# QElectroTech - CHANGELOG ## Version 0.100 _Compiled from provided commit logs and contributor notes._ ## 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. ### Build, Dependencies, Packaging - Upgrades of core test and build dependencies: - Catch2 upgraded to v2.13.10. - googletest upgraded to v1.17.0. - CMake fixes and i18n handling corrected for nl_BE and other locales. - Packaging scripts updated across platforms (AppImage/Flatpak/Snap/macOS deploy) including fixes for aarch64/arm64. - Submodule updates (e.g., qelectrotech-elements, pugixml, SingleApplication) synchronized where needed. ### 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. ### Tests, QA & Logging - Improved logging and machine/config-path reporting; Git revision display refined to only show a revision when available. - Unit test updates and fixes to align with updated testing frameworks. ## 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). ## Developer & Contributor Notes - Reworked parts of the codebase to use QRectF consistently for better compatibility with QPrinter and export pipelines. - Code-style cleanups and comment improvements applied throughout the project. - Expanded test coverage and dependency refresh to keep CI builds stable. ## Contributors (selected) Thanks to the many contributors who made this release possible. Selected contributors mentioned in the commit logs include: - Laurent Trinques - joshua - plc-user - Achim - Pascal Sander - Andre Rummler - Magnus Hellströmer - Martin Marmsoler - Remi Collet (See the full commit history for the complete contributor list.) ## Upgrade / Migration Notes - No database or project file format breaking changes were reported in the provided logs. As always, back up projects before opening them with a new version. - If you rely on custom element libraries or third-party submodules, verify submodule synchronization after upgrading. - If you are using custom packaging pipelines, review the updated packaging scripts for any changes required by new dependency versions, especially on aarch64/arm64. ## Known Issues & Limitations - Some very large exports may still be limited by platform-specific rendering restrictions; the export dialog now allows larger pixel limits but extreme sizes may still hit system-level limits. - If you use niche element-import workflows (DXF → element import), occasionally metadata normalization may alter whitespace/trim rules - verify newly imported elements in the element editor. ## How to get help / report bugs - Use the project issue tracker (see repository) to report regressions or new bugs with detailed reproduction steps and example .qet files where possible. - Include the output of Help → About (application version and Git revision) when reporting build/packaging issues.