When will Kicad 5 be available?

eelik · July 20, 2018, 12:59pm

It’s possible, but how to do it depends on the system.

Sprig · July 22, 2018, 5:56pm

Getting closer!
https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg36729.html

nickoe · July 22, 2018, 8:14pm

Very… couldn’t wait anymore.

bobc · July 22, 2018, 8:19pm

YAY!

Rene_Poschl · July 22, 2018, 8:24pm

Seems the mac package will take a few days: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg36730.html

I guess this might be to blame: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg36713.html

otoien · July 22, 2018, 8:50pm

A big congratulation to the team of developers and librarians!!!

davidsrsb · July 23, 2018, 2:10am

5.0.0 reliably crashes for me on Windows 10

Sprig · July 23, 2018, 2:43am

https://forum.kicad.info/t/20jul18-v5-0-0-crash-in-3d-viewer/11617/10

The Error Window gets moved behind the KiCad Window. Minimize the KiCad Window and click “Cancel” on the Error Window; only needs to be done once per session from what I have observed.

ON EDIT: @davidsrsb ONLY the “Cancel” button ‘works’ on Windoze 7. You might want to alter your bug report with this information.

davidsrsb · July 23, 2018, 2:55am

The Yes button works on Windows 10.
Can you add to my bug report for the Windows 7 case?

Sprig · July 23, 2018, 3:07am

@davidsrsb Try clicking the Cancel button.

davidsrsb · July 23, 2018, 3:46am

Clicking cancel seems to work. I am not sure what the error is going to do though.
Still, expecting new users to minimise pcbnew and find the hiding error dialog, which has grabbed focus, is a bit much.

marekr · July 23, 2018, 3:49am

Its an unexpected bug, possibly due to the packager building KiCad incorrectly

Sprig · July 23, 2018, 4:03am

I’ve seen no negative effects on the saved files; at this point in time. If I had, I would have also posted on the forum.

It does seem to affect what GUI buttons can be clicked with the mouse.

Well, I did post about it here first to discuss the issue. Apparently no one else had the issue and I had no way of knowing it was not a quirk on my machine.

eelik · July 23, 2018, 7:15am

The packagers have noticed some problems with compilation which lead to “assert” dialogs. All of you who have downloaded and installed 5.0.0: stay tuned for possible updates. At least Windows and OSX may have been affected. Problematic packages will be replaced in the download section of kicad.org.

davidsrsb · July 23, 2018, 8:33am

I have the dubious honour of causing the first commit against the 5.0 release to fix this assert bug:

Rene_Poschl · July 23, 2018, 9:30am

You have never linked to a bug report.

Sprig · July 23, 2018, 1:55pm

I have not yet needed to.
It is not my intent to waste developers time. My current machine/Windoze instal is anything but stable on it’s own. As such is the case, I always ask here if others are having the same problem and discuss whether or not the issue is KiCad related.
Majority of the time it is an already reported bug.

Rene_Poschl · July 23, 2018, 2:00pm

What then does the line “add your info to the bug report” mean? (Reporting anything only here makes no sense at all. You really need to report it on the bugtracker. Otherwise the devs will not be aware of any of the listed problems!)