It has been 8 months since 2.0.7, and LibreCAD v2 has become better.

Exciting New Features:

1. DWG read support! Big thanks to our CAD expert @Rallaz ;
2. SVG export support! Salute to @dinkel ;
3. Arabic Language GUI support. More work is needed for:
* Right-to-left support for Text entities;
* Arabic fonts for Text.
4. More user configurable settings in App Preferences.

Under the hood, there’s lots of cleanup and coding style tweaking towards C++11, and the code base should be cleaner for new developers.

There is also lots of GUI and user experience tweaking, mostly following user requests. Clearly, LibreCAD needs help from more developers with the large volume of feature requests and bug reports from our user community.

A list of all commits since 2.0.7 can be found at 2.0.8 Forum Announcement

Feel free to join the development, if you are interested in C++/Qt.

The LibreCAD Team

We are pleased to announce the release of LibreCAD 2.0.5.

Windows and OS/X Mavericks(10.9) installers can be found:
Windows: http://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/files/Windows/2.0.5/
OS/X Mavericks: http://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/files/OSX/2.0.5/LibreCAD-2.0.5-Mavericks.dmg/download

In this 2.0.5 release, we added or changed since 2.0.4:

1, interpolation spline， Draw->Spline->Spline Points  (designed by Pavel Krejcir);
2, File -> Export as PDF
3, Korean language support;
4, smooth scrolling/zooming (designed by Oskar Linde);
5, allow user to hide splash at loading;
6, gcc-4.10 support;
7, Work-in-progress, finding enclosed area within a contour;
8, added appdata.xml;
9, “Modify->Round” renamed to “Modify->Fillet”
10, command line aliases can be made for both regular commands and short commands.

We also fixed many bugs since the 2.0.4 release.

The LibreCAD Team

LibreCAD looks good on SourceForge. We will be on the ballot for the July Project of Community Choice SourceForge project of the Month.

If you have a sf.net account, please login to vote for LibreCAD at https://sourceforge.net/p/potm/discussion/vote/thread/a278b79a/ . If you do not get a sf.net account yet, voting for LibreCAD is a good reason to register for one, and be able to submit bug reports and feature requests for LibreCAD at sf.net.

The LibreCAD Team

While our new LibreCAD_3 engine is under heavy development as part of the GSoC 2014 program, we will still have LibreCAD-2 developments, bugfixes and new features for this version of LibreCAD. Thanks to help from our small but dedicated developers, LibreCAD 2.0.4 is ready for end users.

Here are some major bugs fixed in this bug fixing release:

• Windows and OS/X printer dialog fails to appear when running Qt5;
• A patched version of muparser is used by default for OS/X and win32;
• Update layer for selected entities when a layer is selected
• Plotting/drawing mathematical equations by smallfix
• Draw circle by 2 points and radius
• PIC file importer by cgrzemba
• Update layer for selected entities when a layer is selected by ajisaacs
• Lots of shortcut fixes by thomas
• Arc angle updates for negative z-axis by coryjc190
• Drawing order regression in 2.0.3

It may take several days for us to prepare and upload win32 and OS/X installers to librecad.sf.net .

The LibreCAD Team

Update: 2.0.2 was released after two serious bugs in 2.0.1 were fixed.

After two years of development by our small group of developers, LibreCAD-2.0 is deemed stable enough to replace the aging LibreCAD-1.0.4.Two serious bugs  were fixed in version 2.0.1 after the release of 2.0.0 at the end of 2013. We recommend users to upgrade to 2.0.1 from previous versions of LibreCAD. Windows and OS/X users can download 2.0.1 installers at http://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/files/ . If you come across issues due to upgrading from 1.0 series, please report in forum.librecad.org or at our sourceforge bug tracker.

Some notable changes visible to users:

1. reworked snapping system to allow simultaneous multiple snapping options; snapping of equidistant middle points;
2. Helping/scratch layer support. Straight lines are kept infinite and entities are skipped  in printout;
3. isometric grids;
4. architectural tick;
5. support of new ellipse features missing in version 1.0, such as, intersection, middle point, arc length, and tangential direction;
6. several new drawing features for line, circle, and ellipse;
7. improved localization, translation for plugins and standard dialogs;
8. support for a general factor for drawing size dimensions to help scaled drawings;
9. revert entities direction, developed by effad;
10. some UI tweaking;
11. Windows setup registration to add LC in Windows Control Panel
    ‘Programs and Features’.

