CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

[2.2.1-alpha] - unreleased

Added

• shortcut "0" to specify coordinates "0,0" on command line
• shortcut "." or "," to specify the current point coordinates on command line

Removed

• importshp plugin, see issue #1481

Changed

Fixed

• various issues in LFF font files
• segfault with malformed LFF font files
• CVE-2023-30259, OOB reads in importshp plugin (#1481)

[2.2.0] - 2022-12-17

Added

• librecad.appdata.xml for AppImage creation

Changed

• mitigated DWG open warning and allow opening with errors
• Help/Online menu, use links direct, instead of dialog with double click
• sync libdxfrw (d73a25c)

Fixed

• missing resources in unix folder (#1570)
• flood of RS_Modification warnings when deleting (#1567)
• clang regression with std::initializer_list<> (#1568)
• missing plugins on Redhat/Fedora and their branches (#1563)
• spline issue on Windows (32-bit) from previous fix
• image mirroring (#1525)

[2.2.0-rc4] - 2022-06-07

Added

• symbols to unicode.lff
• CHANGELOG.md - history of changes back to version 2.1.0
• new error code from libdxfrw update
• build Windows, MacOS and Linux packages in one action

Changed

• sync libdxfrw (8378f39)
• added tool tips to Categories tool widget (#1519)
• added @ symbol to relative coordinates in status bar (#1452)
• changed misleading unit label in curent drawing preferences (#1453)
• changed tab order in text dialog (#1432)
• maximum size of status bar for hidpi displays
• sync libdxfrw (072aecd)
• copy/rename media files in desktop folder to remove whitespaces

Fixed

• fixed renaming of nested blocks (#1527)
• preserve list position in block and layer list (#1515)
• fixed polyline issue when line type was changed (#1496)
• add minutes label to auto save time in application preferences (#1412)
• add files saved as with new name to recent files (#1364)
• snap on middle point failed for spline through points (#1395)
• spline issue with tolerance on ascii to double conversion
• DXF viewport reading issue by updating libdxfrw
• status bar height toggling on auto save
• solid fill hatch issues
• Ukrainian and symbol characters in unicode.lff
• possible out of bounds read with MText entities
• AppImage was broken by fix for (#1488)
• wrong translations folder for additionals paths from settings
• getDirectoryList() failed on Linux when librecad is in $PATH (#1488)
• bounds check in LWPolyline
• NULL check for hatch code 93
• vulnerabilities in JWW parser

[2.2.0-rc3] - 2021-11-29

Added

• more expressive error messages on file open for DXF/DWG files
• deploy AppImage for Linux users

Changed

• Move to new IRC network
• libdxfrw update
• List entities plugin: Add text insertion point and text content to its output (#1325)

Fixed

• read failed with binary DXF (#1371)
• small drawing windows in tabbed mode, when open failed
• LFF font issue (#1252)
• issue with detecting LFF font files
• tools/ttf2lff - add more font info and FreeType version to output
• angular dimensions persistently pull single click selection with arrow size 0
• libdxfrw failed to open non LibreCAD DXF files (sf611)

[2.2.0-rc2] - 2020-12-31

Added

• multiple blocks selection, toggling, deletion
• multiple layers selection and deletion
• Tiled printing
• Buttons to refresh Library Browser contents
• Console dxf2pdf tool
• filter field to Block List widget
• new plugin Divide
• new pattern millstone.dxf (#964)

Changed

• Combined Letter / ANSI A, Tabloid / ANSI B
• Changed Ledger to Tabloid
• Block may contain inserts of other blocks except itself
• Print Preview: Line width scaling
• holding the "Shift" key during placing the line endpoint with mouse snaps to 15° step angles (0°,15°,30°,45°,...)
• Optional inversion of zoom direction
• Changing attributes of a block does not change attributes of sub-entities (#755,#1080)
• Optional inversion of mouse wheel scrolling directions
• Respect both tolerance and negative factor values on block import
• bundle all plugin modifications into one undoCycle
• uncheck 'Print to file' checkbox in QPrinterDialog
• Lock/unlock all layers
• SVG export renamed to Export as CAM/plain SVG
• Improve appearance of inside-horizontal dimensions

