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      <h1 class="w3-text-dark-grey">Release notes for QElectroTech 0.6</h1>
        <p class="qet-text-red">The release notes are only available in english!</p>
        <p class="qet-text-red"><b>4570</b></p>
        <p><strong>The QElectroTech Team is proud to announce the release of the 0.6 version!</strong><br />
           If you are new to QElectroTech, we strongly advise you to take a look at the "Features" and "Help" sections of the <a href="https://www.qelectrotech.org" class="qet-text-link qet-hover-text-link" target="_blank">web site</a>.</p>

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      <h2>General notes</h2>
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        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">svn change log</h4>
          <p>The version 0.6 includes all changes made from commit #4276 to commit #5256.</p>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Compilation</h4>
          <p>Windows packages are now created on a Debian operating system using <b>cross-compilation</b> and targeted to make executable binary files for these operating systems. <br />
             This technical evolution allows a significant time saving during the creation of the packages. And we can provide also in the same time Windows XP and Vista packages by cross-compil with Qt 5.7.1 environment<br />
             No changes for the Debian, Ubuntu packages.<br />
             The Mac OS X executable binary files are created on a virtual environment, moved compiler to LLVM clan instead old GCC, improved dmg packages with added Info.plist.</p>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Packaging</h4>
          <p>David Geiger is packager of QET for the Mageia distribution.</p>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Graphic design</h4>
          <p>A new splash screen has been created by Nuri. It is now based on the colors and fonts used for the web site.<br />
             Nuri also made a new icon theme based on the "breeze" theme from the KDE Desktop.</p>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Translations</h4>
          <p>OSSau2mation joined us and translates the GUI of QElectroTech into danish. To date, the whole GUI is translated.</p>
          <p>A brazilian portuguese version has been added to the GUI languages thanks Hilário of Soliton from Brazil.</p>
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        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">On Windows</h4>
          <p>Download the installer executable file and run it. The wizard will prompt you to delete the old version and will install the new one.</p>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">On GNU/Linux</h4>
          <h5>DEB based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint...8)</h5>
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        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Improved performance</h4>
          <p><b>QET starts much faster</b>. If you're using a multi-core processor, you won't probably notice the splash screen!<br />
             The loading of the collections is also much faster.<br />
             These improvements are achieved trough the use of <b>multi-threading</b>. On older hardware (with single or low range dual core CPU), the increase in speed is not really noticeable.</p>
          <p>Compared to the 0.5 version, <b>the RAM consumption has been considerably reduced</b>: from about 1GB to about 300MB at application start.</p>
          <p>An annoying <b>memory leak has been found and solved</b>. Afters hours of use, some users noticed that the RAM consumption growed steadily, up to 10GB or more. This problem is now solved.</p>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">New "collections" panel</h4>
          <p>THIS IS THE BIGGEST NEW FEATURE OF THIS RELEASE!</p>
          <p>Joshua spend a long time to develop a new "collections" panel in order to split the projects and the collections of elements. The job is done and the new panel is fully fonctional: drag and drop from the panel onto the folio, drag and drop within the panel tree, etc.<br />
             All actions about elements (create, delete, edit...) are now available from the context menu (right click on an element).<br />
             Like in the old panel, elements can be searched with the integrated search engine. Furthermore, it is now possible to restrict the search results to only one folder (use the new functionality "Show only this folder" from the context menu). We recommand you to activate "Show only this folder" before you type anything in the search engine.<br />
             With the new "collections" panel you don't have to reload the collections anymore after the editing of an element. You only need to reload the collections if you make manual changes in your user collection by mean of your file browser or from another external tool.<br />           
             <p>The option "Integrate elements to project" was removed from the QET main settings menu (Settings > Configure QElectroTech). All elements of a project are now always embedded in the project file.</p>
             The titleblocks remain in the "Projects" panel. Maybe they will be moved to their own panel in future.</p>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Automatic numberings (autonum)</h4>
          <p>A big work has been made by Davi about autonumbering of elements, folios and conductors.</p>
          <p>You can now set variables .</p>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Conductors</h4>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Basic shapes</h4>
          <p>These features were asked by many users for a long time and are now available:<br />
             The thickness of the lines of all basic shapes (lines, rectangles, ellipses, polygons) can be changed from 0,2px to 50,0px.<br />
             The color of lines and fillings of basic shapes can be choosed from a color palette or set with a html color code.</p>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Keyboard shortcuts</h4>
          <p>Davi from Brazil has implemented some keyboard shortcuts:</p>
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            <li>[Arrow keys] : navigate within a folio if the whole folio area is not displayed (zoomed in)</li>
            <li>[Page up] : go to the previous folio</li>
            <li>[Page down] : go to the next folio</li>
            <li>[Home] : go to the first folio of the project</li>
            <li>[End] : go to the last folio of the project</li>
            <li>[Delete] : remove the selected folio in the project tree. A dialog will prompt you to confirm the removal.</li>
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        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Copy/paste from another project</h4>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Titleblocks</h4>        
          <p class="qet-text-red">commit 4479</p>
		<h4 class="qet-text-blue">Terminal block generator plugin</h4>
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            <li>your text here</li>
            <li>your text here</li>
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        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">DXF import</h4>
          <p>The DXFtoQET converter has been added in the element editor as an external plugin. It means that the converter can be run directly from the element editor.</p>
          <p class="qet-text-red">TODO: describe how to make it run!</p>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">High dpi support</h4>
          <p>QET now runs on high dpi screens (QHD and 4K) by using the Qt librairies 5.6. For now, this feature is only available for the Windows version.<br />
             On GNU/Linux and Mac OS X, QElectroTech behaves "as usual" without high dpi scalling. That means: with very small icons, menus and texts.</p>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Contact mirrors</h4>
          <p>The vertical offset of contact mirrors can be set (Project > Project properties > New folio > Cross references > XRef vertical offset).<br />
             The reference of the offset is the upper horizontal line of the titleblock. If the titlblock is set vertically on the right, the reference is the bottom line of the folio frame.</p>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Disabling background grid</h4>
          <p>A new button has been added to the upper tool bar in order to allow the disabling of the background grid.<br />
             This feature can be usefull to better read the texts displayed on the folio if you are working on a low resolution screen.</p>
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        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">"Cross reference" widget</h4>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">"Folio properties" widget</h4>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Export to csv (parts list)</h4>
          <p>The export to csv was adapted to the new functionalities (folio autonum) and x columns were added:</p>
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        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Handles of basic shapes</h4>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Copy/paste within a project</h4>
          <p>Label of elements are not reseted.</p>
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        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Critical bug: "ghost" graphic items</h4>
        <h4 class="qet-text-blue">Unknown crashes</h4>
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