Release notes for the gEDA/gaf 1.4.0.20080127 stable snapshot

This is the third major stable release of gEDA/gaf. It rolls up the various feature additions, code cleanup, and bug fixes that have occurred over the past five months. Major highlights include:

• Many usability improvements to the various programs
• Optional support for desktop integration (GNOME and KDE)
• Many improvements to component library handling (internals and component selection dialog)
• libgeda is now internationalized
• Many language translation updates to gschem and gattrib
• Improved error handling throughout all the programs
• Fixes to the spice-sdb backend to support slotting
• Rendering improvements and speedups in gschem
• A bunch of new tests in gsymcheck to catch a few common errors
• Improved support for running under MinGW
• Lots and lots of code cleanup and improvements throughout all the programs
• The usual slew of bugs and quirks fixed
NOTE: This is a stable snapshot and should be packaged up by distribution package maintainers.

Changes

Changes in this release only (since v1.3.1):


Peter Clifton
• Fix typo in Dutch translation
• Fix use after free corruption when consolidating nets
• Invalidate component cache when updating symbols. [#1880211]
• Only call gdk_window_invalidate_rect() when drawing to a GdkWindow.
Werner Hoch
• gsymcheck: improved the pintype check, added test case
• Added new pintype test symbol and output to EXTRA_DIST
• gsymcheck: test for misplaced attributes
• gsymcheck: moved obsolete and forbidden attribute checks
• fixed error handling bug in run_source_command() [#1869941]
• forward status messages from the library command to the log
• fixed two symbols with missplaced pin attribute errors
• detach missplaced symbol attributes
• fixed symbol with invalid pintype attribute
• Update the pinnumbers when updating a symbol with slots
• Updated German translation of gschem
Ales Hvezda
• Updated documentation from the official wiki website
• Changed Edit/Undo and Add/Bus hotkeys
• Fixed reversed VDD/VSS nets in this hex schmitt trigger
• Fix a crash when running a script that calls (gschem-image ...)
Bernd Jendrissek
• Update Afrikaans translation to fix spelling error.
Bert Timmerman
• libgeda Dutch translation updates

For all the other changes from last development series (1.3.x):

• gaf-1.3.0 Release Notes
• gaf-1.3.1 Release Notes

Notes/Bugs/Errata/Known Issues/Last Minute Issues

• Many thanks to everybody who contributed to this snapshot and previous development snapshots.
• Updates to this stable snapshot (1.4.x series) will occur if people find issues.
• The next major stable snapshot (1.6.x) will probably happen in the middle of this year.
• Please submit all bugs to the bug tracker.

Download

• http://www.geda.seul.org/release/v1.4/1.4.0 (USA)
• http://ftp.sunet.se/geda/release/v1.4/1.4.0 (Europe)

Required Libraries/Programs

Required libraries:
• gtk+ ≥ 2.4.x (tested with 2.8.x).
  NOTE: gtk+ 1.2.x is no longer supported.
• guile ≥ 1.6.x (tested with 1.6.x and 1.8.1).
  NOTE: guile 1.4.x is no longer supported.

Required programs:

• pkg-config ≥ 0.15.0
  NOTE: You MUST install pkg-config regardless of gtk+ version.

Optional libraries:

• LibStroke ≥ 0.5.1

Packages/Binaries/Installers

• Debian packages for unstable can be found here or using apt-get (might be slightly dated; soon to be updated).
• RPM packages for Fedora Core 7 can be found here. The packages can also be installed by running:
  yum install geda\*

Building/Installing/Running

There are several ways of building gEDA/gaf:

1. Download *all* the above files and the required libraries.
2. Build and install the required and optional libraries.
3. Untar all of the geda tar files in the same directory.
4. Set the prefix= variable in the Makefile
5. Run: make and set the specified variables (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH)
6. Run: make install
   This should complete with NO errors.
7. Run: gschem and select Help/Manual... for all available documentation.

   Before you run gschem, gnetlist, gattrib, or gsymcheck you will need to set those three environment variables, or add them to a shell startup file (.bashrc, or .bash_profile or .profile)

-OR-

1. Download all the above files and the required libraries.
2. Set the specified variables (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH) correctly to the place where you are installing everything.
3. Build and install the required and optional libraries.
4. Untar all of the geda tar files in the same directory.
5. Go into each directory and run:
   ./configure [ with --prefix=$HOME/geda if you wish ]
   make install

   You must build and install the packages in the following order:

   1. libgeda
   2. symbols
   3. gschem
   4. gnetlist
   5. gsymcheck
   6. gattrib
   7. utils
   8. docs
   9. examples