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FreeTRX v0.5.0 Pre-release
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2026-07-10 11:54:15 +00:00 | 35 commits to main since this release0.5.0
- Fix: un-muting during an active QSO left the LED off instead of returning
to green. On un-mute the green RX LED is now restored from the current receive
state (active DMR slot or FM/digital signal), so an in-progress call lights green
again. MANUAL.md— a user-facing feature & usage guide covering both inherited
OpenGD77 features and FreeTRX additions, each tagged 🟢 [FreeTRX] or ⚪
[OpenGD77]. Includes the spectrum scope (VFO sweep, hold#), channel add/delete,
mute, dimming, and a button reference.- Documentation website (
website/) — MkDocs Material config that renders the
markdown into a static, searchable HTML site (client-side search, dark/light
theme). Built in Docker via./website/build-docs.sh; the public URL is set with
SITE_URL=…. For self-hosting on Forgejo.
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- Fix: un-muting during an active QSO left the LED off instead of returning
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FreeTRX v0.4.0 Pre-release
released this
2026-07-10 10:49:45 +00:00 | 39 commits to main since this release0.4.0
- On-radio channel add/delete. The Channel quick menu (top button) has two new
entries:- new channel — creates a blank 145.500 MHz FM channel in the first free
slot, adds it to the current zone, and opens Channel Details to edit it. The
zone is reloaded so the channel is immediately navigable. - Delete Channel — deletes the selected channel after a confirmation, and
scrubs it out of every zone that referenced it. Refuses to delete the last
remaining channel, and respects the read-only/APRS channel lock. - The new menu strings are translated (German, French, Italian, Spanish,
Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Catalan, Finnish, Czech; English fallback
for the rest).
- new channel — creates a blank 145.500 MHz FM channel in the first free
flash.shnow always rebuilds the language (.gla) packs, so edits to the
language files are picked up instead of a stale pack being re-flashed.- Release script now flags every release before v1.0.0 as a pre-release
(and corrects the flag on re-runs).
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- On-radio channel add/delete. The Channel quick menu (top button) has two new
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FreeTRX v0.3.0 Pre-release
released this
2026-07-07 14:29:21 +00:00 | 44 commits to main since this release0.3.0
- Fix a second voice-prompt crash on the Screen Dim menu row: the item label
("Screen Dim") is a raw literal, and the shared menu code voices labels via
voicePromptsAppendLanguageString(), which crashes on any pointer outside the
language table. That function now ignores non-language pointers, so a stray
literal is skipped instead of hard-faulting. (The dim value is still announced.)
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- Fix a second voice-prompt crash on the Screen Dim menu row: the item label
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FreeTRX v0.2.0 Pre-release
released this
2026-07-07 13:41:59 +00:00 | 45 commits to main since this release0.2.0
- Fix crash opening Display Options with voice announcements on: the Screen
Dim value ("100%"/"50%"/…) is a plain literal, but the shared menu code fed it to
voicePromptsAppendLanguageString(), which derives the prompt index from the
string's offset within the language table — a foreign pointer produced a garbage
index and crashed. The value now goes throughvoicePromptsAppendString(). Also
moved the dim-level high bit off a low legacy option bit (bit 2 → 29) and clamped
the level so it can never index past the option arrays. - 7-segment frequency font: inactive segments are now off (background) instead
of faintly lit — no dim "ghosting". "MHz" now matches the frequency colour, and
there's 1px more space between the RX and TX frequency lines. - Screen dimming: added a 15% idle-dim level (Off / 100 / 50 / 30 / 15).
- DM-1701 build support — the Docker build is now parameterized by platform;
./build-firmware.sh DM1701producesOpenDM1701.bin(Baofeng DM-1701 /
Retevis RT-84). Not officially tested yet. - Release script (
scripts/forgejo-release.sh) now builds and attaches a
single platform or all of them, and reuses an existing release. - README: added "What's different from OpenGD77" and a dedicated "Flashing"
section.
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- Fix crash opening Display Options with voice announcements on: the Screen
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FreeTRX v0.1.0 Pre-release
released this
2026-07-06 16:34:10 +00:00 | 53 commits to main since this release0.1.0
First versioned release of FreeTRX (fork of OpenGD77 R20260131).
Features
- Screen dimming — optional idle dimming of the backlight to a fraction of
the configured brightness (Off / 100% / 50% / 30%), in Auto backlight mode.
Any activity (keys, rotary, RX, TX) restores full brightness. New setting in
Display Options. - Mute — one-tap audio mute:
- SK2 short-tap toggles mute on the VFO/Channel screens (except while a DMR
QSO is on screen, where SK2 keeps its "set TX TG to incoming" function). - Turning the volume knob fully down is also treated as muted.
- While muted: a bold "M" appears in the status bar (left of the battery)
and the red LED flashes (0.5 s every 2 s).
- SK2 short-tap toggles mute on the VFO/Channel screens (except while a DMR
Display / UI
- S-meter redrawn as discrete blocks — 9 green blocks (S1–S9) plus 6 red
blocks (S9+10…+60), with gaps and a proportionally-filled leading block, and a
scale label row beneath (S1 S3 S5 S7 S9 / +20 +40 +60). - 7-segment "LED" frequency font for the VFO and SK1-held frequency display,
with faintly-lit inactive segments; digits are wider than the normal font. - Main-menu icons — a small glyph next to each top-level menu entry.
- Layout spacing adjusted so the contact/TG line, the DMR talkgroup/talker and
the private-call caller ID clear the new S-meter label row.
Fixes
- DMR no longer hard-faults. The AMBE codec is now called through C function
pointers instead of the old inline assembler (which modern GCC miscompiled),
fixing the freeze-on-DMR that required a battery pull. - Fixed the DMR talkgroup/talker and private-call caller ID overlapping the
S-meter labels.
Build / Tooling
- Dockerized build using the Arm GNU Toolchain 14 (matching the official
builds); always a clean build../flash.shhelper for flashing with model,
language and DMR donor. - Integrated the OpenGD77 screen grabber (
gd-77_screen_grabber.py) and the
GD-77 loader into the repo. TOOLS.mddocuments building, flashing, screenshots and language files.
Project
- Renamed the project to FreeTRX (fork of OpenGD77). New
README.md
documenting the fork and its upstream source; original OpenGD77 README kept as
README.OpenGD77.md. AddedLICENSE.mdreproducing the inherited OpenGD77
license (modified BSD 3-Clause + non-commercial clause; not GPL-compatible). - On-screen branding renamed to FreeTRX (splash screen + Firmware Info name).
- README notes this iteration is developed/tested only on the TYT MD-UV380 and
Retevis RT-3S, with a contact for testing on other supported radios. - Firmware-info credits simplified to "Marcus DK1DA" and a reference to
"The original OpenGD77 authors".
Misc
- Added Marcus DK1DA to the firmware-info credits ("Modified Fork by").
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- Screen dimming — optional idle dimming of the backlight to a fraction of