next beta build#143 of YAAC ("Yet Another APRS Client"), created 2019-Dec-23
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changes and updates include:
1. add support hooks for upcoming large-scale event distributed database
plugin (not yet available) and demonstration plugin (now available).
2. clean up more issues discovered by University of Maryland findbugs
utility, including in some plugins.
3. fix incorrect unit scaling in PositionlessWeatherReport.
4. separate digipeaters and I-gates in Station Category filter.
5. add first digipeater filter (still keeping last digipeater filter).
6. fix identification of a NewN-n digipeat alias.
7. add warning message when running YAAC in non-GUI mode, so users
don't think it's stuck when it's actually running without a
user interface. Especially important for Unix/Linux users that
try to run YAAC without a graphical X-Windows desktop.
8. ensure weather data is consumed, even for delayed weather packets
with timestamps that is pre-empted by later packets without
weather data from the same station.
9. add configurable ability to ensure tactical names (aliases) for
stations are preserved over YAAC restarts.
10. report the specific Java runtime version in use at YAAC startup
time; in case there are any weird problems causing it to fail to
startup, at least some info can be collected to help debug it.
11. add experimental means to copy a YAAC configuration from one
installation to another, trying to apply reasonable precautions
to avoid duplicate stations interfering with each other. Add
javadocs to explain hooks needed in existing code to support the
config importer.
12. on configuration export, ensure that user meant to overwrite an
existing file before proceeding to do so.
13. fix NullPointerException in GPS processing through GPSD when the
GPS doesn't have enough of a fix to report VDOP and PDOP.
14. fix weird font rendering issues where spaces didn't take up any
space (caused by recent Java Runtime patch to all releases 8
through 11).
15. fix displaying of locally-created objects with area symbol codes
when digipeater echo-backs aren't occurring (such as for
Internet-only installations of YAAC).
16. fix layout problems for configuration panels if the user reduces
the size of the configuration dialog window "too much". Now
controls won't be lost from undersized windows, because scroll
panes will allow the missing controls to be reached by scrolling
the panels.
17. add smarts to the configuation wizard to prevent creating 2 I-gate
ports in YAAC (can still be done in expert mode, but not a good
idea unless you need to listen to FireNet whyile being connected
to the regular APRS-IS backbone).
18. make use of KISS work-around for Kenwood MCP (Memory Control Program)
protocols (so an AX.25 packet can't accidentally lose some of its
bytes to an MCP command to the radio) optional, because some
other TNCs can't handle the work-around as being an illegal KISS
escape.
19. add extra debugging logic if OSM tile files aren't read correctly.
20. ensure port driver errors causing events (such as Internet connection
lost and restored) are reported properly when YAAC is running in
non-GUI mode.
21. add Javadoc warnings to buffered input stream classes regarding using
them with intermittent real-time input streams (such as socket
connections), as some packets might be delayed until enough traffic
to fill an entire buffer arrives.
22. handle a few more OpenStreetMap non-standard amenity type names and
map them to the standard ones, and recognize some more obscure
standard keys (diplomatic="", emergency="").
23. performance-tune the OpenStreetMap PBF importer some more.
24. stop keeping the YAAC builds compatible with Java 6, and move them
up to Java 7 (not 8, due to people running antique computers).
25. include the new demonstration plugin. This is designed for
stand-alone demonstrations of YAAC at hamfests, etc., and allows
running an automatically-advanced PowerPoint slide show on one side
of a split window and cycling through chosen YAAC display modes on
the other side. Somewhat restricted in what PowerPoint features it
can support, but it works if the slide show keeps it simple.
