Upstream doesn't build support for these devices by default anymore:
> The actual osmosdr had only a very limited production run many years
> ago and is therefore of little interest to most gr-osmosdr users.
> Mirisdr was experimental at best, because the dongles were never
> widely avaialble outside of Japan and had multiple unconnected antenna
> ports.
Here is a very high level list of changes:
## Changed
### Project Scope
- C++11
- merged the wholeness of the `next` branch
- Dependency version bumps: CMake, GCC, MSVC, Swig, Boost
- New dependencies: MPIR/GMP, Qt5, gsm, codec2
- Removed dependencies: libusb, Qt4, CppUnit
- Python: Python 2 & Python 3 compatible. 3.8 will be the last Py2k-compatible
release series
- gengen was replaced by templates (if you don't know gengen, don't do any
research; save yourself that sorrow)
- Modern CMake (as far as feasible at this point)
- VOLK version updated to v2.0.0
- .clang-format file now dictates coding style
- clang-format'ed the whole tree.
- installed CMake files now tell about configuration
### gnuradio-runtime
- reworked fractional tag time handling, especially in the context of resamplers
### GRC
- C++ generation as option
- YAML instead of XML
- removed `blks2`
- much better canvas tooling
- consistent gobject usage
- ROUNDED ARROWS
### gr-qtgui
- moving from Qt4 to Qt5
### gr-utils
- `gr_modtool` now vastly improved
### gr-vocoder
- improved versatility
- removed in-tree libgsm, libcodec2, use system-wide libs
## Removed
### Project Scope
- Modules `gr-comedi`, `gr-fcd` and `gr-wxgui` are gone
### gr-comedi
- nobody could remember who used this, or for what. It has seen 0 active code
contributions in the 3.7 lifecycle
### gr-digital
- python-based `packet_encoder` and related tools: Bugs that were sporadic and
never fixed, so after long deprecation, we're removing it
### gr-fcd
- since it's currently untestable by the CI, it's being removed, as there was no
code contributions. Generally, we strive to include all batteries with GNU
Radio. Re-integration within a more general SDR interface would be desirable.
### gr-utils
- removed PyQwt (dead) based tools
### gr-wxgui
- Unmaintained, breaks on increasingly many systems, always was slower than
Qtgui. We've been starting to tell people to migrate to Qt since at
least 2015. Now, we're finally removing it.
Upstream does not have release notes (or releases).
chirp now tracks upstreams "chirp-daily" pseudoreleases, labeled by
date. The package remains "chirp"; upstream only calls it chirp-daily
due to some GNU/Linux packaging issues.
This is a huge update as 0.4.1 is from many years ago.
Note that the previous gnuradio-core package conflicts with math/volk.
In order to update you must delete the old gnuradio-core package so
that math/volk can first be installed.
SoapySDR is an open-source generalized API and runtime library for interfacing
with SDR devices. With SoapySDR, you can instantiate, configure, and stream
with an SDR device in a variety of environments. Most off the shelf
SDR hardware platforms are supported by SoapySDR, and many open source
applications rely on SoapySDR for hardware integration support. In addition,
SoapySDR has bindings for development frameworks like GNU Radio and Pothos.
Release 2.2.6:
By John A. Magliacane <kd2bd@amsat.org> (20-May-2020):
* The installer program has been replaced by a bash script that
configures, compiles, and installs PREDICT and several companion
client utility applications.
* The SingleTrack and MultiTrack displays have been modified for
more consistent performance across a wider range of terminals.
* PREDICT's "vocalizer" now employs the Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture (ALSA) environment instead of OSS in response
to recent changes in v5.6 and later Linux kernels.
* The handling of geosynchronous and geostationary satellites
has been improved, but still needs to be used with caution.
* 100 MHz normalized downlink Doppler shift information has been
added to all -p and -f command-line outputs.
* The documentation and the transponder database file have been
updated, and the format of the man page has been corrected.
