From Release Candidate to Your ShackAfter months of testing by the community — and an RC1 that expired on April 30, 2026 — WSJT-X 3.0 has reached stable status. This is not a point release. The jump from 2.7.0 to 3.0 reflects a genuine architectural step forward, consolidating features that had been circulating in the unofficial Improved branch (the i+ editions) and adding new ones that go well beyond cosmetic changes.Operators who skipped the RC phase will notice the difference immediately. Those who tested RC1 will find a cleaner, more polished experience — and a version that won’t suddenly stop working.The Features That Change How You OperateThe headline addition is parallel FT8 decoding, now running up to a dozen concurrent threads. On a modern multi-core machine, the practical effect is a faster and more complete decode list at the end of each 15-second period — particularly useful on busy DX frequencies where marginal signals compete for decode slots. This is not simply a speed improvement; it recovers calls that would have been missed in a single-threaded pass.Full Duplex Mode is the other change with real operational consequences. WSJT-X can now transmit and receive simultaneously, opening a legitimate path for satellite work where the audio source is the transponder downlink, and for monitoring your own transmitted signal via a WebSDR as the audio input. Until now, this required external workarounds or separate software.The new filter system is more capable than anything in previous stable releases. You can suppress, highlight, or simply hide stations already worked on the current band, worked today, or worked yesterday — all configurable from File | Settings | Filters. The Filters menu then lets you toggle categories on the fly during a session. For contest operators or DXers running high-traffic frequencies, this significantly reduces visual noise without losing information.Wait and Reply, Wait and