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Short-term

What's going into the next release, what's planned for the following release, and what's outstanding.

Next release

• 0.3.0
  • Block additions
    • AGCBlock (#10)
    • SquelchBlock (#9)
    • VaricodeDecoderBlock
  • Composite additions
    • BPSK31Receiver
  • C API changes
    • Add traceback reporting to C API (#7)
  • Installation changes
    • Add Debian package and PPA (#12)

Following release

• 0.4.0
  • Block additions
    • PulseAudioSource
    • HackRFSink
    • SoapySDRSource (#28)
    • SoapySDRSink (#28)
    • FFT FIR filter
  • Core changes
    • Improve error message when write fails to a crashed downstream block (#30)

Outstanding

• Blocks wanted
  • Sources
    • LFSRRandomSource
    • Hardware SDR Sources
      • BladeRFSource (#19)
    • Network sources
      • RawTCPSource
      • NanomsgSource
  • Sinks
    • ❗ Plotting sinks with better stability, performance, and Mac OS X support (#26)
    • Mac OS X audio sink
    • Hardware SDR sinks
      • BladeRFSink
    • Network sinks
      • RawTCPSink
      • 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
• Unit tests
  • Add PLLBlock unit test (#6)
• Core changes
  • 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)
• Open issues
  • Gnuplot plotting sink crashes (#26)
  • Investigate FFI library paths on OS X (#13)

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)