4.0.4 stable is out

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4.0.4 slipped out quietly this week


No new features, but some useful bug fixes
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@reportingsjr must be on holiday or something? :wink:

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But not downloadable for Windows yet.
I have updated my Ubuntu stable build laptop to 4.0.4 already.

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The Windows build is on the KiCad download page now

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Hello everybody.

I’ve just upgraded the Kicad (4.0.2+dfsg1-4) that where running and was available directly on an Ubuntu 16.04,
by adding the PPA source ‘ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-4’, and then updating to Kicad 4.04.

The package ‘kicad-common’ does no more exist, and it seems many footprints are not present when installing the ‘kicad-library’ package.

Here are some files missing for example :
/usr/share/kicad/modules/Air_Coils_SML_NEOSID.pretty
/usr/share/kicad/modules/Air_Coils_SML_NEOSID.pretty/Neosid_Air-Coil_SML_1turn_HDM0131A.kicad_mod
/usr/share/kicad/modules/Air_Coils_SML_NEOSID.pretty/Neosid_Air-Coil_SML_2turn_HAM0231A.kicad_mod
…
/usr/share/kicad/modules/Buttons_Switches_ThroughHole.pretty
/usr/share/kicad/modules/Buttons_Switches_ThroughHole.pretty/KSA_Tactile_SPST.kicad_mod
/usr/share/kicad/modules/Buttons_Switches_ThroughHole.pretty/Push_E-Switch_KS01Q01.kicad_mod
…
/usr/share/kicad/modules/Housings_DIP.pretty
/usr/share/kicad/modules/Housings_DIP.pretty/DIP-10_W7.62mm.kicad_mod
/usr/share/kicad/modules/Housings_DIP.pretty/DIP-10_W7.62mm_LongPads.kicad_mod
/usr/share/kicad/modules/Housings_DIP.pretty/DIP-14_W7.62mm.kicad_mod
/usr/share/kicad/modules/Housings_DIP.pretty/DIP-14_W7.62mm_LongPads.kicad_mod
…
( yet the same names are available in packages3d/ )

Isn’t a mistake in the library package build for Linux on the PPA ?

Thanks in advance,
Best regards.

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kicad-common is replaced by kicad-demo in 4.0.4 from the PPA

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These footprints are on GitHub under KiCad. You need to run the Add footprint Libraries Wizard and fetch the ones you want from GitHub, saving them to a local folder, that you can write to. I make a directory ~/kicad/modules and ~/kicad/modules/packages3d for my modules

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Thanks for your fast reply !

Not easy to think that the footprints were no more included in the package, because the families components list still displayed on the left when opening the footprints viewer window…
And strange that on the other hand packages3d files included per default (really secondary).

Adding a warning about this on https://kicad.org/download/ubuntu/ would be nice !

Perhaps adding ‘kicad-modules’ and ‘kicad-modules3d’ packages to the PPA would be interesting and more clear ?

Best regards.

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I’m not sure why some, but not all, footprints are not in the package.
They are all there in the Windows build.
It’s worth watching the GitHub libraries anyway to see if errors that affect you are fixed and refreshing your local libraries.

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After getting the footprints from the git server, all sems ok.
Just had to modif the path environment variable “KISYSMOD” with the new path to the git modules…
Thanks for your help,
Best regards.

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