to make it build with newer boost library.
Changes since 4.0.1:
Do not allow spaces in component name (value field) in
component library editor, in dialogs (Edit field, Create component).
Remove front silkscreen default setting for PTH and NPTH pads.
OSX: back port touchpad support from development branch.
Add support for optional touchpad panning (merge of rev. 6586 from
development branch)
OSX: legacy canvas rendering speed improvements.
PolyLine.cpp: NormalizeAreaOutlines now removes null segments.
Remove support for in processing setting of ld library path.
Eeschema: make footprint and datasheet initially invisible, when creating a
component.
Make color names translatable in color selection dialog.
Mark locked tracks with 'L' letter in status field.
Added 'Reset Grid Origin' hot key (GAL).
Add support for PCB and footprint format versioning
Highlight a net when crossprobing with eeschema and highlight net tool
is enabled.
Make DRC markers not editable with the standard tools (GAL).
Draw arrows for DRC markers (GAL).
and lots of bug fixes.
There has been a lot of development since the previous version in
pkgsrc. DWG read/write support and SVG export are major features,
along with moving to Qt4 and onwards. The QCAD toolbar is no longer
supported, and the program is faster in operation than the previous
pkgsrc version.
Apart from the github commit log which is overly detailed, the
previous release information with some change logs is at
https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases
from the release notes:
# OpenSCAD 2015.03
**Language Features:**
* Added text() module for 2D text
* Added offset() module for 2D offsets
* Added list comprehensions and let()
* Added concat() function
* Added chr() function
* surface() can now take PNG images as input
* min() and max() can now take a vector argument
* 2D minkowski can now handle polygons with holes
* Variables can now be assigned in local blocks without using assign()
**Program Features:**
* Added Toolbar icons
* New code editor based on QScintilla
* Added Splash screen
* Added SVG export
* Added AMF export
* Added --viewall and --autocenter cmd-line parameters
* GUI is now translated into German, Czech, Spanish, French and Russian
* MDI (Multiple Document Interface) is now available on all platforms
* Color schemes for viewer and editor can be user-edited using JSON files
* GUI components are now dockable
* Added Tickmarks on axes
**Bugfixes/improvements:**
* Performance improvement: 2D (clipper), preview, hull, minkowski, surface
* Performance improvement: Reduce duplicate evaluation of identical expressions
* Better recursion behavior
* STL export and import is now more robust
* Internal cavities are better supported
* New examples
* Windows cmd-line behaves better
* Better mirror() and scale() behavior when using negative factors
**Deprecations:**
* polyhedron() now takes a faces= argument rather than triangles=
* assign() is no longer needed. Local variables can be created in any scope
# OpenSCAD 2014.03
**Language Features:**
* Added diameter argument: circle(d), cylinder(d, d1, d2) and sphere(d)
* Added parent_module() and $parent_modules
* Added children() as a replacement for child()
* Unicode strings (using UTF-8) are now correctly handled
* Ranges can have a negative step value
* Added norm() and cross() functions
**Program Features:**
* Cmd-line: --info parameter prints system/library info
* Cmd-line: --csglimit parameter to change CSG rendering limit
* Cmd-line: Better handling of cmd-line arguments under Windows
* GUI: Added Reset View
* GUI: Added Search&Replace in editor
* GUI: Syntax highlighting now has a dark background theme
* GUI: We now create a backup file before rendering to allow for recovery if OpenSCAD crashes/freezes
* GUI: Accessibility features enabled (e.g. screenreading)
**Bugfixes/improvements:**
* Reading empty STL files sometimes caused a crash
* OPENSCADPATH now uses semicolon as path separator under Windows
* polyhedron() is now much more robust handling almost planar polygons
* Automatic reloads of large designs are more robust
* Boolean logic in if() statements are now correctly short-circuited
* rands() with zero range caused an infinite loop
* resize(, auto=true) didn't work when shrinking objects
* The $children variable sometimes misbehaved due to dynamic scoping
* The --camera cmd-line option behaved differently then the corresponding GUI function
* PNG export now doesn't leak transparency settings into the target image
* Improved performance of 3D hull() operations
* Some editor misbehaviors were fixed
* Stability fixes of CGAL-related crashes
* Windows cmd-line can now handle spaces in filenames
* Default CSG rendering limit is now 100K elements
* Fixed a crash reading DXF files using comma as decimal separator
* Fixed a crash running the cmd-line without a HOME env. variable
* Intersecting something with nothing now correctly results in an empty object
**Deprecations:**
* child() is no longer supported. Use children() instead.
