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+# Changelog
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+> 🇬🇧 You are reading the English version | 🇩🇪 [Deutsche Version](de-Changelog)
+
+Version history of KST4Contest / PraktiKST.
+
+---
+
+## v1.263 (2025-06-08)
+**AirScout Communication and Login Name**
+
+**Changed:**
+- AirScout communication fundamentally revised: Only stations with QRB < max-QRB are now sent to AirScout.
+- Query interval extended from 12 seconds to **60 seconds**.
+- Significantly less computation load and message traffic → more stable AirScout tracking.
+- Name of the AS client and AS server is now configurable from the Preferences (was previously hardcoded to "KST" / "AS").
+
+**Fixed:**
+- "Track in AirScout" button was very sluggish → greatly improved by new communication logic.
+- Name in chat is now saveable (bug fixed).
+- Visual corrections before and after login.
+- Bug fixed that was reported by 9A2HM (Kreso).
+
+---
+
+## v1.262 (2025-05-21)
+**Freeze Fix for Early Message Delivery**
+
+**Fixed:**
+- ON4KST sometimes delivers messages before login is complete. This caused errors in the message processing engine → now fixed.
+
+---
+
+## v1.26 (2025-05)
+**Multi-Channel Login and Dark Mode**
+
+**New:**
+- **Dark Mode**: Toggle via `Window → Use Dark Mode`.
+- **Multi-channel login**: Simultaneous login to two chat categories.
+- **Opposite station multi-callsign login tagging**: Support for stations with multiple callsigns.
+
+**Changed:**
+- Colouring mechanism revised: Colours can now be customised via CSS.
+
+**Fixed:**
+- Station tagging completely revised and corrected.
+
+---
+
+## v1.251 (2025-02)
+**Bugfix for UDP Broadcast Spot Info**
+
+**Fixed:**
+- Problem reading UDP broadcast spot information fixed (reported by Steve Clements – thank you!).
+- Station tagging (further improved).
+
+---
+
+## v1.25 (2025-02)
+**Wishlist Time**
+
+**New:**
+- **New settings tab: Messagehandling**
+  - Auto-reply to incoming messages configurable.
+  - Automatic reply with own CQ QRG when someone asks for it.
+  - Configurable default filter for the userinfo window *(for Gianluca :-) )*.
+- **Coloured PM rows**: New private messages appear red and fade every 30 seconds from yellow to white *(idea by IU3OAR, Gianluca)*.
+
+**Fixed:**
+- Stations with suffixes like "-2" and "-70" were not being marked as worked → now ignored, station is correctly marked.
+
+---
+
+## v1.24 (2024-11)
+**Wishlist + DX Cluster Spots**
+
+**New:**
+- Button to open the **QRZ.com profile** of the selected station.
+- Button to open the **QRZ-CQ profile** of the selected station.
+- **DX Cluster Server integration**: Direction warnings are sent as spots to the logging software (when QRG is known).
+
+*(Coloured PM row feature also added – tnx Gianluca)*
+
+---
+
+## v1.23 (2024-10)
+**Built-in DX Cluster Server**
+
+**New:**
+- KST4Contest now contains a **built-in DX cluster server**.
+- Generates DX cluster spots and sends them to the logging software when a direction warning is triggered and a QRG is known.
+- Spotter callsign must differ from the contest callsign (for correct filtering in the logging software).
+
+*(Idea by OM0AAO, Viliam Petrik – thank you!)*
+
+---
+
+## v1.22 (2024-05)
+**Usability Improvements and AirScout Button Fix**
+
+**New:**
+- New variables (tnx OM0AAO, Viliam Petrik):
+  - `MYLOCATORSHORT`
+  - `MYQRGSHORT`
+  - `QRZNAME`
+
+**Changed:**
+- Send field focus: After clicking a callsign in the user list, the send field immediately receives focus – no double-click needed *(tnx Gianluca)*.
+
+**Fixed:**
+- Worked-station filter is now live: Worked stations disappear immediately when the filter is activated *(tnx Gianluca)*.
+- QRB sorting was lexicographic → now numeric *(tnx Alessandro Murador)*.
+- AirScout "Show Path" button: Click now maximises AirScout and correctly shows the path.
+
+---
+
+## v1.21 (2024-04)
+**Usability Improvements**
+
+**Changed:**
+- Window sizes and divider positions are saved in the configuration file when clicking "Save Settings" and restored on startup.
+- Filter section as flowpane → better display on smaller screens.
+
+---
+
+## v1.2 (2024-04)
+**Band Selection and NOT-QRV Tags**
+
+**New:**
+- **Band selection**: Selectable in Preferences which bands are active. Only buttons and fields for selected bands appear in the UI. Save and restart required.
+- **NOT-QRV tags per station and band**: Stations can be marked as "not QRV" for each band. Combinable with the user list filter.
+- **QTF arrow**: The "Show path in AS" button now shows an arrow with the QTF of the selected station.
+
+---
+
+## Earlier Versions
+
+### v1.1
+First publicly released version. Core features:
+- Worked marking via Simplelogfile and UDP
+- Sked direction highlighting
+- QRG detection
+- Text snippets and shortcuts
+- AirScout interface (first version)
+- Interval beacon
+- PM catching for public messages containing your own callsign
+- Update notification service
+
+---
+
+## Planned Features
+
+- `MYQTF` variable (own antenna direction as text)
+- Lifetime for worked status (automatic reset)
+- Filtering the "Cluster & QSO of others" window to own QTF
+- Further topography-based calculations for direction warnings