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Subject: [geda-user] [pcb-rnd] Release 1.2.1
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Hi all,

after 2 months of hard work of a constantly growing group of developers 
and users, I'm proud to announce the release of pcb-rnd version 1.2.1.

Project page: http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/

Downloads: http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/releases/

SVN: svn://repo.hu/pcb-rnd/trunk

Contact: please send your bug reports, comments, complaints, "you ruin 
everyones life with forks" to: our mailing list, our IRC channel (#pcb-rnd 
on server repo.hu), to this mailing list or directly to me in email.


The project is open. Feel free to join the fun in any role, even if you 
have only a few minutes per week to spend.


Release notes:

pcb-rnd 1.2.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

With a new peak in number of developers and contributors, version 1.2.1
introduces a large amount of bug fixes, cleanups and new features that
can be sorted in the following main groups.

1. Layer model rewrite; pcb-rnd now has a clear separation of physical
layer and logical layer concepts. There's new, board cross-section GUI
to visualize and manipulate the layer stack.

2. The hid_gtk refactoring; big, monolithic code blocks are split up in
smaller, more independent, lib-like modules and are moved to a lib plugin.
This paves the road for a modular setup to support multiple graphic
renderings and maybe even different gtk versions.

3. Automated testing and validation: a new infrastructure for automated 
testing of exporters is added. The reference PNG files are manually 
validated against the input PCB geometry - by now, we know exactly how 
much error the PNG rendering has.

4. UI fixes: better rubber band, xor-outline-while-moving and DRC outline 
visualization support.

5. Introducing the "EDA ecosystem" idea: real working import/export 
bridges or flows to fidocadj, freerouting.net, ltspice, mucs and TinyCAD. 
Major improvements in the KiCad file format compatibility.

6. The toporouter got removed in favor of the new routers for now.

Best regards,

Igor2

P.S. I'm grateful to all our developers, contributors, users; I decided 
not to try to list them: some explicitly stated they wanted to remain in 
the shadow; and I really don't want to risk missing anyone from a list. 
We've had a real crowded, real exciting and real thick 2 months with 
something happening continously, almost 24/7. Thank you all, even if you 
think you did only a small contribution - it all adds up, and it's all 
equally important. Let's keep up the good work!