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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

As soon as I have the rough draft completed, I will post a link to it
for review before I commit it.

On 6/18/2018 9:09 AM, Rene Pöschl wrote:
> Another pitfall seems to be that users do not expect that they need to
> update their fp-lib-table after installing kicad 5.
> 
> Either they need to update the fp-lib-table to get the footprint library
> to the state of v5 or they would need to manually install the version 4
> symbol and 3d model libs to stay at the version 4 library.
> 
> 
> On 17/06/18 19:05, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> Adam,
>>
>> AFAIK, there is not an upgrading reference but we should probably create
>> one.  Since the biggest change that has the potential to confuse users
>> is the symbol remapping, I will write a short document and add it to the
>> end of the KiCad users manual.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>>
>> On 06/17/2018 12:03 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>>> Hi folks!
>>>
>>> Do we have a good reference for users upgrading from V4 to V5, telling
>>> them any important precautions they'll need to take, and maybe even
>>> what they can expect to be different?  I would love to help to write
>>> this for V6 but for V5 I am too swamped with macOS (but still
>>> optimistic we can hit Wayne's current schedule).
>>>
>>> If so, I would like to refer to this in the macOS README.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
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