Hello All,

Just thought I'd pass this along for Ubuntu users.

Ubuntu 15.04 has been officially released:

Link:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2015-April/000195.html


Package Changes affecting WSJT applications:
GCC.......: 4.9.2
Libc6.....: 2.21
Autoconf..: 2.69
Qt5.......: 5.4
Cmake.....: 3.0.2
Clang.....: 3.5.2
Python3...: 3.4.3
Pillow....: 2.7.0
NumPY.....: 1.8.2

The JTSDK package list had to be updated for the QT5 applications adding
the package: libqt5opengl5-dev. The package list, as I have it now is:

* qtbase5-dev libqt5serialport5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev
libqt5multimedia5-plugins

If your using a Qt4 based applications, you may need to install / set
qt5-default. I export Qt5 select in my .bashrc.

The old issue of appmenu-qt5 has been resolved. The new default behavior
is to have the Menu Items in the app-menu rather than the desktop title
bar. You still have to focus the mouse on the app-menu bar to have it
appear, as it auto-hides, but seems to be working fine.

The default Pillow installation (Pillow-v2.7.0) seems to be working fine
for WSJT and WSPR. I did have to install kvasd-installer and link the
binary from /usr/bin to the WSJT install folder. This will need updating
in the WSJT build script.

There were a number of behind the scene upgrades that do not affect the
WSJT apps directly, but improve overall performance ; shift to using
SystemD and things of that nature. The kernel will be updated to 4.0 at
some point during the support cycle.

The audio subsystem has not changed much. The same process I used for
14.04 | 14.10 is working on 15.04. You still need to add yourself to the
dialout group and for myself, I manually select my USB sound device
before running any Ham Radio Apps.

FWIW, I think this release is much better usability wise than 14.10.

If anyone has troubles with JTSDK on 15.04, send it to the devel-list.


73's
Greg, KI7MT

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