Overview

This release (v0.100) collects a large set of new features, UI and editor improvements, element and symbol updates, build and packaging fixes, dependency upgrades, translations, and a broad set of bug fixes and stability improvements. It is intended as a stable, feature-rich stepping stone toward the next major workflows for symbol editing, terminal/strip handling and export improvements.

Highlights / Key Features

• Terminal Strip / Terminal Strip Editor
• New TerminalStripItem type and related editor workflow added.
• Support for drawing and displaying terminal bridges and links in the editor.
• Full editor support (layout preview, save/load into .qet files) and undo support for terminal strip operations.
• New Example Projects
• Several new example projects included, notably photovoltaic (PV) examples to help users getting started with PV designs.
• Improved Export / Print Handling
• Export limits adjusted and better handling of QPainter/printing boundaries to avoid export artefacts and out-of-range errors.
• Export dialog updated to allow larger pixel limits where appropriate.
• Element & Symbol Additions
• New elements and symbols added (including vendor-specific elements and additional sensors/Arduino components).
• Improvements to element import & metadata handling.
• Packaging & Multi-arch Support
• Updated packaging scripts for AppImage, Flatpak, Snap and macOS deployment. Improved aarch64/arm64 support.

Detailed Changes

Editor & UX

• Better handling for rotation, flip and mirror operations in the element editor:
• Primitives and text rotation behavior improved.
• Finer rotation increments and predictable text orientation after flips/rotations.
• Wiring and conductor behavior:
• More robust creation and movement of wires and conductor bundles.
• Improved text attachment and positioning for wires and improved stability while editing complex conductor networks.
• TerminalStrip editor: see Highlights - includes drawing, preview, layout editing, persistent storage in the project file and undo support.
• Element Editor & Symbol Trim/Sort:
• Improved trimming/normalization of element metadata.
• Better sorting and error handling for element imports (DXF and other formats).
• Small UI improvements: About dialog updates, autosave spinbox ranges, improved tooltips and mouse-hover help for dynamic texts.

New & Updated Elements

• New elements added for industrial and automation workflows (including Siemens-related elements, logic elements, sensors and Arduino components).
• Symbol library additions and cleanup; improved defaults for newly added symbols.
• Element meta-data cleanup: article numbers, descriptions, and manufacturer fields were normalized and trimmed on import.

Export / Printing / PDF

• Adjusted internal export limits to avoid hitting QPainter size restrictions; users can now export larger, high-resolution images/prints in more cases.
• Better handling of page sizes and printer-related geometry using QRectF improvements.
• PDF export improvements to increase reliability of exported vector content.

Internationalization & Translations

• Large translation updates across many languages: German (DE), French (FR), Dutch (NL, including nl_BE), Swedish (SV), Italian (IT), Polish (PL), Portuguese-BR (PT-BR), Serbian (SR), Chinese (Simplified) and others.
• Fixes and corrections for many UI strings and localized resources.

Bug Fixes (selected)

• Fixed crashes and various null pointer access issues discovered by static and dynamic testing.
• Resolved multiple reported bugs that caused build failures on some platforms (FTBFS fixes for macOS and others).
• Fixed issues with automatic conductor/strand numbering in several edge cases (referenced Bug 293 in the commit logs).
• Resolved text/summary headline issues in the German-language summary generator.
• Fixes for a number of visually incorrect renderings and layout corner-cases during element transformation (rotate/flip/mirror).
• Fixed issues that affected export sizes and caused export artifacts (referenced fixes for bug IDs around #329/#330 in commit notes).