Thanks, Tom! Now it's time for feature requests and bug reports. :-)
73, Zoli On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 03:06:33PM +0100, Thomas Beierlein wrote: > > After a lot of work by all people contributing to TLF I would like to > announce the release of the new TLF-1.4.0 version. > > You can find it at > > http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/tlf/tlf-1.4.0.tar.gz or > https://github.com/Tlf/tlf/releases/download/tlf-1.4.0/tlf-1.4.0.tar.gz > > > Besides some fixed bugs and internal improvements it provides > the following new features (see also the NEWS file and the man page > for details): > > TLF now allows the use of aliases in multiplier files. So you can > have different section codes in exchange which count as the same > multiplier. See discussion of MULT_FILE in man page for details. > (Tnx for suggesting to N0NB). > > A new CALLMASTER= keyword was added to allow naming the used > callmaster database file (default is still 'callmaster'). > > If RECALL_MULTS is set the content of the exchange field got > always overwritten (e.g. by setting from initial exchange file). > Now TLF keeps the content of the exchange field if it is not empty > - actual input gets precedence over stored 'old' data. > > TLF now respects the number of lines of your console window (linux > console or terminal window). You can also resize the window > vertically while TLF is running. The extra space is used to display > additional lines for the bandmap. > > The startup code was rewritten to allow a better readability of > the startup messages by users > * 'verbose' startup ('tlf -v') waits for a key press before > clearing the screen > * If started in an empty directory (new contest or first start) > TLF switches to verbose mode automatically. > > > > Major changes: > Building TLF without Hamlib support is no longer supported. > > The old audio SCAN functionality got dropped as it was no longer > working. > > The handling of multiplier entries in the logfile got changed to > unify the handling between different contests. > As a downside it may happen (depending on the contest rules) that > TLF will get the multiplier counts wrong for logfiles written with > an older version of TLF. > In such an case you can export your logfile to cabrillo and > re-import it to a new logfile in actual format (use 'tlf -i' for > that). > > Bugfixes: > - Correct color display for TERM=xterm-256color > - Correct transposition of check and section for arrlss (Tnx N0NB) > - The old CQWW simulator code got repaired and should be working > again (see :sim in man page). > - Fix segmentation fault on return from editlog(), > - Adapt to new 'rigmode' interface in hamlib library > - Correct some problem in sideband selection when switching CW <-> > SSB > - Fix segfault on missing RIGPORT definition (tnx N0NB) > - Fix possible segfaults in readcabrillo() function > > > For a more detailed discussion of the new features please read the > NEWS file and the man page. > > As always reports about problems (or success) are welcome. > > > 73 es gd DX, de Tom DL1JBE. > > -- > "Do what is needful!" > Ursula LeGuin: Earthsea > -- >
