[Commit-gnuradio] [gnuradio] 02/03: docs: update top level release notes for v3.7.10.1 release

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Author: Nathan West <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Aug 14 20:17:48 2016 -0400

    docs: update top level release notes for v3.7.10.1 release
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-ChangeLog v3.7.10
+ChangeLog v3.7.10.1
 =================
 
-This significant feature release of the 3.7 API series, and
-incorporates all the bug fixes implemented in the 3.7.9.3 maintenance
-release.
-
+This is the first bug-fix release for v3.7.10
 
 Contributors
 ------------
@@ -12,201 +9,60 @@ Contributors
 The following list of people directly contributed code to this
 release:
 
- * A. Maitland Bottoms <address@hidden>
- * Andrej Rode <address@hidden>
- * Andy Sloane <address@hidden>
- * Andy Walls <address@hidden>
- * Chris Kuethe <address@hidden>
- * Clayton Smith <address@hidden>
- * Daehyun Yang <address@hidden>
- * Derek Kozel <address@hidden>
- * Federico La Rocca <address@hidden>
- * Geof Nieboer <address@hidden>
- * Glenn Richardson <address@hidden>
- * Glenn Richardson <address@hidden>
- * Jiří Pinkava <address@hidden>
- * Johannes Schmitz <address@hidden>
+ * Artem Pisarenko <address@hidden>
+ * Ben Hilburn <address@hidden>
+ * Christopher Chavez <address@hidden>
  * Johnathan Corgan <address@hidden>
- * Kevin McQuiggin <address@hidden>
- * Laur Joost <address@hidden>
- * Marcus Müller <address@hidden>
- * Martin Braun <address@hidden>
- * Matt Hostetter <address@hidden>
- * Michael Dickens <address@hidden>
- * Nathan West <address@hidden>
- * Paul Cercueil <address@hidden>
- * Paul David <address@hidden>
- * Philip Balister <address@hidden>
+ * Jonathan Brucker <address@hidden>
+ * Nicholas Corgan <address@hidden>
+ * Nicolas Cuervo <address@hidden>
  * Ron Economos <address@hidden>
- * Sean Nowlan <address@hidden>
  * Sebastian Koslowski <address@hidden>
- * Seth Hitefield <address@hidden>
- * Stefan Wunsch <address@hidden>
- * Tim O'Shea <address@hidden>
- * Tom Rondeau <address@hidden>
- * Tracie Renea <address@hidden>
+ * Stephen Larew <address@hidden>
 
-## Major Development Areas
 
-This release sees the integration of a number of long-time development
-efforts in various areas of the tree, including GRC, new packet/burst
-communications features for gr-digital, new standards implementations
-for gr-dtv.  In addition, it incorporates all of the bug fixes
-released as part of the 3.7.9.3 maintenance release.
+## Major Development Areas
 
+This contains bug fixes primarily for GRC and DTV.
 
 ### GRC
 
-The GNU Radio Companion development environment continues to undergo
-rapid development and refactoring. The tools and workflow have been
-improved in the following ways:
-
- * Variable explorer panel and option to hide variables from canvas
- * Nicer block documentation tool-tip and properties dialog tab
- * Screenshots can have transparent background
- * Darker color for bypassed blocks
- * Select all action
- * Block alignment tools
- * Added bits (unpacked bytes) as a data type
- * Show warning for blocks flagged as deprecated
- * Remove [] around categories in the block library
- * Separate core and OOT block trees via the category of each block
-
-The refactor of GRC continues. This should be mostly feature neutral
-and make it easier for new contributors to come in and make useful
-changes. Part of this is deprecating blks2 and and xmlrpc blocks and
-moving them to components where they would be expected to be found
-rather than the GRC sub-tree.
-
-### Packet Communications
-
-A long-time feature branch developed by Tom Rondeau has been merged
-into the tree, implementing new blocks and methods for packet
-communications.  This is intended to replace much of the older,
-overlapping, and Python-only packet-based code that already exists.
-As this code matures, we will be marking this older code as deprecated
-with the plan to remove it in the new 3.8 API.
-
-### DTV
-
-DTV has new transmitters for DVB-S and ITU-T J.83B 64QAM. New support
-for DVB-S2X VL-SNR code rates, modulation, and framing for AMSAT are
-also available.
-
-A significantly improved OFDM symbol synchronizer was implemented for
-the DVB-T receiver (Ron Economos, Federico La Rocca).
-
-## Other Feature Development
-
-### Runtime
-
-Clear tags and reset all item counters when merging connections
-between blocks, which prevents bad values from being propagated on
-lock/unlock operations.
-
-Blocks always set their max_noutput_items before a flowgraph starts if
-it hasn't already been set.
-
-Added some options to gnuradio-config-info that prints information
-about the gnuradio prefs file. The old customized preference file
-reader is replaced with a boost program options object.
-
-### QT GUIs
-
-The QT GUI widgets can now toggle axis labels and the frequency sink
-has a new feature to set the y-axis label. This could be useful for
-changing units on calibrated measurements.
-
-The QT GUI Entry widget has a new message port that emits a message
-containing the new text whenever editing is finished.
-
-QT widgets recently had an optional message port to plot PDUs. This
-release adds a feature to plot the tag metadata contained in the PDU.
-
-A new example shows how to build a C++ only QT based application.
+Catch more exceptions thrown by ConfigParser when reading corrupted grc.conf 
files.
 
