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Release notes for the gEDA/gaf 1.4.0.20080127 stable snapshot
Summary
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This is the third major stable release of gEDA/gaf. It rolls up the
various feature additions, code cleanup, and bug fixes that have
occurred over the past five months. Major highlights include:
* Many usability improvements to the various programs
* Optional support for desktop integration (GNOME and KDE)
* Many improvements to component library handling (internals and
component selection dialog)
* libgeda is now internationalized
* Many language translation updates to gschem and gattrib
* Improved error handling throughout all the programs
* Fixes to the spice-sdb backend to support slotting
* Rendering improvements and speedups in gschem
* A bunch of new tests in gsymcheck to catch a few common errors
* Improved support for running under MinGW
* Lots and lots of code cleanup and improvements throughout all the
programs
* The usual slew of bugs and quirks fixed
NOTE: This is a stable snapshot and should be packaged up by
distribution package maintainers.
Changes
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Changes in this release only (since v1.3.1):
Peter Clifton
* Fix typo in Dutch translation
* Fix use after free corruption when consolidating nets
* Invalidate component cache when updating symbols. [#1880211]
* Only call gdk_window_invalidate_rect() when drawing to a GdkWindow.
Werner Hoch
* gsymcheck: improved the pintype check, added test case
* Added new pintype test symbol and output to EXTRA_DIST
* gsymcheck: test for misplaced attributes
* gsymcheck: moved obsolete and forbidden attribute checks
* fixed error handling bug in run_source_command() [#1869941]
* forward status messages from the library command to the log
* fixed two symbols with missplaced pin attribute errors
* detach missplaced symbol attributes
* fixed symbol with invalid pintype attribute
* Update the pinnumbers when updating a symbol with slots
* Updated German translation of gschem
Ales Hvezda
* Updated documentation from the official wiki website
* Changed Edit/Undo and Add/Bus hotkeys
* Fixed reversed VDD/VSS nets in this hex schmitt trigger
* Fix a crash when running a script that calls (gschem-image ...)
Bernd Jendrissek
* Update Afrikaans translation to fix spelling error.
Bert Timmerman
* libgeda Dutch translation updates
For all the other changes from last development series (1.3.x):
* [1]gaf-1.3.0 Release Notes
* [2]gaf-1.3.1 Release Notes
Notes/Bugs/Errata/Known Issues/Last Minute Issues
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* Many thanks to everybody who contributed to this snapshot and
previous development snapshots.
* Updates to this stable snapshot (1.4.x series) will occur if people
find issues.
* The next major stable snapshot (1.6.x) will probably happen in the
middle of this year.
* Please submit all bugs to the [3]bug tracker.
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