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[Rene Pöschl <poeschlr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,


We (the librarians) created a kicad 4.0.x backport of the version 5 
libraries.

This backport contains a reduced set of footprints that are compatible 
with kicad 4.

We also backported the symbol libs (without loss as the current libs do 
not use any v5 features)

Only limitation of the symbol libs is that some footprint filters do not 
work. (They include library names) This means the effected symbols are 
not as useful as they will be in kicad version 5.


The intention behind this is to make the transition period as painless 
as we can make it.