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Fedora Electronic Lab
Major Features brought forward since the very first release of FEL 8
Heads up Fedora Electronic Lab users, the following list entails various enhancements brought forward to FEL by Fedora SciTech SIG and all Uptreams.
We recommend users to update their FEL deployments in order to take advantage of those improvements, features and fixes.
We understand your need to develop better products with better EDA tools, that is why along with Fedora's quick development and release cycles, as a designer or engineer, you will take full advantage of FEL products.
- 2008-03-02 09:12:55 gds2pov-0.20080229-1
- New upstream release
- Numerous fixes for compiling with gcc 4.3
- Minor fix for building on multilib Linux x86_64 machines
- New feature - automatic generation of a skeleton process file based on an input gds2 file. Thanks to Roger Light
- 2008-02-23 FOSDEM 2008
- 2008-02-11 12:21:21 electronics-menu-1.0-1
- 2008-02-09 05:16:51 magic-7.5.116-1
- 2008-02-08 11:25:21 pcb-0.20080202-2
- Added a footprint preview in the library window
- Added i18n support anu pdated dbus support
- Make the gtk gui more robust against malformed menu resource files
- Added checking for duplicate hot key definitions in the menu resource file in the gtk gui.
- Fixed some scrolling/panning bugs in the gtk gui.
- Added the ability to load edif netlists
- Closed a number of bugs in the sourceforge tracker
- Fix a bg in the x-y output files where the y values were mirrored and offset
- Add XRENDER support to the lesstif HID to support layer transparency
- Fix some polygon dicer bugs
- Fix a handful of bugs in the png export HID
- Avoid vias snapping to pins and moving elements snapping to their own pins/pads
- Fix printer calibration
- Add global puller
- Various improvements to the postscript export HID
- Improve all the GetXY prompts in the menu resource files
- Improved the pin/via report
- Improved pin/pad vs grid snapping
- Various footprint improvements
- fixed some drill sizes
- fixed some silk sizes
- Added a handful of QFP family footprints
- Converted the QFP family to the hi-res format
- 2008-02-03 14:06:48 The complete gEDA Suite 1.4.0.20080127 Stable
- 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
- Lots and lots of code cleanup and improvements throughout all the programs
- The usual slew of bugs and quirks fixed
- 2008-02-01 14:18:49 gerbv-2.0.0-1
- Julian Lamb incorporated the cairo graphics library into gerbv, thereby enabling export to a variety of different output file formats, including PDF, PS, SVG, and PNG. (GDK rendering remains available as a configure option for older Linux systems.)
- Cairo rendering also supports "transparency mode", showing you which layers are underneath other layers.
- Drill parser rewrite by Joerg Wunsch giving better support for internationalization and formats.
- Added report windows showing statistics of Gerber and drill codes used (as well as CAM errors) by Stuart Brorson.
- Parser improvements from Stefan Petersen and Julian Lamb.
- Aperture handling improvements from Stefan Petersen.
- A new unit test suite (and nightly test runs) by Dan McMahill.
- Improved autodetection of file-type by Stuart Brorson.
- Improvements in the graphical rendering of pick-and-place files.
- Export of images from the command line (cairo only).
- Complete implementation of the Gerber spec.
- Open multiple layers at once in File->Open dialog.
- 2008-01-26 15:52:34 The complete gEDA Suite 1.3.1.20071231-1 Stable
- Usability improvements to the various programs/parts
- Rendering improvements in gschem
- Improved error handling throughout libgeda and the programs
- Optional support for desktop integration and artwork (GNOME and KDE)
- The image embedding format has changed to base64 encoding
- Improvements to component library handling
- Further work to change the custom linked lists to use GLists
- libgeda has been internationalized
- Various translation updates
- A whole slew of code quality improvements throughout libgeda and all the programs
- A large number of bugs fixed throughout libgeda and all the programs
- Changed image embedding format to base64 encode the original files
- Allows standard glob matches in the component selector's filter entry
- Improved object mirroring and rotation API in libgeda + gschem
- Added spacer feature to tragesym
- 2008-01-21 10:37:29 gwave-2-5.20070514snap
- 2008-01-18 FEL LiveCD shipped with YOU Magazine in ASIA
RahulSundaram and MirjamWaeckerlin pointed to You magazine current issue bundles Fedora Electronics Lab Live CD. This print magazine claims to be the only Asian print magazine dedicated to Linux and has tens of thousands of copies circulation rate. Since they also run a sister magazine called Electronics For You, they have a good interest in electronics which probably explains the choice. MirjamWaeckerlin bought a copy for me :)
- 2007-12-04 17:56:33 gerbv-1.0.3-1
- 2007-11-08 The First Fedora Electronic Lab LiveCD was released officially, thanks from the support of Fedora community and MirjamWaeckerlin.
Fedora Electronic Lab Demo at FOSDEM 2008 in Bruxelles.
The new package electronics-menu steps in for F-7 and F-8, to provide a proper category "Electronics" for FEL packages instead of "Edutainment", "Others" and "Science". As from now, every package release, will require that menu structure. Thanks Peter Clifton
This release (on both F-7 and F-8) contains extensions of the technology file format that allow multiple DRC styles, style variants, and a scaling factor which allows DRC rules to be written in vendor dimensions, which are rounded up to the nearest lambda or internal unit.
The "extract" section's capacitance descriptions were simplified to allow simple translation between a process description document and the magic techfile. Support for HPGL and HPRTL was added to the raster and PNM plot routines. Added layer and cell locking capability (commands "tech layer lock" and "instance lock", respectively).
We will also see some related enhancements on the pharosc packages.
This is the third major stable release of gEDA/gaf for F-7 and F-8. It rolls up the various feature additions, code cleanup, and bug fixes that have occurred over the past five months. Major highlights include:
Thanks to Peter Clifton, Werner Hoch, Ales Hvezda, Bernd Jendrissek and Bert Timmerman
Gerbv release 2.0.0 represents a a whole new look for gerbv. Most importantly, the layer control GUI has been made much more powerful through the outstanding work of Julian Lamb. Julian has also re-worked the GUI's button and menus to make them more convenient to use. We are certain that you will find gerbv-2.0.0 even easier to use than before because of Julian's amazing work!
Other changes include:
Thanks to Peter Brett
The new package gwave steps in for F-7 and F-8, after months of struggles with guile librairies. Unfortunately GSpiceUI couldn't be built with the latest gcc4.3, guile librairies and wxGTK26-devel. We will work closely with upstream to find a quick solution
Ales and Stuart have agreed to help the original gerbv developer, Stefan, shoulder the work of maintaining and developing the program. They released a bug fix version with all the cummulated patches during the last 2 years. F-7 and F-8 will have it among their updates.
