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| ============================================== | |
| 'gschem and Friends' Electronic Design Suite | |
| ============================================== | |
| Copyright (C) 1998-2020 gEDA Developers | |
| This file documents important user-visible changes in gEDA/gaf. For | |
| more information, please consult the `ChangeLog' file. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.10.2 | |
| ================================== | |
| * Re-added support for Guile 2.0 and some older library versions | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.10.1 | |
| ================================== | |
| * Migrated to Guile 2.2. | |
| * Duplicate symbols in a library are now only considered an error if | |
| one of the symbols has been referenced. | |
| * Fixed handling of packages and nets in multi-page subschematics. | |
| * gnetlist ignores the `--report-gui' option and falls back to console | |
| output if the Python GTK bindings are missing. | |
| * Added power symbols based on the newer netname= convention to the | |
| standard symbol library. | |
| * Moved visibility columns in the attribute editor to the left side. | |
| * When promoting an attribute manually in the attribute editor, the | |
| new attribute is now visible by default. | |
| * After pasting objects, the newly-pasted objects are selected. | |
| * Page size and orientation can be changed in the print dialog. | |
| * Removed the option `bus-ripper-rotation'; both symmetric and | |
| non-symmetric bus rippers are now placed correctly. | |
| * Fixed bugs: | |
| - lp-1878401 Geda* Will Not Compile On Fedora 32 | |
| - lp-1853617 incorrectly placing the component attribute on the printout | |
| - lp-1849621 Fix 'parentheses around assignment used as truth value' war... | |
| - lp-1848838 Some Guile tests fail in geda 1.10.0 | |
| - lp-1848837 geda 1.10.0 fails to build | |
| - lp-1783027 Install fails if INSTALL doesn't specify full path of insta... | |
| ...and several more which never made it to the bugtracker. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.10.0 | |
| ================================== | |
| General changes | |
| --------------- | |
| * Added the library "xornstorage" and the Python package "gaf" as a | |
| (currently quite minimal) way to access gEDA/gaf functionality from | |
| outside of gschem. These are on the long term intended to replace | |
| libgeda, making the core gEDA/gaf functionality available as a | |
| library to both gschem and other applications. | |
| * Added command-line tool `xorn' for low-level schematic and symbol | |
| file manipulation. | |
| * Added experimental XML file format (currently only supported by | |
| gnetlist and the `xorn' command line utility). | |
| * Objects colors are limited to 21 (up to and including FREESTYLE4). | |
| More recent colors added for GUI purposes can be set in colormaps | |
| but aren't automatically added to the file format specification. | |
| * The symbol directories "gnetman", "verilog", and "vhdl" are now | |
| installed to the new location PREFIX/share/gEDA/extra-sym/. This | |
| allows adding the default library with "component-library-search". | |
| * The directory to which gEDA programs write log transcripts can be | |
| changed by setting the environment variable `GEDALOG' (the default | |
| being ~/.gEDA/logs/). | |
| * All tests now use the parallel test harness, speeding up `make | |
| check' runs considerably when used with multiple jobs (-jN). | |
| * Fixed bugs: | |
| - lp-698501 gschem file preview function renders files twice | |
| - lp-698524 gnetlist ignores duplicate inout-symbols | |
| - lp-698768 No ordering requirement for attribute attach/detach | |
| - lp-701637 gschem "Scheme Interaction" window | |
| - lp-1266316 gschem exits on color value < 0 | |
| - lp-1367462 undo messes with the view even though undo panzoom is disabled | |
| - lp-1492834 These docked dialogs should remember their size | |
| - lp-1496899 gschem: dock window wishlist | |
| - lp-1497659 gnetlist -v -g spice-sdb generates bad verbose netlist | |
| - lp-1514209 gschem: multiattrib Value textview improvements | |
| - lp-1532794 Build fails on missing colors.h | |
| - lp-1576918 Memory and file handle leak in libgeda | |
| - lp-1590757 partlist3 yields wrong netlist in some cases | |
| - lp-1625474 xorn does not build on FreeBSD | |
| - lp-1661961 "format not a string literal and no format arguments" warning | |
| ...and a lot more which never made it to the bugtracker. | |
| gschem changes | |
| -------------- | |
| * Tool windows are now "dockable", i.e., they can be either used as | |
| modal/non-modal dialogs or docked to the edges of the main window. | |
| * The action mechanism used for menu items, tool buttons, and key | |
| bindings has been redesigned, making several improvements possbile: | |
| - Actions can now be used interchangeably in the main menu, toolbar, | |
| context menu, and keymap. They are defined in a single place | |
| ("actions.c" for C actions and "builtins.scm" for Guile actions), | |
| including metadata like name, icon, and tooltip. | |
| - Menu items and tool buttons representing options have a little | |
| check or radio box beside them indicating their current state. | |
| - Menu items and tool buttons are greyed out while they can't be | |
| used. | |
| - Toolbar and context menu are customizable. | |
| - Menu and toolbar definitions are simple Scheme variables, allowing | |
| users to add actions to the menu without having to copy the menu | |
| definition. Actions are represented in Scheme code as applicable | |
| SMOBs, allowing them to be called like procedures while retaining | |
| the action information necessary for rendering the menus/toolbar. | |
| - "Repeat Last Action" (usually bound to ".") uses the same logic as | |
| the middle mouse button repeat action does, i.e., only actions | |
