Lots of updates and a few new packages with this release! On the updates side, highlights include GNU Radio 3.10.8.0 and the latest versions of a number of SDR libraries (libiio, limesuite, rtl-sdr, and uhd). In particular, the rtl-sdr update brings support for the RTL-SDR Blog V4 dongle!
For newly-included packages, we have:
- GNSS-SDR A software-defined receiver for global navigation satellite system signals
- gr-iqbal A GNU Radio I/Q balancing module
- Hamlib A library for controlling the myriad of radios and rotators available to amateur radio and communications users
- libmirisdr-4 Support for Mirics MSi001 + MSi2500 SDR devices
- pyfda A Python filter design and analysis tool
Finally, this release also includes an important update to conda. With this latest release, conda defaults to using its new libmamba solver, resulting in much faster performance for installing and updating packages. The mamba package (from which libmamba was born) is still included, but it should no longer be necessary to use mamba to get better performance over plain conda.
Oh, and Python 3.11 is included now as well, updated from Python 3.10!
New packages:
- gnss-sdr 0.0.18 (Linux and macOS only)
- gnuradio-iqbalance 0.38.2
- hamlib 4.5.5
- mirisdr 2.0.0
- pyfda 0.8.4
Updated software radio packages:
- gnuradio 3.10.8.0
- gnuradio-dect2 0.0.0.20231030.dev
- gnuradio-filerepeater 0.0.0.20231030.dev
- gnuradio-foo 0.0.0.20231030.dev
- gnuradio-fosphor 0.0.0.20231031.dev
- gnuradio-gpredict-doppler 0.0.0.20231030.dev
- gnuradio-hermeslite2 1.0.0.0.post11
- gnuradio-hpsdr 0.0.0.20231030.dev
- gnuradio-ieee802_11 0.0.0.20231031.dev
- gnuradio-ieee802_15_4 3.6.post128
- gnuradio-inspector 0.0.0.20231031.dev
- gnuradio-leo 1.0.0.post99
- gnuradio-lora_sdr 0.0.0.20231031.dev
- gnuradio-paint 0.0.0.20231031.dev
- gnuradio-radar 0.0.0.20231031.dev
- gnuradio-rds 3.10.post17
- gnuradio-satellites 5.4.0
- gqrx 2.17.3
- inspectrum 0.3.1
- libiio 0.25
- limesuite 23.10.0
- pyadi-iio 0.0.16
- rtl-sdr 2.0.1
- soapysdr-module-lms7 23.10.0
- uhd 4.5.0.0
Other updated packages:
- conda 23.10.0
- ipython 8.17.2
- mamba 1.5.3
- matplotlib 3.8.1
- numpy 1.26.0
- pandas 2.1.2
- python 3.11.6
- scipy 1.11.3
Fixes:
- Fixed "DLL load failed while importing fosphor_python" on Windows (#63). The
gnuradio-fosphorpackage depends on theglfwpackage, which had mistakenly been built in Debug mode and required certain debug DLLs that might not be installed.