What's new in Open Board Viewer 9.95.0 Pre-release
Feb 13, 2023
- GenCAD format support
- Fix pin/part side handling
- Improved interactive update of search-preview-highlighted parts
- Fix outline/hull generation for large pin count
- Various bugfixes for some files
- Various build system fixes
New in Open Board Viewer 9.0.3 (Jun 1, 2022)
- Fix ASC file lookup in working directory + error handling for lookup_file_insensitive
New in Open Board Viewer 9.0.0 (May 10, 2022)
- Major features since 8.0:
- Add custom keyboard bindings #175
- Add background board image #176
- Protel-ASCII file format support #191
- BVR3 file format support #236
- Report errors to GUI when loading files db30581, Validate parity of FZ key or report error #91 72acc29, Stub BRDAllegroFile to report unsupported file format #62 2a47526
- Since 8.95.2:
- SVR3 file format support #236
- Show part name inside part bounding box d4b98cb
- Show pin net name inside pin bounding box a797931
- Bug fixes:
- Disable GL3 renderer for nouveau on Nvidia Tesla 0b3ccae
- Do not attempt drawing anything when window is minimized/display size is 0 d19024e
- BackgroundImage: fix writing image path when executing from same directory as config file e72223f
- Fix background color setting fd9dbe5
New in Open Board Viewer 8.95.2 Beta (Mar 21, 2022)
- Since 8.95.1:
- Replace assert() with SDL_LogError() so that OBV doesn't abort on file parsing issues 4a39d4d
- Report errors to GUI when loading files db30581
- Validate parity of FZ key or report error #91 72acc29
- Stub BRDAllegroFile to report unsupported file format #62 2a47526
- Enable gestures on multi-touch touchpads (pinch-to-zoom, rotate) #203 23c4de2 4430e5c
- Breaking changes:
- Refactor keyboard handling to use ImGuiKey rather than SDL (ImGui v1.87 compatibility) #228 4d446f5
- Existing keyboard bindings configuration will break and will have to be reconfigured or default configuration be restored. In case of issues even after restoring defaults, remove all KeyBinding* entries from the configuration file.
- Bug fixes:
- Properly fix test pads showing up on both sides 77d34b7
- Fix ground net from rendering if named GROUND instead of GND. #218 2d53aed
New in Open Board Viewer 8.95.1 Beta (Jun 20, 2021)
- Default to Cmd+O/Q/F on macOS rather than Ctrl and remove Ctrl+C to quit (nonsense in a GUI, that's for CLI apps) 3cf9927
- Bug fixes:
- Fix enum for the CADFile blocks #206 caf03d3
- PartList/NetList: fix ImGuiListClipper usage with ImGui 1.79 #207 8484243
- Imported namespace targets for SDL2 <2.0.12 support #201 #205 077d12a
- Confparse: Fix saving first entry after creating new file 31b9f5c
- BackgroundImage: ignore empty image paths silently b268422
- Improve ground pins handling #211 f971415
- Fix opening files with special characters in the path on Windows #215 b2673d8
New in Open Board Viewer 8.95.0 Beta (Dec 13, 2020)
- New features:
- Configurable keyboard bindings #175 9f601a3
- Board background image support #176 3fe1b22
- Add Protel-ASCII and BGA pad names #191 8fd5927
- A1/Pin-1 pad highlight #192 0964515
- Copy to clipboard for component and its pins. #172 #200 fbdb331
- Bug fixes:
- Build with gcc 10 fails #177 befed74
- Selection disappears when use Flip Board from menu #179 7e346f9 f998954
- Debouncing and slowCPU option issue #196 7f9ade3 4468c41
- Program doesn't remember user setting for View -> Show Position and Annotations #197 75bc122 e3a8179
- ImGui update with some rendering backend rework
New in Open Board Viewer Release 8.0 (May 7, 2020)
- New file format support:
- CAST (.CST)
- Samsung CAD (.CAD)
- Support another variant of BRD format (eg. Thinkpad T420)
- Miscellaneous additions:
- Improve Linux integration with .desktop file and MIME-type for file association
- Improve automatic OpenGL renderer selection
- Add fallback outline for boardview files missing them
- Bug fixes:
- Double side component fix.
- Fix test pads showing up on both sides
- Open file directly by double-clicking on it when associated to OBV
- BRD2: Workaround missing net for nails
- Don't disable screensaver
- Fix crash when clicking on CLEAR before loading board
- Fix opening ASC from current directory
New in Open Board Viewer Release 7.3 (Sep 12, 2018)
- Search field is now autoselected when search is opened again with existing search entries
- Search field now performs a suggested spellings ( @piernov )
New in Open Board Viewer 0.4 (Aug 18, 2016)
- Includes various changes, including:
- Refactored keyboard shortcuts
- Updated main menu
- Drag and drop
- Uses system font
- Draw pin circles at runtime (may reduce performance)
- .brd filefilter on Open dialog
- Better error handling
- Some "behind the scenes" changes too:
- Move to using cmake to generate the build files
- Added some code in preperation for the unix ports
- Use metadata set in Project.cmake to generate various strings
- Some code cleanup and other minor bugfixes
New in Open Board Viewer 0.3 (May 30, 2016)
- Add an application icon
- Display an error message when failing to load invalid files
- Add File > Quit menu item
- Add View menu (to show the rotate/flip hotkeys)
New in Open Board Viewer 0.2 (May 30, 2016)
- XP support
- Case-insensitive search