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Short-term

What's going into the next release and what's outstanding.

Next release

TBD

Outstanding

• Open issues
  • Gnuplot plotting sink crashes (#26)
  • Investigate FFI library paths on OS X (#13)
• Blocks wanted
  • Sources/Sinks
    • ❗ Plotting sinks with better stability, performance, and Mac OS X support (#26)
    • LFSRRandomSource
    • Mac OS X audio sink
    • Hardware SDR
      • BladeRFSource (#19)
      • BladeRFSink
    • Network sources
      • NanomsgSource
      • NanomsgSink
  • Signal
    • CTCSS Squelch
    • Polyphase FIR Decimator
    • Polyphase FIR Interpolator
  • Modulators/Demodulators
    • AMModulator
    • NBFMModulator
    • ASKModulator (option for OOK)
    • FSKModulator (options for MFSK, CPFSK, MSK, GMSK)
    • QAMModulator
    • PSKModulator
  • Transmitter/Receiver Composites
    • BPSK31Transmitter
    • AX25Transmitter
• Block changes
  • Library acceleration of SignalSource
  • Clean up ffi.new() from process() in PulseAudioSource/Sink, SDRplaySource/Sink, SoapySDRSource/Sink, UHDSource/Sink
• Unit tests
  • Improve failure reporting in testing jigs
  • Add PLLBlock unit test (#6)
• Core changes
  • Add support for cleanup() for source blocks (#35)
  • Add support for controlling multiple flow graphs under one parent process
  • Clean up ffi.new() from pipe.read_synchronous()
  • Clean up ffi.typeof() from critical paths in pipe and run
  • Prune references in running block to reduce memory footprint after fork (#3)
  • Add type validation for aliased ports in compositions (#4)
  • Add support for type copying from input to output ports in type signature (#5)

Long-term

What large infrastructure changes are planned and what is the general direction of the project.

• 1.0.0

  • Core changes
    • Add API for asynchronous control messages

• Core changes

  • Improve IPC performance on BSD platforms (investigate performance first)