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Subject: Re: [geda-user] [ANNOUNCE] geda-gaf 1.8.0 released
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Thanks!


It looks great!

However, the about dialogue says this:

Copyright © 1998-2011 Ales Hvezda <ahvezda AT geda DOT seul DOT org>
Copyright © 1998-2011 gEDA Contributors (see ChangeLog for details)

Is the year 2011 writing is intentional?

On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:00:40 +0000
Peter TB Brett <peter AT peter-b DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

> 
> We are pleased to announce a new stable release of the 'gschem and
> Friends' Electronic Design Suite, part of the GPL Electronic Design
> Automation project.  The gEDA/gaf suite (this package) provides
> schematic capture, netlisting, bill of materials generation, and many
> other features.
> 
> gEDA/gaf version 1.8.0 contains many important enhancements and bug
> fixes, and we encourage distributions to pick up the new version as
> soon as possible.
> 
> Download
> ========
> 
> Source code:
> ftp://ftp.geda-project.org/geda-gaf/stable/v1.8/1.8.0/geda-gaf-1.8.0.tar.gz
> 
> Checksum:
> ftp://ftp.geda-project.org/geda-gaf/stable/v1.8/1.8.0/geda-gaf-1.8.0.md5sum
> 
> README:
> ftp://ftp.geda-project.org/geda-gaf/stable/v1.8/1.8.0/geda-gaf-1.8.0-README.txt
> 
> NEWS (release notes):
> ftp://ftp.geda-project.org/geda-gaf/stable/v1.8/1.8.0/geda-gaf-1.8.0-NEWS.txt
> 
> Release Highlights
> ==================
> 
> * gEDA is now compatible with Guile 2.x (recommended).
> 
> * A greatly expanded Scheme API has been added to gEDA/gaf for use by
>   extension authors.  See the `geda-scheme' Info manual for more
>   details.  Existing extensions may need to be modified to load the
>   `(geda deprecated)' or `(gschem deprecated)' modules.
> 
> * The `component-library-search' function for `gafrc' files now skips
>   directories without symbols, and searches for libraries recursively.
> 
> * `gschem' supports keybindings with more than one modifier key.
>   Keystrokes may use extended modifiers (Super, Hyper and Meta), and
> key bindings can be modified in any rc file or interactively using the
>   `global-set-key' function.
> 
> * `gschem' now displays help files and component documentation on all
>   platforms, including Windows. 
> 
> * `gsch2pcb' correctly handles footprint names containing hyphens
> (`-').
> 
> * Greatly improved error reporting in almost all tools, including
>   improved detection of syntax errors in schematic files and
>   configuration problems.
> 
> Reporting bugs
> ==============
> 
> If you have found a bug, please report it to
> <http://bugs.launchpad.net/geda>.


-- 
Levente Kovacs
CTO, CSO
http://levente.logonex.eu