Fixed

• libdxfrw - reading DWG hatch entities
• angle not consistent between move and rotate option and dialog (#1137)
• missing subclass marker in PLOTSETTINGS.
• Enhance visibility of black lines on dark backgrounds
• save/restore issue of snap modes (#1147)
• new undo/redo buffer for active line drawing (#1101)
• export black/white with black background used black pen too (#962)
• some more issues with paper size, NPageSize is no paper size, localize paper size names
• equidistant polylines had the correct layer, but not the layers properties (#1201)
• Unhighlight entity after exiting Orthogonal Line tool
• libdxfrw: fix spline parsing
• Page sizes cleaned up, added ANSI
• Print Preview: fix auto zoom on opening
• Print Preview: Line Scaling respects General Scale.
• added auto-zoom after inserting an image
• added more digits to extension lines lenth input box (#1203)
• Print Preview behaves as other windows
• Sync options visibility with window focus
• Print Preview not closing
• Zoom panning can only be used once and must then be reactivated (#1085)
• allow Save As for unmodified files
• Save As could not create new files
• endless loop occurred when trying to save a write-locked file
• using shift key to select has deselected layers/blocks between after mouse button release
• Toggle actions adjustments for Layer/Block Lists multiselection feature
• Respect Layer List Filter on layers removal
• 'move to bottom' command with existing selection
• Unhighlight limiting entity after exiting Trim tool
• Create equidistant polylines in currently selected layer
• "hold shift" to mirroring entities doesn't snap on 15° angles
• Save Block: do not remove blocks while saving
• preview on inserting block with inserts
• Undo block removing
• Window for block editing
• Update window title on block renaming
• Deactivate removed block
• Block cannot contain blocks
• Drawing opts: paper size to orientation relationship
• custom landscape paper size resetting
• pasting from clipboard to block
• Fit to whole page
• Do not highlight selection on Print Preview
• persistence of the angle in a MoveRotate operation
• Improve User Experience while working with multiple drawings (#515,#1108)
• Create a preference to toggle Free Snap mode when SPACE BAR is pressed (#1107)
• modfiy image refresh (#1102)
• Use sentence case for all buttons in popup menus
• add new checkable button and preference to allow whitespace in the command interface (#1098)
• Negative numbers are not accepted for Copy/Move input points (#981)
• Print Preview: Limit paper movement
• Printing respect paper margins
• Print Preview shows paper margins
• Page margins and page preview
• Apply scroll direction inversion to Trackpad
• Exclude only INSERTs from Undo on Block-deep attributes modification
• Change layer of inserts by layer list click should not modify the layers of block entities (#1065)
• Skip re-saving already saved settings values
• disappearance of entities on modification after undo (#1049)
• single dimension tolerance labels made false lines on zoom out (#1060)
• Modification status mark in window title
• segfault (#1048)
• Respect paper scale with 'fixed' checked (#592,#605,#705)
• Exploded entities issues fix (#819)
• libdxfrw violation (#1038,#1045)
• write access violation when a malicious dxf is fed to libdxfrw (#1038)
• random LayerList icons issues on multi layer block imports (#1024)
• 2 segfaults
• Set factor to 1.0 if user inputs 0 on block import
• import block to active layer
• Factor value was ignored on block import
• RowSpacing and ColSpacing values were swapped in Insert properties dialog
• polyline was exploded, when selected while pasting (#932)
• improved Undo/Redo
• asking to save drawing, when closing unmodified drawing
• rotating multiple entities needed multiple undos, for each entity (#1002)
• crashed after cut, paste, undo (#993)
• oversized layer list icons for print and construction (#1021)
• '@' key press didn't activate command box (#1016)
• angular dimensions failed to move, rotate, mirror or scale (#1019)
• missing mouse button hint to clarify properties tool handling (#1008)
• column width in layer list too big since Ubuntu 18.04 (#980)
• Deselect entities on locking all layers
• Spline regression, where the startpoint was at 0,0 by mistake (#940,sf599)
• protect 4th vector when triangle solid is modified (Move,Rotate,Scale,Mirror) (#998)
• SVG export crashed on windows with Image Export
• length extension lines should scale according to the General Scale
• outside offset result of counterclockwise polyline wasn't connected (#972)
• Angular dimensions now respect user's custom label text

