1.2.0

• The panel in 19 languages, and hand-routed tracks that follow the lab's 45° rules
• Languages: pick the panel's language from 19 (English, Türkçe, 简体中文, 繁體中文, Deutsch, Français, Español, Português, Italiano, Polski, Русский, Українська, العربية, فارسی, हिन्दी, 日本語, 한국어, Tiếng Việt, Bahasa Indonesia). Claude answers in the same language; Arabic and Persian lay the panel out right to left.
• Fewer tokens in old chats: a chat reopened later, or a very long one, no longer sends the whole conversation again with every message. Claude starts from your last three prompts and the project, and reads the earlier chat only if it needs to.
• Hand routing at 45°: tracks run at 0°, 45° and 90° with 45° corners, leave pads straight along their axis, and same-net neighbours connect directly. Arcs are fine, and preferred on high-speed lines.
• check_routing: lists slanted pieces, sharp corners, kinks, detours, off-centre pad entries and solid GND pours, which DRC lets through. The reviews run it.
• Lab rules in Board Setup: the lab design rules now reach KiCad's Board Setup (constraints, net classes, solder mask), not only DRC. Signals default to 0.15 mm; GND pours always use thermal reliefs.
• Zones can be edited and deleted (#79); vias can be any size (add_via takes size and drill).
• Board items in an area can be listed without a schematic (#80), and close-up board views take more ways of giving the area and say what's wrong with a bad one (#81).
• Design review: picks the handbook's rules one by one instead of skipping whole sections (#83).
• Calmer steps: Claude's own small slips (an edit before reading the file, a search pattern it then fixes) show as a grey mark, not a red error (#74, #78).
• Installed tools protected: Claude can no longer edit or rebuild the assistant's own KiCad tools (#73).
• PowerLab router: switched off for now; Claude routes by hand until it has had more testing.
• Update from the panel, or pull, close KiCad and run install.ps1 -Update.

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