New Beta of FT4 and FT8 software WSJT

Joe Taylor K1JT reports the new beta version of the popular FT4 and FT8 software, WSJT-X version 2.2.0, is a significant program upgrade offering many new features

He writes:

The first candidate release, WSJT-X 2.2.0-rc1, is now available for download and use by beta testers.  This candidate release is your first chance to test the new features and provide feedback to the WSJT Development Group.

A list of program changes since WSJT-X 2.1.2 can be found in the cumulative Release Notes
http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt

… and also in the updated WSJT-X 2.2.0 User Guide here:
http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.2.0-rc1.html#NEW_FEATURES

Upgrading from earlier versions of WSJT-X should be seamless.  There is no need to uninstall a previous version or move any files.  You might want to install to a different directory from your WSJT-X 2.1.2 installation.

Links to installation packages for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh are available here:
http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html
Scroll down to find “Candidate release:  WSJT-X 2.2.0-rc1”.

You can also download the packages from our SourceForge site:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/files/
It may take a short time for the SourceForge site to be updated.

WSJT-X is licensed under the terms of Version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL).  Development of this software is a cooperative project to which many amateur radio operators have contributed.  If you use our code, please have the courtesy to let us know about it.  If you find bugs or make improvements to the code, please report them to us in a timely fashion.

We hope you will enjoy using this beta release of WSJT-X 2.2.0.  Please report bugs by following instructions found here in the User Guide:
http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.2.0-rc1.html#_bug_reports

73 from Joe, K1JT, Steve, K9AN, and Bill, G4WJS,
for the WSJT Development Group