We are pleased to announce two new releases of program WSJT-X: a General
Availability (GA) release of version 2.3.1, and release candidate RC4 of
version 2.4.0. Please read this announcement and relevant sections of
the Release Notes carefully.
1. WSJT-X 2.3.1 is a bug-fix release. It includes updates to the User
Guide covering new modes FST4 and FST4W, and repairs defects and
regressions discovered since the v2.3.0 release. Further details of
changes since v2.3.0 can be found in the Release Notes:
https://physics.princeton.edu//pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt
Scroll down to the section titled "Release: WSJT-X 2.3.1" and dated
"Mar 26, 2021."
Links to WSJT-X 2.3.1 installation packages for Windows, Linux, and
Macintosh are available here:
http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html
2. Release candidate WSJT-X 2.4.0-rc4 includes the new digital mode Q65.
Q65 is designed for two-way QSOs over especially difficult propagation
paths including ionospheric scatter, troposcatter, rain scatter, TEP,
EME, and other types of fast-fading signals. Details and
recommendations concerning the Q65 submodes are provided in the
"Quick-Start Guide to Q65", available here:
https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Q65_Quick_Start.pdf
The WSJT-X User Guide now includes details about Q65 and is available
here:
https://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.4.0-rc4.html
Changes since WSJT-X 2.4.0-rc3 are summarized at the top of Release
Notes: https://physics.princeton.edu//pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt
Links to WSJT-X 2.4.0-rc4 installation packages for Windows, Linux, and
Macintosh are available here:
http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html
Scroll down to find "Candidate release: WSJT-X 2.4.0-rc4".
You can also download the packages from our SourceForge site:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/files/
It may take a short time for the SourceForge site to be updated.
GENERAL ADVICE FOR UPGRADING: If you are not currently interested in
Q65 you should update to WSJT-X 2.3.1. If you wish to participate in
testing and reporting feedback on Q65, you should upgrade to WSJT-X
2.4.0-rc4. Please remember that by using a release candidate you are
joining a beta test group. This brings a responsibility to report your
experiences on one of the relevant user forums.
WSJT-X is licensed under the terms of Version 3 of the GNU General
Public License (GPL). Development of this software is a cooperative
project to which many amateur radio operators have contributed. If you
use our code, please have the courtesy to let us know about it. If you
find bugs or make improvements to the code, please report them to us in
a timely fashion.
The authors and Copyright holders of WSJT-X request that derivative
works do not publish programs based on features in WSJT-X before those
features are made available in a General Availability (GA) release of
WSJT-X. We will cease making public Release Candidate (RC) pre-releases
for testing and user early access purposes if this request is ignored.
We hope you will enjoy using this candidate release of WSJT-X 2.4.0 and
exercising the new mode Q65. Please report on your Q65 experiences,
successful and otherwise, on one of the WSJT forums. Bugs should be
reported by following instructions found here in the User Guide:
https://www.physics.princeton.edu//pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.4.0-rc4.html#_bug_reports
-- 73 from Joe, K1JT; Bill, G4WJS; Steve, K9AN; and Nico, IV3NWV
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