Fritzing 1.0.2 is a feature release. It has been tested on Windows 10, Windows 11, macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 22.04. It is designed to work on all Linux variants with glibc >= 2.31 (64 bit Intel/AMD).
Changes since 1.0.1.
Copper fill
The Copper Fill algorithm is now vector based. This fixes a number of bugs along, especially with Ground Fills, most prominent the annoying horizontal gaps in the copper fill. It results in higher precision, and more predictable behavior. It also enables a number of Gerber improvements and new features for PCBs in the future. The old rasterized copper fill algorithm was kept available, so you may compare the two against each other.
Fab upload
Refactored fab upload. We can now send properties like width and height along with Gerber, IPC and BOM. At the same time this will shorten the development cycle when adding new features or fixing bugs.
Data structure fixes
We’ve upgraded Fritzing’s data management, fixing several issues that led to discrepancies between views, missed errors in Design Rule Checks, and invisible, uneditable ‘ghost’ connections in the netlist. To rectify these in existing sketches, a simple delete-and-undo action on the problematic elements will clear the bugs. These improvements, which affect numerous example projects, should result in more reliable and understandable behavior from Fritzing going forward.
Testing infrastructure
We’ve significantly enhanced automated testing, allowing us to conduct hundreds of Fritzing sessions every minute.
Moved to Qt 6.5.3.
Just the due maintenance.
OS Requirements
Minimum macOS Version is now Big Sur, before it was Catalina. Windows and Linux requirements didn’t change, but Linux now must use OpenSSL 3, support for OpenSSL 1.2 was dropped)
GitHub Issues
In addition, with some overlap, the following issues on github were solved:
#4091 A sch wire does not snap to grid for existing wires
#4071 Breadboard view misaligned when directly opening a fzpz
#4077 Parts Editor crashes clicking on empty schematics
#4079 Undo often doesn’t work for Bézier curvatures
#4035 Voltmeter is reading incorrect value when probe is disconnected
#4046 Text lost on Redo
#4093 Hover text for parts and connectors not readable in dark mode with Qt 6.5.3
Fritzing 1.0.1 was released on Wednesday, 06th of September 2023.
We tested it for Windows 11, Windows 10, macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, macOS BigSur, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 22.04.
Summary
This is a maintenance release, with some fixes.
The most obvious fix is for the broken mouse pointer when non integer zoom settings are used. This
affected Fritzing on Windows Notebooks with custom zoom settings.
Also, with this version, the new IPC export should actually become usable.
New part
Only a few parts were updated. We added an Arduino sized board with a cutout for the
display. The R4 WIFI has quite a lot of features already onboard. But for sure you have something to add?
Here is a shield for it:
Fixes and Improvements
Fixed issues:
#4023 Redundant entry in fz file
#4036 Trace width lost on Undo
#4037 Mouse cursor distorted on Windows
#4041 Workaround for pixel errors during Gerber export
#4050 IPC Export not working
#4051 Entering coordinates in Inspector not working
#4058 Wire connections not working after double click
Improvements to the SVG Flattener:
Support scaling the stroke-dasharray attribute
Support for inherited fill attributes
Improved viewBox calculation with non-zero x and y values.
UI:
Repaired ‘Paste in place’ command
Keep focus on part after package change
Improved Spanish
Completed Portuguese, thanks to Bruno
Improved Italian, thanks to Sophie
Updated Japanese translation with automatic translation
The release is available in our downloads section.
We highly recommend updating to this version to benefit from the latest improvements.
We are thrilled to announce the release of Fritzing version 1.0.0. This is a major release, with many new features and improvements.
Announcing Fritzing 1.0.0 - A Major Release
Fritzing 1.0.0 was released on Friday, 16th of June 2023.
This major release has been thoroughly tested on Windows 10, Windows 11, macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 22.04.
It will work on other Linux variants with glibc >= 2.31 (64 bit Intel/AMD), too.
What’s New in Fritzing 1.0.0
Simulator
The simulator is now officially supported.
We added SPICE data for more parts, like RGB-LEDs and photo cells.
New Font OCR-Fritzing
This font replaces the use of OCR-A. It adds Greek letters, diacritics, and other symbols, like á ä å à é ë è ç ṡ, €, Ω, µ, and ß. This way, it supports almost all European alphabets. Support for Cyrillic is planned.
New IPC-D-356 Export
Export to IPC-D-356 has been added. This enables third parties to verify the PCB correctness during production and render 3D views of Fritzing projects.
Pick and Place
We have reworked the pick and place file export. We now use the suffix ‘.xy’ for pick and place files. A ‘mount’ column was added to distinguish between through-hole and surface mount technology. The new format is ‘RefDes, Value, Package, X, Y, Rotation, Side, Mount’. The gerbv tool understands this and can render pick and place information, along with drill holes and other PCB layers.