* polyhedron(triangles=[...]): Use polyhedron(faces=[...]) instead.
**Misc:**
* Test framework now shares more code with the GUI app
* Test report can now be automatically uploaded to dinkypage.com
* Better compatibility with BSD systems
* Qt5 support
# OpenSCAD 2013.06
**Language Features:**
* linear_extrude now takes a scale parameter:
linear_extrude(height=a, slices=b, twist=c, scale=[x,y])
* Recursive use of modules is now supported (including cascading child() operations):
https://github.com/openscad/openscad/blob/master/examples/example024.scad
* Parameter list values can now depend on earlier values, e.g. for (i=[0:2], j=[0:i]) ..
* value assignments in parameters can now depend on already declared parameters
* Added resize() module:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Transformations#resize
**Program Features:**
* Added basic syntax highlighting in the editor
* There is now a built-in library path in user-space:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Libraries#Library_Locations
* Commandline output to PNG, with various camera and rendering settings.
Run openscad -h to see usage info or see the OpenSCAD wiki user manual.
* Attempting to open dxf, off or stl files in the GUI will now create an import statement.
* The preview operator (%) will now preserve any manually set color
* The highlight operator (#) will now color the object in transparent red
* Mac: Added document icon
* Mac: Added auto-update check
* Windows: Better cmd-line support using the openscad.com executable
**Bugfixes:**
* Importing files is now always relative to the importing script, also for libraries
* We didn't always print a warning when CSG normalization created too many elements
* Binary STLs can now be read on big endian architectures
* Some binary STLs couldn't be read
* Fixed some issues related to ARM builds
* CGAL triangulation more lenient- enables partial rendering of 'bad' DXF data
* The Automatic Reload feature is now more robust
* If a file couldn't be saved it no longer fails silently
* Fixed a number of crashes related to CGAL and OpenCSG rendering or complex models
* The lookup() function had bad boundary condition behavior
* The surface() module failed when the .dat file lacked a trailing newline
* The hull() module could crash if any of the children were empty objects
* Some problems using unicode filenames have been fixed
**Misc:**
* Build scripts have been further improved
* Regression test now creates single monolithic .html file for easier uploading
* Regression test auto-starts & stops Xvfb / Xvnc if on headless unix machine
* The backend is finally independent of Qt
* Windows: We now have a 64-bit version
**Known Bugs:**
* Linux: command-line png rendering on Gallium is flaky.
Workaround: use CGAL --render or hardware rendering.
# OpenSCAD 2013.01
**Features:**
* Snappier GUI while performing CGAL computations (computations running in separate thread)
* The size of the misc. caches can now be adjusted from Preferences
* The limit for when to disable OpenCSG can now be adjusted from Preferences
* Added Dot product operator: vec * vec
* Added Matrix multiplication operator: vec * mat, mat * mat
* Added search() function
* Dependencies are now tracked - any changes in uses/included files will be detected and cause a recompile
* The OPENSCADPATH environment variable is now implemented will have precedence when searching for libraries
* .csg files can now be opened from the GUI
* linear_extrude() will now assume that the first parameter means 'height' if it's a number
**Bugfixes:**
* use'ing an non-existing file sometimes crashed under Windows
* Better font handling: Ensure a monospace font is chosen as default
* Division by zero caused hang in some cases (e.g. sin(1/0))
* Larger minkowski operations sometimes caused a crash after a CGAL assert was thrown
* Fixed crashes in shared_ptr.hpp (or similar places) due bugs in cache management and CSG normalization
* scale() with a scale factor of zero could cause a crash
* Fixed a number of issues related to use/include
* Providing an unknown parameter on the cmd-line caused a crash
* cmd-line overrides using -D now also work for USEd modules
* Modifier characters can now be used in front of if statements
* rotate() with a vector argument with less that 3 elements used uninitialized variables, ending up being non-deterministic.
* .csg files will now have relative filenames whenever possible
* Don't just ignore geometric nodes having zero volume/area - when doing difference/intersection, they tend to turn negative objects into positive ones.
* Always use utf-8 file encoding, also under Windows
* A lot of build script fixes
* Some other crash bugs fixes
**Deprecations:**
* The old include syntax "<filename.scad>" without the include keyword is no
longer supported and will cause a syntax error.
------------------------------------
3.3.75 02aug16 Fix crash when -S and -W are used in tandem.
