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[Jan Mrázek <email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Wayne and others,

I am really looking forward for the release. As a maintainer of several 
KiCAD plugins, I would like to add support for KiCAD 6 to them  before 
it is released so my users can migrate right away. However, the last 
time I wanted to add the support I run into a problem of missing Python 
API due to the migration from SWIG to Pybind.

Could you (or anyone else)  give me a brief overview (or point me to 
relevant sources) where can I learn how was the API changed so I can 
adapt my plugins? I was trying to learn about it from the commits, but I 
wasn't able to learn anything due to the tremendous commit rate (I 
admire the whole team for that), so this is why I am reaching out to you.

Also, what can we expect in v6? And what will lack? I noticed that some 
of the Python API relevant issues, that I consider as essential, still 
left open and have no updates in them:

- Pbnew Python API: Cannot to set board design settings
 (https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/6885)
- Python: Missing API for setting board aux origin 
(https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/8836)
- Eeschema python library 
(https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2077)

Jan

On 28. 10. 21 23:09, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> The lead development team has agreed on a version 6 release schedule 
> as follows:
>
>
> - String freeze November 1.
> - Tag RC1 on November 15.
> - All repos frozen on December 14.
> - Tag all repos with 6.0.0 on December 15.
> - 6.0.0 release announcement December 31 (maybe the day before Christmas
>   just for fun).
> - Branch V6 and open master for new feature development on January 1.
>
> Our goal is to stick to that as closely as possible so if you have any 
> outstanding work, please use this schedule as a reference to get it done.
>
> Going forward, we will be following the new stable release policy[1] 
> which will move us to an annual release schedule.
>
> Thank you everyone for your continued support of the KiCad project. 
> Hopefully the version 6 release will go reasonably smoothly and we can 
> get started on version 7 in 2022.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> [1]: https://dev-docs.kicad.org/en/rules-guidelines/release-policy/
>
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