QElectroTech version 0.100.0 released

## 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.

See more : https://github.com/qelectrotech/qelectr … angeLog.MD

Tarballs and packages: https://github.com/qelectrotech/qelectr … /tag/0.100

Enjoy!