News and announcements

Latest gEDA-gaf releases: 1.8.2 (stable) and 1.9.1 (unstable)

Written for gEDA by Peter TB Brett on 2014-03-15

The gEDA team have recently made two new releases:

The gEDA-gaf 1.8.2. release is an important update to the 1.8 stable series. It contains two critical bug fixes that were causing occasional crashes, and enables compilation with the most recent versions of Automake.

The gEDA-gaf 1.9.1 release is the latest preview release from the 1.8 unstable development series. This release contains many improvements to the gschem UI, including the addition of a tool for drawing paths with Bezier curve segments.

All users are very highly recommended to upgrade to version 1.8.2 as soon as possible. Power users who want to try out the latest features are encouraged to test version 1.9.1 and report any bugs to the gEDA bug tracker.

New stable release: gEDA/gaf 1.8.0

Written for gEDA by Peter TB Brett on 2012-11-18

We are pleased to announce a new stable release of the 'gschem and Friends' Electronic Design Suite, part of the GPL Electronic Design Automation project. The gEDA/gaf suite (this package) provides schematic capture, netlisting, bill of materials generation, and many other features.

gEDA/gaf version 1.8.0 contains many important enhancements and bug fixes, and we encourage distributions to pick up the new version as soon as possible.

Highlights:

* gEDA is now compatible with Guile 2.x (recommended).

* A greatly expanded Scheme API has been added to gEDA/gaf for use by extension authors. See the `geda-scheme' Info manual for more details.

* The `component-library-search' function for `gafrc' files now skips directories without symbols, and searches for libraries recursively.

* `gschem' supports keybindings with more than one modifier key. Keystrokes may use extended modifiers (Super, Hyper and Meta), and key bindings can be modified in any rc file or interactively using the `global-set-key' function.

* `gschem' now displays help files and component documentation on all platforms, including Windows.

* `gsch2pcb' correctly handles footprint names containing hyphens (`-').

* Greatly improved error reporting in almost all tools, including improved detection of syntax errors in schematic files and configuration problems.

gEDA/gaf 1.7.2 released

Written for gEDA by Peter TB Brett on 2012-01-01

A new unstable release of gEDA/gaf is now available. The 1.7.2 release provides a powerful new Scheme interface for extension authors; improved support for Microsoft Windows platforms; and an improved and simplified keybinding system for gschem.

Bug tracker moved to Launchpad

Written for gEDA by Peter Clifton on 2011-01-07

After many years tracking bugs on SourceForge, the gEDA bug tracker has moved to Launchpad. With luck, this will ease some of the developers work-flows, and help to ensure bugs and patches don't languish lost and unattended.

There is a lot of bug triage work ahead, and we would appreciate all the help we can get.