Release 2.2.5:
By John A. Magliacane <kd2bd@amsat.org> (05-May-2018):
* Fixed coding bugs identified by GCC v8.1.0.
* Re-arranged GCC arguments in installer.c for better
compatibility with more recent versions of GCC.
* Added a -dp command-line option to PREDICT to
provide quick Doppler shift estimates in CSV format.
(Thanks Joeal Subash)
* Updated the documentation to reflect the changes.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Release 2.2.4:
By John A. Magliacane <kd2bd@amsat.org> (12-Mar-2018):
* Fixed a bug affecting the -f switch that sometimes caused
a failure to return proper output. (Tnx: Andrej Lajovic)
* Fixed a bug in installer.c that sometimes caused a failure
to properly install PREDICT's executable into /usr/local/bin
by default.
* Added <errno.h> header to gsat-1.1.0/src/callbacks.c
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Upstream changed the lib64 stuff a bit, making our SUBST pattern no
longer match. (Either that, or we just got it wrong.) Adjust
pattern.
Pointed out by rillig@.
- Changes for xlog version 2.0.19 - 2020-apr-19
* Updated cty.dat 20200418 (cty-3007)
- Changes for xlog version 2.0.18 - 2019-jun-11
* added FT4 support and updated to ADIF 3.1.0
* Updated cty.dat 20190608
## 003.015.000.000
* N320: Fix MCR initialization, fix checks for LO distribution board,
reset RX IQ balance on init, replace DRAM FIFO with replay block,
improve constraints, fix I/Q imbalance compensation, add FPGPIO control
* N310: increase default dc offset averaging window, make tunes
asynchronous, add capability to control RF filter bypass and freq.band
limits, fix setting user DB EEPROM, correctly report N321 vs N320,
improve DDR3 BIST, update max revision to 7, fix DMA arbitration to
use contiguous packets, replace DRAM FIFO with replay block, fix SFP
link up status, add workaround for clocking interference with external
reference clocks, disable gpsdo clock/time source options when
enable_gps=0
* X300: Fix max bitfile size, fix GPIO ATR property access type, heavily
refactor, introduce conn_mgr, add DPDK support, add
capability to flash NI-2974 FPGA, fix clocking code, enable 11.52 MHz
and 23.04 MHz system ref rates, improve usage of constrained device
args, enable ADC gain through RFNoC API, add mode to set master clock
rate to arbitrary values between 184.32 and 200 MHz, throttle
muxed_zero_copy_if
* E320: Fix time source clobbering ref source, add support for RevE, fix
reporting of FPGA version hash, fix SFP link up status, fix missing
ce_clk driver
* E310: Convert to MPM architecture, fix uhd_image_loader usage, fix DMA
arbitration to use contiguous packets, reduced DMA chans to 4 (using
data stream muxing), fix DRAM_TEST target build
* E3xx: Correct frontend name in devtest
* B200: Add command to query bootloader status, fix sc12 streaming, fix
FIFO sizes on GPIFII interface
* UBX: add temperature compensation mode
* SBX: Only update ATRs when lock state changes
* TwinRX: add LO charge pump properties, increase default charge pump
value on LO1, add low spur tuning mode, fix duplicate write to N value
in DDC
* RFNoC/device3: Read command FIFO size from device instead of
hardcoding values, fix multidevice graph connections, ENABLE_RFNOC now
defaults to ON, search all nodes for tick rate, add update_graph()
call which lets blocks do a graph-wide update of properties, fix
missing port arg in SR_WRITE Noc-Script call, constrain
send/recv_frame_size baed on MTU, fix flushing on init/deinit, disable
FC ACKs for lossless links
* RFNOC/FPGA: Fix rb_stb in split stream block, fix off-by-one error in
the window block, fix phase reset and -accumulator for DDC and DUC
blocks, fix flushing on split-stream block, fix DC offset issue with
DDS by using proper rounding, fix DUC/DDC sample rate switching by
latching N on M in axi_rate_change, various fixes to
