Mail Archives: geda-user/2017/02/15/03:09:05
Hi all,
after 2 months of hard work of a constantly growing group of developers
and users, I'm proud to announce the release of pcb-rnd version 1.2.1.
Project page: http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/
Downloads: http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/releases/
SVN: svn://repo.hu/pcb-rnd/trunk
Contact: please send your bug reports, comments, complaints, "you ruin
everyones life with forks" to: our mailing list, our IRC channel (#pcb-rnd
on server repo.hu), to this mailing list or directly to me in email.
The project is open. Feel free to join the fun in any role, even if you
have only a few minutes per week to spend.
Release notes:
pcb-rnd 1.2.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
With a new peak in number of developers and contributors, version 1.2.1
introduces a large amount of bug fixes, cleanups and new features that
can be sorted in the following main groups.
1. Layer model rewrite; pcb-rnd now has a clear separation of physical
layer and logical layer concepts. There's new, board cross-section GUI
to visualize and manipulate the layer stack.
2. The hid_gtk refactoring; big, monolithic code blocks are split up in
smaller, more independent, lib-like modules and are moved to a lib plugin.
This paves the road for a modular setup to support multiple graphic
renderings and maybe even different gtk versions.
3. Automated testing and validation: a new infrastructure for automated
testing of exporters is added. The reference PNG files are manually
validated against the input PCB geometry - by now, we know exactly how
much error the PNG rendering has.
4. UI fixes: better rubber band, xor-outline-while-moving and DRC outline
visualization support.
5. Introducing the "EDA ecosystem" idea: real working import/export
bridges or flows to fidocadj, freerouting.net, ltspice, mucs and TinyCAD.
Major improvements in the KiCad file format compatibility.
6. The toporouter got removed in favor of the new routers for now.
Best regards,
Igor2
P.S. I'm grateful to all our developers, contributors, users; I decided
not to try to list them: some explicitly stated they wanted to remain in
the shadow; and I really don't want to risk missing anyone from a list.
We've had a real crowded, real exciting and real thick 2 months with
something happening continously, almost 24/7. Thank you all, even if you
think you did only a small contribution - it all adds up, and it's all
equally important. Let's keep up the good work!
- Raw text -