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[Miguel Angel Ajo <mangelajo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the update Wayne, and thanks everybody for working hard into 
a good direction.

I believe we can easily set in place autobuilders for the stable release 
too, so, when new patches are sent to stable branch, we get a fresh 
stable build.

On the fedora side I will create kicad-stable repo on the copr 
autobuilder for easy consumption, with a long term goal is to get it 
into default fedora, but I guess that needs the wxwidgets + gtk2 build 
in-fedora.

Best,
Miguel Ángel

Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> This week did not go as planned.  I was ready to pull the trigger on the
> stable branch yesterday when the 3D viewer crash report came in.  I
> would like to get that addressed before I create the stable branch.
> Once this fix is committed, I will create a stable branch (4.0.0-rc1)
> for testing.  This means no new features (except possibly Tom's Eeschema
> to Pcbnew update patch) until after the stable release.  We will
> continue to apply bug fixes to the product branch so the autobuilders
> can be used for testing.  I will periodically merge the fixes into the
> stable release branch until it's ready for prime time.
>
> I just committed a change in how the build version string is generated
> which should fix the long standing issue of the bzr version not getting
> updated automatically without running `make rebuild_cache`.  I also
> added the ability to define the version string during CMake
> configuration which will allow packagers to define the appropriate
> version string for stable release builds.  Configuring CMake like this:
>
> cmake -DKICAD_BUILD_VERSION="4.0.0-rc1" -DKICAD_REPO_NAME="stable"
>
> will result in a build string of:
>
> 4.0.0-rc1-stable
>
> I've only tested this on windows so please let me know if you find any
> issues on other platforms.  For those of you who are using the msys2
> package builder file PKGBUILD to build kicad, please note that the msys2
> version of bzr is broken and will fail attempting to determine the bzr
> version.  Please comment out the bzr source build dependency in PKGBUILD
> and use one of the native bzr windows installers instead.  Make sure to
> add the bzr executable to your system path so CMake can find it during
> configuration.  I will remove it from the PKGBUILD file and send a pull
> request to the msys2 devs when I get a chance.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne
>
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