next beta build #211 of YAAC ("Yet Another APRS Client"), created 2025-May-13
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In addition, the YAAC import of the OpenStreetMap database snapshot as
of 2025-May-05 has been imported and posted on the website for download.
changes and updates include:
1. fill in more missing Javadocs for source code SDK.
2. move some main() methods that are actually unit test code out of
production YAAC into the unit test code (which will also guarantee
the unit test code will actually be run by the Maven build tool
and can be run from the Ant build tool).
3. add special case to digipeater and Tx I-gate logic to not forward
a text message packet to RF if the addressee is specifically the
local station (as opposed to a group the local station subscribes
to).
4. re-organize the extremely lengthy View menu to use sub-menus to
make the main menu shorter so it doesn't fall off the bottom of
low-resolution screens (since the authors of the Java runtime
didn't choose to make long menus automatically scrollable when
they don't fit on the screen). Restructure the help documentation
to match.
5. add support to more position-dependent filters to support non-APRS
position reports (such as from the TAK plugin).
6. add support for the "d/" APRS-IS filter in the supplemental transmit
filter expression.
7. augment the local traffic filter to have a new setting for only RF
packets transmitted by transmit-capable I-gates.
8. change the filter for entering callsigns and callsign-SSID values
to prevent out-of-range names (too many characters, non-digit
SSID values, etc.).
9. fix NullPointerException breaking the object editor window.
10. show comments of non-re-received local Objects in station/object
list.
11. try to fix bugs when saving alternate beacon definitions.
12. fix broken DFS (Direction Finding Status) parameters for beacons.
13. update map icons to be more consistent with OpenStreetMap's
standard amenity type icons and add icons that were not formerly
in YAAC.
14. add more map node types to the OpenStreetMap importer, including
information from the shelter_type, tower_type, and social_facility
tag types.
15. improve the documentation about what files to download from the US
National Weather Service for displaying severe weather zones.
16. fix sender callsign bug when transmitting locally originated packets
on a multi-port system.
17. mark suspect hard-coded digipeat paths for query responses.
18. improve Locate->Amenity display to display the number of occurrences
of each amenity type on the current map, and make it sortable.
19. fix labelling in line-of-sight plot.
20. try to fix layout of message sender controls on map window when used
on a low-resultion screen.
21. fix bug when transmitting no-digipeat-alias packets.
22. fix postal address plugin to more efficiently export the collected
postal database, and generally access the database tables more
efficiently, better connect up new JDBC drivers to the running
system (still a little flaky), interface to the existing YAAC
popup windows without breaking if the database is down or a
matching postal record doesn't exist, display street address
lookups more effectively.
23. tweak pseudo APRS-IS proxy server to also fix digipeat-less packets.
24. fix dynamic objects plugin to use reorganized View menu, fix
handling of imported GPX files where not all waypoints had
symbol specifications.
25. fix repeater finder plugin to use reorganized View menu.
