(somewhat limited, but generally useable; I'm having problems with
importing symbols from other vhdl files in the same directory, but
this can be worked around with a "v2cc.libs" file)
(distfile for 4.14 are not available, so up to latest for 4.1x).
Release notes for EAGLE 4.16r2
============================
* Bugfixes:
- Fixed generating pixmaps that are much longer in one dimension with the
EXPORT IMAGE command.
- Fixed handling the net class when renaming a net segment to a new name.
- Fixed a crash when clicking into the empty area of the Technologies
dialog.
- Fixed an 'Internal polygon error 73' when zooming far in on a board that
contains smds with a roundness other than 0.
Release notes for EAGLE 4.16r1
==============================
* Bugfixes:
- Fixed handling '\' in UNC program file name under Windows XP in case the
program is installed on a server.
- Fixed handling the ESCape key in ULPs with nested dialogs.
- Fixed handling the program file name under Windows if it starts
with ".\".
- Fixed handling German umlauts in the User Language functions strupr(),
strlwr(), toupper() and tolower() under Windows and Mac OS X.
- Fixed setting the current item in the Control Panel's tree view when
drag&dropping a package into a library in case there is also a device
set with the same name.
- Fixed unexpected airwires in case an open Pwr pin is connected to a net
with the same name, or a Supply pin with the same name is placed on an
open Pwr pin.
- Fixed printing rotated or mirrored texts under Linux and Mac OS X.
- Fixed handling upper/lowercase when licensing under Windows on a server.
- Fixed handling the highest byte of the Palette values in the eaglerc
file.
- Fixed handling polygons with only two edges, in case one of them is
an arc.
Release notes for EAGLE 4.16
============================
* Bugfixes:
- Fixed CUT/PASTE of net classes (only the first two were actually pasted).
- Fixed handling library name after "Save as" (was wrong in Description
editor).
- Fixed CHANGE PACKAGE/TECHNOLOGY in case a device contains more than 254
technologies (which was possible due to a missing check in the technology
dialog of the device editor).
- Fixed the technology dialog in the device editor, so that it doesn't
accept more than 254 technologies per package variant.
- Fixed a possible data corruption when a supply pin overwrites a net name.
Leftover pin references that may have been caused by such a data
corruption are automatically deleted during the next library update.
- Fixed an unexpected "Cancel" button in some message boxes.
- Fixed generating annulus symbols for pads that have the NOTHERMALS
flag set.
- Fixed faulty splitting of arcs near their end points.
- Fixed a rounding error in handling rectangle coordinates and wire
curves.
- Fixed moving mirrored packages with polygons in a board (polygons were
displayed in the wrong layer).
- Fixed faulty "Change Class..." lines in the EXPORT NETLIST output from
a schematic.
- Fixed a problem with getting the program directory name under Windows XP
if the console version of EAGLE was started without a full path name.
- Fixed a possible crash when canceling the console version of EAGLE with
Ctrl+C under Windows XP.
- Fixed loading a text file on Windows XP from a non-Windows server (the
file was not editable even though it was writable in the file system).
- Fixed storing Undo data when doing a library update where the sequence
of gates had changed in a device. If doing UNDO followed by REDO after
such an update, some of the part's gates may have been swapped.
Release notes for EAGLE 4.15
============================
* Bugfixes:
- The CHANGE PACKAGE command now updates the package in the board with the
version from the schematic, in order to avoid problems in case a REPLACE
has been done in the board while the schematic was closed.
- Fixed handling access to the individual characters of a string in ULPs on
Mac OS X.
- The COPY command now updates the package in the board with the version
from the schematic _before_ actually adding the copied part, in order to
avoid problems in case a REPLACE has been done in the board while the
schematic was closed.
- The library update now reports a modification to the board even if it was
just the renaming of some packages due to a previous REPLACE with the
schematic closed.
- Fixed handling empty strings in dlgListView.
- Fixed clearing the selection of a dlgListView.
- Fixed setting user defined default Design Rules when loading an existing
library from within a project.
- Fixed an extra line that appeared when closing a group with the right
mouse button in case the group was empty.
- Fixed a possible crash in UL_WIRE.pieces().