3.3.76 13aug16 Fix for --disable-tcl in ./configure caused by 3.3.75 fix.
Crash fix in fstapi.c on read value at time accessing of
FST files that use new dynamic aliases, FastLZ, or LZ4. This
primarily affects rtlbrowse.
for QCAD 3. This is now provided as a bunch of archives
for different categories but I have merged them into a
common package as we had before and the package version
is the date of the latest update.
QCAD has been largely rewritten since the previous version
(QCAD 2) was updated in pkgsrc, meaning that the changes are
vast. From the authors website:
QCAD 3 comes with a new and improved CAD engine which improves
performance (spatial index) and allows for advanced property
editing and future extensions (dynamic properties). The other
major addition is a powerful and complete ECMAScript interface.
New interactive tools can be developed with a few lines of
ECMAScript but even entire new applications can be developed
using QCAD technology. QCAD 3 is also the first QCAD version
that fully supports the DWG format as well as various different
versions of the DXF format.
The complete ChangeLog is at http://www.qcad.org/en/changelog
These are for QCAD 2 and will be no longer required for
QCAD 3 which I am preparing as it has the equivalent
built in and a more comprehensive user manual online, or
you can buy a book from the author.
-----------------------------
3.3.74 27jul16 Fix for when a signal name is used as a hierarchy name at the
same level of scope. (Affects fsdb.)
Added --rcvar command line option to insert rc variable changes
individually without needing to point to a configuration file.
Change to combine traces down/up routines to handle 2D vector
name generation.
Allow FSDB files to contain ".gz" and ".bz2" suffixes as the
libnffr loader can handle those.
If a variable is declared in the dumpfile as an integer, then
it is imported to the waveform display as an integer instead of
a hex value. This works for dump file formats that show the
datatype in the SST window.
Added code that should prevent the primary marker from
disappearing unexpectedly as well as dynamic resizing being
stuck in the unset marker width.
-------------------------
- v0.9
Almost version 1.0...
This version introduces new translation and copy features
added by John Bell. A new flag for joining polygons before
offsetting them has also been included.
- v0.8.1 Faster boolean and offset
This release introduces the Clipper library for better
performance on boolean and offset operations on polygons.
Compiled Windows binaries are contributed by @johnlb.
- v0.7.1 First GitHub release
Minor structural changes since version 0.7.
Compiled Windows binaries for Python 3.5 are contributed by
@johnlb.
Gdspy is a Python module for creating GDSII stream files, usually CAD
layouts. It includes a layout viewer for the geometries created, and
it can also be used to import and merge GDSII files.
-----------------------------
Version 0.24.8
Release date: 2016-06-19
- Bugfix: XOR and different or big database units: With
tiling, XOR between two layouts with different database
units was still not working correctly. Also, when the
database unit was larger than 1nm, the XOR feature was
dropping results sometimes when tiling was on.
- Enhancements: progress bar shown also for "-z" mode
scripts: The solution of 0.24.7 has been modified to avoid
annoying progress bar windows popping up in
background-window mode: Now, progress bar windows will
only pop up if an active main window is present. This will
enable progress bars for scripts that open their own main
windows but still keep the application GUI-less when the
script does not do so.
- Bugfix: Crash on empty panel: When "New/Panel" is used a
view without a layout is created. An attempt to create
layout on such panels crashed the application.
- Bugfix: LEF reader now can read PIN statements including VIA
- Bugfix: Polygon smoothing was not working properly in some
cases Previously the smoothing function was sometimes
dropping vertexes from the polygons. Smoothing now does
also guarantee not to exceed the given distance.
- Bugfix: Sorting cells by area now sorts cells by name as
second choice In the previous version, cells with
identical area were grouped but the order was
arbitrary. Now the name is used as the second-level
sorting criterion which keeps such cells sorted by name.
- Add following line, pkglint flags.
.include "../../graphics/hicolor-icon-theme/buildlink3.mk"
(upstream)
- Updated cad/gtkwave to 3.3.73
-------------------------------
3.3.73 11jun16 Added dragzoom_threshold rc variable to accommodate input
devices that have a noisy 3rd mouse button.
Fix emission of all filter names so they are emitted in
canonical fashion so as to avoid growing strings of ../ in
savefiles.
--------------------------
Release notes for EAGLE 7.6.0
=============================
* Platforms:
- Since EAGLE requires OS X 10.8 or higher on MAC which are all 64 bit OS,
we are no longer providing the 32 bit version for MAC.
