[out dated] Avoid using v6.99 from 2022-April-06

Please avoid using kicad-nightly-r27274.0bd3341f0f.. nightly builds with design, containing textboxes. It may lead to dataloss when editing content of existing textboxes or creating new ones!

Place textbox on schematic → Write some text → Click OK → Text (also already existing text) is gone.

This is still valid on 2022-April-06: eeschema textboxes: text gets always deleted (#11341) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab

Delete this topic after new nightly comes out (2022-April-07)

Thanks for the heads-up.
There is no threat of general data loss, like corrupted netlist e.a., however.
Under certain conditions, text is replaced by blank text.
The nightly is safe to use if you do not touch the text boxes and even then only textboxes are affected.

Dang, this bug was only in for a few hours. I can’t believe the nightly was built during that time… :frowning:

Windows nightlies run around 19:00 as of late and your commit was around 21h. So not even a close call :slight_smile:. S**t happens…

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v5.99 nightlies apppeared twice per day (if recall correctly), maybe the same could be done for v7?

@hermit, this thread can be deleted now (not actual anymore)

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