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February 20, 2020, 7:54am
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Jon Evans sent an important message about a big change which may affect nightly build users now and will effect everyone in 6.0. The settings backend system has been changed.
Hi everyone who uses nightly builds of KiCad!
For those who don’t follow GitLab that closely, the new settings system got merged today.
This brings a few user-facing changes that you should be aware of:
First, user settings are now stored in versioned subfolders of the KiCad config path. The major and minor versions are used, so currently this means “5.99”. When you first launch KiCad, you’ll see a window asking you where to get the settings from. It will default to using your current KiCad…