* EDIT command:
- Now the EDIT command allows changing to the proper editor window with
'edit .sch' and 'edit .brd' even in the library editor.
* USE command:
- Extended syntax for USE to unuse a specific library (use -a.lbr).
- The USE command can now also be called in the library editor (although the
list of used libraries is only relevant in schematic or board editor).
* Miscellaneous:
- Ensuring the requested precision on linear dimension values even if there
are trailing zeroes.
- Now the net class is copied if a signal polygon is renamed to a new signal.
- Termination of EAGLE by watchdog if the improper 'eagle.exe' is used together
with the CAM processor option '-X'.
- The User Language dialog object dlgTabWidget now accepts a parameter 'Index';
it has to be an integer variable and can be used to set the initial
dlgTabPage and to get the index of the current dlgTabPage.
- Added a note to help about eaglecon.exe including a warning regarding
the closing of it.
- Avoiding unintended deletion of several MUST gates w/o using Shift+Left.
- Added a 'save-brd-variants.ulp' which can be used to save a board file for
each assembly variant (may be used to prepare CAM output).
- Added entry 'DXF' to File/Import sub menu of the library editor in package
or symbol edit mode.
- The color entries #7 (DARKGRAY) of the white and the colored palette
have been changed to darker values; the same applies to 'defaultcolors.scr'.
- Changed UPDATE behavior for variable attributes: retaining changes in
schematic and board.
- Added an option to textually display the via length. It can be set in the
Settings dialog under 'Misc' or with 'SET Option.ViaLength 1|0'.
- Improved support for high DPI displays: providing the high
resolution for enlarged icons and dialog texts.
- Added a note to help for COPY of library objects regarding paths.
- Improved error message when a CAM job or section is tried to start but no
board or schematic is loaded.
- Added auto connection of ports if MOVEing them on each other.
- Added exp-palette.ulp for exporting the color palettes to an EAGLE script.
- Improved construction of a polygon: now the last wire piece can be removed
with the escape key.
- Avoiding drag&drop in Control Panel by unintended click of the mouse wheel
button.
- Added a warning about connections from a contact to several signals while
loading a board (there's no known way to achieve this illegal state within
EAGLE, though).
- Now the OPTIMIZE command is available in all drawing editor types apart from
the device editor.
- The groupwise moving of smashed texts of a locked element is now inhibited
only if the element is included in the moved group, too.
- Added cross probing (highlighting) of signals to a module net that has
generated the corresponding signal(s) completely.
- CAM Processor: when running 'Process Job' it is being checked if the job covers
the Layer Setup.
* Bugfixes:
- Taking into account connected ports to avoid 'Only one pin on net' ERC
error messages.
- Added Use and Un-Use buttons (with tool tips) in the ADD dialog to
countervail the (since V7.3) missing Drop button.
- Fix for wrong splitter position in device edit mode that could appear after
switching between different edit modes in library editor.
- Fix for EAGLE in command line mode: it could happen that a given command
sequence (option -C) was executed in the wrong editor window.
- Made the return key in Control Panel work again for activation of
tree entries.
- Fix for a parse error if in a CAM job description the sequence '="' was used.
- Avoiding references to ports of wrong type in bus or net segments.
- Fix to avoid pending file locks if EAGLE is closed over 'close all windows'
in the taskbar.
- Marking lock files as hidden also on Windows.
- Fix for window positions and other project settings not stored on MAC if
EAGLE was closed with 'Quit' in the application menu.
- Fixed drawing SMDs with roundness, if printing with option ROTATE.
- Avoiding temporary (not intended) mirroring of gates with the middle mouse
button when moving them in the device editor.
- Ensuring the proper device (package variant), if automatically changing into
the invoke mode while adding a device.
- bom.ulp: Fixed handling descriptions containing TAB characters.
- Changed handling of package names in the UPDATE command used in a library
to case insensitive (syntax 'UPDATE package_name@library_name').
- Added validation of bus name when it is changed by command line with
'NAME newBusName'.
- Ensuring proper cap style if constructing a new ARC.
- Made the popup menus for parameterbar, toolbar and commandbar buttons work
again on MAC.
- Denying renaming or deletion of a file in the Control Panel if a corresponding
lock file exists.
- Printing: fixed possibly missing caption and offsetted image on Windows.
- Fixed a possible inconsistency after library update with device sets involved
that couldn't be found in the new library and other special conditions.