In this last release candidate of our next major stable release 2.0.0, we fixed several critical CAD engine bugs related to arc and ellipse classes, and we also improved packaging for both OS/X and Windows.

While the current OS/X installers are more stable compared with our previous releases, we encourage OS/X users/developers to help the stabilization process by testing and reporting issues/patches to our bug trackars or user forums.

Thanks to contributions from our large user community, LibreCAD-2.0.0rc3 supports 46 localizations in 25 languages.

We will start 2.1 forking soon with the formal release of 2.0.0. and interested developers may start sharing their ideas and pull requests by then. Please join us to make LibreCAD better!

The 2.0.0rc3 installers for Windows and OS/X can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/files/

The LibreCAD Team

After nearly three months of hard work, we are glad to announce the release of 2.0.0rc2 of LibreCAD, one more step towards our next major stable release 2.0.0. A short list of commit log is attached for your convenience.

As of 2.0.0rc2, we expect LibreCAD to be stable enough for daily usage, as we have fixed some serious issues since 2.0.0rc1 and have had more time for testing. As a free software project, we highly value feedback from our user community, whether it’s in form of bug reporting, wiki building, template/library sharing, or a friendly chat on IRC.

Our LibreCAD users would be pleased to welcome our new developers who are working hard to make LibreCAD better: Armin Stebich(LordOfBikes) and Tamas TEVESZ (g0rdon).

Beyond 2.0: please feel free to share your vision on LibreCAD-2.1 with our developers.

Thank you and enjoy LibreCAD-2.0.0rc2!

The LibreCAD Team

Armin Stebich (25):

• added more initialization regarding sf.net bug #396
• fixed sf.net ticket #414, font size of selected length in qg_selectionwidget
• fixed more ellipse tolerance issues
• fixed sf.net bug #419, MText line spacing not saved
• fixed missing tr() method
• load Qt standard dialog translations
• added Qt translation files to windows NSIS installer package
• set the output folder for Qt qm-files in Windows NSIS installer config
• applied sf.net patch #38, added strings to translation
• improvement of windows build batch files
• merge changes from lordofbikes/master
• fixed issue with save/restore of snap modes
• applied sf.net patch #39, added strings to translation
• Merge pull request #402 from alice23/master
• fixed sf.net bug #417 saving layer attributes
• Merge branch ‘master’ of github.com:LibreCAD/LibreCAD
• added plugins translation files and include them in LC and build process
• fixed typo in plugins.pro
• fixed windows build in new *.pri files
• fixed wrong icon file name in LibreCADdoc.qhcp
• Merge branch ‘master’ of github.com:LibreCAD/LibreCAD
• improvement of postprocess-win.bat
• added missing doc file
• fixed windows build of ttf2lff, included time.h
• ttf2lff – eliminate goto jumps in main()

Chris J. Mutter (1):

• fixed compile error on newer C++11 compilers (g++48, clang33) that dont accept a cast to (char)NULL

Dongxu Li (25):

• disabled ModifyText button from toolbar Modify, bug #415
• ellipse3p: fixed a tolerance issue
• floating point tolerance cleanup, more work needed
• Merge pull request #398 from jasleenkaur/patch-1
• updated README
• fixes for macx building issues
• use snprintf() instead of sprintf()
• Do not use stringstream for osx
• Do not print help layer, bug#406
• Replacing uint with unsigned for gcc-4.8
• qmake building scripts for boost, muparser, and freetype
• fixed a qmake warning
• Building script for FreeBSD
• clang building
• fixed building issues with clang
• fbsd: script fix for user mode building
• renamed setting .pro files to .pri
• exclude images from snapIntersection, bug#426
• SCMREVISION updated to 2.0.0rc2
• fixed another compiler warning revert this if this commit causes regression of dimensions
• fixed a building issue for macx, bug#422
• minor command line fixes, issue#400
• updated windows building scripts for Qt-5.1.1
• dxfrw: disabled output of unused ACADVER key, more work needed to fix the real cause
• win32: avoid adding empty boostlib to LIBS

Jasleen Kaur (1):

• updated librecad.dox

Rallaz (5):

• added patch #37 crash on load fixed
• correct ellipse extrusion from Florian
• Merge branch ‘master’ of github.com:LibreCAD/LibreCAD
• remove Qt dependency for ttf2lff
• hack: disable boost lib check in boost.pri

Tamas TEVESZ (16):

