Greetings,

A new build of CHIRP-next is available. This includes changes made directly to the tree since the last build and may include additional features, bug fixes, etc. Unless you have a reason not to, we recommend using the latest build of CHIRP-next at all times.

You can get it from here:

https://archive.chirpmyradio.com/chirp_next/next-20250131

A list of changes since the last build are here:

5f667291 Add support for Icom IC-F621 76af7922 Add Kenwood TK-981 679b5325 tk280: Fix padding ponmsg with 0xFF instead of spaces 62b277ea Encourage user to actually fill out bug reports 4845706c Add some missing-element tests for bitwise bea921ce Updated Spanish Translation e3e6994f tk481: Add Kenwood TK-481 radio 13463c38 Fix bitwise hex count values and array of zero d5ce1f9c tk280: Refactor internals to work with tk481 a1dfb3f4 tk8180: Remove hackaround bitwise array-of-one bug 39a30a90 Fix long-standing bitwise array-of-one bug aa6e7ff8 Fix always choosing mode FM even if unsupported 4ba46b50 Fix reloading driver keeping the same UI tab 02b5e297 Remember last-used port by model b3d5df84 Allow changing setting/group display names 4e5de794 Fixed a typo ccdd7588 Updated Italian Translation d00cdfa5 Fix sorting columns on linux

Issues addressed in this build:

[Bug 11793] error message when sorting [Feature 11797] Remember COM port in Recent [New Model 11490] Icom IC-F521 [New Model 11802] Kenwood TK-981 [New Model 6505] Icom IC-F621-2

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