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Re: Official stable release 2.2.0

2022-12-19T13:47:05Z

Thanks for the XP version.
The portable version by PortableApps.com has arrived! What about a link at the LibreCAD download page?
Handy for having several installed to experiment with various layouts. I can use them with Linux and Wine.
The Linux appimage is not really self-contained. When using several always the last used configuration is loaded.

Re: Official stable release 2.2.0

2022-12-18T16:04:29Z

Windows XP is a different build server.
It was in NightlyBuilds as usual:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/files/Windows/NightlyBuilds/

But I just copied it over in case anybody else need it.

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Re: Official stable release 2.2.0

2022-12-18T06:05:33Z

Aahh, at last! Now we might hope for a new PortableApps version.

I guess there will not be a Win XP version anymore, right?

Still, I'm curiously awaiting 2.2.x releases, wondering which available or maybe even new contributions will find their way into LibreCAD.

But now you may generously allow yourself a rest.

Thanks,
dellus

Official stable release 2.2.0

2022-12-17T08:22:44Z

Finally, here it is!

It took far too long to present this new stable LibreCAD version.
Already announced several times, new obstacles kept appearing. But the main cause, however, is the loss of manpower in recent years.
We no longer have the resources to maintain a stable and a development branch side by side.
In addition, there were many problems in our parallel project libdxfrw, which we also take care of.
And there are also many invisible tasks to be dealt with, such as moving to a new cloud server, a new homepage, looking for financing our expenses, to name just a few.

About 4800 commits have been made since the last stable version 2.1.3. Too much to go into detail.
So here are a few notable changes in the new version 2.2.0:
* many causes of crashes have been eliminated
* eliminated DWG issues in libdxfrw, which caused several crashes
* the performance of panning and zooming in large files has been significantly improved
* the undo/redo engine has been completely revised due to several problems
* adjustments for new compiler and Qt versions were required
* extension of the command line, multi-line commands, paste and open command files
* improvement of the print preview, with tiled printing and line widths adjustment
* multiple selection and bulk actions in block and layer lists

By expanding our CI, we can now easily provide up-to-date binary packages that allow many users to easily test and bug hunt on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

The new release also has an online manual which is hosted at Read the Docs.

This new stable version 2.2.0 finally replaces the previous stable 2.1.3.

Unfortunately, we have to disappoint people who are hoping for a soon release of LibreCAD 3. It is still a long way from productive use.
Also there are still many contributions available for version 2.2 we wont waste. These can now be integrated into an unstable development branch. That means there will probably be one or two more feature release 2.2.x.
There may be LibreCAD 3 releases in parallel in future, but for the time being, not with the features that LibreCAD 2.2 currently offers.

At last, let me mention, that we recently resumed to accept financial contributions again. These are basically used to pay our expenses for hosting and domain services.
This has become possible through OpenCollective and by GitHub Sponsors.

Please, find the new release on Github:
https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases/tag/2.2.0
or SourceForge:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/files/

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Re: 2.2.0 Release Candidate 2 published

2021-01-10T14:23:23Z

I think for now the hope is to find some help in making an AppImage that can be run on multiple systems for testing. With the final release I expect we can see people packaging LC2.2

IRC: duncan-nz
Twitter: @BIM_DK

Re: 2.2.0 Release Candidate 2 published

2021-01-05T04:56:46Z

Is it possible to make a .deb of it to be used by others?

Re: 2.2.0 Release Candidate 2 published

2021-01-05T01:01:04Z

Builds fine on Ubuntu 20.04.1, so if anyone needs a hand with that drop a message here.

IRC: duncan-nz
Twitter: @BIM_DK

Re: 2.2.0 Release Candidate 2 published

2021-01-04T15:45:08Z

Yes, we do, but for other reasons.
That's why the current build is not usable for the appimage.
Next is to migrate to travis-ci.com because travis-ci.org is about to shut down.

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Re: 2.2.0 Release Candidate 2 published

2021-01-04T15:16:07Z

That's great news !!!

Congratulations to all contributors !

A blog post would be helpful to spread the info.

Re: 2.2.0 Release Candidate 2 published

2021-01-02T19:19:50Z

G'day! Does LibreCAD use Travis-CI? I've just read on the AppImage docs that there is a way to get the Travis-CI build to create AppImages (https://docs.appimage.org/packaging-guide/overview.html)

Re: 2.2.0 Release Candidate 2 published

2021-01-02T18:33:37Z

I think we need a blog entry. Maybe release updates for LC3 and LC2 (??)

2.2.0 Release Candidate 2 published

2020-12-31T09:02:19Z

We have a new Release Candidate for LibreCAD 2.2.0.
https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases/tag/2.2.0-rc2

Binary packages can be found on the GitHub release page linked above and also on our SourceForge site, which is linked from the GitHub site too.

