KLayout 0.29.1 (64-bit)

What's new in this version:

Features:
- Enhancement: #1700 Porting 2.5d view for compatibility with OpenGL 3.0 for better support on other platforms
- This however comes with a larger memory footprint during rendering. Something to fix later.
- Bugfix: #1696 Cannot read LVS or L2N report with generic devices
- Bugfix: #1691 LVS soft connections: making a soft connection to a device terminal disconnects the device
- Bugfix: #1683 Spice reader accepts circuits without definition but pins get shorted
- Bugfix: #1681 Spice reader ".endl" should accept lib name
- Bugfix: #1679 Update sample macros for migration to Qt6
- Enhancement: #1678 Qt major version-wise Assistant
- Bugfix: #1671 Search and replace: Delete instances crashes KLayout
- Enhancement: #1666 'Visibility Follows Selection' option for the 2.5d view
- Bugfix: HTTPS timeout included time to enter password
- So you had 10 seconds max. to enter your password :(
- Bugfix: marker and net browser windows did not get closed when clicking on close icon
- Bugfix: "duplicate interactive" now also working for rulers
- Enhancement: "upcase", "downcase" functions for expressions

- Enhancement: DRC features to reduce coding effort for certain rules
- New options for "corners": 'absolute' and 'negative' options
- New options for with/without_angle: 'absolute' option

- Bugfixes: SPICE reader
- now detects recursive circuit calls
- skips empty top level circuit now, which did not happen when control statements were present at top level

Enhancements: DRC report category formation:
- "output" will add shapes to a category is the category name was used before
- "output" accepts an array of names for the category name, creating a sub-category hierarchy

- Enhancement: Enhanced handling of cell variants in DRC reports
- Now, cell variants are listed with the original cell name and a description of the variant formation

- Enhancement: Marker browser enhancements and RDB API
- items can be added comment strings now.
- "info" and "save" function in marker database browser File menu
- file name shown in RDB selection drop-down
- Enhancement: DRC waiver concept

KLayout now includes a way to store waive flags along with RDB databases. A waiver DB is nothing else than a report database file annotated with waive flags and other attributes like comments, images etc. For details see documentation under "DRC Basics". New functions in marker browser:
- apply waiver DB
- save as waiver DB

Enhancement: Editor hooks
- This feature allows dynamically annotating shapes while they are edited. This feature is somewhat experimental as of now. See "EditorHooks" class for an example.