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# Changelog
All notable changes to this fork of the OpenGD77 firmware (MD-UV380 / DM-1701).
This project is still in pre-release iteration, so changes are collected as a
single running list until the first versioned release.
## Unreleased
### 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).
### Display / UI
- **S-meter** redrawn as discrete blocks — 9 green blocks (S1S9) 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.sh` helper 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.md`** documents building, flashing, screenshots and language files.
### Misc
- Added **Marcus DK1DA** to the firmware-info credits ("Modified Fork by").