| that "make sense" qualify for repeating. | |
| * The menus, toolbar, and keymap have been revamped to more closely | |
| resemble the "standards" for a desktop application. Some actions | |
| have been assigned more accessible or memorable keys. | |
| * Added a command-line option "--control-fd=stdin|FD" which allows | |
| remote-controlling gschem via a file descriptor. This is intended | |
| for project managers like Igor2's "genxproj". | |
| * File operations have been consolidated: opening, saving, closing a | |
| file and so on should now behave identical regardless of how the | |
| operation was initiated. Related improvements: | |
| - When opening multiple files, the first one (instead of the last | |
| one) is initially shown. | |
| - The symversion= mismatch dialog is shown whenever a symversion= | |
| mismatch is detected while opening a file, not just for files | |
| specified on the command line. | |
| - gschem now keeps track of which files are untitled, listing them | |
| as "untitled page" instead of assigning them a temporary filename. | |
| The Scheme procedure `page-filename' returns #f for untitled | |
| pages. | |
| - "Save all" used to produce spurious "untitled_1.sch" files. This | |
| was due to three issues working together, which have been fixed: | |
| - When gschem is invoked without specifying filenames on the | |
| command line, an untitled page is created. This page wasn't | |
| removed when opening files, staying invisibly in the background. | |
| - "Save all" didn't check which files needed saving but just | |
| unconditionally saved anything. | |
| - "Save all" didn't behave like the interactive "Save", asking for | |
| a filename for untitled pages, but just saved each page to its | |
| internally stored filename. | |
| - The file chooser dialog on "Open" and "Save As" is now always | |
| opened in the current directory. | |
| - When opening a file which is already open but has since been | |
| changed on disk, the user is asked whether to reload the file. | |
| - When the currently edited file has been modified on disk, a | |
| notification is shown offering the user to reload the file. | |
| - If the user enters a filename with an unusual extension while | |
| saving, a confirmation dialog is shown. | |
| - When trying to open a file or descend into a subschematic which | |
| doesn't exist, gschem now offers to create a new file with that | |
| name. | |
| * Some improvements have been made to the multi-attribute editor: | |
| - Editing a single attribute invokes the multi-attribute editor. | |
| - Trying to edit an inherited attribute edits the attached attribute | |
| with the same name if it exists, or promotes the attribute and | |
| edits its value if it doesn't exist yet. | |
| - Attributes are shown in the order in which they are listed in the | |
| configuration (via "attribute-name"). | |
| * Attaching and detaching attributes now work as expected: | |
| - "Attributes / Attach Attributes" used to depend on the order in | |
| which objects were selected, taking the first selected object as | |
| the base object to attach attributes to, regardless of its type. | |
| Now, the selected objects are searched for a base object of | |
| suitable type, and only if exactly one is found, the attributes | |
| are attached to it. | |
| - "Attributes / Detach Attributes" used to work on selected | |
| components and nets, detaching all attributes from these objects. | |
| It now works on the selected *attributes*, allowing the user to | |
| selectively detach specific attributes while leaving the rest | |
| attached. | |
| * "Lock Component" used to lock components as well as non-component | |
| objects, bringing the latter into an invalid state that would last | |
| until the next "Undo" (or until the page was saved and loaded back | |
| from file manually). | |
| This has been fixed: "Lock Component" and "Unlock Component" now | |
| only operate on components, changing the color of attached | |
| attributes as they used to do with any selected text. | |
| * The "Light Color Scheme" (V L) selected from the menu now has a | |
| truly white background. For compatibility, selecting the "lightbg" | |
| colormap in gschemrc loads the old, light-gray color scheme; the new | |
| color scheme can be selected as "whitebg". | |
| * The library window has been made fit to be used as a dock window: | |
| - When the dialog is resized to be taller than a certain aspect | |
| ratio, it switches automatically to a stacked layout where the | |
| preview and attribute panes are located below the symbol selector. | |
| - While in stacked layout, the bottom panes can be expanded and | |
| collapsed to give more room to the symbol selector. | |
| - The window is automatically refreshed on library updates. | |
| * Symbol editing has been improved: | |
| - The page can now be scrolled to negative coordinates, making it | |
| feasible to edit symbols without moving them away from the origin, | |
| then translating them back. This also allows to consciously | |
| choose something that makes sense for the symbol as the location | |
| of the origin. | |
| - The coordinate origin is now indicated with slightly darker grid | |
| lines. (This can be enabled/disabled via "View / Show Origin".) | |
| - The "Symbol Translate" action has been replaced with "Place | |
| Origin" which lets the user select the position of the origin | |
| interactively. | |
| * Added support for back-annotation from pcb-rnd. | |
| * Double-clicking a subschematic component enters the subschematic. | |
| * Right-clicking in path mode works as expected. | |
| * Pins are allowed to have zero length. | |
| * "File / Revert" only asks for confirmation if the file has been | |
| modified. | |
| * The "repeat" function of the middle mouse button now evaluates | |
| actions at the current mouse position. | |
| * Mouse gestures work properly again. | |