Removed

• ISO B series paper size
• too big and too small printing scales

[2.2.0-rc1] - 2018-02-16

Added

• support to draw auxiliary lines
• a new method to draw a polygon
• superscript 5 for all fonts
• architectural units for metric dimensions (#861)
• macOS Sierra support
• gear creation plugin
• font folder selection button
• 'Paste Multiple Commands' to the command line menu (#782)
• Pen Wizard with favorite colors list (#793,#795)
• F11 as the fullscreen hotkey for Linux (#569)
• support for individual coordinate variables (#780,#781)
• ability to load command files (#256,#689,#780,#782)
• user option for loading a variable file on startup (#689,#780,#782)
• alternative relative point syntax (#781)
• multi-command support with variable replacement (#689,#780,#782)
• command line variables (#780)
• easier way to create relative orthogonal points (#779)
• Space/Enter toggle free snap when cmd line is empty or in key code mode (#745)
• Space as alternative to Enter for cmd line & changed cal (#764)
• Ctrl+D for toggling draft mode (#750)

Changes

• Use a more suitable tabbar for the document list when in tab mode
• layer auto numbering improved
• Make the layerwidget filter field a bit more informative
• Change rotate to allow neg angles
• extend list plugin for more info about inserts
• improved modifier filtering for the command widget (#790,#817)
• improved keycode mode (#802,#804)
• modified the command line's ctrl+v to allow for multi-line input (#782)
• drag and drop for the favorite colors list (#793)
• improved circle anti-aliasing (#778)
• made 5.2.1 the minimum Qt version (#742)

Fixed

• refactoring of Angular Dimansions (#824,#896,#911)
• 'open with' didn't work on MacOS (#877)
• trackpad scroll when scrollbars are disabled
• Check viewport intersection only through points along the line
• adjusted Angular Dimension to provide inside/outside angles rather than inside/supplementary angles.
• selection of last color in the list for any layer
• Document Surveyor's Units in Current Drawing Preferences AngleFormat now has case specifier for Surveyors units (#883)
• custom page size - incorrect unit handling (#864)
• Improve Current Drawing Preferences - Units tab Angle Precision referenced wrong comboBox (#884)
• gcc 6 builds failed (#880)
• entities painted by plugins become invisible at certain positions on drawing
• Google Code in - fixed vaious spelling mistakes, submitted by participants
• some more undo related exceptions (#830)
• plot equation plugin missed out end value (#838)
• allowed for more widgets to be added to the penwizard (#795)
• possibly eliminated crash on tool activation (#814)
• file open dialog filter is case sensitive on Linux (#791)
• DXF files with comments in SECTIONs failed to load (#808)
• Save after Undo does nothing (#803)
• fixed crash on undo after ctrl+c / ctrl + v (#794)
• ensured - is considered in the new relative syntax (#781)
• ensured command line doesn't hijack hotkeys (#790)
• ensured accurate line previews (#787)
• ensured all objects are shown when a layer is toggled (#784)
• ensured layer 0 is activated when creating a new file (#775)
• ensured proper layer highlighting (#775)
• eliminated crash when pasting before a successful copy
• copied objects are not hidden with other layer objects (#774)
• Right mouse button click did not select block in Block List (#759)
• limit scrolling to drawing + perimeter
• Fix for Trackpads without smooth/hi-res scrolling
• Pasted blocks in Block List widget did not contain proper hatch data (#760)
• changing attributes of a block sub-entities (#755)
• explode action changed container entities attributes to wrong values (#754)
• ensured that closing inactive win doesn't affect the active (#753)

Removed

• removed wqy-unicode.lff

[2.1.3] - 2016-09-23

Fixed

• Shift would not activate the command line (#790,#817)
• Command+Tab didn't always activate the current drawing on OS X (#814,#821)

[2.1.2] - 2016-09-17

Fixed

• wouldn’t build with gcc 5.4 and 6
• mouse cursor was missing for ‘Arc Tangential’
• right-click with plugins could cause a crash (#786)
• construction lines were not drawn when the line segment was out of view
• DXF files with comments were not properly loaded (#808)
• drawings were not marked as modified after an ‘undo’
• the command line didn’t accept numpad input
• the command widget didn’t activate properly when floating (#790)

[2.1.1] - 2016-06-20

Fixed

• draft mode was not set for new/opened drawings (#749)
• performance did not improve when zooming into an area (#727)
• certain polylines were not rendered properly (#763)
• opening a file didn't restore the layer's construction state (#758)
• the cursor was hidden for 'polyline from existing'
• closing an inactive tab cleared the layer list
• wouldn't build with Qt4

[2.1.0] - 2016-06-04