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Re: Stable release 4 is out!

 

Wonderful!  Thanks all!

I should be able to push the button on an OS X download tonight, and I'll
sanity check and then push it again with the proper fancy name tomorrow :)

Adam Wolf

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>
> On 11/29/2015 04:05 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> > 2015-11-29 21:39 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> I just finished rolling out KiCad 4.0.0.  Many thanks to everyone who
> >> made this possible.  Each and every one of you deserve to sit back and
> >> enjoy this accomplishment.  I have a few minor requests before I make a
> >> trip to my refrigerator to grab a cold one to celebrate.
> >>
> >> Someone please add an announcement the to blog page on the KiCad
> website?
> >
> > Yes, I am on it. It will be available shortly.
>
> Thanks.
>
> >
> >> The footprint, symbol and 3D model library, documentation, and
> >> translation repos need to be tagged 4.0.0 so future package builds can
> >> pull the proper version.  At some point in the future we may need to
> >> create 4.0.0 branches of the library, documentation, and translation
> >> repos but for now the tags should suffice.  Please do not make any
> >> commits to these repos until after they are tagged.
> >
> > Commiting should not prevent you to tag commits in git, and I don't
> > even think so in bzr. :)
>
> You are correct.  I had a brain cramp.  You just have to remember which
> commit needs to be tagged if you make any commits after the announcement.
>
> >
> >> What do we need to do as far as creating automated builds for the
> >> correct version of the documentation?  I know packagers on some
> >> platforms will need pre-built documentation for the 4.0 release.  This
> >> shouldn't be a significant issue until we start documenting new features
> >> during the next development cycle.
> >
> > I am planning to just build the latest docs and make them available on
> > downloads.kicad-pcb.org/docs/kicad-doc.{tar.gz,zip} or something.
>
> Thanks.
>
> >
> >> Please do not swamp me with patches and new feature merge requests over
> >> the next few days.  I have some of my own coding that I need to get done
> >> for the next development cycle so I'm not going to have a lot of time to
> >> do code reviews and I would like to reduce the number hours a week I've
> >> been spending working on KiCad for a few weeks.
> >
> > Thank you for finally calling the release.
> >
> >> Thanks again everyone!
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Wayne
>
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