From 78216afbb746875cc341d5b53185d1b2a5ecf03d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Naylor <naylorjs@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:40:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Clean up the ring buffer.

---
 .gitignore        | 2 ++
 RingBuffer.h      | 4 ++--
 RingBuffer.impl.h | 4 ++--
 Version.h         | 4 ++--
 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d68e462..c1e20c7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.pio
+.vscode
 *.o
 obj/
 bin/
diff --git a/RingBuffer.h b/RingBuffer.h
index a76caf0..19d4dbf 100644
--- a/RingBuffer.h
+++ b/RingBuffer.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- *   Copyright (C) 2020 by Jonathan Naylor G4KLX
+ *   Copyright (C) 2020,2026 by Jonathan Naylor G4KLX
  *   Copyright (C) 2020 by Geoffrey Merck F4FXL - KC3FRA
  *
  *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ public:
   
   uint16_t getData() const;
 
-  bool put(TDATATYPE item) volatile;
+  bool put(const TDATATYPE& item) volatile;
 
   bool get(TDATATYPE& item) volatile;
 
diff --git a/RingBuffer.impl.h b/RingBuffer.impl.h
index ddcb21c..eb8d893 100644
--- a/RingBuffer.impl.h
+++ b/RingBuffer.impl.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- *   Copyright (C) 2020 by Jonathan Naylor G4KLX
+ *   Copyright (C) 2020,2026 by Jonathan Naylor G4KLX
  *   Copyright (C) 2020 by Geoffrey Merck F4FXL - KC3FRA
  *
  *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ template <typename TDATATYPE> uint16_t CRingBuffer<TDATATYPE>::getData() const
     return m_length - m_tail + m_head;
 }
 
-template <typename TDATATYPE> bool CRingBuffer<TDATATYPE>::put(TDATATYPE item) volatile
+template <typename TDATATYPE> bool CRingBuffer<TDATATYPE>::put(const TDATATYPE& item) volatile
 {
   if (m_full) {
     m_overflow = true;
diff --git a/Version.h b/Version.h
index 2cace49..1807021 100644
--- a/Version.h
+++ b/Version.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- *   Copyright (C) 2020,2021,2022,2023,2025 by Jonathan Naylor G4KLX
+ *   Copyright (C) 2020,2021,2022,2023,2025,2026 by Jonathan Naylor G4KLX
  *
  *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@
 #if !defined(VERSION_H)
 #define  VERSION_H
 
-#define VERSION "20240113"
+#define VERSION "20260218"
 
 #endif