Fedora 36 / 37 will stay on the 6.0 series unless a CVE forces us to do an
upgrade to KiCad 7, so I don't foresee any issues for the production builds.
The nightlies could possibly be affected, but I'd guess that anyone testing
nightlies could upgrade to F37 or Rawhide without too much trouble. So even if
we had to drop the nightlies on F36 prior to May 2023 the impact would likely
be minimal.
Steve
On 12/16/22 07:54 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
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
<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
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