pcb pcb-4.2.0
New feature release focusing on improvements to the DRC.
Milestone information
- Project:
- pcb
- Series:
- trunk
- Version:
- pcb-4.2.0
- Released:
- Registrant:
- Bert Timmerman
- Release registered:
- Active:
- No. Drivers cannot target bugs and blueprints to this milestone.
Activities
- Assigned to you:
- No blueprints or bugs assigned to you.
- Assignees:
- 3 Bert Timmerman, 13 Chad Parker, 1 Rob Gilton
- Blueprints:
- No blueprints are targeted to this milestone.
- Bugs:
- 18 Fix Released
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Release notes
Release notes for pcb-4.2.0
Dear Users,
This release introduces a file format change.
This is required by the improved routing style feature.
Kind regards,
The pcb development team.
Contributors
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The following authors contributed to this release:
- Charles Parker
- Rob Spanton
- Peter Clifton
- DJ Delorie
- Bert Timmerman
Please note that names are in no particular order and all e-mail
addresses have been removed for privacy.
User experience improvements
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- Improved routing styles.
- Improved DRC testing.
Plugins
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- none
Exporters
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- Footprint attributes can now be added to the Bill of Materials [BOM]
in a similar way as with gschem by defining attributes in a input
file.
- XY output for Pick-and-Place now has proper values for non mm and mil
units.
Footprints library
------------------
- none
Developer experience improvements
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- Batch has become the default UI (non-GUI) for 'make distcheck' in
order to run regression tests without a GUI being in the way.
- Added regression tests.
Notes for packagers
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- For building packages with a GTK UI or a Lesstif UI, configure with
the --with-gui=gtk or --with-gui=lesstif option (as usual).
Changed dependencies
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- none.
Changelog
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