Dear Customers, On February 18th, we posted the PowerSDR v2.0.19 RC1 Release Candidate. Please see the definition of a Release Candidate is provide below for reference.
We have received overwhelmingly positive feedback from so many customers who were pleased with the new CW keyer and the ease of upgrade. Given that there have been over 6,400 downloads to date, the number of reported bugs are minimal. We have already fixed a number of the more important ones and have two remaining known issues that we plan to fix before going to a general availability (GA) release. The two remaining issues we are working are as follows: 1. Some, but not all FLEX-5000 customers are experiencing random and intermittent TR or tuning receiver drop out. This is a firmware control timing problem that I previously reported on the reflectors. This problem does not exist in the 1.18.6 official release and appears to be timing related on some specific PC/FLEX-5000 combinations. This problem is being actively worked by the engineering team. 2. We have identified a potential cause of ALC overshoot in the DSP software and are working on a solution. This is mainly an issue for customers running legal limit amplifiers that require drive levels below full power (e.g. 50W or so) of the radio. We will keep you informed when we have resolved these remaining issues. Best 73s, Gerald From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycleRelease candidate The term *release candidate* (*RC*) refers to a version with potential to be a final product, ready to release unless fatal bugs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bug> emerge. In this stage of product stabilization, all product features have been designed, coded and tested through one or more beta cycles with no known showstopper-class bug. Apple Inc. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.> uses the term "golden master <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_master>" for its release candidates, and the final golden master is used as the general availability release. Other Greek letters, such as *gamma*and *delta*, are sometimes used to indicate versions that are substantially complete, but still undergoing testing, with *omega* or *zenith* used to indicate final testing versions that are believed to be relatively bug-free, ready for production. A release is called *code complete* when the development team agrees that no entirely new source code will be added to this release. There may still be source code changes to fix defects. There may still be changes to documentation and data files, and to the code for test cases or utilities. New code may be added in a future release. Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR President and CEO FlexRadio Systems(TM) 13091 Pond Springs Road, #250 Austin, TX 78729 Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext. 202 Email: [email protected] Web: www.flexradio.com <http://www.flex-radio.com/> Tune In Excitement (TM) PowerSDR(TM) is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
