Revision history for Perl extension Ham::APRS::FAP.

0.01 Wed Feb 16 15:58:47 2005

• original version; created by h2xs 1.22

0.02 Sun Dec 9 22:10:04 EET 2007 - Hessu, OH7LZB

• Merged first bunch of aprs.fi enhancements:
• Return parser errors in the return hash, instead of printing to STDERR, so that they're more usable. See the 'resultcode' and 'resultmsg' hash entries - resultcode is a machine-readable error code, and 'resultmsg' is the human-readable equivalent.
• The result_messages() function returns a hash of all possible resultcodes and their plain english descriptions.
• Permit source callsigns to be in lower case
• Catch experimental packets (report error)
• Catch but ignore telemetry packets (report error)
• Accept broken uncompressed location packets with minute > 59.99 in initial regexp parsing, and report a proper error code for them

0.03 Sun Dec 9 23:47:19 EET 2007 - Hessu, OH7LZB

• Merged weather parsing code from aprs.fi branch, now parses a good majority of weather packets on the APRS-IS. The data goes in a new wx hash (see keys %{ $rethash->{'wx'} }).

0.04 Sun Dec 9 23:52:14 EET 2007 - Hessu, OH7LZB

• Merged the rest of changes in the aprs.fi branch:
• The third argument of parseaprs(), $isax25, is now gone and replaced with an options hash, which knows two options 'isax25' and 'accept_broken_mice'. They're used like this:

          my $ret = parseaprs(
                $l, $p, 'accept_broken_mice' => 1, 'isax25' => 0
          );
          
          The hash is optional, so parseaprs($l, $p); will work for
          APRS-IS lines.
        - The new 'accept_broken_mice' option enables parsing of mic-e
          packets from which some nonprintable characters have been
          removed. At least aprsd has a bug which replaces them with
          spaces, and possibly some other software then replaces
          multiple spaces with a single space. Some data is lost, but
          the position is still parseable.
        - Catches more PHG data and the newer PHGR format. It's not really
          parsed, just passed back in 'phg' field of the hash.

0.05 Wed Dec 12 17:04:31 EET 2007 - Hessu, OH7LZB

• Added a lot of unit test cases over the last couple days - over 200 unique test items in 13 files. It isn't complete, though.
• Renamed from APRS::Parser to Ham::APRS::FAP (Fabulous APRS Parser) to better align with the CPAN hierarchy, and to avoid clashing with the existing Ham::APRS::Parser)

0.06 Wed Dec 19 17:46:12 EET 2007 - Tapio, OH2KKU

• Relaxed non-AX.25 callsign checking, i.e. now accept any alphanumeric "callsign" (including a variable amount of '-' chars) with a maximum total length of 9 characters.
• Some cosmectic changes to unit conversions and comment clarifications.

0.07 Wed Dec 19 23:26:52 EET 2007 - Hessu, OH7LZB

• Fixed tests. Tapio's changes removed the -0 from source callsigns with an SSID of 0, so I removed it from the destination callsigns too, and changed tests accordingly.

1.00 Wed Dec 19 23:39:55 EET 2007 - Hessu, OH7LZB

• Some small POD documentation changes
• Bumped version number for initial public release

1.01 Thu Dec 20 00:05:59 EET 2007 - Hessu, OH7LZB

• Added Date::Calc in the Makefile.PM required modules list, so that CPAN installations will work properly

1.02 Fri Jan 4 01:29:47 EET 2008 - Hessu, OH7LZB

• Fixed bug: Rain over past 24 hours and since midnight were mixed up by the "normal" APRS weather packet parser (thanks DK7IN)
• Tuned POD documentation a little bit

1.10 Wed Mar 12 16:23:20 EET 2008 - Hessu, OH7LZB

• Committed APRS telemetry parsing code (has been tested on aprs.fi for quite some time now)
• Disabled timestamp checking in t/41decode-object.t - the parsed timestamp varies depending on when the parsing code is run, since the timestamp in the APRS packet is not fully specified.

1.11 Wed Mar 12 17:14:14 EET 2008 - Hessu, OH7LZB

• Removed accidentally forgotten dependency on Data::Dumper
• Documented dependency on the (standard) Math::Trig module in Makefile.PL
• Added t/53decode-tlm.t to the distribution, oops

1.12 Mon May 19 18:13:54 EEST 2008 - Tapio, OH2KKU, and Hessu, OH7LZB

• !DAO! extension support (Datum and additional position resolution for uncompressed and mic-e packets) implemented by Tapio.
• Added position resolution reporting in meters (posresolution) to all packets containing a location and corresponding tests. Also added a quick test for position ambiguity parsing.
• Additional unit tests and CPAN distribution cleanups.
• Added an example script in the examples/ subdirectory.

1.13 Tue Nov 17 12:24:07 EET 2009 - Tapio, OH2KKU, and Hessu, OH7LZB

• Allow anyone to update telemetry parameters, skip the source callsign check
• Allow a PHG of 0000 for deleting PHG
• Added new error code sym_inv_table for invalid symbol table char
• Added local time zone parsing to object timestamps
• Fixed comments parsing for last resort !-location packets
• Parse APRS message rejects

1.14 Tue May 4 20:31:33 EEST 2010 - Hessu, OH7LZB

• Fixed humidity parsing, h0 means 100%
• Fixed peet bros $ULTW packet parsing, integers are signed (not unsigned), negative fahrenheit temperatures are now correctly parsed (and converted to Celsius)
• Parse comment from end of weather reports - if it's short enough, treat it as the wx station/software type string
• Parse weather data sent after a compressed position
• Parse snowfall from normal wx packet
• Added test for positionless wx packets
• Added position packet format in hash ('format' => 'compressed')

1.15 Tue May 4 20:44:31 EEST 2010 - Hessu, OH7LZB

• Added a couple of missing tests and 'format' => 'nmea'

1.16 Wed May 19 22:34:43 EEST 2010 - Hessu, OH7LZB

• Added a couple of test cases
• Added an example script to parse a whole file of timestamped APRS-IS packets
• Fixed peet WX packet parsing for Perl 5.8 and older, which don't support n! packing
• Minor speedups by reducing amount of regular expressions, extra variables, reordering things to catch the most common case first, and tightening a loop
• Put '' around hash key strings (style issue)

1.17 Fri Sep 10 08:10:29 EEST 2010 - Hessu, OH7LZB

• Remove / or ' ' from beginning of comment after parsing away PHG, altitude and other optional data
• Allow hexadecimal IPv6 addresses in APRS-IS paths after q.. construct
• Added tests for uncompressed packet altitude (negative, too)
• Fixed destination callsign based symbol selection for 'BC'
• Updated URLs to aprs.org, etc