KiCad 4.0.0, RC2 released!

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RC2 has rolled out!

https://launchpad.net/kicad/+announcement/13711
windows build
http://downloads.kicad.org/windows/stable/kicad-product-4.0.0_rc2-x86_64.exe
http://downloads.kicad.org/windows/stable/kicad-product-4.0.0_rc2-i686.exe

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probably the build, at the moment, is not still tested :slight_smile:

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Thanks dev team.

I installed rc2 on my Ubuntu15.10 from ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-4.
Then I noticed 2 packaging issues.

  1. version info is still “rc1”
    I installed rc2, apt list kicad shows like this.
    kicad/wily,now 4.0.0-0rc2.201511091025+6189~32~ubuntu15.10.1 amd64 [installed]
    But, Help->“Copy Version Information” shows “Version: 4.0.0-rc1-stable release build”

  2. docs are old.
    I also installed kicad-doc-en, apt list shows this.
    kicad-doc-en/wily,now 4.0.0-0rc2.201511091025+6189~32~ubuntu15.10.1 all [installed]
    All the pdf files are installed under the /usr/share/doc/kicad/help/en/,
    and I could access them by Help menu.
    But, all pdf files are old one.

And this is not a problem, just FYI for the user, demos/ directory is moved to /usr/share/doc/kicad/.
I thought with rc1, demos/ was located under the /usr/share/kicad/.

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Which of the daily builds (from http://downloads.kicad.org/windows/ ) corresponds to this release candidate?

Dale

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See under the stable directory.
You can find rc2.

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i got this crash error on windows 8 64 bit just trying to open pcbnew
the installer is:
kicad-product-4.0.0_rc2-x86_64.exe

1111Ă—400 52.6 KB

and I get same error with the 32bit version on 64bit windows

1095Ă—537 76.8 KB

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Did you get VC++ runtime library error on windows8 ?
Can you open other programs ?
Eeschema, gerbview, footprint editor and so on ?
Does this problem affect on pcbnew only ?

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pcbnew and footprint editor will crash
it seems related to _pcbnew.kiface

here the error I got:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: kicad.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 00000000
Fault Module Name: _pcbnew.kiface
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: 40000015
Exception Offset: 00000000007696b2
OS Version: 6.3.9600.2.0.0.256.103
Locale ID: 1040
Additional Information 1: 4359
Additional Information 2: 4359de68b94383a431f7d72db5ff2df5
Additional Information 3: eb47
Additional Information 4: eb47d0f87c5c33c8aa46cc9e41e69717

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RC2 is crashing,
dev 6305 is not crashing :confounded:

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I am running Windows 7 and the launcher doesn’t start. Luckily I can work by starting the Pcbnew application in the KICAD folder.

btw. tried to install RC1 after trying out RC2 and I still have the same problem with the launcher. Hopefully this will be resolved very soon.

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I can use RC2 on Windows 7 without any crash.
But 4.0.0-rc2 (x86_64) on Windows 7, wxWidget Debug Alert dialog is displayed.

Application: kicad
Version: 4.0.0-rc2-stable debug build
wxWidgets: Version 3.0.2 (debug,wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1009,GCC 5.2.0,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Boost version: 1.57.0
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
USE_FP_LIB_TABLE=HARD_CODED_ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON

How to reproduce.

  1. run kicad project manager.
  2. open pcbnew from kicad project manager.
  3. enable footprint mode.
  4. right-click on canvas and select “Global spread and place”.
    841Ă—342 29 KB
  5. wxWidget Debug Alert is displayed.

This error dialog is displayed only one time after starting kicad.

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I clearly made debug builds there, they will have some asserts triggered. New builds have been triggered and the ones already there should be replaced within a few hours. Please redownload when the timestamp on the server is not 08-Nov-2015 14:58 anymore.

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I downloaded kicad-product-4.0.0_rc2-x86_64.exe 10-Nov-2015 01:37 and re-install on Win7.
“wxWidget Debug Alert dialog” is not displayed any more.
Thanks.

I attached version info.

Application: kicad
Version: 4.0.0-rc2-stable release build
wxWidgets: Version 3.0.2 (debug,wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1009,GCC 5.2.0,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Boost version: 1.57.0
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
USE_FP_LIB_TABLE=HARD_CODED_ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON

Regards.

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Yep, should be “fixed” now. It was just because it was a debug build.

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it’s fine now :slight_smile:
thanx