| * libstroke has been merged into gEDA/gaf. This removes the | |
| dependency on libstroke and makes mouse gestures always available. | |
| * Added new mouse gestures for page navigation: | |
| - swiping left goes to the previous, swiping right to the next page | |
| - swiping right and then down enters a subschmatic | |
| - swiping left and then down enters a symbol | |
| - swiping up and sideways (in any combination) goes back to the | |
| parent schematic | |
| * The coordinate dialog has been replaced with an option to display | |
| the coordinates in the status bar. | |
| * Added further menu items: | |
| - "Add / Last Component" (A C) | |
| - "Object / Toggle Text Overbar" (T O) | |
| - "View / Show Menubar" (V M) | |
| - "View / Show Toolbar" (V T) | |
| - "View / Show Scrollbars" (V S) | |
| - "Tools / Select Locked Objects" (T L) | |
| * Fixed various issues related to undo/redo: | |
| - The menu items "Edit / Undo" and "Edit / Redo" now show the name | |
| of the action that will be undone/redone. | |
| - The current viewport used to be restored on undo/redo regardless | |
| of the "undo-panzoom" setting (which prevents pan and zoom | |
| operations from being recorded in the undo history). This turned | |
| out to confuse users, so if the setting is enabled, undo/redo now | |
| doesn't change the viewport at all. | |
| - The default mode ("undo-panzoom" disabled) now works correctly. | |
| - After undoing the first action which changed a page, the page will | |
| be considered "unchanged" again. | |
| - Adding an attribute, changing the slot of a component, replacing | |
| the contents of a picture, and selecting "Pan" from the menu used | |
| not to be correctly un-doable. This has been fixed. | |
| - Selecting a picture to be added doesn't cause the page to be | |
| treated as changed any more. | |
| - "Object / Update Symbol" can't be undone with the current undo/ | |
| redo system, so it isn't listed as something that can be undone | |
| any more. | |
| - Several actions (attach/detach attribute, text actions, embed/ | |
| unembed, lock/unlock component, show/hide specific text) changed | |
| the undo history even in the case that they didn't have any | |
| effect. This has been fixed. | |
| - Several actions (attach/detach, embed/unembed) didn't update the | |
| "changed" flag correctly; this has been fixed. | |
| gnetlist changes | |
| ---------------- | |
| * Refactored gnetlist: | |
| - gnetlist is now part of the Python package "gaf" and uses the new | |
| libraries instead of libgeda to work with gEDA files. | |
| - Netlist backends can also be written in Python. | |
| - When reading broken schematics and/or symbols, gnetlist doesn't | |
| silently fail or produce bad output any more. Conversely, this | |
| means gnetlist has become more picky about input files: whenever | |
| it occurs something that is likely to result in bad output, it | |
| issues a warning or an error. | |
| - In case there should be any problems with the refactored codebase, | |
| the "old" gnetlist is still available as "gnetlist-legacy". | |
| * If gnetlist is invoked with the `pcbfwd' backend or the new option | |
| `--report-gui', errors and warnings are displayed in a GUI dialog | |
| instead of printing them to stderr. | |
| * There are new semantics for power and I/O port symbols: | |
| - Power symbols can now use a netname=NET instead of a net=NET:1 | |
| attribute. This allows using the attribute value as a visible | |
| label, removing the need for power symbols for individual rails. | |
| - I/O port symbols in subschematics can now use a portname=PORT | |
| instead of a refdes=PORT attribute to distinguish them from | |
| regular components. This allows checking that unconnected port | |
| symbols aren't silently included in the netlist as components. | |
| * Hierarchical schematics can now use a simple form of parametrization | |
| where the instantiating component contains an attribute of the form | |
| `param=NAME=VALUE' and some attribute value in the subschematic | |
| contains the pattern `$(NAME)', which will be replaced with `VALUE'. | |
| This only works with regular attribute lookup from netlist backends | |
| and won't affect special attributes like slot= or netname=, though. | |
| * The netlisting options "hierarchy-traversal", "net-naming-priority", | |
| "unnamed-netname", and "unnamed-busname" are once again configured | |
| via gnetlistrc, making them consistent with the refdes=, net=, and | |
| netname= mangling options. | |
| * Duplicate I/O ports in subschematics and duplicate I/O pins in | |
| subschematic symbols are now treated correctly. | |
| * Added a netlist backend for pcb-rnd's tEDAx format. | |
| * Added backends which dump the netlist in various generic formats | |
| (dumpindent, dumpjson, dumplihata, dumptext, dumpxml). | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.9.2.1p | |
| ==================================== | |
| * The gEDA/gaf source tarball no longer includes libintl. When | |
| building gEDA/gaf with internationalisation support, a GNU | |
| gettext-compatible libintl is now required. | |
| * A new Scheme API function, `log!`, has been added to the `(geda | |
| log)` module. It allows Scheme code to emit log messages in the | |
| same way that the tools' C code does. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.9.2 | |
| ================================= | |
| * Build system changes: | |
| - Guile 2.0 or newer is now required. | |
| - top-level control file allowing continuous integration using | |
| Travis CI has been added. | |
| * Nullor expansion has been fixed in the `spice' and `spice-sdb' | |
| backends. | |
| - Element name prefix "E_" has been substituted for "E-" to prevent | |
| errors output by some simulators (e.g. ngspice). | |
| - A default gain value has been added in the nullor expansion code. | |
| * Two obsolete scripts verilog2vhdl.sh and script.sed have been | |