uhd_image_builder, fix MTU settings in blocks, align byte count to
8-byte word
* RFNOC: Allow UHD_RFNOC_DIR to contain multiple paths
* Python API: Replace Boost.Python with PyBind11, fix benchmark_rate
statistics, fix phase alignment test script
* Python API: Added include of complex.h to allow pybind to convert
complex data types
* Python API: Make multi_usrp::get_*_usrp_info() return a Python dict
* Python API: Fix array processing in send_waveforms()
* UHD: Allow ignoring fallthrough warnings, reduce Boost footprint,
remove gpsd dependency, improve streaming, reduced the number of
compiler warnings, introduce pop() to the prop tree, add typecast
operator from uhd::dict<> to std::map<>, properly cache config file
data
* MPM/mpmd: Introduce compatible rev numbers to support future hardware,
fix some resource leaks in mpmd, fix spurious reclaims causing
unnecessary warnings, fix resource leaks in liberio xport, allow to
mux data streams over liberio transports (e.g. to require fewer DMA
channels on E310), wait for DPDK links to come up before proceeding,
relax failure handling when updating components (fixes spurious errors
when updating FPGA images over SFP), fix issue where RPC
initialization would hang on failure
* MPM: Re-enable RPC server timeouts after components have been updated
* MPMD: Remove arbitraty frame size defaults for UDP transports
* MPMD: Fix incorrect link rate warnings
* FPGA: Use new device-tree overlay syntax, upgraded to Vivado 2018.3,
broke various paths with critical timing, allow SystemVerilog source
files, improve viv_modify_bd and viv_modify_tcl_bd, fix resets on 2clk
FIFOs
* USB: Allow cancelled USB requests to occur
* USB: Fix global session race condition
* Logging: Always honour log level, don't log colours for non-ttys, fix
includes, demote various log messages, fix logging colours, fix
deadlock on Windows machines
* Examples: Fix benchmark_rate INIT_DELAY, fix memory leak in
tx_samples_c
* Examples: Remove thread priority elevation
* Examples: Add options to benchmark_rate for start delays and priority
* Tests: Make the Python interpreter for devtests a parameter, add unit
tests to MPM
* Utilities: Fix converter benchmark for Py3k and scaling issue
* Tools: Fix kitchen_sink
* Tools: Fix Wireshark dissectors to work with WS1, 2, and 3
* Tools: Various fixes to FPGA functional verification tests
* Docs: Various fixes, fix Doxygen warnings, fix links to KB, update
DPDK information about building libraries, add DPDK subsection about
thread priorities, update testing procedures
* C API: Add uhd_get_abi_string, uhd_get_version_string
* CMake: Make manpage compression optional, allow setting of PKG_DOC_DIR
from the CMake commandline, add replay example, fix missing 'project',
replace ENABLE_PYTHON3 with a simpler Python detection, clean up
superfluous modules, improve log statements, bump dependency min
versions, add MPM unit testing, fix missing BIGOBJ for MSVC, add our
own UHDBoost.cmake to better find Boost across versions and systems,
constrain DPDK check to exact version
* Formatting: Apply clang-format to all files, break after template<>
Some content was about long-ago breaking changes and is no longer
relevant. Everything else is pointers to docs which are superceded by
the general notion that docs should be read :-)
(after off-list discussion with $MAINTAINER)
Sign/upload of log tested on NetBSD 8 amd64.
Packaging changes:
Change to wxGTK30, and don't use mk/wxGTK.mk
Force off lmdb in tqsl's cmake
Upstream NEWS:
localization
Major feature Additions:
Use an ARRL-supplied web service with ULS data to pre-fill station
location information.
Detect when the user runs TQSL “As Administrator” on Windows
systems and warn that this is not recommended.
The user is allowed to temporarily or permanently ignore that
warning.TQSL no longer asks for passwords for callsign
certificates when they are created.
