Re: [Hamlib-developer] Hamlib 4.6.5 release

[David B. <da...@ba...>]

Is it possible to give an overview of the planned changes in the API for V5.0?

73 de David M0DGB/G8FKH

-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Bargmann <n0...@n0...> 
Sent: 06 September 2025 00:31
To: Hamlib Developers <ham...@li...>; Debian Hams <deb...@li...>; Linux Hams <lin...@vg...>
Subject: [Hamlib-developer] Hamlib 4.6.5 release

On behalf of the Hamlib project and its contributors I am pleased to release version 4.6.5.  This is a bug fix only release with no new device support.

Noted changes are:

Version 4.6.5
        * 2025-09-05
        * Update Kenwood CW buffer max message size, fix one byte buffer
          overrun in icom.c.  (TNX George Baltz).
        * Fix Segmentation Fault in rigs/dummy/netrigctl.c. (TNX Daniele Forsi)
        * Fix segfault with set_parm KEYERTYPE in rigctl_parse.c. (TNX Daniele
          Forsi)

This is expected to be the last release of the 4.6.x series.

Development continues on the 4.7 series with an eye toward Hamlib 5 as a major release.  Plan is for 4.7.0 to be released by the end of 2025 and Hamlib 5 toward the end of 2026, if all goes well.  Hamlib 5 will be an API and ABI breaking release which will impact programs that directly link to the library.  Programs that utilize the *ctld daemons will likely be minimally impacted.

73, Nate

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