- Fixed possible graphical artefacts when copying parts or elements by
GROUP/CUT/PASTE or COPY of a group.
- Fix for printing of non solid color fill styles to PDF.
- Made printing of non solid fill styles work again on Linux; clearer
output also on MAC.
- Fixed ADD dialog: no longer ignoring the first selection after clearing
the search field.
- Ensuring that only a schematic is imported into an existing module
(PASTE from file). It was possible to import a schematic/board pair
which lead to inconsistency.
- Fixed ULP filesize function for non existing files (now 0 is returned).
- Fixed dlgListView to execute the statement only if a valid item was
doubleclicked.
- Now dlgListView sets the parameter 'Selected' to -1 if nothing is selected
(see help).
- Avoiding a crash if trying to ROTATE a locked element with Click&Drag.
- Avoiding a locked element to become invisible if trying to MOVE it by
name (input e.g. 'move X10').
- Fixed f/b annotation if deleting a connection to a power pin and the gate
of this pin is placed in a module.
- Fixed unjustified ERC error message regarding an incompatibility of HIZ
pins on a net which is exported by a module with a PWR port.
- Avoiding a file locking conflict (timing issue) during library export.
- Fixed loss of the net wire if moving already connected ports on each other and
separating them again.
- Avoiding a too early deactivation of automatic confirmation mode during QUIT
(to avoid an undesired message stopping QUIT).
- Fixed generation of net wires if changing a module with direct connection
of port to port or pin.
- Fixed saving XML texts in drawings: drop invalid characters entered as texts
or descriptions (e.g by copy&paste).
- Improved validation of the port name if setting up a new port.
- Made UPDATEing libraries work with several dots like 'abc.ok.lbr'.
- Fixed drawing of mirrored or rotated frames.
- Changed handling of signal names in the OPTIMIZE command to case insensitive.
- Fixed ROUTE command with differential pairs; sometimes the initial wire
width was wrong.
- Avoiding a stuck progress bar if terminating a ULP with an exit code
within a script.
- Fixed possibly wrong window positions in case of a multi monitor setup on
Windows; improved handling of window restoration for multi monitor setup.
- Fixed a misinterpretation of colons in a sheet description; switching to
such a sheet with the sheet combobox didn't work.
- Fixed vanishing of smashed texts during MOVE of a group if the associated
element is locked.
- Fixed update of sheet thumbnails after adding a PORT.
- Fixed WINDOW FIT due to wrong calculation of the bounding box regarding
the cross-reference display area on MUST gates; only gates with text place-
holder '>XREF' are taken into account.
- Avoiding use of the colon for modules and module prefixes. It is reserved
as hierarchical name separator.
- Fixed net renaming issue: Renaming a net with segments on several sheets
over the INFO dialog could lead to inconsistency and empty net names.
--------------------------------------
http://www.klayout.de/development.html
--------------------------------------
Release date: 2016-05-03
Features:
- Bugfix: XOR and different database units: With tiling, XOR
between two layouts with different database units was not
working correctly.
- Enhancements: progress bar shown also for "-z" mode
scripts: Scripts running in KLayout with the "-z" option
(don't show main window) were not experiencing progress
reporting before. Now a small modal window is shown during
long-running operations that indicates the progress and
provides a Cancel button to abort the operation.
- Bugfix: Crash on using "Edit/Make cell": This happened
sometimes if the selected objects contained instances.
- Bugfix: Invalid behavior of paths with reflecting
segments: For example a path made of the points (0, 0),
(0, 1000) and (0, 0) had a reflecting segment which cause
some computations (for example the bounding box) to return
invalid results.
http://www.klayout.de/development.html
--------------------------------------------------------
Version 0.24.6
Release date: 2016-03-22
--------------------------------------------------------
- Bugfix: Early delete of plugin object when returning a new object from
PluginFactory#create_plugin. The returned object was not held, so in Ruby
the GC could destroy the object. This could lead to crashes in applications
employing the Plugin API.
- Bugfix: It was possible to edit read-only macros. For example, it was
possible to enter new lines in macros marked as read-only. However, these
changes were not saved.
- Bugfix: Shift+Tab not working in macro editor. On some platforms, Shift+Tab
was not working as expected. This key combinations was supposed to
left-shift a selected block an undo indents.
- Bugfix: Wrong scaling of layers when doing XOR's with layouts with
different database units. This happened when the layouts had different
layers and "summarize missing layers" was disabled.
