[wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.5.4 GA Release

[Joe T. <jo...@pr...>]

Please welcome two new members of the core WSJT Development group: Chet 
Fennell, KG4IYS, and Uwe Risse, DG2YCB.  Each brings important skills 
and experience to the project, after the loss of Bill Somerville, G4WJS.

The newly constituted group has been working to redefine standard 
operating procedures for new releases.  WSJT-X 2.5.4, a bug-fix release 
correcting these two flaws in release 2.5.3, is now available as a 
General Availability (GA) release.

Changes from v2.5.3 are:

WSJT-X: Repair a defect that caused occasional crashes when in QSO with
stations using nonstandard callsigns.

MAP65: Correct a bug that prevented "Best-fit Delta phi" solutions from 
  being displayed to the user.

Links to WSJT-X 2.5.4 installation packages for Windows and Linux are 
available here:
http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html

Thanks to John Nelson, G4KLA, the installation package for macOS will be 
added soon.

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.

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.  We will cease making public Release Candidate (RC) 
pre-releases for testing and user early access purposes if this request 
is ignored.

Bugs should be reported by following instructions found here in the User 
Guide:

https://www.physics.princeton.edu//pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.5.4.html#_bug_reports

We hope you will enjoy using WSJT-X 2.5.4.

    -- 73 from Joe, K1JT; Steve, K9AN; Nico, IV3NWV; Chet, KG4IYS; and
    Uwe, DG3YCB.