Nice!
It would be also useful to have a list/check of annular rings
It has been several years since a PCB fab charged me per via.
What would be useful would be a simple summary of drill sizes used.
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A nice idea, can you also post an example of the generated report file ?
Another vendor includes Track Lengths Routed and an Unrouted Count / rats nest length total, and those can be useful for sign-offs.
The version numbering of the nightly builds will probably change soon, see https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg41939.html.
New version number for development builds will be 5.99 to make clear that it’s later than 5.1. As of now they have been numbered misleadingly as 5.0.xxxx-gxxxx…
EDIT: some time ago they were identified as 6.0 which also was misleading, maybe even more so.
New eeschema selection highlighting.
Browse button in Sheet Properties dialog.
Filters in Footprint Browser.
Control over 3D Model updating in Update Footprints and Change Footprints.
Preference for whether Flipping a footprint to the back of the board flips it top/bottom or left/right.
Undo/redo while editing schematic text objects.
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Could this be cherry picked to 5.1 nightly?
Sadly, no. 5.1 doesn’t really have selections at all, depending instead on block commands and a “current item”. 6.0 Eeschema is based on the modern toolset from Pcbnew, with a first-class selection model.
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No prob. Thanks 
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Jp charras is working on a board stack-up manager. It’s not in the master branch yet but should be quite soon. Here’s a screenshot or two (self-compiled on Linux with patch):
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Paste Special lets you keep schematic annotations in copied symbols when pasting.
(@JeffYoung, the checkboxes should be changed to radiobuttons because they are exclusive.)
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Will this also affect the 3D visualization and the File>>Export models?
Interesting.
A idea is add (this will be a checkbox) “fill with not used parts of multi-parts components”. What I want is be possible to place the same circuit but using the next A-B-C-D part of an IC (example a operational amplifier).
Also could be add <Ctrl>+<Shift>+v as default hotkey for this function.
Finally, this has been a glaring omission for a long time.
I have a 2mm board so I have to get notepad++ out on the pcb file
I never noticed that setting before. Still limited when you have 4 layer or more.
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It’s available for Windows in https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/index.html?prefix=windows/testing/patched/, build #497.
EDIT: it has been committed to master branch and should be in the next nightly build.
Radio buttons have to encode all options, so there would need to be a third for “Clear annotations if there are any duplicates”.
In this case I think 2 checkboxes has a bit better SNR than 3 radio buttons.
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As was found out in another thread, KiCad has semi-supported bezier curves for some time in graphics layers. Now v5.99 can both edit and plot them (previously plotting footprints didn’t work).
KiCad can’t create bezier curves, but if you import them from another graphics format (i.e. DXF or SVG) you can edit them by dragging the points.
EDIT: the fix was taken into 5.1 branch, too. 5.1.5 will plot bezier curves, but there’s some bug left to be fixed for 5.1.6.
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