Firefly Logger 2025 (v5.5)

Firefly Logger for 2025

Release Version 5.5

• Massively updated Pi appliance
• Validated for Field Day 2025
• Firefly Logger v5.5 Fixes
  • Fix broken UI and field validation on the Handkey screen (#45)
  • Fix inserts to always be upper-case due to odd Safari browser behavior (#46)

Note: Logger v5.4 was administratively skipped

Documentation - https://packetwarriors.com/firefly-logger/basic/
Appliance Installation - https://packetwarriors.com/firefly-logger/appliance/
Standalone Software Installation - https://packetwarriors.com/firefly-logger/installation/

Firefly Logger v5.3

New Features:

• Config Manager screen now has a button to clear the local browser configuration
• Add 1.25M/220 MHz band per request

Bugs/Issues:

• Browser caching of .json configuration files 'busted'
• Non-relative-safe redirection in configmgr.php fixed

Firefly Logger v5.2

Major Changes

• Package is completely re-organized to support automatic installation and use with full system image
• Introduction of management scripts - firefly-logger-loaddb, firefly-logger-clearlog, and firefly-logger-takeover
• Implementation of full Makefile installation
• Support for .deb packaging
• Fix validation issues with the HandKey screen (#35)
• Fix issues with setting station information (#36)
• Adjust certain paths to support relative path installations (#37)
• Fix nonsensical ignoring of variables in db.php (#38)
• Handle duplicate keys in storeqso.php better for wsjt2ffdl (#39)

Full Changelog: v4.0.1...v5.2

Firefly Logger v4.0.1

This release updates the ARRL W/VE sections list for 2023.

Firefly Logger v4.0.0

New Features

• ARRL Field Day Dupesheet generator
• CSV log export
• Configuration Manager

Bugs/Issues

• Fix Linux + Chromium bugs
• Deconflict race conditions in status messages on log submit
• Fix the score generator script that fails when running in https:// environment
• Revert certain UI/UX changes implemented in v3.x

Full Changelog: v3.1.0...v4.0.0

Firefly Logger v3.1.0

Minor Change in v3.1.0 from v3.0.0

• Implement an interface for manual entry of logs with a user-setable date and time. This is at the handkey.html interface screen.

Minor Release Changelog: v3.0.0...v3.1.0

Major Changes in the v3.x.x Series

• Station callsign and field day mode configuration moved to the server side

• Implement toggle to permit/fix the "Operator Callsign" as a separate callsign or mirror the station callsign

• Implemented easier-to-update centralized configuration

api/config_general.json - Core configuration
api/config_bands.json - List of bands
api/config_modes.json - List of modes
api/config_sections.json - List of ARRL/RAC sections

• Remove murmurhash32 for incompatibilities across platforms I don't feel like figuring out. qkey Field is now a string which changes the database schema.

• ADIF export front end; implement user comment field

• Cabrillo and ADIF exporters support WFD

• Fixed Cabrillo field for time which had seconds which is not in spec

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v3.1.0

Firefly Logger v3.0.0

Note: v2.x.x was entirely skipped in favor of significant changes after v2.0.0 beta0

Major Changes since V1.3.0

• Station callsign and field day mode configuration moved to the server side

• Implement toggle to permit/fix the "Operator Callsign" as a separate callsign or mirror the station callsign

• Implemented easier-to-update centralized configuration

api/config_general.json - Core configuration
api/config_bands.json - List of bands
api/config_modes.json - List of modes
api/config_sections.json - List of ARRL/RAC sections

• Remove murmurhash32 for incompatibilities across platforms I don't feel like figuring out. qkey Field is now a string which changes the database schema.

• ADIF export front end; implement user comment field

• Cabrillo and ADIF exporters support WFD

• Fixed Cabrillo field for time which had seconds which is not in spec

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v3.0.0

Firefly FD Logger v2.0.0 beta 0

• Remove murmurhash32 for incompatibilities across platforms I don't feel like figuring out. qkey Field is now a string which changes the database schema.

• ADIF export front end; implement user comment field

• Cabrillo and ADIF exporters support WFD

• Fixed Cabrillo field for time which had seconds which is not in spec (#16)

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v2.0.0-beta.0

FFDL v1.3.0

Major Changes

• Configuration drop-down at the bottom of the page to toggle between ARRL Field Day (June) and Winter Field Day (January) since the station classes are different
• Production-ready Cabrillo exporter
• Resolved several UI glitches uncovered during FD 2021

Full Changelog: v1.2.1...v1.3.0

v1.2.1

• Change ADIF exporter to .adi format instead of .adx (v1.2.0)

• ADIF export now has a sledgehammer selection between LSB, USB, and FM for N1MM importing

• Fix some places in the code where uppercasing was not properly being enforced