[Tlf-devel] TLF-1.2.2 prerelease

[Thomas Beierlein]

I would like to announce a first prerelease for the coming TLF-1.2.2.
You can find it at

http://www.hs-mittweida.de/tb/tlf-1.2.2_pre1.tar.gz

Besides a lot of cleanup and internal restructuring there are quite some
new features and corrected bugs. 

There is a lot of contributed work in that release. Special thanks goes
to Ervin HA2OS, Fred DH5FS and Nate N0NB:

New Features

  * Two new contests are supported 
    'All Asian DX' and 'WAEDC' (both provided by HA2OS)
    For WAEDC details please see 'doc/README_QTC.txt'.

  * HA2OS provided some new keywords for scoring (read man page for
    details)
    PFX_MULT_MULTIBAND allows multi scoring for prefixes per ban
    better continent handling with CONTINENTLIST, CONTINENT_LIST_POINTS
    and
    USE_CONTINENTLIST_ONLY.
    BANDWEIGHT_MULTIS and BANDWEIGHT_POINTS  per band weight for points
    and
    multis
    EXCLUDE_MULTILIST and PFX_NUM_MULTI 

  * tlf now send '5nn nr' if you repeat the nr after the QSO (provided
    by DH5FS)

  * N0NB did an Update of the  manual page to current conventions 

  * autosend now allows a manual start (see man page).  

  * You can provide a custom S&P message instead of the autogenerated
    one. 
    See S&P_CALL_MSG in man page

  * HA2OS wrote code to read the audio offset frequency from fldigi via 
    xmlrpc (you have to configure with '--enable-fldigi-xmlrpc' and
    install 
    XMLRPC-C to use that feature.

  * the CW keyer is now in an popup window 

  * Added new startup argument: '-r', which disables radio control
    (HA2OS)


Bug fixes
---------
 * Fix scoring and display of multis from ITUMULT and WAZMULT keyword
 * Fix some memory leaks
 * Seek gMFSK.log to the end of file, when Tlf starts
 * backport some patches from the Debian distribution
 * Convert the given callsign from logcfg.dat (CALL=...) always to upper
   case. 

As always reports about problems (or success) are welcome.

Be aware that I am offline for the coming two weeks (holiday). For
WAEDC and the new keywords I am sure Ervin will be glad to help.


73 es gd DX,  de Tom DL1JBE.

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