There were recently 2 serious bugs fixed with reading DWG files, so this version hopefully solves some issues and crashes with DWG files.

We still need a way to deploy a binary Linux package, preferred as AppImage.
If someone is experienced in this, any help is welcome.

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Re: LibreCAD - A Dead App

2020-12-28T17:02:56Z

Hey Ries, a few of us over at osarch want to know how we can help. I see lordofbikes has been merging some requests on LC2 lately which is good to see. LC has a large user base does it need some community organizing? I see there are a lot of bugs that need triaging.

Has anyone managed to build LC3 and run it? I'm willing to try but I wouldn't hold my breath. I think github can do nightly builds right?

IRC: duncan-nz
Twitter: @BIM_DK

Re: LibreCAD - A Dead App

2020-03-22T05:51:48Z

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Re: LibreCAD - A Dead App

2020-03-21T16:31:49Z

For certain LibreCAD urgently needs a new official release. For visibility in the public, announcements, forums, appearance at portableapps etc. Against frustration of users. The new pretty readthedocs refers to 2.2.0, the normal user will only obtain 2.1.3. Drawings done now might have to be worked over when later opened in 2.2.0, due to changes in handling. 2.2.0 is better and quite stable. Against frustration of developers, as it takes so long for their contributions to be incorporated and used.
There is a queue of commits with improvements waiting to be merged. Our Lord(ofBikes) is now about working them up after a long pause. Can he be helped? Let's get a new release out, be it perfect or not. You can always push a bugfix release after it.

LibreCAD - A Dead App

2020-03-20T03:27:14Z

"Externally LibreCAD looks kinda like a dead app (stable release is over 3 years old, last unstable release is over 2 years old on an abandoned development branch)".

I totally disagree but it's clear why people form this view. The LibreCAD Mushroom Management system doesn't present the fantastic work done by the community for people to make an informed view. It is important because the whole community misses out on valuable contributions from people that don't join the community. Image what could be achieved with double the resources.

How to make the LibreCAD community more vibrant:

1. Make a plan so community contributions to develop LibreCAD are used efficiently and effectively.
2. Communicate with the community. Celebrate our successes by committing to regular updates on what is happening in the community, how planned goals are progressing.
3. Releases. Forget the concept of Draft - release every project regularly (say quarterly) so the community can test the work and contribute to development taking the best direction and improving every version. (There's no benefit developing the perfect Netscape.) The Pareto Principle says most of the benefit occurs from the first work anyway.
4. Keep Development (Master) branches separate from Release (Stable) branches for all projects.

Many open source communities manage these things more effectively than LibreCAD. What do you think?

Re: Google Summer of Code 2019

2019-05-07T04:49:04Z

The die is cast!

Yesterday Google announced the accepted students and we have got one slot for a promising student to work on LibreCAD 3 development this summer.

Please welcome Kartik Kumar, a student from National Institute of Technology, Hamipur, India.
His proposal is about OpenGL rendering in LibreCAD 3 to replace the Cairo engine.
He will work from June to August on this project and we wish him good luck for this challenge!

The LibreCAD Team

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Google Summer of Code 2019

2019-02-28T01:45:54Z

A new round of Google Summer of Code is gather speed.

We are happy to announce, that once again, LibreCAD is part of GSoC in 2019!

Again, under the umbrella of BRL-CAD, a couple of CAD/CAM/CAE or short CAx organizations going to mentor students for a 3 month full time coding challenge during their summer break.
The students, when they participate successfully, will gain experience, reputation and also a certificate and a stipend from Google.
Our value will be the progress, bringing LibreCAD 3 to a new level and hopefully attract the participants to stay longer with us and become a regular contributor.

This year we try a new approach and created a common platform under the name OpenCAx for cross-cutting concerns. We use the OpenCAx term for quite some time, but now it becomes more clearer.
Beside the information from Google at https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ we have additional content for students at https://opencax.github.io/.
Project ideas are listed under https://github.com/opencax/GSoC/issues and especially for LibreCAD one can filter by project.

If you are a student who is eligible for the program, have some C++ skills and prefer coding over selling burgers, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.
Or you know one who might be interested, let him know about this great chance.
Look out for Armin (LordOfBikes) or Florian (Feragon) on our community chat channels IRC #librecad or Zulip or reply to any project idea.

The LibreCAD Team

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Patch Version 2.1.3

2016-09-22T23:10:27Z

https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases
https://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/

Patch Version 2.1.2

2016-09-16T17:38:32Z

https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases/tag/2.1.2
https://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/

Patch Version 2.1.1

2016-06-25T12:58:59Z

https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases/tag/2.1.1

2.1.0 Released

2016-06-05T01:05:07Z

This release contains a year's worth of work.
You will find LibreCAD is much more stable and customizable.

https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases/tag/2.1.0

https://github.com/r-a-v-a-s
http://r-a-v-a-s.github.io/

Patch Version 2.0.11

2016-05-22T22:36:03Z

https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases/tag/2.0.11

2.1.0-beta

2016-05-13T15:55:20Z

Happy Friday the 13th! ;D

For certain "need to know" reasons, the release of 2.1.0 will happen before the end of this month.
I'm thinking a full moon release (the 21st).

