The Hamlib Group is pleased to announce the release of Hamlib 3.0.

This release of Hamlib introduces a change to the version scheme.
Essentially, the leading '1.' characters have been dropped so '3.0' is a
direct follow on from the '1.2.' releases and has been configured to be
ABI compatible with the '1.2.' releases.

Bug fixes to this release will start with '3.0.1' through '3.0.n'.

The next releases will be '3.1' through '3.n' until the next major
release.
Files are hosted at the Hamlib prjoect page at SourceForge.net:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/hamlib/files/hamlib/3.0/

The changes include:

Version 3.0

2015-09-20
* Kill RPC backends and rpc.rigd/rpc.rotd
* Remove -e|--end-marker option from rigctld and rotctld
* Build system updates--remove obsolete macros, autogen.sh now
        runs autoreconf to invoke Autotools to bootstrap the build
        system, libltdl is installed into the source tree as a part
        of the build system bootstrap and is included in the source
        tarball, ABI version is set to be compatible with the 1.2
        series, all Autotools installed files are copied rather than
        symlinked and put in the build-aux directory, building
        rigmem and rigmatrix are now user selectable at configure
        run time, building static libraries are disabled by default.
        Fixed TCL binding installation, fixed Perl binding build so it
        is not invoked by 'make dist' and clean up build files.  Cleaned
        up bindings builds to occur in alphabetical order.  Use new
        ax_pkg_swig macro and update ax_python_devel macro.  Test for
        presence of pkg-config before testing for pkg-config use.
* Implement new RIT/XIT activation/deactivation through rig_get/set_func

+()

• IC-PCR1500/2500 default write_delay to 0, IC-746/756, IC-PCR8500 fixes, pcr.c, pcr1500.c: Add DSP support. TNX Paul, KE7ZZ
• WinRadio G313 updates. TNX Julian Campbel
• Readline editing and history support added to rigctl interactive mode. Implement options for reading and writing history file.
• Readline editing and history support added to rotctl interactive mode. Implement options for reading and writing history file.
• A new manual draft written in Texinfo added. Both GNU Info and single HTML files are built and distributed, requires makeinfo.
• Android build system support. See android/README.android. Android Makefile fragments are included in source tarballs.
• Monolithic library, thanks to Remi Chateauneu for the majority of the work! This allows enabling of a single static library so static libs are enabled by default. Removes dependency on libltdl.
• Fixes to easycomm, TNX Steve AI4QR.
• Fixes to port handling allowing PTT and CAT on the same port. TNX Bill, G4WJS.
• New Peaberry models V1 and V2 added to kit backend. TNX ON8VQ and R2AEE.
• New IC-7100 model. TNX Martin, CT1IQI.
• Use AC_CHECK_LIB macro to search for libusb rather than rely on pkg-config. Preserve environment variables LIBUSB_CFLAGS and LIBUSB_LIBS as user precious variables. Two features, --with-xml-support and --enable-usrp still rely on pkg-config so only invoke pkg-config when either or both of these features are selected. Only the Winradio g313 model uses libdl so test for it only when Winradio backend is enabled.
• New IC-M700PRO, IC-M710, IC-M802.
• New Icom ID-5100 model.
• New rotor, cnctrk by KI4SBL
• Many backend fixes and updates from many contributors (see Git log for complete details).