Gerber Export
We have improved Fritzings Gerber export feature, which is crucial for turning your digital designs into physical circuit boards.
The ability to determine which areas should be covered with copper (represented by color in the design) has been improved.
Dashed rectangles in the silkscreen should now work as expected.
Very tiny or non-existent drill holes, which could cause issues during the manufacturing process, are now ignored.
Fritzing has also become smarter in maintaining the intended shapes in your design, preventing them from changing due to minor calculation errors.
Additionally, the application can now better handle the thickness of lines in your design.
Lastly, an issue causing distortion in some designs has been fixed, ensuring your final product matches your original design more accurately.
In essence, these updates make Fritzing more reliable and accurate when preparing your designs for manufacturing.
UI Improvements
Several fixes have been implemented to ensure compatibility with dark mode.
These fixes affect the Multimeter, DRC List, Inspector properties, and Search line.
The Inspector has been rearranged to support scrolling and now features flexible previews.
This means, icons and previews can be rendered bigger, which is important on high resolution displays.
The application now supports pinch gestures.
The balance between scroll wheel and gesture zoom has been improved, and the shift key can now be used for fine control.
These enhancements aim to provide a more user-friendly and efficient experience for all Fritzing users.
Maintenance
Upgraded to Boost 1.81
Upgraded to ngspice-40
Upgraded to Qt 6.4.3
Upgraded to C++17
Translations
French, German, Ukrainian, and Russian are now 100% translated again. Nearly complete translations include Bulgarian, Japanese, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Turkish, and Romanian. Many improvements have been made to Spanish.
Fixes and Optimizations
Numerous fixes and optimizations have been made, including rendering slowdown from zooming out, perfboard resize speed up, and many more.
In addition, with some overlap, numerous issues on GitHub were solved.
For more details, please visit the official release page.
Known Issues
The simulator does not work on Catalina and Big Sur. A workaround is planned.
Fritzing 1.0.0 does not support 32 bit systems right now. We might add it again if there is still demand.
Download
The release is available in our downloads section.
We’d love to hear what you think! Write us via our contact form or check out our forum.
Thank you for being part of the Fritzing user group!
Fritzing 0.9.10 was released on Sunday, 22nd of May 2022.
We tested it for Windows 10, Windows 11, macOS Monterey, macOS BigSur, macOS High Sierra, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 22.04.
Simulation is one of the most requested features of Fritzing.
For more than a decade, people have asked for Fritzing to simulate circuits.
There can be very different expectations about the scope of the simulation.
The simulator is limited to the parts available in the simulation bin.
If a part can not be simulated, it will be greyed out during the simulation.
The simulation was tested by several groups of students, and is now available
as a beta feature.
If you want to give it a try, you can enable it in Fritzings preferences.
Fixes
Fixed issues:
#3943
#3931
#3895
#3880
#3868 , #3820
#3863
#3850
#3830
#3825
#3738, #3602, #1869
#3715, #684
#3632, #3627, #3109
#3559
#2669, #1326
#2583, #2675
Parts
Several voltage regulators added
SeeedStudio Grove Beginner Kit
TDK Ultrasonic sensor module
Amica NodeMCU
About 90 parts received minor fixes
The release is available in our downloads section.
We’d love to hear what you think! Write us via our contact form or check out our forum.
The Fritzing Creator Kit is out of stock for a long time. But when we reorganized Fritzing last year,
we found several of the original Fritzing Creator Kits deep in the basement underneath the old Kreuzberg office.
The kits are complete, with a nice colored book, and either an Arduino Mega or the Arduino Ethernet.
Kaya is selling them via eBay: Fritzing Creator Kit Mega and
Fritzing Creator Kit Ethernet.
If you recently paid for our download and build service, please ask her for a discount for the Creator Kit. Unfortunately, shipping is limited to the EU.
We added Sony’s Spresense modules for Fritzing.
Altogether, there are four new parts: the mainboard, the Arduino extension, the LTE extension, and the camera.
In this post, we will have a closer look at the Spresense board. We will deploy a Hello World and a Camera example application.
The Spresense parts
The parts are included with recent versions of Fritzing. We highly
recommend using Fritzing with a version >= 0.9.7 .
What are the Spresense modules?
First, there is the main module: Sony’s CXD5602 microcontroller runs a Cortex-M4F CPU with 6 cores, GPS.
The low power consumption makes it suitable for battery-dependent use cases.
There is a great choice of libraries supported, including Python, TensorFlow,
Edge Impulse, Java, JavaScript, and Circuit Python for low power consumption.
Together with GPS, LTE, Wifi, BLE extensions, this makes them suitable for IoT and AI applications.
Then, there is the extension board. It adds Audio input for up to 8 channels, 3.5mm headphone output, an SD-Card slot,
an extra USB connector, and the well-known Arduino shield headers.