• Corrent limit for strftime()
• FreeBSD-related fixes
• Kill unused files
• Fix permissions on non-executables
• Fix qmake variable names
• Rationalize ttf2lff
• Merge branch ‘master’ of github.com:LibreCAD/LibreCAD
• Fix for Qt5
• Add compiler and Qt version info to About panel
• Somewhat better fix for building on FreeBSD
• Tame runaway search and replace.
• Missed settings.pro->settings.pri in previous commit.
• Correct fix for #406
• Generic approach to detect versioned Qt executables.
• Some instructions for building on Red Hat-like distros
• Add pkg-config to dep list for Debian-ish distros

We are pleased to announce the release of LibreCAD-2.0.0rc1, our first release candidate towards LibreCAD-2.0.0.

In this release, we have improved building scripts for both OS/X and Windows, with the help from our new team member Armin(LordOfBikes). From now on, installers for OS/X and Windows will be always available at the time of a new release.

We fixed many serious bugs in this release, getting closer to a stable release, as shown by the git log attached.

Please keep helping  the development of LibreCAD, and any help is important and highly appreciated whether it’s in the form of donation, bug reporting, or C++ code hacking.

The LibreCAD Team

————————-Change Log since previous release——————–

Armin Stebich (8):
fixed folder name typo in LibreCADdoc.qhcp
Merge remote-tracking branch ‘upstream/master’
adjust the max pen toolbar length to avoid curtailed content
Merge remote-tracking branch ‘upstream/master’
adding scripts/custom-windows.bat for path issues with Qt and NSIS
RS_ActionBlocksInsert: initialising member variables
Merge pull request #396 from lordofbikes/master
fixed issue with build-windows.bat, installer was created without resources

Dongxu Li (28):
arc trim debugging
arc trimming point, more work needed
detect zooming overflow, bug#3608502
bug# 409, fixed an infinite loop
hatch: fixed hatch bug with spline, bug#402
hatch contour tolerance tweaking
info2: fixed a segfault, bug#396
added nsis script for Qt5.0
fixed some compiler warning
fixed some compiler warning for plugins
updated default boost/muparser versions for windows
added script for cli building on windows
fixed an error in windows building script
updated win32 nsis script
building script for os/x
fixed a typo in OS/X building script
updated README.md for building instructions
added wiki link to README.md
updated scm version to 2.0.0rc1
remove old dmg leftover
added windows building script for cygwin
added printsupport dll for windows installer
Merge pull request #395 from lordofbikes/master
fixed a crash at getting intersections
fixed logic in detecting invalid quadratic
updated README for OS/X
updated os/x building script
updated os/x building script

Rallaz (6):
bug #3611536 Line width changes bad saved
correct angle in circle hatch
remove qt3support in nsis script
more correct save of dims in R12
bug #410, correct read symbols in dims
bug #411, correct initialize borders in RS_Leader

We are pleased to announce the releasing of 2.0.0beta2 of LibreCAD.

After hard working for 4 months, LibreCAD is stabilizing down after many bug fixes for:

1, dxfrw; 2, printing; 3, OS/X specific crashes; 4, some Windows specific building support;

Please continue to help us reach the stable 2.0.0 release faster by using LC-2.0.0beta2 and reporting bugs to our sourceforge bug tracker. Please note it may take days for us to prepare the the installer files for downloading, while the latest source code is always available at: https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD

With the future 2.1 version in mind, we would like to hear more about your ideas on  new features expected in our next stable release after 2.0. Some things we have been talking about: Bezier and spline support, better hatching algorithms, geo-reference support, better command line interface, scripting, and scripting ability, etc.

Even more ambitious, we are very interested in porting LibreCAD to mobile platforms, please feel free to talk to us on mobile CAD at our forums: http://forum.librecad.org

The LibreCAD team

We are pleased to announce the releasing of 2.0.0beta1 of LibreCAD.

Some of the new features implemented since the previous alpha release: feature complete of the dxfrw library, SVG export, a “Clear” button for command line, support for both text and mtext entities, filter layer list by regex, several tangential circle drawing methods, a new quadratic form engine for intersections, and hatching of ellipses.

There are also lots of bug fixes.

With 2.0 in stabilization stage, we would like to hear more about your ideas on  new features expected in our 2.1 release. Some thing we have been talking about: Bezier and spline support, better hatching algorithms, geo-reference support, better command line and scripting ability, etc.

The LibreCAD team