Dear WSJT-X Users,
We are pleased to announce that Release Candidate WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc4 is ready for download and use by beta testers.
WSJT-X 2.7.0 Release Candidate 4 includes new features (especially for companion program QMAP) as well as bug fixes. A full list of enhancements can be found in the Release Notes:
https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/Re....0-rc4.txt
See also Section 1.1 of the WSJT-X User Guide for this candidate release:
https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/ws...W_FEATURES
Release Candidates are intended for beta testers. If you download and use WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc4, please remember to provide feedback to us on the new features in version 2.7, and on anything that does not seem to work properly for you.
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-rc4".
For those who like to compile from source, a complete source-code tarball is available at 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/
It may take a short time for the code to be updated on SourceForge.
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.
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/ws...ml#SUPPORT
We hope you will enjoy using WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc4, 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; and John, G4KLA