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[Dino Ghilardi <dino.ghilardi@xxxxxxxx>]

Just a thought (may be a little off-topic):

	Since old pcbnew versions will not be able to open files in new format, 
there should be a way to export a pcb in the "old/stable" format, so 
that when testing latest development version of pcbnew on an old board 
(and saving it) can be undone without editing manually the files (of 
course exporting in the old format will loose new features but ensures 
to be able to go back to a stable version if something goes wrong during 
the tests).

As an example, lately I was asked to produce some schematic files using 
the "stable" version of kicad (the files were supposed to be used also 
by "non-developers"). Since old versions did read the new files I did 
use the latest eeschema version, tested it, found some bugs etc...
Without being able to export to the "stable" file format I would not be 
allowed to use (and test) latest dev versions. May be this can be a 
problem to other testers too.

Cheers,
Dino.