FALCON 1.3.0

General

• Add install targets
• Update instructions for build and install
• Support Archlinux (package tudo-falcon in AUR)
• Support Ubuntu 20.04.x LTS (Focal Fossa)

GUI

• Plots: bugfixing and code cleaning

CI

• Refactor CI pipeline
• Build and test in Docker containers:
  • Archlinux
  • Ubuntu 20.04.x LTS (Focal Fossa)
  • Ubuntu 18.04.x LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Miscellaneous

• Bugfix: spurious indication of AVX512 for -O3 builds

FALCON 1.2.0

General

• GUI improvements/cleaning
• Minor bugfixes

Miscellaneous

• Code cleaning
• CI improvements

FALCON 1.1.0

General

• Major refactoring of GUI
• Helper scripts for setting CPU governor and real-time permissions

FalconEye

• Options for histogram (-H) and Short-cut decoding (-L)
• Option for subframe buffering (-W)
• Options for DCI format selection (-s, -S, -T)

GUI

• Improve usability
• Improve performance
• Personalization options for:
  • Histogram and Short-cut decoding
  • Subframe buffering
  • GUI repaint intervals (FPS)
  • Scrollback history and viewport
• Add RNTI table showing per-user statistics

Miscellaneous

• Code cleaning

FALCON 1.0.0

General

• Add subframe buffers and worker thread to relax processing-time constraint (counteract sample overflows and sync loss)
• Add optional subframe skipping in live mode when all subframe buffers are exceeded
• Add tracking of most active DCI formats (update each 500ms)
• Add selective DCI search: try most frequent DCI formats first (primary_meta_formats)
• Improve short-cut-based DCI detection
• Improve histogram-based DCI detection
• Disable RNTI discovery during aggregation-level disambiguation
• Fix (multi) activation of evergreen RNTIs (e.g. SI- and P-RNTI)
• Fix output of active RNTIs (remove expired RNTIs from output)
• Add optional file wrap when reading IQ samples from file
• Fix+Add SIMD computation of power spectrum
• Improve data exchange with GUI (containers, consumers)

FalconEye

• Add (colored) ASCII output for UL/DL allocations and power spectrum (-r, -R)
• Add flag to disable short-cut detection, only use to RA and histogram (-H)
• Extend DCI logs by raw (hex) DCI payload and length

GUI

• Improve plot performance
• Fix entering frequency above 2.1GHz
• Fix waterfall plots remain empty until window resize
• Fix computation of cell-activity plots

Miscellaneous

• Refactoring and code cleanup
• Migration from C to C++ (WIP)
• Add some comments for better code understanding
• Add CI tests (testdata from a private external repository)
• Fix confused compiler params for C/C++
• Extend README.md
• Add this CHANGELOG