Beta means that I have added all the new features, but there might be undiscovered bugs.

https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases/tag/2.1.0-beta

Please report bugs at:
https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/issues

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Patch Version 2.0.10

2016-04-17T23:20:14Z

https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases/tag/2.0.10

An OS X app is available... builds for other systems will come soon hopefully.

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Re: GUI update

2016-04-12T14:35:22Z

https://github.com/LibreCAD/ChangeLogs

https://github.com/LibreCAD/ChangeLogs/blob/master/developers/r-a-v-a-s/2-1/2-1-0/2-1-0.md

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2.1.0-alpha for OS X

2016-03-08T09:37:33Z

OS X users can now download alpha versions of 2.1.0 here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/files/OSX/2.1/2.1.0/alpha/

Please read the information on that page.

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Re: 2.0.9 released

2016-03-06T03:05:42Z

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Re: 2.0.9 released

2016-03-05T20:56:02Z

I built it in Qt Creator,
created the dmg with macdeployqt,
and then used hdiutil for bzip2 compression,
which basically cuts the size in half!

I have not attempted to write a script yet.

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Re: 2.0.9 released

2016-03-05T17:18:11Z

great! do you get a script to do building and uploading?

ravas wrote

OS X users can try the app I just uploaded:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/files/OSX/2.0.9/

This actually contains more bug fixes than noted above.
https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/commits/2.0

Let me know if it does or does not work for you!

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Re: 2.0.9 released

2016-03-05T17:10:45Z

OS X users can try the app I just uploaded:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/files/OSX/2.0.9/

This actually contains more bug fixes than noted above.
https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/commits/2.0

Let me know if it does or does not work for you!

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GSoC 2016!

2016-03-01T09:08:01Z

We are participating again under the umbrella of BRL-CAD. Big thanks to Sean for handling the organization application part.

For our LibreCAD side, there are many great ideas accumulated over the years, and we do expect still better ideas from perspective students.

For students interested in working at areas immediately beneficial to lots of end users, especially for those interested in doing geometry and algebra on computers, it's the time for introducing yourself and working hard towards your proposal.

The LibreCAD Team

2.0.9 released

2016-01-09T09:11:11Z

Happy new year! LibreCAD 2.0.9 released

This is mostly a bug fixing release.

Fixed a few crashes due to undo and deleted entities;

Rallaz fixed quite many issues in dxf and DWG support.

If you are using spline/splinepoints, you may find some improvement in 2.0.9, as spline mirroring is fixed, and there is some cleanup for spline property editors, thanks to jaise for identifying this bug.

If you use the feature "Draw -> Line -> Rectangle", please note a polyline is drawn instead of 4 separate lines.

There are lots of fixes on hatching issues as well: most notably, hatch preview works again!

Various polyline issues are also fixed: bevel/fillet, equidistant, and some minor cleanup.

Jerry worked on several issues with command auto-completion and supported commands.

There are lots of language support improvements: fonts and translation. Thanks a lot to our friends!

Commits since 2.0.8:
Armin Stebich (3):
added debug/ wildcard to .gitignore for clean Windows repos
another fix for commit: rs.h headers 78471946
ignore Windows generated files in libdxfrw