- Fixed cursor positioning after an error message regarding a loop member
in a ULP.
changes:
SimPy 2.0.1 is a bug-fix release of SimPy 2.0. It
repairs bugs and imperfections in libraries, documentation
and models.
SimPy 2.0 has been a major release of the SimPy simulation
package. It runs on all platforms supporting Python (MS Windows,Linux, Mac).
The major new features of that release are
* an Object Oriented API (in addition to the existing API),
* integration of all documentation into one browsable
and searchable HTML document.
SimPy 2.0 is fully backwards compatible with previous
SimPy versions.
Besides the changes noted below, a major change in 1.6.0 is that the gEDA/gaf suite
is istributed as a single tarball and uses a single build system as opposed to individual
tarballs and builds. In addition to greatly speeding up the build, it is much easier
to maintain. Additionally, it rarely made sense to only install some of the components.
Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.6.0
=================================
* Fixed the GtkItemEntry code inside of gattrib code so that it builds
using gtk+ > 2.16.x.
* In gschem, rubberband pin to pin connections by adding nets.
* Cleanup of the slot handling code in libgeda.
* Fixes/updates to the MinGW port.
* Updated the shipped documentation from the online wiki.
Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.5.3/1.5.4
=======================================
* NOTE: gEDA/gaf 1.5.3 was released with some critical bugs, so
it was withdrawn before it was widely distributed.
* Text rendering using native system fonts:
- The various programs in gEDA/gaf no longer uses its own built-in
line font.
- Native system fonts are used for rendering, giving support for a
wider range of symbols, and better looking schematics.
* Always use PostScript fonts in gschem's PostScript output. The
"output-text", "text-output" and "output-vector-threshold" config
functions have been removed.
* Image rendering in 'gschem' uses cairo instead of GDK.
* Numerous build system changes:
- gEDA/gaf is now distributed as a single source archive, called
gEDA-<version>.tar.gz.
- GTK+ 2.10 or newer and Guile 1.8 or newer are now required.
- `intltool' is no longer required.
- Documentation is now installed to ${docdir} (usually
${prefix}/share/doc/gEDA).
* The attribute edit dialog in `gschem' now has completion of most
common attribute names.
* The multi-attribute edit dialog in `gschem' now shows unpromoted
symbol attributes.
* Menu items in `gschem' now have icons and properly aligned key
bindings. They also support accelerator keys.
* The `gschem2pcb' and `PCBboard' netlist backends have been removed.
It is recommended to use `gsch2pcb' instead.
* Check for and reject non-footprint PCB files in 'gsch2pcb'.
* Removed unimplemented "File->Open" feature in 'gattrib'.
* Added --disable-gattrib command line flag to ./configure to disable the
building of 'gattrib'. This is useful if you are building against
gtk+ 2.17.x which breaks 'gattrib'.
* 'gnetlist' does not recommend drc2 every time it runs. The drc2
backend is only useful in certain circumstances.
* Assign shortcuts "vd" and "vl" for changing between color schemes
in 'gschem'.
* Fix problem with attached net attribute not being honored in 'gnetlist'.
* Focus the "save" button in the close confirmation dialog in 'gattrib' and
'gschem'.
* Accept empty attributes in the src file in 'tragesym'.
* Cleaned up the slot dialog box in 'gschem'.
* Changed the grip size rendering in 'gschem' to be reasonably sized when
zoomed in a lot.
* Introduction of a new attribute searching API in 'libgeda' and 'gschem'.
* Improvements and cleanup to the 'gnetlist' and 'gsymcheck' test suites.
* Fixed the following bugs:
- 1758673: Combine source tarballs
- 2058707: gschem, gattrib: Dangerous button focus in "Save changes"
dialog at quit
- 2430369: gschem: Deselect invisible attribs with their parent object.
- 2449060: Graphic state left inconsistent cancelling from net mode
- 2460301: libgeda: Make o_complex_promote_attribs() respect keep_invisible
and libgeda: Make o_complex_copy() actually copy.
- 2455061: Gnetlist output changed, and tests fail with recent GLib
- 2655088: autogen.sh: Make sure to exit if autopoint fails.
- 2823703: gnet-pcbpins.scm: Quote pins names if they contain comma
or close parenthesis.
