If you are using Window Defender Antivirus (Windows 10), update it to its latest malware definition in

<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/definitions>

before installing or upgrading to DXKeeper 15.9.6.


This version

- prevents erroneous display of the "change to QSO uploaded to eQSL or LoTW" prompt (tnx to Russ KR6W)

- prevents an errorlog.txt file entry in DXLogModule.SetFieldModified

- tolerates an unexpectedly large response from TQSL when uploading QSOs to LoTW (tnx to Alec W2JU)

- prevents an errorlog.txt file entry generated by "ADIF.ImportLotWQSLRecord, State = 59" (tnx to Alec W2JU)

- prevents an errorlog.txt file entry generated by "DXQSLModule.HandleLotWUploadTimer, State = 10" (tnx to Alec W2JU)

- improves error messages displayed by the Backup function (tnx to Tad K3TD)

- improves label column widths (tnx to Björn SM7IUN)

- when logging a QSO, includes the entity-band-mode progress in the information conveyed to SpotCollector; this information is ignored by the current public version of SpotCollector, but enables the next version of SpotCollector to optionally maintain a new BandModeProgress field for DXCC entities (tnx to Iain N6ML)

- provides the option to maintain the default station callsign, operator callsign and owner callsign in a log file (tnx to Art K6XT, Gil W0MN, and Joe W4TV)

- displays the default Station Callsign in the Main window's title bar, enclosed by curly braces (tnx to Art K6XT)

- provides the option to display the Configuration window's defaults tab whenever a log file is opened (tnx to Art K6XT)

- provides a "Check LoTW Queue" function on the Main window's QSL tab when the "QSL Via" panel is set to LoTW (tnx to Dan N8YSZ, Björn SM7IUN, and Iain N6ML)

- updates the Configuration.htm, FilterLog.htm, Log.htm, QSL.htm, and ViewEditLog.htm documentation files


Notes:

1. The new options to maintain the default station callsign, operator callsign and owner callsign in a log file instead of in the Windows Registry, and to to display the Configuration window's defaults tab whenever a log file is opened are documented here:

<https://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxkeeper/Help/Configuration.htm#Default_Callsigns>


2. Update your firewall and anti-malware applications to consider this new version of DXKeeper to be "safe" 

   a. JOTTI virus scan: 0 of 15 scanners detected malware in this version's executable

   b. VirusTotal: 0 of 71 scanners detected malware in this version's executable

   c. submitted to Microsoft for analysis by Windows Defender: no malware detected in this version's executable


3. If this upgrade doesn't work correctly, see the "After an Upgrade" section of <http://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxlabwiki/ApplicationStoppedWorking>


4. After upgrading, to revert to the previous version of DXKeeper, see <http://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxlabwiki/RevertApplicationVersion>


DXKeeper 15.9.6 is available via the DXLab Launcher and via

http://www.dxlabsuite.com/download.htm

      73,

            Dave, AA6YQ