- Bugfix: "Search & Replace" was not working properly if named layers were
present. Specifically the shape search was not working due to an
incorrectly formed query.
- Bugfix: Sizing produced incorrect results in case of slowly varying polygon
contours. The effect was a contour with spiky distortions where two "almost
parallel" edges connected.
- Bugfix: The diff tool was not reporting differences correctly when layers
were present in one layout while they were not present in the other. This
happened specficially when "Summarize missing layers" was disabled.
- Enhancement: New context mode in marker browser: "Current or Any". In this
mode, the markers are displayed in the context of the current cell. If that
is not possible because the markers are given for cells outside the cell
tree of the current cell, the fallback is to show the markers in the
current cell as in "Any" mode.
- Enhancement: More consistent behaviour of cell and category filters in the
marker browser. For example, the category filter is now also applied when
selecting a node for a certain cell in the cell branch and if nested
categories are present, the category filter is applied smarter - not just
on each category.
--------------------------------------------------------
Although a comparatively simple piece of software, a layout viewer is not
only just a tool for the chip design engineer. Today design's complexity
require not only a simple "viewer". Rather, a viewer is the microscope
through which the engineer looks at the design.
There are numerous viewers available, but sadly there are not many which
satisfy a few basic requirements. Most of them are commercial and
expensive. If there is need for a simple, yet powerful viewer - here it is.
FSDB detection when only .a files are present (necessary for
Ubuntu).
Fixed valgrind warning in fst.c for dead memory allocation.
Fixed signed fixed point binary number shift for negative
Update 3.3.68 to 3.3.70
-----------------------
3.3.69 03feb16 Added missing EXTLOAD_CFLAGS declarations in configure.ac for
FSDB detection when only .a files are present (necessary for
Ubuntu).
Fixed valgrind warning in fst.c for dead memory allocation.
Fixed signed fixed point binary number shift for negative
numbers.
Added ghw patch for missing enum crash in ghw files.
3.3.70 14feb16 Various warnings fixes from new version of scan-build.
Crash fix in Windows for transaction traces (broken since
VCD/TIM export in 3.3.61).
Kicad is an open source (GPL) software for the creation of electronic schematic
diagrams and printed circuit board artwork.
Designed and written by Jean-Pierre Charras, a researcher at LIS (Laboratoire
des Images et des Signaux) and a teacher in IUT de Saint Martin d'Heres
(France), in the field of electrical engineering and image processing.
Kicad is a set of four softwares and a project manager:
* Eeschema: Schematic entry.
* Pcbnew: Board editor.
* Gerbview: GERBER viewer (photoplotter documents).
* Cvpcb: footprint selector for components used in the circuit design.
* Kicad: project manager.
This package contains the user interface translations for Kicad
Kicad is an open source (GPL) software for the creation of electronic schematic
diagrams and printed circuit board artwork.
Designed and written by Jean-Pierre Charras, a researcher at LIS (Laboratoire
des Images et des Signaux) and a teacher in IUT de Saint Martin d'Heres
(France), in the field of electrical engineering and image processing.
Kicad is a set of four softwares and a project manager:
* Eeschema: Schematic entry.
* Pcbnew: Board editor.
* Gerbview: GERBER viewer (photoplotter documents).
* Cvpcb: footprint selector for components used in the circuit design.
* Kicad: project manager.
This package contains the component footprints for Kicad
Changes unknown, but probably new components, and convertion to the
new library format.
Note that the footprints are now in a separate package, kicad-footprints.
Major changes:
New graphics rendering backend GAL (OpenGL and Cairo) [currently pcbnew
only and does not yet support all legacy tools]
New s-expression based pcb format (.kicad_pcb)
New footprint library format (.pretty folder with .kicad_mod footprints)
Updated footprint editor (only usable with GAL renderer)
More advanced footprint manager concept called footprint library
table (fp-lib-table)
Ability to download footprints on the fly from git repositories
Official libraries are now stored on github and regularly updated
Awesome/Advanced Push and Shove (PnS) router (only usable with GAL renderer)
Interactive differential trace routing and tuning
Interactive trace length tuning
Much more realistic 3D board rendering
Intelligent library search with preview in Eeschema
Initial Python api for Pcbnew
Notes:
Symbols have changed size, been renamed, etc to follow the new KiCad library
conventions so you need to take care when working with older schematics if
you used the symbols packaged with KiCad.
The new pcb format cannot be loaded in older versions of KiCad.