- 2823755: gnetlist: Fix DEBUG builds.
- 2836109: build-sys: Add check for groff html driver.
* Spanish translation were updated.
* Lots of code, infrastructure, and doxygen documentation cleanup and
refactoring.
Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.5.2
=================================
* `gschem' now uses Cairo for all rendering. This allows for
everything to be rendered anti-aliased.
* `gschem' now uses a mesh grid instead of dots by default.
* Net junction cues in `gschem' are drawn smaller now.
* Copy and paste now works between different `gschem' instances (using
the X selection).
* Recent files are no longer opened in a new `gschem' window.
* Major, *backwards-incompatible* changes to color handling in
`libgeda' and `gschem'.
- All colors are specified using hexadecimal `#RRGGBB' or
`#RRGGBBAA' syntax.
- The print and display color maps are now separate.
- A new Scheme syntax is used to inspect and modify color maps.
- If you wish to use a light background in `gschem', add the line:
(load (build-path geda-rc-path "gschem-colormap-lightbg"))
to your personal or project gschemrc file.
* Attributes of embedded objects are now shown in the right color.
* Bus pins are now supported by `gschem' and `libgeda', but are *not*
properly supported by the netlister. The pin type can be modified
by selecting a pin, then right-clicking it and selecting `Edit pin
type...'.
* All of the symbols were modified to use overbar markup tags ("like
\_this\_") instead of separate lines.
* Log files are now saved to $HOME/.gEDA/logs rather than being
dropped in the current directory.
Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.5.1
=================================
* GTK+ version 2.8.x or later is now required.
* The selection behaviour in `gschem' was changed.
- Lines, unfilled boxes, unfilled circles, arcs, pins, nets, and
buses must be selected by clicking on the drawn path itself.
- Filled boxes, circles, text, and components, may be selected by
clicking anywhere in the bounding box.
- The default mouse click distance required to select an element was
increased to 10 pixels.
- Double-clicking on a net segment selects all connected net
segments.
* The percentage step in or out while zooming the display in `gschem'
is now configurable with the `zoom-gain' gschemrc parameter. The
default value is 20%.
* The size of steps when panning with the mouse wheel or with a
trackpad in `gschem' is now adjustable with the `scrollpan-steps'
gschemrc parameter. The default setting scrolls in steps of 1/8 of
a screen.
* A number of improvements were made to the `gschem' component
selection dialog.
- The dialog now shows a table of top-level attributes in the
selected symbol.
- It is now possible to expand/collapse a library by clicking
anywhere on its row.
* Changes to fill- and line-styles in `gschem' can now be undone.
* Arcs can now be adjusted in `gschem' using an arc angle dialog. It
can be accessed by selecting an arc and selecting Edit->Edit.
* It is now possible to rotate objects while placing them in `gschem'.
* Support for arbitrary filled and unfilled paths, using a subset of
the SVG path syntax. For more information, please see the file
format specification.
<http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:file_format_spec>
- `gschem' does not yet provide a GUI for creating or editing path
elements. However, it does support rendering them. They can also
be printed.
- Some of the symbols in the component library were updated to use
paths.
* A Scheme evaluation prompt was added to `gschem'. It can be
accessed by typing `:'.
* Improved algorithm for drawing hatched fills both on screen and in
PostScript output.
* Color selection dialogs and menus in `gschem' now show the actual
color as well as the description. Color names are now translatable.
* `gattrib' now prompts to save changes.
* All of the unimplemented menu items and pages in `gattrib' were
removed.
* The `always-promote-attributes' gafrc parameter now takes a list of
strings as an argument. The space-delimited string syntax is
deprecated.
* Some optimisations were made to the `gnetlist' connection traversal
algorithm to speed up netlisting large designs.
* A new netlist backend was added to support Liquid PCB.
<http://www.liquidpcb.org/>
* The `bom2' netlist backend now generates a `qty' column.
* Several improvements and fixes were made to the `systemc' backend.
* The `--gnetlist-arg' option to gsch2pcb can now be used to pass
extra `gnetlist' arguments.
* `gsch2pcb' now emits files with the latest `pcb' file format.
