This month was fairly light on work due to the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US. However, a few things did get done:
- FreeDV 2.1.0 was released. This contained numerous bugfixes as well as the initial release of FlexRadio integration (in the form of an AppImage that can be run on a newer Raspberry Pi). In the future, an update to SmartSDR will allow this integration to be uploaded to an 8000 or Aurora series radio, avoiding the need for an external hardware device. As this shares a lot of code with the regular FreeDV application, versioning of the Flex waveform will follow the main application’s.
- FreeDV Reporter reliability was improved as well, to the point where combined with version 2.1.0, it now remains stable through the weekly US FreeDV net on 40 meters. Previously, the server would stop responding due to the sheer amount of traffic/users.
- Work continues on performance improvements in the Python code underpinning the RADE mode. Right now, we are determining what components will be shared with RADEV2 and prioritizing those changes over others that may be thrown out later.
As for this coming month, it may also be a light month due to the Christmas holiday but the hope is to implement some additional features for the upcoming version 2.2 release. We’ll see how that goes in any case.
More information can be found in the commit history below:
(Note that all commit logs above were generated with the following command line:)
git log --author="member@email" --after "Month 1, 2025" --before "Month 31, 2025 23:59:59" --all