| removed. | |
| * Undocumented and ambiguous feature of the `spice-sdb' backend for | |
| gnetlist consisting in the possibility of using the "value=" | |
| attribute instead of "file=" only for include blocks and only in | |
| embedding mode has been removed. | |
| * The following scripts and programs have been moved from the `utils' | |
| directory to a new `contrib' directory and are no longer installed | |
| by default: | |
| smash_megafile olib | |
| gmk_sym convert_sym | |
| sarlacc_schem sarlacc_sym | |
| pads_backannotate sw2asc | |
| gnet_hier_verilog.sh | |
| * `gpstoimage' has been removed from the distribution; equivalent | |
| functionality is provided by the `gaf' command. | |
| * `convert_sym.awk' has been removed from the distribution; equivalent | |
| functionality is provided by the `convert_sym' command. | |
| * gnetlist now supports output of netlists to the standard output. | |
| * New Scheme procedures and hooks have been added. Please see the | |
| "geda-scheme" info manual for more details. | |
| - `set-component-with-transform!' is a modified version of | |
| `set-component!', which applies all the specified transformations | |
| to a component and immediately updates it. | |
| - `auto-refdes-reset!' resets components' refdeses | |
| - `copy-objects-hook' is called whenever an object is copied, it can | |
| be used, for example, to reset component's refdes on copy. | |
| * The following gschem configuration items have been added: | |
| - `third-button-cancel' cancels draw actions by the third mouse | |
| button in mousepan mode. | |
| - `grid-mode' sets default grid mode. | |
| * Fixes/updates to the *BSD, Mac OS X, and MinGW builds. | |
| * Changes in the gschem UI event state machine: | |
| - New drawing modes apply immediately. | |
| - Indication of an action being in progress has been added. | |
| - Mirror action can now be used during an object placement. | |
| - Show/hide text function is now enabled during other actions. | |
| - RMB panning is now enabled during placing or drawing. | |
| * Some gschem dialog have been merged, made non-modal, and placed in | |
| sidebar: | |
| - Color, line, fill and pin type dialogs have been merged into one | |
| non-modal object properties dialog with widgets applying values | |
| immediately. | |
| - Text properties dialog. | |
| - Options to control the magnetic net mode and the net rubber band | |
| mode as well as grid mode and grid snap mode have been merged into | |
| one options dialog. | |
| * The following dialogs/windows have been converted into an info bar | |
| and are now placed in bottom notebook: | |
| - Log (status) window. | |
| - Find text dialog. | |
| * The following dialogs are now popup & docked the same way as the | |
| execute script dialog: | |
| - Show and hide text dialogs. | |
| - Translate dialog. | |
| * Other gschem GUI changes: | |
| - Hotkeys and menu items to show/hide the sidebar and status window | |
| have been added. | |
| - Swatch for fill types has been added. | |
| - Slot edit dialog now displays number of slots. | |
| - Library folder structure in gschem is now displayed as tree. | |
| - Indication of page change has been added in gschem main window's | |
| title. | |
| * Improved find text functionality: | |
| - When searching for text, gschem now descends all files specified | |
| in the comma separated list of the source attribute. | |
| - There is now a widget that lists all occurences of the text | |
| objects that contain the search string. | |
| - The find text operation does not switch the current schematic in | |
| the view or interfere with the most recent page up. | |
| - The find text operation also searches all open pages instead of | |
| the current one. | |
| - The behavior of the find text operation works with multiple | |
| toplevel windows open while running concurrent find text | |
| operations. | |
| - The find text operation can now use either a substring, pattern, | |
| or regex. The pattern style uses * and ?. The regex uses glib, | |
| which adheres to perl compatible regular expressions. | |
| * Several symbols have been fixed/improved. | |
| * gschemdoc has been enhanced to search in the user documentation | |
| directory. | |
| * Several translations have been added/updated. | |
| * Man pages for gsymcheck and gschlas have been updated. | |
| * Switches --help and -h have been added for most of gEDA utilities. | |
| * Fixed the following bugs: | |
| - 900122: Gschem crashes on ctrl-x. | |
| - 1258834: spice-sdb crashes on non-existing files. | |
| - 1463178: Gsch2pcb crashes when using `m4-pcbdir' option. | |
| - 1478760: Gschem segmentation fault during find text. | |
| - Gschem crashes on pressing the third mouse button. | |
| - SVG output bug in `gaf export'. | |
| - Several other bugs. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.9.1 | |
| ================================= | |
| * Unbalanced overbar markers are now rendered correctly. | |
| * Most tools now no longer set the GEDADATA or GEDADATARC environment | |
| variables (they still obey them though). | |
| * `gschem' now provides a path drawing tool, accessed using <A H> or | |
| the "Add Path" menu item. | |
| - Add a cusp node by left-clicking. | |
| - Add a Bezier curve node by left-dragging from the node point to | |
| the control point. | |
| - End the path by clicking on the same node point twice, or clicking | |
| on the start node to close the path. | |
| * On desktops that reparent menu bars (e.g. Ubuntu Unity) it is once | |
| again possible to paste the clipboard using the menus. | |
| * A number of `gschem' editing behaviour changes were made: | |
| - Double-clicking on an entry in the "In Use" tab of the component | |
| selector now behaves the same way as double-clicking in the | |
| "Libraries" tab. | |
| - When new attributes are attached to a net, they are placed at a 50 | |