* The `gxyrs' pick-and-place tool was added.
Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.5.0
=================================
* Magnetic net mode in `gschem'. Magnetic mode lets you draw nets and
automatically connect to valid end points (such as pins and other
nets). The `magnetic-net-mode' gschemrc parameter can be used to
enable/disable this feature.
* Rotating a component while moving it in `gschem' now rotates around
the current mouse location.
* The `verilog' and `vhdl' backends now work again.
* Embedded components can now be mirrored.
* The `pads' netlist backend now uses CRLF line endings.
========================================================================
Release Notes for PCB snapshot 20091103
========================================================================
This release represents almost 200 commits and as such this summary
clearly is not complete. See the ChangeLog file for the complete list
of changes.
- [feature] Add attributes to layers
- [bugfix] Remove memory leak in attributes
- [bugfix] Avoid layer buttons getting confused (GTK)
- [bugfix] Fix dereference bug in hid_find_action()
- [feature] Speed up some polygon operations
- [bugfix] Don't let DRC change the grid setting
- [bugfix] Correct URL's in some dialogs and output
- [feature] Add filters to load file chooser dialog (GTK)
- [bugfix] Avoid segfaults with png HID with newer versions of libgd
- [bugfix] Don't disperse locked elements
- [feature] Added experimental topological autorouter
- [feature] Added the beginning of a testsuite.
- [docs] Document FreeRotateBuffer()
- [docs] Add some additional notes on the usage of the existing
autorouter
- [feature] Add --png-bloat option
- [bugfix] Fix several bugs found with valgrind
- [bugfix] Improve the pre-install wrapper script
- [bugfix] Several fixes to the autorouter
- [feature] Allow quoted strings and escaped characters in action
arguments
- [footprints] Add missing INDC3216M, remove duplicated RESC3216M
- [feature] Added the ability to customize mouse events via gpcb-menu.res
in the GTK HID.
- [feature] Added the ability to use mod1 (alt)(option) in
HIDs. Useful on OSX.
- [bugfix] Fix compilation issues on centos
- [bugfix] Make the detection of tools and build system around
building the documentation be more robust. Users should
not be worrying about --disable-doc or --enable-maintainer-mode
anymore
- [footprints] Add T018, T039, fix pinout of T092 to match JEDEC
- [bugfix] Speed up rendering of DRC violation previews under GTK
- [bugfix] Fix some crashing bugs related to polygons and thindraw mode
- [feature] Added a DRC refresh button
- [bugfix] Fix some pango markup in the GTK DRC dialog
- [bugfix] Fix cursor warping on flipped boards (GTK)
- [feature] Added preview images in the DRC violations window (GTK)
- [feature] Add a DrcViolationType structure and add hooks to allow HID's to use this
- [bugfix] Fix some polygon memory leaks
- [feature] Add an API for registering actions with a context to support scripting
languages like GPMI.
- [bugfix] Fix a bug with the Report(NetLength) action and NULL pin/pad names
- [bugfix] Allow exporters to work with hairlines (width of 0)
- [tools] Increase autoconf version to 2.60 since we were using some features of it
- [bugfix] Fix a number of polygon related issues
- [bugfix] Fix a number of gcc warnings
- [feature] Don't display undocumented options in help output. This helps
the transition when deprecating an option.
- [feature] Add outline mode for photo-mode exporting
- [footprints] Put the mark on pin 1 for axial footprints to make them more likely
to fall on grid
- [bugfix] Fix flipping of arcs
- [bugfix] Fix parsing of old-syntax arcs
- [bugfix] Include explicit text/lines on silk layers in the assembly drawing output
- [feature] '--ben-mode' has been renamed to '--photo-mode'
- [bugfix] Fix some crashign bugs on boards with a large number of rats
- [bugfix] Fix an off-by-one bug in the GTK netlist window
- [docs] Add getting started guide
- [feature] Add support for parsing suffixes on numbers ("um", "mm", "in", "mil")
- [bugfix] Fix some configure/build issues when cross compiling
- [bugfix] Fix some improperly used automake conditionals
- [bugfix] Fix some uninstall of shortcuts issues under windows Vista
- [feature] Add additional crosshair shapes
- [bugfix] Various windows build script improvements
========================================================================
Release Notes for gerbv-2.3.0
========================================================================
The following is a summary of the changes which went into gerbv-2.3.0.
