v1.2.0

Changed

• KiCad environment variables: more variables detected, native KiCad 6 names,
  all exported to the environment (#205)
• Consequences of the priorities implementation:
  • qr_lib outputs are created before others
  • navigate_results and compress outputs are created after others

Added

• The outputs help now display the more relevant options first and highlighted.
  Which ones are more relevant is somehow arbitrary, comments are welcome.
• General stuff:
  • Outputs now can have priorities, by default is applied.
    Use -n to disable it.
• New outputs:
  • navigate_results creates web pages to browse the generated outputs.
    Example
• New globals:
  • environment section allows defining KiCad environment variables.
    (See INTI-CMNB/KiAuto#21)
• GitHub discussions are now enabled. Comment about your KiBot experience
  here

Fixed

• Components with mounting hole where excluded (#201)
• GenCAD output targets.
• Problems expanding multiple KiCad variables in the same value.
• XML BoM: Fixed problems with fields containing / (#206)
• pcb_print: vias processing was disabled.
• pcb_print: problems with frame in GUI mode and portrait page orientation.
• svg_pcb_print: page orientation for portrait.

v1.1.0

Added

• kibot-check tool to check the installation
• New outputs:
  • KiCad netlist generation
  • IPC-D-356 netlist generation (#197)
• Internal BoM:
  • Pattern and text variables expansion in the title (#198)
  • Customizable extra info after the title (#199)

Fixed

• Already configured outputs not created (i.e. when creating reports)
• KiCost+Internal variants: UTF-8 problems
• KiCost+Internal variants: problem with variant field capitalization

v1.0.0

Changed

• Internal BoM: now components with different Tolerance, Voltage, Current
  and/or Power fields aren't grouped together.
  These fields are now part of the default group_fields. (#79)
• JLCPCB example, to match current recommendations
  (g200kg/kicad-gerberzipper#11)
• Internal BoM: the field used for variants doesn't produce conflicts. (#100)
• The %v/%V expansion patterns now expand to the global variant when used in
  a context not related to variants. I.e. when a compress target expands
  %v.
• Now you get an error when defining two outputs with the same name.
• The %d/%sd/%bd expansion patterns are now affected by the global date_format.
  Can be disabled using date_reformat: false. (#121)
• The default output pattern now includes the output_id (%I)
• The source path for compress now has pattern expansion (#152)

Added

• General stuff:
  • KiCad 6 support
  • Import mechanism for filters, variants and globals (#88)
  • Outputs can use the options of other outputs as base (extend them). (#112)
  • A mechanism to avoid running some outputs by default. (#112)
  • --cli-order option to generate outputs in arbitrary order. (#106)
  • --quick-start option to create usable configs and outputs.
• Filters and variants:
  • Options to better control the rotation filter (#60 and #67):
    • invert_bottom: bottom angles are inverted.
    • skip_top: top components aren't rotated.
    • skip_bottom: bottom components aren't rotated.
  • Generic filter: options to match if a field is/isn't defined.
  • Another experimental mechanism to change 3D models according to the variant.
    (#103)
  • Support for variants on KiCost output. (#106)
• Expansion patterns:
  • %g the file_id of the global variant.
  • %G the name of the global variant.
  • %C1, %C2, %C3 and %C4 the comments in the sch/pcb title
    block.
  • %bc, %bC1, %bC2, %bC3, %bC4, %bd, %bf,
    %bF, %bp and %br board data
  • %sc, %sC1, %sC2, %sC3, %sC4, %sd, %sf,
    %sF, %sp and %sr schematic data
  • %V the variant name
  • %I user defined ID for this output
  • Now patterns are also expanded in the out_dir name.
• Global options:
  • Default global dir option.
  • Default global units option.
  • Global option to specify out_dir (like -d command line option)
  • Global options to control the date format.
  • Added global options to define the PCB details (pcb_material,
    solder_mask_color, silk_screen_color and pcb_finish)
• New preflights:
  • Commands to replace tags in the schematic and PCB (KiCad 5). (#93)
    Also a mechanism to define variables in KiCad 6. (#161)
  • Annotate power components. (#76)
  • Annotate according to PCB coordinates (#93)
• New outputs:
  • 3D view render
  • Report generation (for design house) (#93)
  • QR codes generation and update: symbols and footprints. (#93)
  • Print PCB layers in SVG/PDF/PS/EPS/PNG format.
  • Join PDFs. (#156)
  • Export PCB in GENCAD format. (#159)
  • Datasheet downloader. (#119)
• XLSX BoM: option to control the logo scale (#84)
• PDF/SVG PCB Print:
  • option hide_excluded to hide components marked by the exclude_filter.
    https://forum.kicad.info/t/fab-drawing-for-only-through-hole-parts/
  • mechanism to change the block title. (#102)
  • KiCad 6 color theme selection.
  • New pcb_print output with more flexibility and faster.
• Internal BoM:
  • option to avoid merging components with empty fields.
    Is named merge_both_blank and defaults to true.
  • when a Value field can't be interpreted as a number+unit,
    and it contain at least one space, now we try to use the text before the
    space. This helps for cases like "10K 1%".
  • count_smd_tht option to compute SMD/THT stats. (#113)
  • option to add text to the join list. (#108)
  • two other options for the sorting criteria.
  • XYRS support (you can generate position files using it)
  • CSV hide_header option
• Drill:
  • Excellon: added route_mode_for_oval_holes option.
  • Support for blind/buried vias. (#166)
• SCH PDF Print: monochrome and no frame options.
• Compress:
  • Now you can compress files relative to the current working directory.
    So you can create a compressed file containing the source schematic and
    PCB files. (#93)
  • Added an option to remove the files we compressed. (#192)
• Support for new KiCost options split_extra_fields and board_qty. (#120)
• Position files now can include virtual components. (#106)
• Support for --subst-models option for KiCad 6's kicad2step. (#137)

