darthvader-dist/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All released builds of darthvader. Versions are <version>-<git hash>; the hash is the source commit the binaries were built from and is what the app shows in its title bar, About dialog and in the version string it reports to DMR masters.

0.1.0-83e21492 — 2026-09-16

• The MD380 software vocoder now reads md380fw.img / md380ram.img from share/darthvader/vocoder_fw instead of the firmware being built into the binary — it is Tytera's firmware and not ours to redistribute. DV3000 sticks and remote AMBEservers are unaffected.
• Ships as .msi and plain .zip. The NSIS .exe was dropped: unsigned self-extractors are flagged by generic heuristics (the whole Bitdefender engine family, Microsoft's ML) while the same payload as .msi is not.

0.1.0-59f93ce0 — 2026-09-16

App icon and version metadata (publisher SA7AUX) in both darthvader.exe and the installers. The previous build had no version resource, icon or signature, which tripped generic antivirus heuristics. Still unsigned, so SmartScreen warns on first run.

0.1.0-244ef5d9 — 2026-09-16

First packaged build.

• Modes: M17, DMR (BrandMeister / TGIF / any Pi-Star style master), YSF, NXDN, D-STAR, P25, EchoLink, AllStar (IAX), SvxLink, APRS and POCSAG/DAPNET.
• Hardware: DV3000 / ThumbDV / DVstick AMBE+2 sticks (auto-probed), remote AMBEserver over UDP, and the MD380 software vocoder.
• Audio chain per direction: preamp → 7-band EQ → LADSPA → AGC → limiter, per mode / peer / server.
• Windows: .exe and .msi installers, 15 bundled LADSPA plugins (compressors, gate, limiter, filters, de-esser, EQ, saturation) so chains configured on Linux work unchanged.