rtl-sdr-blog/debian/changelog

rtl-sdr (0.6.0~rtlsdrblog1) unstable; urgency=medium

  25-August-2023: Brought up to date with latest Osmocom upstream, and added some new features like auto-direct sampling. Also made the force bias tee function stronger, so it cant be turned off when the bias tee is forced, even when calling the bias tee function. Remove the rtl_tcp ringbuffer changes as this seems to cause more trouble that it helps.
  1) VCO PLL current fix - Improves stability at frequencies above ~1.5 GHz https://www.rtl-sdr.com/beta-testing-a-modified-rtl-sdr-driver-for-l-band-heat-issues/
  2) Enabled direct sampling for rtl_tcp
  3) Hack to force the bias tee to always be on by setting the unused IR endpoint bit to 0 in the EEPROM. Example to force the BT to be always ON "rtl_eeprom -b 1", to remove forced BT "rtl_eeprom -b 0"
  4) Repurposed "offset tuning" to toggle bias tee ON/OFF. We can now use the "offset tuning" button in SDR# and other programs to toggle the bias tee if there is no specific button in the GUI.
  5) Support added for R828D RTL-SDR Blog V4 based dongles.
  6) Auto direct sampling. For R820T/R860 dongles like the RTL-SDR Blog V3 the code will automatically change to direct sampling mode when the frequency is below 24 MHz. It will also automatically change back to normal sampling when the frequency is above 24 MHz. There is no need to manually change the sampling mode anymore for these dongles.
  BIAS TEE NOTE: Always take care that you do not enable the bias tee when the device is connected to a short circuited antenna unless there is an inline LNA. However. if you did by accident, don't worry as the circuit is dually protected with a self-resetting thermal fuse and built in protection on the LDO. Just try not to short it out for days at a time, otherwise you could eventually degrade the thermal fuse.
  Note that hack 3) will only work if your system is using this driver. If your system or software is using another driver fork, then the EEPROM information will not be read. So make sure you completely clean your system of the previous drivers first (with the information below) and ensure you run sudo make install after compiling. On Windows, make sure you are using this code's rtlsdr.dll file.

 -- rtl-sdr-blog <admin@rtl-sdr.com>  Wed, 13 Sep 2023 15:51:00 +1200

rtl-sdr (0.6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * with modernize-cmake patch

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Sat, 06 Oct 2018 20:28:26 -0400

rtl-sdr (0.6~git) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release

 -- Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>  Sun, 06 Jun 2018 15:09:42 +0200

rtl-sdr (0.5.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * update to v0.5.4-3-ga854ae8
    use USB zero-copy transfers if possible

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Sat, 12 May 2018 16:49:43 -0400

rtl-sdr (0.5.3-14) unstable; urgency=medium

  * update to v0.5.3-20-g4520f00 (Closes: #892974)
  * minimal ipv6 support (Closes: #870804)
  * VCS to salsa
  * AppStream metadata.xml

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:45:53 -0400

rtl-sdr (0.5.3-13) unstable; urgency=medium

  * build with libusb-1.0-0-dev stub on hurd-i386
  * initial ipv6 support for rtl_tcp...

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:59:40 -0500

rtl-sdr (0.5.3-12) unstable; urgency=medium

  * add new HanfTek dongle
  * Bias T support (Closes: #854378, #842249)

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Wed, 23 Aug 2017 23:31:27 -0400

rtl-sdr (0.5.3-11) unstable; urgency=medium

  * correct invocation of rm_conffile (Thanks Chris!) (Closes: #838161)
  * drop uploaders line on advice of MIA team. (Closes: #836590)

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Sat, 08 Oct 2016 11:17:47 -0400

rtl-sdr (0.5.3-10) unstable; urgency=medium

  * remove rtl-sdr-blacklist.conf on upgrade. Thanks Bob! (Closes: #829517)

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Sat, 09 Jul 2016 23:38:24 -0400

rtl-sdr (0.5.3-9) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Edit of debian/librtlsdr0.udev in 0.5.3-8 was a no-op. Real fix
    done to debian/patches/use-udev-uaccess-rules. (Closes: #825073)

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Wed, 25 May 2016 17:19:57 -0400

rtl-sdr (0.5.3-8) unstable; urgency=high

  * Fix syntax errors for systemd-udevd in udev rules (Closes: #825073)

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Tue, 24 May 2016 21:08:50 -0400

rtl-sdr (0.5.3-7) unstable; urgency=medium

  * better udev rules (more like camera devices in libgphoto2-6)

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Tue, 10 May 2016 19:20:27 -0400

rtl-sdr (0.5.3-6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Use ENV{ID_SOFTWARE_RADIO}=1 in udev rules (Closes: #823089)
  * Enable DETACH_KERNEL_DRIVER (Closes: 823022)
  * Make myself maintainer so I get the bug reports

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Sun, 08 May 2016 12:12:13 -0400

rtl-sdr (0.5.3-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add watch fiule
  * place rtl-sdr -n comm section (Closes: #758077)
  * improve-librtlsdr-pc-file (Closes: #784912)
  * improve-scanning-range-parsing (LP: #1469478)

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Sun, 23 Aug 2015 10:35:42 -0400

rtl-sdr (0.5.3-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update to v0.5.3-12-ge3c03f7

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Sat, 08 Aug 2015 23:43:54 -0400

rtl-sdr (0.5.3-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update to v0.5.3-5-g6ee5573
    lib: handle events after canceling transfers
    lib: change default number of transfers to 15
    rtl_tcp: make all global variables static

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:48:49 -0400

rtl-sdr (0.5.3-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Upstream: lib: only print to stderr in tuner_r82xx_set_pll()
  * Update man pages (New -M (modulation) and -E (option) and ppm setting)
  * Have librtlsdr0 also install a blacklist for linux video drivers

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Sat, 08 Feb 2014 22:40:06 -0500

rtl-sdr (0.5.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream git tag release

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Thu, 06 Feb 2014 20:45:38 -0500

rtl-sdr (0.5.2.7.3ab6-1~bpo70+1) wheezy-backports; urgency=low

  * Rebuild for wheezy-backports.

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:34:16 -0500

rtl-sdr (0.5.2.7.3ab6-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream snapshot

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Sun, 29 Dec 2013 21:37:19 -0500

rtl-sdr (0.5.1.14.360d-1~wheezy) stable; urgency=low

  * New upstream snapshot
  * GNU Radio LiveDVD 2013-1110

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:46:00 -0500

rtl-sdr (0.5.0.4.4914-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Use kfreebsd libusb

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Fri, 01 Nov 2013 17:16:42 -0400

rtl-sdr (0.5.0.4.4914-1) stable; urgency=low

  * New upstream snapshot (Closes: #701018).
  * Match GNU Radio live distribution version
  * Sponsored upload

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Sep 2013 16:55:08 -0400

rtl-sdr (0.5.0+git20130715-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Initial release (Closes: #701018).

 -- Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) <gandalf@le-vert.net>  Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:51:05 +0200

librtlsdr (0.0git3198f14-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream git

 -- A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>  Mon, 14 May 2012 20:28:18 -0400