Fixed

• Position files now defaults to use the auxiliary origin as KiCad.
  Can be disabled to use absolute coordinates. (#87)
• Board View:
  • flipped output. (#89)
  • problems with netnames using spaces. (#90)
  • get_targets not implemented. (#167)
• Schematic
  • load: problems with fields containing double quotes. (#98)
  • Paper orientation was discarded on v5 files. (#150)
• --list: problems with layers and fields specific for the project.
  (INTI-CMNB/kibot_variants_arduprog#4)
• Makefile: %VALUE not expanded in the directory targets.
• KiCost variants:
  • empty DNF fields shouldn't be excluded. (#101)
  • problems when setting a field in a variant that doesn't
    exist when no variant is selected. (#105)
• KiCost: list arguments wrongly passed. (#120)
• PCB Print: to show the real name of the PCB file. (#102)
• Compress: not expanding %VALUES in target dirs. (#111)
• Gerber: job file didn't use the global output pattern. (#116)
• Warnings count
• Update XML: Removed the side effect Bom. (#106)
• Problems when using a hidden config file, using an output that needs the SCH,
  not specifying the SCH and more than one SCH was found. (#138)
• 3D: problems to download 3D models for native KiCad 6 files. (#171)
  (not imported from KiCad 5)
• Problems when using page layout files with relative paths. (#174)

v0.11.0

Added

• erc_warnings pre-flight option to consider ERC warnings as errors.
• Pattern expansion in the dir option for outputs (#58)
• New filter types:
  • suparts: Adds support for KiCost's subparts feature.
  • field_rename: Used to rename schematic fields.
  • var_rename_kicost: Like var_rename but using KiCost mechanism.
• New KiCost variant style.
• skip_if_no_field and invert options to the regex used in the generic
  filter.
• Board view file format export (#69)
• Experimental mechanism to change 3D models according to the variant.
• Support for width, style and color in "wire notes" (#70)
• Level and comment to columns in the XLSX BoM output.
• Basic KiCost support (experimental).
• Basic internal BoM and KiCost integration (experimental).

Changed

• Errors and warnings from KiAuto now are printed as errors and warnings.
• Schematic dependencies are sorted in the generated Makefiles.
• Makefile variables KIBOT, DEBUG and LOGFILE can be defined from outside.
• Reference ranges of two elements no longer represented as ranges.
  Examples: "R1-R2" is now "R1 R2", "R1-R3" remains unchanged.

Fixed

• Problem when using E/DRC filters and the output dir didn't exist.
• Not all errors during makefile generation were catched (got a stack trace).
• Output dirs created when generating a makefile for a compress target.
• Problems with some SnapEDA libs (extra space in lib termination tag #57)
• The "References" (plural) column is now coloured as "Reference" (singular)

v0.10.1

Added

• GitLab CI workaround
• Verbosity level is now passed to KiAuto

v0.10.0-4

Fixed

• Problem using Python 3.6 (ZipFile's compresslevel arg needs 3.7)

v0.10.0-3

Fixed

• Problem using Python 3.6 (StreamHandler.setStream introduced in 3.7)

v0.10.0-2

Fixed

• Missing python3-distutils dependency on Debian package.

v0.10.0

Added

• The multipart id to references of multipart components others than part 1.
• Internal BoM:
  • no_conflict option to exclude fields from conflict detection.
  • HTML tables can be sorted selecting a column (Java Script).
  • You can consolidate more than one project in one BoM.
• Support for KICAD_CONFIG_HOME defined from inside KiCad.
• Now layers can be selected using the default KiCad names.
• More control over the name of the drill and gerber files.
• More options to customize the excellon output.
• Custom reports for plot outputs (i.e. custom gerber job generation)
• Example configurations for gerber and drill files for:
  • Elecrow
  • FusionPCB
  • JLCPCB
  • P-Ban
  • PCBWay
• Support for ZIP/TAR/RAR generation.
• Makefile generation.
• KiAuto time-out control.
• Now you can import outputs from another config file.

Changed

• Now the default output name applies to the DRC and ERC report names.
  This provides more coherent file names.
• Internal BoM: The "Quantity" column no longer includes the DNF/C status.
  This status was moved to a separated column named Status.
  You can join both columns if you want.
• Internal BoM: HTML rows are highlighted on hover (not just the cell).
• Now information messages go to stdout (not stderr).
  Debug, warning and error messages still use stderr.
• Now InteractiveHtmlBom can be installed just as a plugin.

Fixed

• Extra data about drill marks in gerber files.
• Problems using internal names for drill maps in gerb_drill output (#47).
• Problems using layer suffixes containing non-ASCII chars (i.e. UTF-8).
• Problems when using components with more than 10 subparts (#51).

v0.9.0-3

Fixed

• Support for only kicad-nightly installed.