Dongxu Li (84):
rs_graphicview: header cleanup
fixed incorrect rvalue reference usage
more ravlue reference fixes
SCMVERSION=2.0.9
issue #479 : wheel events be handled by scrollbars
zoomscroll: file cleanup
getIntersection: reverted to ArcArc intersections #484
file cleanup
undocycle: use std::set to avoid duplicated entities, #557
issue #557 : fixed a crash due to undo cycles
rs_command: file cleanup
rs_command: detect string collision of commands
rs_debug: singleton mode
file saving: only update autosaving filename with success
vector: c++11 style cleanup
issue #579 , fixed incorrect command hints during Action
command: file cleanup
vector: fixed a regression
dim: fixed snapper for diameter/radius/angular
snapper: constness
Accumulated fixes from master branch Squashed commit of the following:
iso3098 azomix fonts by AZO
avoid highlight flag in offset
fixed a crash by undo
bug 531: bounding box checks for intersection
dimension: compiler warning
rectangular area: initial port of rectangular areas from V3
rs_line: fixed bounding box checking in getIntersection
lc_rect: allow zero size rects
construction line: fixed regression on drawing
vectorsolutions: fixed find closest on subset
drawline: fixed "undo/redo" commands
undo: file cleanup
undo: stop all suspended actions to avoid crash by deleted entities
eventhandler: file cleanup
lc_rect: 'using' instead of typedef
grid: replaced QRectF with LC_Rect
painter: header cleanup
snaptoolbar: fixed a segfault at closing
rs.h removed Qt headers
fixes and cleanup for commit: rs.h headers 78471946
A minor binary search optimization
Squashed commit of the following:
vector/quadratic: explicit conversion to boolean
header cleanup: use <iosfwd>
file cleanup
fixed building issues for commit f3a4e847c
another header fix for commit f3a4e847c
trim amount: improved length input handling
issue #617 removed snap indicator
hatch: fixed a hatch drawing issue.
Revert "hatch: fixed a hatch drawing issue."
hatch: fixed a preview regression
hatch: preview rectangle loop cleanup
splinepoints: file cleanup
bug545: spline properties dialog cleanup
splinepoints: initial property dialog
spline points: file cleanup
spline points: control points in property editor
spline points: file cleanup
spline points: fixed a qt4 building issue
exit dialog: header cleanup
bug 544: spline mirror
entity container: header cleanup
avoid potential performance regression by 527cbd40
spline properties: dialog style
bug517: equidistant polylines
file cleanup
bug548: invisible layer, exporting as image
pentoolbar: use devicePixelRatio
file cleanup
building issue for qt4-mac, header issues
printpreview: added commands: blackwhite/color
undoable: c++11 style
undo: cleanup
arc: move by center
rs_arc: override identifier
read coustom.pri as well as .pro
bug552: fixed a construction layer regression
AZO: font fixes
polyline: cleanup
polyline: cleanup
polyline: experimental, create from selected entities
bug549: dxfrw: troubleshooting an infinite loop

Jerry (1):
Fixed conflict in rs_commands.cpp

Jerry Magnin (2):
Added command shortcut for dimension angular
Adding new commands for dimensions

LordOfBikes (1):
Updated translations from pootle server, after lupdate

Pootle (3):
Updated translations from pootle server
Merge branch '2.0' of https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD into 2.0
Updated translations after lupdate

Rallaz (14):
dxfrw: use radians in drw_insert entity
dwfrw: parses shadow handle
dxfrw: fix in dwg hatch
dxfrw: fix in dwg 2004 pages
Enable draw of 4 corner solids sf bug #527
correct default DIMDEC & DIMADEC
Dims, more work with zeros
completed decimal dimzin support
libdxfrw: update to 0.6.3
more dims compatibility
libdxfrw: write dimfxl in dim styles
SF bug #535 correct bevel with polylines
SF bug #539 Vertical dimension's alignment
Fix dim horizontal alignment

Rupicapra-rupicapra (1):
Added help tip, shortcut command & corrected bug

ravas (1):
removed experimental composition mode; issue #576

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Re: GUI update

2016-01-06T16:42:36Z

Deselection

Holding the Shift key will make the default selection rectangle deselect.

Dock Areas Toolbar

The "Dock Areas" toolbar allows you to show/hide all dock widgets in the left, right, top, bottom and floating dock areas.

Command line

The left and right dock areas are now dominant,
which means that if you dock the command line at the top or bottom
it will only expand between the left and right dock areas,
instead of modifying them.

The command line's title bar will automatically switch orientation
depending on the dock area it is moved to, which helps save space.

Styles and Style Sheets

You can now dramatically change the way LibreCAD looks!
https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/wiki/Style-Sheets

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Re: GUI update

2015-11-16T14:26:19Z

snap indicator

There is now an alternative to the Crosshair,
which is called Spiderweb (for lack of a different name).
This is useful if you work with orthogonal lines a lot
and don't want the crosshair hiding the preview.
https://youtu.be/0v9TS7IyvKM

You can also change the color of the snap indicator now.
This is useful if you use a white background (or if you just want a different color).

window activation

When a sub-window (drawing) is closed the last active sub-window will be re-activated.

tabs

Tabs are now movable by dragging and dropping.

There is a new option in Application preferences → Defaults
to start in tab mode.

modify tools and selection

You can once again activate a modify tool
then select some objects,
then press Enter,
and then continue.

Something new is that you can use XButton1 instead of Enter.

entering commands

XButton1 will also act like Enter for the command line.

xbutton1

Xbutton1 is a side button on a PC mouse (usually for going back in a web browser).
I don't know if mice for Mac have what is considered an Xbutton1.
There are other options new in Qt5 we can try (Qt::BackButton).
The use of this button is experimental and might change.

option to remove scrollbars

You can now remove the scrollbars in Application Preferences.
Removing them significantly improves panning performance. :-]
More investigation could lead to improved performance with scrollbars.

selection

There is now a select toolbar, and category in the category toolbar.

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Post any questions or comments in: Nightly Builds / Master Branch

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