From: Rick M. <k1...@ar...> - 2023-09-12 00:29:13
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I've been putting off release of 2.7 but there's now enough changes to push this over the wall. 2.7beta2 has several improvements; - The uploads database is updated from Oracle' Berkeley DB because the Oracle database is simply unusable, repeatedly corrupting the database for no reason. Since Oracle's database is fragile and breaks a lot, I've replaced the uploads database with SQLite. Hopefully this will eliminate the frequent database corruption. - Fixes for 1x1 callsign handling to stop validating against the FCC ULS database when an end-date is provided. - Allow OPERATOR in ADIF files to be longer than a normal callsign. If the OPERATOR is incorrectly set to the name of the operator, then it's not a callsign and will be ignored. - Update portable callsign handling. This now allows prefix/call like MU/K1MU and handles it properly. - Add a preference to allow callsigns in ADIF files to be ignored when signing. - Fix portable call handling for non-US stations "P5ROMEO/W4" used to require a US base call. - Restore the uploaded QSO database from the last backup when it gets corrupted. The other major change here is to build a "flatpak" image for Linux distributions. This allows install on most 64-bit Linux systems with no compiling needed. I just installed the latest Flatpak build on a Chromebook and a Raspberry Pi - easy peasy, Mac 64-bit builds now work on Apple Silicon (M1/M2 currently) systems. Mac 32-bit builds work on PPC and Intel i386. (Is anyone actually using the 32-bit Mac builds?) Kits: Windows: https://www.rickmurphy.net/lotw/tqsl-2.7.msi Mac, 64-bit: https://www.rickmurphy.net/tqsl-2.7.pkg Mac, 32-bit: https://www.rickmuphy.net/tqsl/tqsl-legacy-2.7.pkg Unix source: https://www.rickmurphy.net/tqsl/tqsl-2.7.tar.gz Linux Flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/org.arrl.trustedqsl I'm very interested in upload testing due to the uploads database changes, and feedback on the Flatpak builds for Linux as that took a lot of work to get accepted in their repository. 73, -Rick -- Rick Murphy, D.Sc., CISSP-ISSAP, K1MU/4, Annandale VA USA |