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[Rene Pöschl <poeschlr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the quick answer.
I now know what to look for if we need to revert the lib version for 
some of the official libs.

On 18/01/18 23:16, Maciej Suminski wrote:
> Since version 2.4 libraries support long pin and pad names (longer than
> 4 characters), so they are 100% compatible with 2.3 as long as you do
> not use these features.
>
> Regards,
> Orson
>
> On 01/18/2018 11:11 PM, Rene Pöschl wrote:
> > ".lib" files created or edited with a recent nightly build set the
> > header information to version 2.4.
> >
> > What is the difference to the lib version used in kicad stable (version
> > 2.3).
> >
> > I can open 2.4 version libs using kicad stable. But kicad stable does
> > not display anything that is stored in the dcm file.
> >
> > (If i then edit such a lib file with stable, it results in the loss of
> > the complete dcm file content.)
> >
> >
> > Is it possible to revert the file version in some manner if a file has
> > been updated to version 2.4 such that the lib can be used again in kicad
> > stable?
> >
> >
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