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Subject: [geda-user] [pcb-rnd] release: 2.0.0
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Hi all,

We've just released pcb-rnd 2.0.0. Thanks to our great user base and 
contributors, a lot of testing, bugfixing and cleanups went into this release. 
A mail will follow about plens for after 2.0.0.

pcb-rnd is an independent printed circuit board editor.

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

IRC: server=repo.hu port=6667 channel=#pcb-rnd

Release notes:

pcb-rnd 2.0.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The major version number bump has two reasons:

- The old data model got fully removed; from version 2.0.0, internally pcb-rnd 
speaks only the new, clean data model and export plugins translates forth and 
back when loading/saving in legacy file formats. This completes an 1.5 years 
long effort to get rid of legacy and limitations imposed by decades old design 
decisions.

- The new, better organized, more new-user-friendly menu and hotkey system; the 
menu is now the same for lesstif and gtk and it features context popup menu 
that depends on object type under the mouse cursor. The default mouse button 
binding is less strange: popup menu on right click.

The grid size and offset system got rewritten too. Instead of hardwired 
settings in the menu file, the user can specify a list of grid sizes, units and 
offsets in the config. Being in the config, this allows per user, per project 
or even per board file preferences.

Among with the old data model, the old, local rtree implementation got removed 
too, in favor of genrtree.

There was a major upgrade on plugins too:

- the xy exporter got user configurable templates, so it is now possible to 
define new export file formats (even user or project or board file specific 
ways) with editing configuration only

- the ipcd356 plugin got rewritten for the new data model

- a new ipcd356 import plugin is available

Finally, extensive automated and manual testing resulted in collecting a long 
list of bugs. In turn most of the development cycle was spent on fixing bugs.


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Best regards,

Igor2