next beta build #205 of YAAC ("Yet Another APRS Client"), created 2024-Dec-30
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changes and updates include:
1. update version of Apache compress library, including adding dependent
Apache IO library to fix breakage in OSM XML importer.
2. augment NWSMultiline code to support arbitrary colors (not just ones
looked up by the datatype code) and filled polygons so it can be used
to add arbitrary drawings to messages, especially new protocols from
plugins.
3. add new configuration flag options to support non-APRS-IS or RF
protocols (to support incompatible protocols provided by plugins).
4. add support for more foreign language spellings of units in OpenStreetMap
database snapshots.
5. more minor performance optimizations in OSM importers.
6. fix premature throwing of EOFExceptions for non-empty buffered
input streams.
7. fix spelling errors in Javadocs.
8. add another search directory for FreeBSD's way of installing the
distro's package of the JSSC library.
9. add new generic GUI methods to support user input dialogs with
plugin-provided extensions.
10. fix tactical query message processing so it doesn't annoy the user
asking if it's OK to send tactical names when the local YAAC station
doesn't have any tactical names.
11. improve ?LOCAL query to report if station hasn't heard any local
stations.
12. allow supplemental map layers to be conditionally omitted if the
current environment doesn't allow them for some reason.
13. expose OSM search-related classes in core YAAC so plugins can use
them for their own search code.
14. fix MultiRangeSpinnerNumberModel so a JSpinner-edited numeric value
won't break the UI if it was set to an out-of-range value (e.g.,
by changing the locale country of the computer to a jurisdiction
with a different band plan).
15. keep PopupTaggedNodeWindow from getting excessively large when there
is a large amount of information to display.
16. add a hook so plugins can add data to a PopupTaggedNodeWindow.
17. fix layouts of port configuration panels so fields don't collapse
to invisible sizes if the editor window is reduced in size.
18. fix bug in GUI startup on Mac OS X when using Java 8.
19. fix rendering bug for Locate Landmark table.
20. recognize more types of OpenStreetMap features, such as intermittent
or seasonal bodies of water, and more obscure amenity types.
21. change structure of OSM binary files to allow storing the segment
number of a single segment of an OSM Way.
22. refactor OSM importers so common code isn't duplicated between the
PBF and XML importer variants. fix bugs in XML importer and bring
it up-to-date with the PBF importer.
23. add optional support for extracting postal address information from
OpenStreetMap into a local database, using a plugin to provide the
database support. Also add support to extract the national border
Ways so they could potentially be used to update address points
with country codes.
24. created the Address DB plugin, which provides the above-mentioned
database support for extracting postal addresses from the OpenStreetMap
data and adds YAAC menu choices for searching said database.
25. add extension to Callsign DB plugin to support Address DB plugin.
26. normalize plugin Ant build.xml files to produce output .jar and .zip
files with the same names in the same directories as the Maven POM
files would do, and vice versa for Maven POM files that didn't
formerly completely do what the Ant scripts did.
27. fix Ant build.xml scripts for plugins with unit test code to be able
to run the unit tests from Ant.
28. fix exception in sounds plugin when new station is heard.
29. create new TAK plugin to enable YAAC to be a client of a Team
Awareness Kit (TAK) network.
30. fix documention directory location for telemetryalarm plugin,
update some out-of-date SMS gateway names.
31. include test libraries in source code distribution so Ant build
scripts can run the unit tests.