-### gr-digital
+Fix the docstring update error for empty categories.
 
-New QA for tagged stream correlate access code blocks further cement
-how these blocks should be behaving.
+Fix grcc to call refactored GRC code.
 
-16QAM is now available from the GRC constellation object dialog drop
-down menu.
+Convert initially opened files to absolute paths to prevent attempting to read 
from tmp.
 
-### gr-analog
+Move startup checks back in to gnuradio-companion script from grc/checks.py.
 
-The frequency modulator now has sensitivity exposed through
-controlport.
 
-New FM pre emphasis and de-emphasis filters. The previous filters were
-effectively all-pass filters. There is a very nice write up on the new
-filters in gr-analog/python/analog/fm_emph.py
-
-A new message port to sig_source is available that can set signal
-frequency with the same convention as gr-uhd usrp_source.
-
-### gr-filter
-
-Use the max_noutput_items in start() to allocate FFT buffers for the
-PFB decimator rather than always allocating/freeing a buffer in
-work().
-
-### gr-blocks
-
-Add a run-time accessor and setter for interpolation of repeat blocks.
-
-vector_sink.reset() clears tags now
-
-Add accessors for the vector_source repeat flag so it's settable
-outside the ctor.
-
-Fix tuntap devices MTU size. Previously MTU size argument was used to
-allocate correct buffer size, but didn't actually change the MTU of
-the underlying device.
-
-The UDP source block can read gr prefs file for the payload buffer
-size or default to the existing value of 50.
-
-Yet another block making use of VOLK: the divide_cc block is now 10x
-faster on some machines.
-
-### gr-uhd
-
-New argument in usrp_source initializer to start streaming on the
-start of a flowgraph which defaults to true (the existing behavior).
-
-Add a clock-source argument to uhd_fft.
+### DTV
 
-A new message command handler for the usrp_source block will trigger a
-time and rate tag to be emitted.
+Fix a segfault that occurs from out-of-bounds access in
+dvbt_bit_inner_interleaver forecast by forecasting an enumerated list of all
+input streams.
 
-Added support for importing, exporting, and sharing LOs.
+Fix VL-SNR framing.
 
-### gr-audio
+### Digital
 
-Refactor audio sink for windows with multiple buffers to prevent
-skipping.
+Enable update rate in block_recovery_mm blocks to keep tags close to the the 
proper clock-recovered sample time. Tag offsets will still be off between calls 
to work, but each work call updates the tag rate.
 
-### modtool
+### Analog
 
-Add an option to set the copyright field for new files.
+Fix the derivative calculation in fmdet block.
 
-New modules will detect PYBOMBS_PREFIX and install to the defined
-location.
+### Builds
 
-Add versioning support for OOT modules by default.
+Fix linking GSL to gr-fec.
 
-### Builds
+Use gnu99 C standard rather than gnu11 standard to maintain support for GCC 
4.6.3.
 
-Enable controlport for static builds.
+### Other
 
-Enable GR_GIT_COUNT and GR_GIT_HASH environment variables for extended
-versioning number for packagers.
+Minor spelling and documentation fixes.
 
-We explicitly set the C/C++ standards to C++98 and gnu11 rather than
-use the compiler defaults since many compilers are moving to C++11 by
-default.  Incidentally this caused minor breakage with a subtle VOLK
-API fix in gr-dtv which was also fixed.
+Fix uhd_siggen_gui when using lo_locked.
 
-Fixed finding GNU Radio + VOLK in non-standard prefixes when compiling
-OOT modules.