Dear WSJT-X Users,
We are pleased to announce that Release Candidate WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc7 is
ready for download and use by beta testers. This revision has many
improvements to SuperFox mode: better decoding, more reliable message
sequencing, and an open source, cryptographically sound verification
scheme for Fox transmissions.
On-the-air tests have shown that SuperFox is capable of sustained QSO
rates well in excess of 300 per hour. We heartily recommend that future
DXpeditions expecting to make very large numbers of QSOs should use
SuperFox. Instructions for usage can be found in the SuperFox User
Guide: https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/SuperFox_User_Guide.pdf
Additional details on program changes since RC6 can be found in the
Release Notes:
https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/Release_Notes_2.7.0-rc7.txt
Release Candidates are intended for beta testers. If you download and
use WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc7, please provide relevant feedback on the new
features and anything that does not seem to work properly for you. If
your report involves something related to received signals, be sure to
provide one or more saved *.wav files that illustrate the perceived
problem. As a general matter, use the option "Save all" when testing.
Direct links to installation packages for Windows, Linux, and macOS can
be found on the WSJT-X page https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx.html
Scroll down to the heading "Candidate release: WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc7".
For those who like to compile from source, a source-code tarball is
available on the WSJT-X page. Public access to the git repository for
the WSJT project is also available on the "Git" tab here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/
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 should not publish programs based on features in WSJT-X before
those features are made available in a General Availability (GA) release
of WSJT-X. Currently this caution applies to all SuperFox and SuperHound
features. We will cease making public Release Candidates if this request
is ignored.
Feedback should be sent to this email list or one of the of the others
mentioned here in the User Guide:
https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.7.0-rc7.html#SUPPORT
We hope you will enjoy using WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc7, and that you will help us
to create a new General Availability (GA) release soon.
-- 73 from Joe, K1JT; Steve, K9AN; Nico, IV3NWV; Uwe, DG2YCB;
Brian, N9ADG; John, G4KLA; and Charlie, DL3WDG.
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