The third module is the 5MP camera board. With 24mm x 25mm, it is very compact. It connects to the Spresense
main module with a flat cable.
And then there is the CXD5602PWBLM1 board, the LTE extension.
It adds LTE capabilities to the main module. Also, it has a 3.5mm headphone output, up to four
digital microphone inputs, an extra USB connector, and general IO headers.
For testing, we have set up Ubuntu 21.04 VM and prepared the Software Development Kit with the
setup guide from Spresense.
If you are also using a VM, make sure that both, host and guest machine have the “dialout” group
for your user account, so you can access the Spresense board when connected to USB.
The board should be visible as “Silicon Labs CP210x” with lsusb when the board is connected.
If all looks good, we should be able to connect with minicom.
fritzing@ubuntu: ~
fritzing@ubuntu:~$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 027: ID 10c4:ea60 Silicon Labs CP210x UART Bridge Bus 001 Device 002: ID 80ee:0021 VirtualBox USB Tablet Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub fritzing@ubuntu:~$ minicom -D /dev/ttyUSB0 -b 115200
The connection with minicom will open a NuttShell on our Spresense board.
No, this is not yet the ‘Hello World’ we are looking for.
fritzing@ubuntu: ~
Welcome to minicom 2.8
OPTIONS: I18n
Port /dev/ttyUSB0, 23:39:12
Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys
NuttShell (NSH) NuttX-10.1.0
nsh> echo "Hello World"
Hello World
nsh>
Hello World
Running Hello World on a console is a bit lame. How about using an actual LCD for that?
For this, we use an ILI9341 from Adafruit (about $10). We connect it as shown in the Fritzing project below:
To address the ILI9341 display, the Spresense board needs to know how it is connected.
Add the following configuration to the Nuttx kernel, by storing it at ‘spresense/sdk/configs/devices/ili9341_on_spi5/defconfig’
# spresense/sdk/configs/devices/ili9341_on_spi5/defconfig
-NXFONTS_PACKEDMSFIRST=n
+LCD_ILI9340=y
+LCD_ILI9340_IFACE0=y
+LCD_ILI9340_IFACE0_RLANDSCAPE=y
+MMCSD_HAVE_WRITEPROTECT=n
+MQ_MAXMSGSIZE=64
+NX=y
+NXFONTS_DISABLE_16BPP=n
+NXFONT_SERIF22X29=y
+NX_BLOCKING=y
+NX_DISABLE_16BPP=n
+CXD56_DMAC_SPI5_TX=y
+CXD56_DMAC_SPI5_TX_CH=4
+CXD56_DMAC_SPI5_TX_MAXSIZE=1516
+CXD56_DMAC_SPI5_RX=y
+CXD56_DMAC_SPI5_RX_CH=5
+CXD56_DMAC_SPI5_RX_MAXSIZE=1516
+LCD_ON_MAIN_BOARD=y
+LCD_ILI9341=y
+LCD_ILI9341_NINTERFACES=1
+LCD_LCDDRV_SPIIF=y
# The display can run at much higher speeds. But signal quality on the breadboard and the wires can
# vary a lot, so we limit it to 2MHz. Still fast enough for our purpose at 320x200x16
+LCD_LCDDRV_SPEED=2000000
With the config file in place, we can now build the kernel and flash the Spresense board. We
configure it to build the nxhello example and our custom ili9341 setup. Then we run make. If
all was successful, we flash the board. Using the default speed of 115600 did not work reliable,
but with a higher speed of 460800 (or other high values), flashing works quite reliable.
Don’t forget to source ~/spresenseenv/setup, as described in the Spresense getting started documentation.
196432 bytes loaded.
Package validation is OK.
Saving package to "nuttx"
updater# sync
updater# Restarting the board ...
reboot
After the nuttx.spk file has been flashed to the Spresense board,
connect to it via minicom again, and run ‘nxhello’.
Camera demo
In the previous section, we have wired up a display and verified it works. Now the fun part,
just connect the camera. Instead of ‘nxdemo’, we now build the camera example.
tools/config.py examples/camera device/lcd_ili9341_on_sp5
make -j
tools/flash.sh -c /dev/ttyUSB0 -b 460800 nuttx.spk
Connect to the board with minicom, and call ‘camera 0’.
This will show images from the camera on our display. Even though we have reduced the
video signal to 2MHz, we get quite a fluent update rate.
Since we are filming a 320x240 display, the video can not represent the capabilities of the camera. Here is a picture directly recorded with the board:
Other examples
There are many more example applications.
Zmodem
With the zmodem driver and minicom, it is easy to transfer files from the board to your PC.
GPS
Show your coordinates. The GPS demo needs a few minutes for the first fix. This is normal.