| unit offset. | |
| - The text color is now used as the default color for `pinlabel=' | |
| attributes. | |
| - Pin attributes are no longer automatically replaced when rotating | |
| or mirroring pins. | |
| - It is possible to edit a text object even when other non-text | |
| objects are selected. | |
| - Control grips are now always drawn at the same on-screen size. | |
| * The multi-attribute editor dialog in `gschem' has been extended to | |
| support more cases: | |
| - It now supports editing attributes of multiple selected | |
| objects. These are aggregated into the dialog's attribute list. | |
| Multiple attributes with the same name attached to any given | |
| object are still shown in separate rows, but identically named | |
| attributes from multiple selected objects will share a row. If a | |
| row has differing values between objects, its value shows the text | |
| "<various>" in a muted colour. | |
| - Where an attribute is present in some, but not all selected | |
| objects its name in the list is shown in red. A new popup menu | |
| option allows copying such attributes to all selected objects. | |
| - If no complex, placeholder, pin, net or bus objects are selected, | |
| the dialog now falls back to editing any selected attribute text. | |
| This allows editing of unattached or floating attributes in | |
| symbols, or any attributes seleccted independantly of their owning | |
| object. In this fallback mode, all attributes with the same name | |
| shown in separate rows, and the "add attribute" functionality is | |
| disabled. | |
| * `gschem' has new icons for many editing commands. | |
| * Several bugs were fixed in `gnetlist': | |
| - Invalid attributes are ignored. | |
| - Correct detection of graphical symbols. | |
| - Components with no `refdes=' attribute are reported. | |
| - Crash fixes for `drc' and `switcap' backends. | |
| * `gaf export' now accepts a `--scale' option. | |
| * The `--size', `--margins' and `--align' options to `gaf export' can | |
| now accept their multiple arguments separated with a space ` ', a | |
| colon `:' or a semicolon `;'. | |
| * `gaf config' now handles the `-p' option properly. | |
| * `gnetlist', `gsymcheck' and `gaf' now output internationalised | |
| messages. | |
| * New Scheme procedures were added. Please see the "geda-scheme" info | |
| manual for more details. | |
| - The (gschem action) module contains procedures for working with | |
| user editing actions (i.e. commands accessed via the menus or | |
| keybindings). | |
| - Two new hooks were added: `bind-keys-hook' is called whenever | |
| keymap bindings are changed; `action-property-hook' is called when | |
| action properties are changed. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.9.0 | |
| ================================= | |
| * A new schematic renderer library, `libgedacairo' has been added, and | |
| all tools have been updated to use it. Related changes: | |
| - The following configuration functions have been removed: | |
| output-capstyle paper-sizes | |
| output-color postscript-prolog | |
| output-orientation print-command | |
| output-type setpagedevice-orientation | |
| paper-size setpagedevice-pagesize | |
| - The following `gschem' configuration items have been added: | |
| print-paper print-color | |
| print-orientation | |
| - `gschem' now generates PDF files rather than PostScript or EPS | |
| files. | |
| - `gschem' now uses a standard GTK print dialog (with printer | |
| selection, print preview, etc.) | |
| * A new `gaf' command-line utility has been added. It provides a | |
| number of subcommands: | |
| - `gaf export' can be used to convert schematic files to PNG, SVG, | |
| PDF, PS and EPS, with detailed control of paper size and margins. | |
| It supports multi-page PDF and PS output. | |
| - `gaf config' can be used to manipulate the project, user, and | |
| system configuration stores (see below). | |
| - `gaf shell' provides a Scheme REPL for batch manipulation of | |
| schematic and symbol files. | |
| * New project, user and system configuration stores have been added, | |
| using a format similar to .desktop files. They can be manipulated | |
| using the `gaf config' tool. Configuration parameters for most | |
| tools will be converted to use this mechanism in future releases. | |
| * The changes to highlighting of dangling net ends in gEDA/gaf 1.8.0 | |
| have been reverted. All dangling ends are once again flagged with a | |
| brightly-coloured square. | |
| * When editing a component with the `gschem' multi-attribute editor, | |
| the dialog will now show the symbol name in its title. | |
| * When using "Down Schematic" command in `gschem', an error message | |
| will now be displayed if the subcircuit schematic cannot be loaded. | |
| * Printing now uses a light background color map by default. | |
| * Objects can now have the line end "cap style" adjusted in `gschem'. | |
| * `gnetlist' now accepts the `-i' and `-g' command-line arguments | |
| together. If you specify both `-i' and `-g', `gnetlist' will enter | |
| the Scheme REPL after loading the requested backend but before | |
| executing it. | |
| * `gattrib' now has translations for the user interface and various | |
| messages. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.8.2 | |
| ================================= | |
| Bugfix release. | |
| * [994361] Fixed a libgeda crash bug involving nets inside symbols. | |
| * [1226246] Fixed a gnetlist data corruption bug when using refdes | |
| containing the string "POWER". | |
| * Updates to build system to allow compilation from git on systems | |
| with Automake >= 1.13.0. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.8.1 | |
| ================================= | |
| Bugfix release with correct dynamic version information for libgeda. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.8.0 | |
| ================================= | |
