v1.4.0 release

New features

• the show/hide references dialog now allows the application of the effects only on selected items (3a418b0)
• tabs can be created for discontinuous substrates (072bb84
• we now fully support custom DRC rules (f3ec40f)
  • this also means that
• holes and fiducials have unique references, so they can be used on the PnP machine for alignment as they can be part of the POS export (d6b7294, cfe7fa1)
• export for Neoden YY1 was added (63301c2)

Bug fixes

• Fixed KICAD 7 compatibility:
  • adapted to new library format names in KiCAD 7 (46d4fcb)
  • improper usage of VECTOR2I (ffc6b19)
  • we added workarounds for KiCAD known bugs: (89895e7, 935eae8, 508cc19)
  • net classes support was fixed (119665a)
• Fixed invalid links to documentation
• Fixed improper dependency specification (14bc406)
• We enforce UTF-8 encoding when manually parsing files as Windows assumes Win1250 by default (e94d1cf, 58ef313)

How to upgrade

Simply update the Python package. There is no need to update the PCM package.

Final remarks

I would like to thank all my GitHub Sponsors and NLnet for their financial support. I would also like to thank all contributors who submitted a PR and everyone who tested KiKit and provided me with steps to reproduce.

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