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From: George Baltz N3GB <GeoBaltz@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 13:09:42 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Baseline for Release Notes

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+# HAMLIB 4.7 - Release Notes
+
+The release brings new equipment support, bug fixes/code cleanups, and some
+changes to ease transition to 5.0
+
+## New equipment support
+- Yaesu FTX-1 Optima/Field - Work in progress, waiting for official
+  documentation from Yaesu
+- Drake R8/R8A/R8B - new, revised backend
+- AF6SA WRC rotator
+- GUOHETEC PMR-171 & Q900 moved to separate backend
+
+## Bug Fixes & Code cleanups
+- Codebase conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:2024 (-std=c23)
+- Reduce gripes from cppcheck and other static analyzers
+- Function rig_get_conf() is deprecated and will be removed in 5.0.
+  Use rig_get_conf2() instead.
+- (TBD)
+
+## Build/install Changes
+- POSIX thread(PTHREADS) support required
+- C compiler - Supported compilers unchanged; c11 or c17 recommended,
+  c23 optional. 5.0 will require at least c11.
+
+## Changes for 5.0
+
+### Storage restructuring
+HAMLIB 5.0 will move many data items/structures out of rig_struct into
+separate, calloc'ed buffers. This changes many of the methods for accessing
+HAMLIB internal data.
+
+### Include files
+
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+# HAMLIB 5.0 - Release Notes (DRAFT)
+
+This major release includes a restructuring of HAMLIB internal storage, forcing
+changes to the Application Binary Interface(ABI).
+
+## New Hardware
+- TBD
+
+## Build changes
+- No more K&R C - need at least c11 compiler support.
+- shortfreq_t changed to int?
+
+## Application changes