependent
    . Font name / Font number can change as user installs or removes 
      fonts from the OS with potentially fatal impact on fldigi font usage.
    . May require user to reconfigure various font selections

  OS X socket connect
    . connect test for fail conditions not correct for OS X

  Winkeyer exit process
    . Release resources when closing Winkeyer
    . Issue ADMIN:CLOSE command to Winkeyer when disconnecting or
      closing fldigi.

Version 4.0.1

  Socket connect
    . FreeBSD mod causes seg fault on non BSD platforms
      - make change OS dependent

Version 4.0.0

  OS X 10.12 build
    . Compile changes for OS X Darwin 10.12 Clang build

  STATION_CALLSIGN
    . Change adif field STATION_CALL to STATION_CALLSIGN compliant with
      adif specification

  Free BSD mods
    . Compliance mods for current version of Clang compiler

  Logbook mods
    . Update log field LOTWSDATE for each record sent to LOTW when the
      upload file is created
    . clear LOTWSDATE field if lotw rejects submission or fails to 
      respond within 25 seconds
    . insure that lotw review dialog closes on program exit
    . restore tabular sort order when adding a record

  Default Tx Audio
    . Change default audio output to both channels

  remove sprintf
    . change all remaining occurances of sprintf to snprintf

  Documentation update
    . New documentation for winkeyer interface

  n3fjp logger search
    . set initial search for n3fjp server to 5 second intervals

  fopen->fl_fopen
    . update to UDF-8 compatible fopen call

  48 bar macro
    . allow user to select above / below Rx/Tx panels

  CW decoder
    . Improved CW decoder
      - removed user adjustable signal level controls
      - added automatic tracking filters for Rx signal level
      - tracking filters change parameters with detected WPM.

  DX cluster
    . Update dxcluster QSY to correctly align signal to sweet spot
      when transceiver is in a CW mode.
    . add ability to respond to password prompt

  Logbook support
    . Add checkband test to new log entry before writing record
    . Added BAND control to log view, contest tab
      - fldigi does not use the BAND field, it is present as a
        convenience for exporting or importing from log programs
        that do use it.
      - the control is on the contest tab since that seems to be
        the most common use for BAND (e.g. field day event).
    . OS X file naming dialog drops the ".adif" extension.
      - add code to insure newlog etc have the correct extension.

  WinKeyer
    . Added embedded WinKeyer interface

  fsq ifkp s/n computation
    . Additional change to s/n measurement

  fltk version update
    . update all fluid generated source and header files

  Macro Date Time Formats
    . Allow user to specify the date time format using strftime format
      strings
      - <ZT> becomes <ZT:"%H%M%S">; <ZT:"%H:%M:%SZ"> etc.
      - <ZT:fmt> fmt is the strftime format string
        if the ':fmt' is not in the macro tag then the current format
        is used

  lotw addition
    . Add jt9 modes for lotw upload
    . Allow up to 7 numerals in frequency element

  THOR/IFKP Image transfers
    . Add auto save Rx images to
      - Thor
      - IFKP
    . Corrected IFKP send image sequencing
      - pic%[T] where T is image scale was not being sent before the
        image fascimille.
    . Added Thor and IFKP image transfer using the <IMAGE:fname> macro
      tag

  ifkp s/n update
    . Change to s/n measurement
      - noise measured over full range of possible signal bins
      - noise referenced to 3000 Hz bandwidth

  fsq s/n update
    . Change to s/n measurement
      - noise measured over full range of possible signal bins
      - noise referenced to 3000 Hz bandwidth

  OSS bug fix
    . Add missing parenthesis to reverse audio test
      - bug fix submitted by Guiseppe, IZ1QZE

  PSKMAIL PTT fault protection
    . add REQ(...) to show_tx_timer function call

  Logbook File Handling
    . Change new log file naming paradigm
      - move logbook open/save/merge to a separate sub    -menu
    . Change logbook merge logic
      - discover and cull duplicates in both current and merge records
      - write duplicates to adif file for user review
      - annotate Rx Panel with user information on merger performance

  Russian UTF-8 translation
    . Added Russian po files

  Tooltips
    . Correct and update various tooltips

  n3fjp contest update
    . Add read next serial to send from n3fjp logger
    . Add send TXTENTRYSERIALNOR to n3fjp generic logger
    . Add new macro tags
      - <SERNO>   current serial number
      - <LASTNO>  last serial number
    . add support fields for N3FJP NAQP contest logging

  Hamlib/RigCAT/XMLRPC Interface
    . Hamlib (K5JAE)
      - Add user adjustable poll rate
      - Add Defaults button
      - Modify activation of controls based on hamlib selection
    . RigCAT (W1HKJ)
      - removed btnRevertRIGCAT & associated functions
      - toggle Initialize button state with change in rigcat enable
    . XMLRPC (W1HKJ)
      - toggle Initialize button state with change in xmlrpc enable