| * `gschem' and `gnetlist' have updated and rewritten user guides. | |
| * All tools now give more informative error messages if they are | |
| unable to load schematic or symbol files due to syntax errors. | |
| * All tools now correctly handle schematic and symbol files with `\r', | |
| `\n', or `\r\n` line endings, or a mixture. | |
| * Unconnected pin ends and net ends are now all drawn with the same | |
| box marker in `gschem' and printed output. | |
| * Net segments with at least two connections (including indirect | |
| connections via `netname=' attributes) are now drawn with arrowheads | |
| rather than box markers on dangling ends in `gschem' and printed | |
| output. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.7.2 | |
| ================================= | |
| * `geda-gaf' now requires GTK+ 2.16.0 or later. | |
| * 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' keybinding improvements: | |
| - Keybindings are now unaffected by Caps Lock. | |
| - Keystrokes are displayed using the same characters as on keycaps | |
| (e.g. `:' instead of `colon'). | |
| - Keystrokes may use extended modifiers (Super, Hyper and Meta). | |
| - Key bindings can be modified in any rc file or interactively using | |
| the `global-set-key' function. See notes in `system-gschemrc' for | |
| examples. | |
| * `gschem' now displays help files and component documentation on all | |
| platforms, including Windows. The `locate' tool is no longer used | |
| to search for component documentation files. | |
| * The `schdiff' tool for generating visual diffs of schematics and | |
| symbols has been added. It can be used with most version control | |
| systems. See `man schdiff' for more details. | |
| * The `bom' and `bom2' backends to `gnetlist' now give error messages | |
| if no attribute file can be found. The `-O attrib_file=FILE' and | |
| `-O attribs=ATTRIB,ATTRIB...' options have also been added. | |
| * A new `ewnet' backend has been added to `gnetlist'. This outputs | |
| netlists for use with the National Instruments ULTIboard layout | |
| tool. | |
| * The `verilog' backend to `gnetlist' now supports concatenated net | |
| naming like "{a,b,c[3:0]}". | |
| * `gsch2pcb' no longer supports the `m4_command' parameter in project | |
| files. | |
| * The `--m4-pcbdir' and `--m4-file' arguments to `gsch2pcb' now work | |
| again. | |
| * `gsymfix.pl' has been renamed to `gsymfix'. | |
| * Man pages are now available for all programs installed as part of | |
| gEDA/gaf. | |
| * The undocumented programs `gnet_hier_verilog', `gsymupdate', `gschupdate' | |
| and `sch2eaglepos.sh' are no longer installed to ${prefix}/bin. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.7.1 | |
| ================================= | |
| * gEDA is now compatible with Guile 2.0. | |
| * gEDA/gaf applications no longer complain when trying to load an rc | |
| file twice, or when an rc file doesn't exist. | |
| * `gschem' allows objects to be moved by dragging without having to | |
| select them first. | |
| * `gschem' now supports keybindings with more than one modifier key, | |
| and "Deselect" is bound to <Control Shift A> by default. | |
| * `gnetlist' correctly handles multiple renames of the same net. This | |
| resolves some long-standing bugs with multipage schematics. | |
| * The `spice-sdb' backend for `gnetlist' now has built-in support for | |
| `SUBCKT_NMOS' and `SUBCKT_PMOS' devices. | |
| * A new `makedepend' backend has been added to `gnetlist'. It | |
| generates Makefile code for SPICE simulation dependencies. | |
| * Visibility of embedded component attributes are now preserved by | |
| `gattrib'. | |
| * `gsch2pcb' correctly handles footprint names with hyphens (`-'). | |
| * `gsch2pcb' project files support quoting and escaping in | |
| `schematics' entries. | |
| * Considerable enhancements to Unicode support when printing | |
| schematics or exporting PostScript. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.7.0 | |
| ================================= | |
| * All gEDA/gaf applications now handle configuration files much more | |
| strictly, and provide much more useful feedback when an error | |
| occurs. | |
| * Several changes to `gschem' command-line options: | |
| - The `-t' option is no longer supported. | |
| - Several command-line options now support a long-form alternative. | |
| - The `-s' option can now be used to run multiple Scheme scripts | |
| during `gschem' startup. | |
| - A new `-c' option is available, which runs a Scheme expression | |
| during `gschem' startup. | |
| - A new `-L' option is available, which adds a directory to the | |
| Scheme load path. | |
| - A new `-V' or `--version' option is available, which displays | |
| version information. | |
| * `gschem' now provides a "Select All" function, which is bound to | |
| <Control a> by default, along with a corresponding "Deselect" | |
| function. | |
| * In the `gschem' "Add component" dialog, filtering the component | |
| library will expand matching libraries. If the filter is cancelled, | |
| all libraries are collapsed. Components can now be selected by | |
| double-clicking on them in the component list. | |
| * The `gschem' "Edit Text Properties" dialog now has an easier to use | |
| "Alignment" menu. | |
| * Printed text size now better matches on-screen text size in | |
| `gschem'. | |
| * Special characters, including commas, are now escaped or quoted | |
| appropriately in `gattrib' CSV output. | |
| * Several changes to `gnetlist' command-line options: | |
| - Four command-line options specific to the `spice-sdb' backend have | |
| been removed. They can be replaced with `-O <option>' according | |
| to the following table: | |
| -e, --embedd -O embedd_mode | |
| -I, --include -O include_mode | |
| -n, --nomunge -O nomunge_mode | |
| -s, --sort -O sort_mode | |
| - The list of available backends is now obtained using a new | |
