Hi Folks- After some discussions, the lead dev team has decided to bump the minimum versions for a couple of packages needed to build KiCad.
1. CMake - The minimum required version of CMake for KiCad master branch is now 3.21. This change was made to support an iterative build feature from https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/1406 . This will allow the KiCad developers to spend less time building the code while developing new features. 2. wxWidgets - We are increasing the minimum supported version of wxWidgets for KiCad from 3.0 to 3.1.5 (the oldest version on a supported Linux distribution) with the expectation that we will increase to 3.2 once our support for Fedora 36 ceases in May 2023. What does (2) mean? This means that KiCad is developed and tested against wxWidgets 3.2. The KiCad team will not perform testing or bug fixing against older versions of wxWidgets, and may inadvertently introduce changes that break compilation or function when building against older versions. We welcome patches to fix build issues against earlier versions of wxWidgets as long as these patches do not change functionality when compiling against more modern versions. These patches should be the minimum necessary to get KiCad working, rather than attempting to backport functionality from the newer wxWidgets API (unless doing so is trivial). Our Windows and Mac builds have been running wx3.2 for many months at this point. We expect to continue to develop KiCad to take advantage of new wx features that have been introduced since wx3.0. Many of these help KiCad to run better, faster and more reliably on more systems. Thanks as always- Seth -- [image: KiCad Services Corporation Logo] Seth Hillbrand *Lead Developer* +1-530-302-5483 Long Beach, CA www.kipro-pcb.com i...@kipro-pcb.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CAFdeG-o%2BM3o_zVxDv%3DscyhA_LDr0RvWpmhLKRzp%3Dwo9DLeu6Nw%40mail.gmail.com.