For a complete list of changes, refer to ChangeLog.
- gerbv: fixed a minor arc rendering bug in fast mode
- gerbv: Make the svg/pdf/ps export use a 1:1 scale instead of
scaling to fit the page.
- configure: Always require cairo now since we make use of some of
the transformation functions even when using gdk rendering.
- gerbv: Fix a bug in the vertical scrollbar calculations.
- libgerbv: Fix a bug where apertures < 10 were potentially ignored in
some drill files
- gerbv: Fix clipping bug when viewing files with image offsets
- gerbv: Fix a bug whereclicking on the message tab caused the keyboard
accelerators stop working
- gerbv: Use a reasonable return code when doing command line processing.
- libgerbv: Improve the macro parser.
- libgerbv: Allow 0 degree rotation
- libgerbv: Fix some drill parser bugs
- libgerbv: Support the Excellon "R" (repeat) command
- testsuite: Add some tests for drill files
- libgerbv: Fix a bug in the Excellon export which sometimes dropped the first
element.
- libgerbv: Fix some additional Excellon export bugs.
- gerbv: Add the ability to rotate/translate layers
- libgerbv: Fix the pkgconfig file to include some needed dependencies.
This changes the buildlink3.mk files to use an include guard for the
recursive include. The use of BUILDLINK_DEPTH, BUILDLINK_DEPENDS,
BUILDLINK_PACKAGES and BUILDLINK_ORDER is handled by a single new
variable BUILDLINK_TREE. Each buildlink3.mk file adds a pair of
enter/exit marker, which can be used to reconstruct the tree and
to determine first level includes. Avoiding := for large variables
(BUILDLINK_ORDER) speeds up parse time as += has linear complexity.
The include guard reduces system time by avoiding reading files over and
over again. For complex packages this reduces both %user and %sys time to
half of the former time.
Release Notes for Icarus Verilog 0.8.7
none (but see below for other releases since the last version in pkgsrc)
Release Notes for Icarus Verilog 0.8.6
This is a bug fix update of the 0.8 stable version of Icarus
Verilog. The v0.8 series tries to remain as stable as possible while
still fixing bugs that are safe to fix.
Preprocessor:
* Fix parse/preprocess of C-style comments in surpressed ifdef
blocks.
* Support leading underscore in preprocessor names.
Compilation/elaboration issues:
* Support min:typ:max expressions in more places.
* Fix handling of @* non-input nets.
* Do not support system functions in continuous assignments.
* Do not support converting vectors to real.
* Do not support constant real valued expressions.
Run-time ussues:
* Fix comparison of negative numbers that happen to be equal.
* Fix bad execution of certain expressions caused by code generator
bad lookaside handling.
* Proper error message for invalid bit selects.
* Implement $printtimescale system task.
Compiler build issues:
* Compile OK evel if libbzip2 is not installed, but do not support
LXT2 in that case.
Release Notes for Icarus Verilog 0.8.5
This is mostly a bug-fix release for the 0.8 stable branch.
* Fix assertions from unary operators with certain operand widths.
* Fix incorrect comparison results when in certain cases comparing two
signed negative integers.
* Latch synthesis has been added to the core synthesizer
* Add nand gate support to the edif code generator
* Minor compile time errors/warnings
* Improved messages from the configure script
Release Notes for Icarus Verilog 0.8.4
This is a bug-fix release for the 0.8 stable branch. The 0.8 stable
branch updates do not include significant new features (they go into
the devel branch instead) nor fixes that are deemed to drastic to
include in a stable tool.
- Various source code portability problems have been fixed. The 0.8 no
longer compiles on many modern systems.
- Various bug reports have been put to rest with this release. Some
parser errors have been fixed (including a few regressions from
0.8.3) and a few new syntaxes added.
- A variety of systhesis bug fixes and enhancements are included in
0.8.4. Currently, synthesis is only actively supported in the 0.8
branch, and the 0.8.4 is the most complete.
version (1.4.0) are listed below.
