[Tlf-devel] TLF-1.2.1 maintenance and bug-fix release

[Thomas Beierlein]

A new TLF maintenance and bug-fix release is available at

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

It adds quite some new features and fixes bugs found by different people
in last months. Thanks to all contributors.

New features:
    - TLF has now a full support for the WAEDX contest, for EU and DX
      stations and for RTTY as well - tnx to HA2OS who provided most of
      the code.
      For details please read doc/README_QTC.txt and
      doc/README_QTC_RTTY.txt or feel free to ask here on the list.

    - As a side product there are some new keywords for logcfg.dat
      which allows a better configuration of multiplier and point
      scoring (read man page for details):
      * PFX_MULT_MULTIBAND allows multi scoring for prefixes per band
      * better continent handling with CONTINENTLIST,
        CONTINENT_LIST_POINTS and USE_CONTINENTLIST_ONLY.
      * BANDWEIGHT_MULTIS and BANDWEIGHT_POINTS for per band weight for
      points and multis 
      * EXCLUDE_MULTILIST and PFX_NUM_MULTI 

    - Improvements to the bandmap display (more to come)
      * display actual QRG on bandmap (if rig control is in use)
      * center bandmap around working QRG
      * update bandmap every second
      * do not show WARC spots in contest mode
      * The actual bandmap list will be saved every 10s. Using this 
        information the last bandmap state will be reconstructed after 
        a restart of TLF.

    - update CTY.DAT and callmaster database to last versions from end
      of october 2015

    - Add instructions about refreshing callmaster database and
      cty.dat file to FAQ

    - Improvements to callmaster database handling
      * can now contain comment lines starting with '#'
      * drop restrictions of the number of calls in the database

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

    - Update of the  manual page to current conventions (by N0NB)

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

    - You can use a custom S&P message instead of the autogenerated
      one. See S&P_CALL_MSG keyword in man page

    - tlf reads the audio frequency offset from fldigi via 
      xmlrpc (you have to configure with '--enable-fldigi-xmlrpc' and
      install XMLRPC-C to use that feature) (by HA2OS).

    - 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. 


For a more detailed discussion of the new features please read the
NEWS file (entries for tlf-1.2.2_pre1, _pre2 and final version) and the
man page. 

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


73 es gd DX,  de Tom DL1JBE.

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