| `--list-backends' option. `-g help' no longer outputs a list of | |
| backends. | |
| - A new `-L' option is available, which adds a directory to the | |
| Scheme load path. | |
| - A new `-V' or `--version' option is available, which displays | |
| version information. | |
| - When run with invalid command-line arguments, `gnetlist' now exits | |
| with non-zero exit status. | |
| * Several `gnetlist' backends have now been fixed so that it should no | |
| longer be necessary to set an expanded Guile stack in gEDA's config | |
| files. | |
| * The `spice-sdb' backend for `gnetlist' now supports probes | |
| (`TESTPOINT' devices). | |
| * The undocumented `mk_verilog_syms' program is no longer installed. | |
| The symbols it creates are still installed to | |
| `${prefix}/share/gEDA/sym/verilog'. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.6.2 | |
| ================================= | |
| * PNG export from `gschem' will now be cropped correctly. | |
| * The `partlist' backends for `gnetlist' now handle hierarchical | |
| refdes correctly. | |
| * On Windows, `gschem' and `gattrib' will no longer launch with a | |
| command window visible. | |
| * `gnetlist-arg' is no longer valid in `gsch2pcb' project files. | |
| Several other bugs were fixed, including a major crash bug in | |
| gnetlist. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.6.1 | |
| ================================= | |
| * Added accelerator mnemonics for root menus in gschem | |
| * Lots of updated and new language translations in libgeda, gschem, and | |
| gattrib. (Courtesy of language translators and Launchpad) | |
| * Updated the shipped documentation from the official gEDA wiki | |
| * Fixed the following bugs: | |
| - 2876373: Fix rendering with zoomed out dashed lines | |
| - 2901183: Fix for some manpage issues | |
| - 2904715: Don't update page connectivity from o_place_rotate() | |
| - 2949232: Fix slot editing routines to not edit inherited attributes | |
| - Cherry picked some other bug fixes from master that should be in | |
| this release | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.6.0 | |
| ================================= | |
| * Fixed the GtkItemEntry code inside of gattrib code so that it builds | |
| using gtk+ > 2.16.x. | |
| * In gschem, rubberband pin to pin connections by adding nets. | |
| * Cleanup of the slot handling code in libgeda. | |
| * Fixes/updates to the MinGW port. | |
| * Updated the shipped documentation from the online wiki. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.5.3/1.5.4 | |
| ======================================= | |
| * NOTE: gEDA/gaf 1.5.3 was released with some critical bugs, so | |
| it was withdrawn before it was widely distributed. | |
| * Text rendering using native system fonts: | |
| - The various programs in gEDA/gaf no longer uses its own built-in | |
| line font. | |
| - Native system fonts are used for rendering, giving support for a | |
| wider range of symbols, and better looking schematics. | |
| * Always use PostScript fonts in gschem's PostScript output. The | |
| "output-text", "text-output" and "output-vector-threshold" config | |
| functions have been removed. | |
| * Image rendering in 'gschem' uses cairo instead of GDK. | |
| * Numerous build system changes: | |
| - gEDA/gaf is now distributed as a single source archive, called | |
| gEDA-<version>.tar.gz. | |
| - GTK+ 2.10 or newer and Guile 1.8 or newer are now required. | |
| - `intltool' is no longer required. | |
| - Documentation is now installed to ${docdir} (usually | |
| ${prefix}/share/doc/gEDA). | |
| * The attribute edit dialog in `gschem' now has completion of most | |
| common attribute names. | |
| * The multi-attribute edit dialog in `gschem' now shows unpromoted | |
| symbol attributes. | |
| * Menu items in `gschem' now have icons and properly aligned key | |
| bindings. They also support accelerator keys. | |
| * The `gschem2pcb' and `PCBboard' netlist backends have been removed. | |
| It is recommended to use `gsch2pcb' instead. | |
| * Check for and reject non-footprint PCB files in 'gsch2pcb'. | |
| * Removed unimplemented "File->Open" feature in 'gattrib'. | |
| * Added --disable-gattrib command line flag to ./configure to disable the | |
| building of 'gattrib'. This is useful if you are building against | |
| gtk+ 2.17.x which breaks 'gattrib'. | |
| * 'gnetlist' does not recommend drc2 every time it runs. The drc2 | |
| backend is only useful in certain circumstances. | |
| * Assign shortcuts "vd" and "vl" for changing between color schemes | |
| in 'gschem'. | |
| * Fix problem with attached net attribute not being honored in 'gnetlist'. | |
| * Focus the "save" button in the close confirmation dialog in 'gattrib' and | |
| 'gschem'. | |
| * Accept empty attributes in the src file in 'tragesym'. | |
| * Cleaned up the slot dialog box in 'gschem'. | |
| * Changed the grip size rendering in 'gschem' to be reasonably sized when | |
| zoomed in a lot. | |
| * Introduction of a new attribute searching API in 'libgeda' and 'gschem'. | |
| * Improvements and cleanup to the 'gnetlist' and 'gsymcheck' test suites. | |
| * Fixed the following bugs: | |
| - 1758673: Combine source tarballs | |
| - 2058707: gschem, gattrib: Dangerous button focus in "Save changes" | |
| dialog at quit | |
| - 2430369: gschem: Deselect invisible attribs with their parent object. | |
| - 2449060: Graphic state left inconsistent cancelling from net mode | |
| - 2460301: libgeda: Make o_complex_promote_attribs() respect keep_invisible | |
| and libgeda: Make o_complex_copy() actually copy. | |
| - 2455061: Gnetlist output changed, and tests fail with recent GLib | |
| - 2655088: autogen.sh: Make sure to exit if autopoint fails. | |
| - 2823703: gnet-pcbpins.scm: Quote pins names if they contain comma | |
| or close parenthesis. | |
| - 2823755: gnetlist: Fix DEBUG builds. | |
