The Hamlib Project is pleased to announce the release of Hamlib 4.7.1.
This release includes two new radio models, many fixes and improvements to
various radio models.
Here is a short changelog for this release:
Version 4.7.1
* 2026-04-15
* Fix unknown type compilation errors on Alpine Linux. (TNX Bradfor Boyle)
* Fix rig port timeout. (TNX Matthias Moelller)
* Update ReleaseNotes*.md. (TNX George Baltz)
* Fix various FTX-1 meter, level and CTCSS table. (TNX KJ5HST)
* Add power off capability to Flrig backend. (TNX Philip Rose)
* Replace strncpy with memcpy to quell GCC 16 warning. (TNX George Baltz)
* Add SWR to supported 'get levels' for K3/K4. (TNX Tom Crayner (reporter))
* Add get_split_vfo to TS-850 backend. (TNX Elisamuel Resto)
* New simplecat backend. Supports Bunzee Labs DDX. (TNX Dhiru Kholia)
* Fix and generalize clock handling for Icom radios. (TNX George Baltz)
* Fix Yaesu attenuator levels and LVL_KEYSPD reinitialization. (TNX George Baltz)
* Add new rig model Harris PRC-138. (TNX Antonio Regazzoni)
* Various FT-710 fixes, especially handling SH format and RX bandwidth.
Ensure FT-710 simulator rejects RF command. (TNX George Baltz)
* Fix low power calculation for K3/K3S. (N0NB)
* Fix FTX-1 SH bandwidth command in set/get_mode. (TNX Terrell Deppe)
* Quell initializer overrides prior initialzation clang warning in ftx1.c
and fix compiler warning in hd1780.c. (TNX George Baltz)
Source archive and MS Windows binaries may be downloaded from:
https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib/releases/tag/4.7.1https://sourceforge.net/projects/hamlib/files/hamlib/4.7.1/
73, Nate
This overhaul introduces four key changes to the elisp ports framework:
1. Remove support for packaged byte-compiled elisp.
The primary motivation is to remove a large number of flavor-specific
packages and to simplify the ports tree. As an example, supporting
byte-compiled elisp for devel/tablist required six packages, one for
each flavor of editors/emacs and editors/emacs-devel. With over 100
elisp ports and requests for new Emacs flavors, this was
unmanageable.
2. Install configuration to integrate with Emacs's native compilation
machinery, allowing elisp from ports to be compiled into the standard
cache under the user's home directory.
This matches the behavior of GNU ELPA packages and generally results
in a faster experience. Speedups vary depending on the
characteristics of the elisp code, but are often reported to be 2.5
to 5 times faster than byte-compiled code.
3. Perform byte compilation on the target host, but only when native
compilation is unavailable. Compilation is initiated when Emacs
starts, and the resulting .elc files are cached under the user's
home directory.
4. Load all autoload files installed by FreeBSD elisp ports. This
mirrors what package.el does for ELPA packages, ensuring that
autoloaded functions are available without requiring users to
explicitly load each package.
Users with elisp packages (*-emacs_*) installed should consult the
2026-04-11 UPDATING entry for instructions on handling the transition.
Reviewed by: ashish, Benjamin Jacobs <freebsd@dev.thsi.be>, dinoex,
mandree, mce, nobutaka, Pat Maddox <pat@patmaddox.com>,
rhurlin
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56001
With clang 21 comms/bladerf fails to build, with errors similar to:
/wrkdirs/usr/ports/comms/bladerf/work/bladeRF-2025.10/host/utilities/bladeRF-cli/src/cmd/flash_image.c:71:35: error: overlapping comparisons always evaluate to true [-Werror,-Wtautological-overlap-compare]
71 | if (val[i] >= 'a' || val[i] <= 'f') {
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is a logic error: the logical operator should be `&&` here. It has
been proposed as an upstream pull request:
https://github.com/Nuand/bladeRF/pull/1045, but it is not yet merged.
PR: 293393
Approved by: maintainer timeout (2 weeks)
MFH: 2026Q1
- Default is FESTIVAL and GPSMAN so removed FESTIVAL and GPSMAN options
- Removed python from SHEBANG since no longer any python
- patch-Makefile.am no longer needed (fixed upstream)
- Run through portlint
This version adds a number of new maps NaturalEarth, new NWS subdirectory,
a number of obsolete files removed, and docs updated.,
- remove patches no longer needed due to FreeBSD changes in upstream
- Add manual page for rigtestmcast and rigtestmcastrx
- Add manual page for rigtestlibusb
- Add rigctltcp manual page
January 29, 2026 by Jani Heikkinen
Qt 6.10.2 is now available for download. As a patch release, Qt 6.10.2
doesn’t introduce new features, but it delivers around 300 bug fix,
security improvements, and quality enhancements on top of Qt 6.10.1.
For a full overview of the most notable changes, take a look at the Qt
6.10.2 release notes.
Announcement:
https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.10.2-released
Release notes:
https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtreleasenotes.git/about/qt/6.10.2/release-note.md
FreeBSD ports changes:
devel/qt6-base:
- Disable the reduced_relocations feature. Prior to Qt 6.10.0, this was
only enabled if the compiler was GCC, but we are seeing crashes in
certain ports such as misc/bibletime, multimedia/obs-studio, and
net-p2p/qbittorrent. [1]
- Rebase patches
graphics/qt6-wayland:
- Add a pre-configure check to test if devel/qt6-base was built with
the WAYLAND option. This module cannot be built if the WAYLAND
option is disabled in devel/qt6-base. [2]
www/qt6-webengine:
- Patched with security patches up to Chromium version: 144.0.7559.109
- Define NODEJS_EXECUTEABLE in the configure environment after [3]. This
is forward porting for the post-release security rollup and not part of
the official release. Future releases [3][4] will likely require this.
- Remove upstreamed patches
[3] https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtwebengine-chromium.git/commit/?h=134-based&id=cf510ebd4e870eb24fb5bc1d1ddcc5442247672d
[4] https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtwebengine-chromium.git/commit/?h=140-based&id=aab0f6f0928e7e4f73832abba9a00b7946b7e459
x11-toolkits/qt6-declarative
- Remove upsteamed patches
The Qt python bindings have also been updated along with their
respective tools.
PySide6: Update to 6.10.2
PyQt6: Update to 6.10.2
PR: 292376 [1], 292273 [2]
Reported by: yuri [1], jbo [2]
MFH: 2026Q1
Security: 73ff246b-04b2-11f1-84fc-4ccc6adda413
