Australian Ham Radio Discussion Forum ( AHRDF )

WSJT-X 2.5.4 GA Release

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//pulsa...ug_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.
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Good that they have done a fix for the random callsign crashes.  
I had to restart Win10 several times the other day while trying to work BW1/JA1EPN (or similar call) on 28MHz, some subprocesses were still running, but not evident in Task Manager, forcing a full restart.  In the end, we did not complete.