| - 2836109: build-sys: Add check for groff html driver. | |
| * Spanish translation were updated. | |
| * Lots of code, infrastructure, and doxygen documentation cleanup and | |
| refactoring. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.5.2 | |
| ================================= | |
| * `gschem' now uses Cairo for all rendering. This allows for | |
| everything to be rendered anti-aliased. | |
| * `gschem' now uses a mesh grid instead of dots by default. | |
| * Net junction cues in `gschem' are drawn smaller now. | |
| * Copy and paste now works between different `gschem' instances (using | |
| the X selection). | |
| * Recent files are no longer opened in a new `gschem' window. | |
| * Major, *backwards-incompatible* changes to color handling in | |
| `libgeda' and `gschem'. | |
| - All colors are specified using hexadecimal `#RRGGBB' or | |
| `#RRGGBBAA' syntax. | |
| - The print and display color maps are now separate. | |
| - A new Scheme syntax is used to inspect and modify color maps. | |
| - If you wish to use a light background in `gschem', add the line: | |
| (load (build-path geda-rc-path "gschem-colormap-lightbg")) | |
| to your personal or project gschemrc file. | |
| * Attributes of embedded objects are now shown in the right color. | |
| * Bus pins are now supported by `gschem' and `libgeda', but are *not* | |
| properly supported by the netlister. The pin type can be modified | |
| by selecting a pin, then right-clicking it and selecting `Edit pin | |
| type...'. | |
| * All of the symbols were modified to use overbar markup tags ("like | |
| \_this\_") instead of separate lines. | |
| * Log files are now saved to $HOME/.gEDA/logs rather than being | |
| dropped in the current directory. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.5.1 | |
| ================================= | |
| * GTK+ version 2.8.x or later is now required. | |
| * The selection behaviour in `gschem' was changed. | |
| - Lines, unfilled boxes, unfilled circles, arcs, pins, nets, and | |
| buses must be selected by clicking on the drawn path itself. | |
| - Filled boxes, circles, text, and components, may be selected by | |
| clicking anywhere in the bounding box. | |
| - The default mouse click distance required to select an element was | |
| increased to 10 pixels. | |
| - Double-clicking on a net segment selects all connected net | |
| segments. | |
| * The percentage step in or out while zooming the display in `gschem' | |
| is now configurable with the `zoom-gain' gschemrc parameter. The | |
| default value is 20%. | |
| * The size of steps when panning with the mouse wheel or with a | |
| trackpad in `gschem' is now adjustable with the `scrollpan-steps' | |
| gschemrc parameter. The default setting scrolls in steps of 1/8 of | |
| a screen. | |
| * A number of improvements were made to the `gschem' component | |
| selection dialog. | |
| - The dialog now shows a table of top-level attributes in the | |
| selected symbol. | |
| - It is now possible to expand/collapse a library by clicking | |
| anywhere on its row. | |
| * Changes to fill- and line-styles in `gschem' can now be undone. | |
| * Arcs can now be adjusted in `gschem' using an arc angle dialog. It | |
| can be accessed by selecting an arc and selecting Edit->Edit. | |
| * It is now possible to rotate objects while placing them in `gschem'. | |
| * Support for arbitrary filled and unfilled paths, using a subset of | |
| the SVG path syntax. For more information, please see the file | |
| format specification. | |
| <http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:file_format_spec> | |
| - `gschem' does not yet provide a GUI for creating or editing path | |
| elements. However, it does support rendering them. They can also | |
| be printed. | |
| - Some of the symbols in the component library were updated to use | |
| paths. | |
| * A Scheme evaluation prompt was added to `gschem'. It can be | |
| accessed by typing `:'. | |
| * Improved algorithm for drawing hatched fills both on screen and in | |
| PostScript output. | |
| * Color selection dialogs and menus in `gschem' now show the actual | |
| color as well as the description. Color names are now translatable. | |
| * `gattrib' now prompts to save changes. | |
| * All of the unimplemented menu items and pages in `gattrib' were | |
| removed. | |
| * The `always-promote-attributes' gafrc parameter now takes a list of | |
| strings as an argument. The space-delimited string syntax is | |
| deprecated. | |
| * Some optimisations were made to the `gnetlist' connection traversal | |
| algorithm to speed up netlisting large designs. | |
| * A new netlist backend was added to support Liquid PCB. | |
| <http://www.liquidpcb.org/> | |
| * The `bom2' netlist backend now generates a `qty' column. | |
| * Several improvements and fixes were made to the `systemc' backend. | |
| * The `--gnetlist-arg' option to gsch2pcb can now be used to pass | |
| extra `gnetlist' arguments. | |
| * `gsch2pcb' now emits files with the latest `pcb' file format. | |
| * The `gxyrs' pick-and-place tool was added. | |
| Notable changes in gEDA/gaf 1.5.0 | |
| ================================= | |
| * Magnetic net mode in `gschem'. Magnetic mode lets you draw nets and | |
| automatically connect to valid end points (such as pins and other | |
| nets). The `magnetic-net-mode' gschemrc parameter can be used to | |
| enable/disable this feature. | |
| * Rotating a component while moving it in `gschem' now rotates around | |
| the current mouse location. | |
| * The `verilog' and `vhdl' backends now work again. | |
| * Embedded components can now be mirrored. | |
| * The `pads' netlist backend now uses CRLF line endings. | |
| Older versions | |
| ============== | |
| Release notes for older versions of gEDA/gaf are available on the gEDA | |
| website. <http://www.gpleda.org/news/index.html> | |
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