[d-star] FwNew D-STAR D-RATS Version 0.3.1 Released

[Mark Thompson]

FYI. Info about new D-RATS version below. 

Brochure & QST article about D-RATS also attached. 

 From: Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com>
 Date: October 22, 2009 6:23:06 PM MDT
 To: Discussion of D-RATS <drats_users at lists.danplanet.com>
 Subject: [drats_users] D-RATS 0.3.1
 Reply-To: Discussion of D-RATS <drats_users at lists.danplanet.com>

 Hi all,

 I have just posted the official release of D-RATS 0.3.1 for all
 platforms.  Below is the list of changes since 0.3.0.  Many thanks to
 the large number of people that contributed to this release with  
  testing and bug reports.

 - Fix file transfer session refusing to give up on a peer that disappears
 - Fix the chat Send button size for MacOS users
 - Fix Broadcast Text File function to use currently-selected chat port
 - Fix up the message reply function
 - Fix the email settings to hide passwords in the config dialog
 - Fix Email
- Form conversion to concatenate all text/plain parts   is used instead
 - Fix rendering some special characters in the message list
 - Fix forcing email addresses to uppercase
 - Fix sending warmup if the timeout is zero
 - Fix the socket data consumption algorithm to better tolerate slow data
  streams arriving over fast sockets
 - Fix losing static overlays
 - Fix D*Query to use the currently-selected chat port
 - Fix repeater ID list growing without bound
 - Fix Map->Broadcast Location function
 - Fix DPRS button in GPS QST editor
 - Fix DPRS message detection when checksum is a single digit
 - Fix repeater path list growing without bound
 - Fix repopulating the stations list after a clear
 - Fix killing the message routing thread when there is no route for a station
 - Fix a TNC bug that was causing an IO error on some blocks on Windows
  with the TNX-C
 - Fix editing TNC radio ports
 - Fix a couple of incoming-email-related crashes
 - Fix allowing the user to click Upload or Connect in Files tab when  
   no  callsign is selected
 - Make proxy application work on packets instead of the raw data stream
 - Remove duplicated to/from fields in the email form, since routing   info
 - Change "Send" to "Forward" in the messages toolbar to clarify what
  you're doing when you manually send something somewhere
 - Add a form logo path configuration element and make the form logo file
  relative to that
 - Add a list of available logo files to the logo path edit box
 - Add DVDongle support (preliminary, there are still issues with this)
 - Add capability to specify a negative transmission delay that selects
  between 0.5 and abs(X) on each transmission
 - Add a Default GPS Message configuration element that controls what is
  returned during a remote position request
 - Add port name to chat status notification
 - Add a fabricated subject for forms that don't have a subject field
 - Add suggestion of the destination station on a form send
 - Add email functionality to the message router so that they
  automatically get handled there
 - Add http proxy function for fetching map images
 - Add locking to prevent opening a message while it's being transferred
  and to prevent it from being transferred while it's being edited
 - Add a method to launch the proxy application from the File - Tools menu
 - Add image detection and the image tool to the "Send file" function in
  the stations list

 Should be posted officially on the web site in a little bit...

 -- 
Dan Smith
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www.danplanet.com
 KK7DS
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