I laid out a board last week and noticed that often when I tied in to an existing trace, the existing trace would shift slightly and no longer be exactly horizontal, vertical, or at a 45 degree angle.
Thanks for the help! I switched to a nightly build and it is working a lot better. However, it also seems to crash more often. I assume that this is something I’ll just have to deal with.
Exactly which nightly?
I’m on Pre-5.1.6 (currently dated 11.04) and it’s stable for me for daily work.
If you’re on Pre-6.0 (5.99), it’s a different beast and - as they say, “dragons ahead”.
I see that on this page https://kicad.org/download/windows/ there are testing builds and nightly builds. I had just grabbed the most recent nightly build, should I have grabbed one of the testing builds instead?
Definitely Testing.
Nightlies do have specific disclaimer.
Consider Testing as bugfixes (unverified), and “Nightly development” as new, experimental features.
Gotcha, I just finished reading where you answered this question elsewhere. Thanks!
I’m going to install kicad-5.1-jenkins-614-x86_64 now. Can you explain what the jenkins-614 part of the name refers to? Does anything in this name indicate that it is Pre-5.1.6?
“jenkins” is the name of the server software which builds the testing builds, or something like that. The number is growing build by build. There’s nothing in the package name indicating whether it’s pre-5.1.6, pre-5.1.7 or something else pre-. The application itself has the proper versions string, though, after it has been installed and you use it - the package name is only the installer package file name.
“Pre-5.1.6” is the unofficial name for the builds that intend to be 5.1.6 when will be released.
Currently Kicad developers are maintaining two builds: 5.1.5 with fixes for important bugs (this is the “Pre-5.1.6”) and the Super-Future-Kicad with tons of magic new features.
Jenkins is just a name for automatic builds system.
Thanks! I’ve got pre-5.1.6 installed and working now. The only problem is that I did a fair amount of PCB layout using the 5.99 nightly and now when I try to open the board with pre-5.1.6 I get the error: