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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

All installations need a local kicad-library, not just OS X. They are all
in the same situation. The next OS X nightly will be good if you pull the
latest kicad-libary for the build.

Kerusey Karyu will announce the change on the users group on Yahoo to warn
people. If anyone has an account and wants to forward my message before he
does, feel free to do so.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hmm.
>
> So the OSX builds use Github by default for footprints, and have symbols
> "baked in" at build time.
>
> Every OS X nightly build is going to produce bad boards, and there's no
> way to tell users to update or inform them about this change through the
> program at all.
>
> I really wish I would have known about this earlier.
>
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer
> Wayne and Layne
> On Apr 24, 2015 11:42 AM, "Carl Poirier" <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> This is simply to warn you that all diodes in KiCad's libraries have seen
>> their pin numbers swapped. This is to be in line with most other software
>> and the IPC standard as well, which states that cathode should be pin 1.
>> This work is courtesy of the newest librarian, Ricardo Crudo.
>>
>> If you are using Github libraries directly, the only thing you will have
>> left to do is update your schematic libraries to the latest revision of
>> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library before continuing your work. If
>> you have a local copy of the footprint repositories, then when you are
>> ready you will be able to pull the changes for both the schematic libraries
>> and the affected footprint libraries:
>>
>> 1. Diodes_SMD.pretty <https://github.com/KiCad/Diodes_SMD.pretty>
>> 2. Diodes_ThroughHole.pretty
>> <https://github.com/KiCad/Diodes_ThroughHole.pretty>
>> 3. LEDs.pretty <https://github.com/KiCad/LEDs.pretty>
>>
>> Thank you for your understanding and sorry for the inconvenience.
>>
>> Carl Poirier
>>
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