-------------------------
Changes in this release only (since v1.4.0):
Carlos Nieves Onega (1):
* Fix missing %s in two strings.
Patrick Bernaud (1):
* Fix memory leak in gschem.
Peter Clifton (2):
* Fix verilog and VHDL netlist backends
* Add libgeda/po/POTFILES.skip for intl/plural.c
Peter TB Brett (1):
* Don't crash on zero snap grid spacing [2026598]
Werner Hoch (4):
* Fix drawing artefact in rubbernet drawing code
* update the pinnumbers if a slot attribute is deleted
* o_delete_text(): only call o_attrib_slot_update() for COMPLEX
objects.
* libgeda: fixed EOL handling for mixed windows/linux usage
-------------------------
Changes in this release only (since v1.4.1):
Ales Hvezda (2):
* Fixed up all icon-theme-installer files to work with non-bash
* Bumped the revision on libgeda's shared library and updated
versions.
Carlos Nieves Onega (1):
* Changed shell from bash to sh in icon-theme-installer
Dan McMahill (1):
* Avoid insecure temp file usage.
Peter Clifton (3):
* gattrib: Don't special-case ignore components with "graphical"
attribute.
* gattrib: Don't crash if we can't find data in the sheet. Bug
#2214739
* Calculate bounds of new object when copying an embedded complex.
Werner Hoch (1):
* libgeda: changed object adding flag for embeded symbols [#1692626]
-------------------------
Changes in this release only (since v1.4.2):
Patrick Bernaud (1):
* Enable promotion of attributes when adding a component from guile.
Peter Clifton (7):
* gschem: Ensure we invalidate the region of text's origin marker
* gnetlist: Fixup systemc backend
* gschem: Don't add invalid attributes to the multiattrib dialog list
* gschem: Check for self-connecting COMPLEX before deleting. Fix
#1912859
* gschem: Remove stretched object from stretch list if we delete it
* o_move_end_rubberband(): Rework creating connectivity lists. Fix
#2017356
* gschlas: Fix segfault opening file
Peter TB Brett (1):
* Validate calls to scm_c_eval_string(). [2105219]
Werner Hoch (1):
* gschem: redraw empty preview on configure events [#2159047]
========================================================================
Release Notes for gerbv-2.2.0
========================================================================
The following is a summary off the changes which went into gerbv-2.2.0.
For a complete list of changes, refer to ChangeLog.
- libgerbv: fixed a bug in the min/max calculation.
- libgerbv: improved the ability to parse drill files with
user specified formats.
- libgerbv: Compile with -no-undefined to make it easier to build
windows DLL's.
- configure: Improve detection of tools when cross-compiling.
- libgerbv: Improved example programs.
- gerbv: Changed desktop categories to be more consistent with
the rest of gEDA.
- common: Fixed compilation with SunPRO compilers
- libgerbv: Fixed calculation of pick and place bounding box
- gerbv: Added a rendering benchmark
- gerbv: Various rendering speed improvements
- common: Made an install be relocatable. This is always needed
for proper win32 operation and helps in some cases
on other operating systems. As part of this, improve
how init.scm is located at startup.
- gerbv: Improved the project file load/save dialog.
========================================================================
Release Notes for PCB snapshot 20081128
========================================================================
This release represents over 70 commits and as such this summary
clearly is not complete. See the ChangeLog file for the complete list
of changes.
- Minor bug fixes in RS274-X output.
- Bug fixes in postscript output
- DRC checks for annular ring on pads only uses the mininum annular ring
drc setting instead of also checking minimum copper width.
- Fix postscript output for zero length lines.
- Improve the 'save before closing' dialogs.
- Fixed bugs where objects attached to the cursor vanish sometimes.
- Various minor code portability improvements.
- Enabled additional gcc warnings (when using gcc)
- Allow outline layers to have only arcs.
- Added "Ben Mode" png output which provides a simulated "photograph"
of the board. Very nice for publications.
- Fix poly clearance around rotated pads.
- Fix the batch HID which had bit rotted a little.
- Display net names hierarchically.
- Various speed improvements in the GTK HID.
- Various speed improvements in the autorouter.
- Minor improvements to the windows port.
- Other various bug fixes.