There is a preference setting to re-enable this if desired.
When submitting requests for US 1x1 callsigns, which must always
be a signed request, ensure that the flow properly marks the
callsign as 1x1, and that the requester has a valid callsign
certificate that can be used to sign that request.
minor updates and bugfixes
Changes in version 2.2.1 (20 Jan 2018)
- Fixed bug that could prevent TLE update to work on Windows
- Increased size of TLE source widget in preferences dialog
Changes in version 2.2 (5 Jan 2018)
- New Monitor mode for antenna controller
- Improved satellite search field in module editor
- Finished migration to Gtk+ 3
- Fixed time controller jumping to January in manual mode when using local time
- Fixed crash when connecting to rotctld server that isn't running
- Fixed missing version number in Debian packages
- Avoid using gcc-specific language extensions
- Fixed some automake warnings
- Fixed "GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent..." messages
- Various internal bugfixes and improvements
- Updated translations
- Updated satellite data
- Updated windows build files
Changes in version 2.0 (10 Dec 2017)
- New logo
- Initial port to Gtk+ 3
- Import transponder data from Satnogs database https://db.satnogs.org/
- Support for multiple TLE sources
- Improved radio and antenna rotator controllers (no application freeze)
- Map can be centered around arbitrary longitude
- Natural sort function for satellite list in module configuration
- Select a satellite in all views
- AOS and LOS signalling in rigctl interface
- Autotrack satellites in a module
- Support for user defined end stops on Azimuth axis
- Experimental gpsd support
- Change frequency and antenna position using the mouse wheel
- Highlight satellites within range in the list view
- Improved handling of decayed satellites
- Fixed application freezing while talking to radios and rotators
- Fixed incorrect program name in desktop files
- Fixed 100% CPU load on manual time adjustment
- Fixed issue controlling Yaesu FT-847
- Fixed old log files not being saved
- Fixed track button in rotator controller having no effect
- Fixed operational status of satellites
- Fixed wrong icon in time controller
- Fixed mising ground track for new satellites
- Fixed show next pass shows the current pass
- Fixed problems with plotting footprints near the poles
- Fixed satellite nickname not escaped for Pango
- Updated translations
No binary change because the package did not look for or link against
this library. Upstream removed this dependency in 2008, but
apparently we didn't notice.
pkglint -r --network --only "migrate"
As a side-effect of migrating the homepages, pkglint also fixed a few
indentations in unrelated lines. These and the new homepages have been
checked manually.
pkglint --only "https instead of http" -r -F
With manual adjustments afterwards since pkglint 19.4.4 fixed a few
indentations in unrelated lines.
This mainly affects projects hosted at SourceForce, as well as
freedesktop.org, CTAN and GNU.
The quick summary is that the current package is from April, and
upstream had a new release in August. That new release switches from
qt4 to qt5. Updating GNU Radio in pkgsrc is complex, but tends to
happen fairly soon after the upstream release. As part of that
update, this package is expected to switch to qt5.
003.014.001.001
Device3: latch n on m in axi_rate_change in DUC/DDC
Device3: UART: fix TX <-> RX, FIFO size as parameter
Device3: Restore default buffer sizes for MPMD UDP
RFNoC: Fix off by one error in window.v
E320: fix time source clobbering ref source
B200: Add command to query bootloader status
RFNoC: fix multidevice graph connections
MPMD: Fix corner case in MPM device discovery
MPM: fixed mboard_max_revision value (MPM compat check failures)
MPM: Fix version string for logger
Docs: x300: update docs for multiple timed commands
Docs: Fix Doxygen warnings due to spurious backslashes
Docs: RFNoC: Fix Doxygen warning due to undoc'd parameter
Docs: Adjust FPGA functional verification tests
Docs: Fix MPM cmake command for E320
RFNoC: Re-enable flow ctrl for blocks on same xbar
Tools: Fix build issues with kitchen_sink
cmake: Add UHD_COMPONENT variable
