0.6.0

[eeintech]

MAJOR RELEASE

New features

• Supplier/manufacturer alternates
  • On main GUI window, added an option for adding supplier and/or manufacturer alternate to an InvenTree part
  • When this option is enabled, the part creation flow is simplified to adding the supplier/manufacturer data to an already exisiting InvenTree part using its ID or IPN field
  • This option only works with InvenTree parts as the concept of supplier/manufacturer alternates does not exists (yet) in KiCad
• Manufacturer name match
  • Some suppliers use slightly different names for the same manufacturer
  • Added a method to ratio compare with existing manufacturers in the database and find potential match
  • If match is found, use it. This avoids creating duplicate of the same manufacturer.

Major Maintenance

• SnapEDA API moved from Heroku to my own hosting service
  • SnapEDA API requires token which cannot be exposed publicly therefore a proxy is needed for SnapEDA API requests
  • Heroku dropped the free option and was running an instance of API proxy server which now archived, therefore I have made my own proxy server and run it on snapeda.eeinte.ch
  • SnapEDA search API was updated to use the new URL, eg. transparent change change to Ki-nTree users
• Updated README, fixes [Bug] Crash during invenTree part creation, only halfway created parts #97
• Updated Python version support to 3.9+ to match InvenTree's own Python version requirements
• Updated dependencies
• Slightly improved test coverage