A Communications Tool For D-STAR

D-RATS 0.3.1 Released! PDF Print

D-RATS 0.3.1 release contains the following high-level changes over 0.3.0:

  • Lots of automatic message routing features and logic updates
  • Preliminary DVDongle support
  • Packet-aware proxy updates
  • Randomly-variable transmission delay
  • Improved socket performance to make IP->Proxy->RF operation
  • Support for defining the local station's DPRS information for remote access
  • TNC performance fixes
  • A large number of bug fixes
  • Improved MacOS packaging
  • See below for a full list of changes

 

NOTE1: If you downloaded the windows version of 0.3.1 prior to 23-Oct-2009 13:58Z,
you have a corrupted binary in which the map is broken.  Please re-download now.

 

Platform Download Link
Windows Installer (EXE)
Linux Source, Ubuntu 9.x, Ubuntu 8.x
MacOS Intel .app

NOTE2: MacOS users must download the KK7DS Python runtime package before
the above .app will work.  Once you install this package, you do not need to
install it for further releases unless noted.


Detailed list of changes

  • Fix file transfer session refusing to give up on a peer that disappears
  • Fix the chat Send button size for MacOS users
  • Fix Broadcast Text File function to use currently-selected chat port
  • Fix up the message reply function
  • Fix the email settings to hide passwords in the config dialog
  • Fix Email->Form conversion to concatenate all text/plain parts is used instead
  • Fix rendering some special characters in the message list
  • Fix forcing email addresses to uppercase
  • Fix sending warmup if the timeout is zero
  • Fix the socket data consumption algorithm to better tolerate slow data streams arriving over fast sockets
  • Fix losing static overlays
  • Fix D*Query to use the currently-selected chat port
  • Fix repeater ID list growing without bound
  • Fix Map->Broadcast Location function
  • Fix DPRS button in GPS QST editor
  • Fix DPRS message detection when checksum is a single digit
  • Fix repeater path list growing without bound
  • Fix repopulating the stations list after a clear
  • Fix killing the message routing thread when there is no route for a station
  • Fix a TNC bug that was causing an IO error on some blocks on Windows with the TNX-C
  • Fix editing TNC radio ports
  • Fix a couple of incoming-email-related crashes
  • Fix allowing the user to click Upload or Connect in Files tab when no callsign is selected
  • Make proxy application work on packets instead of the raw data stream
  • Remove duplicated to/from fields in the email form, since routing info
  • Change "Send" to "Forward" in the messages toolbar to clarify what you're doing when you manually send something somewhere
  • Add a form logo path configuration element and make the form logo file relative to that
  • Add a list of available logo files to the logo path edit box
  • Add DVDongle support (preliminary, there are still issues with this)
  • Add capability to specify a negative transmission delay that selects between 0.5 and abs(X) on each transmission
  • Add a Default GPS Message configuration element that controls what is returned during a remote position request
  • Add port name to chat status notification
  • Add a fabricated subject for forms that don't have a subject field
  • Add suggestion of the destination station on a form send
  • Add email functionality to the message router so that they automatically get handled there
  • Add http proxy function for fetching map images
  • Add locking to prevent opening a message while it's being transferred and to prevent it from being transferred while it's being edited
  • Add a method to launch the proxy application from the File->Tools menu
  • Add image detection and the image tool to the "Send file" function in the stations list

 

Last Updated on Friday, 30 October 2009 06:24
 

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