To shorten the time, you need assisted GPS or you have to load ephemeral data. Maybe
the GPS chip can already cache that data? We didn’t try.
TensorFlow
TensorFlow lite should allow some cool projects in connection with the camera.
We didn’t get to try this one yet.
Do you have any ideas for the board? Have you already build any projects? We are looking
forward to your comments in the forum.
Fritzing 0.9.9 was released on Sunday, 24th of September 2021.
We tested it for Windows 10, Windows 11 (preview), macOS BigSur, macOS High Sierra, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, Fedora 34.
Improvements
Fritzing can now remember uploads to our Fab. There will be a clickable symbol next
to the file name in the “Recent files” list.
Some keyboard shortcuts where added: Ctrl+F for search, and [, and ] for rotation.
Fixes
A regression for Power labels in the schematic view was fixed.
Some old bugs when resizing strip- and perfboards have been fixed.
Several of the core parts have have been fixed, including lots of SVG exports.
We have released Fritzing 0.9.8 on Monday, 9th of August 2021.
We tested it for Windows 10, Windows 11 (preview), macOS BigSur, macOS High Sierra, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, Fedora 34.
Improvements
Since the 0.9.6 release, we were able to close ~250 issues in our fritzing-app repo.
Fixes a regression with generic ICs in Fritzing 0.9.7 #3859
Bump up Qt version for Linux builds, we now use 5.15.2 for all platforms
Build an AppImage
We created an AppImage based on Ubuntu 18.04. Fritzing is now able to run on any system with glibc 2.27 or later.
Read single FZP files
For parts developers, we added the ability to open an FZP file directly. Fritzing can then bundle the file into an FZPZ. This can ease the workflow for developers who use external editors to create parts.
Selection dropdowns are transparent #3848
stroke-width not inherited when exporting to Gerber #3843
Incorrectly configured fzp file crashes parts editor #3839
Invalid .FZP file causes a segfault #3838
Error when updating parts #3836
Platform, Board and Port menus are a barely readable white on grey on macOS #3833
Silkscreen path not appearing in Gerber output #3809
Arduino Nano Export SVG Missing #3782
GUI is blocked for up to 2 minutes until the check is complete #3677
Duplicating a net label in schematic view causes phantom ratsnest connections to appear. It cannot be deleted either. #3340
Net label copy bug? #2308
Interesting stuff happens when you paste formatted stuff into notes #711
New parts
Sony’s Spresense Boards and Camera
Updated translations
The following translations have received some care - German - French - Italian - Japanese - Portuguese - Russian - Spanish - Ukrainian
Thanks
Big thanks to everyone who helped to make this release possible.
Namely Bruno Santos Ramalhete, Daniel Gun, Josh Morgenstern, Peter Van Epp, A. Faina !
The release is available in our downloads section.
I am happy to announce a new tariff from our PCB manufacturer, AISLER. From now on, you get 3 Arduino-sized PCBs for 11.92€ instead of 23.84€. This also applies to higher volumes, for example, 12 boards for 30 Euros. How is this possible? With the new tariff, you give them 8 days to work on your order. If you are developing your prototype and prefer the fast iterations, of course, rapid two-day manufacturing is still available. You can choose while placing the order at aisler.net. See all the exact details at AISLER.
Hello everyone!
Today you get your hands on version 0.9.6. We have tested it on
macOS Catalina and Big Sur, Windows 10 64 bit, and Ubuntu 20.04!
Installers
Both Microsoft and Apple have raised the bar on how to execute some code on your computer. They check the developer’s ID and warn or simply reject any program with mysterious origins. This was no issue in the past, but as regulations became stricter, more and more users had to jump quite high to get Fritzing running. We got all the certificates required and packaged and signed Fritzing 0.9.6 for a smooth setup.
Fixes
This is a maintenance release. We have fixed at least ten crashes, several critical bugs,
and about 30-100 regular bugs, depending on how you count. Approximately 300 issues have been closed since the last release 0.9.4.
Some of the fixes are:
Ground fill is connected only to the lower side #2186
The routing status algorithm needs to handle the part to part connections (LED in
an Arduino for example). Fixes #2685
Export to PNG does not update until restart#3073
Fill image with the background before exporting, fixes #3261
crash when both, bus and subpart in the same part #3329
Override system color for notes. Fixes #3530
Gerber rendering moves and skips nodes in board outline #3537
Crash when editing connector highlight colors #3566
No ‘routing complete’ message when no wires used to connect parts #3579
Override system color for parts bin list #3600
Two parts connected via breadboard don’t route #3616
font-size px is the same as user coordinates and can be ignored #3619
design rules check not seeing all of the copper for specific part #3647
If the property is empty, take the default one. Fixes #3648
White note text #3657
Dashed line is gone in breadboard view after moving element #3683
Gerber export missing and moving some custom PCB cutouts #3686
A typo in german translation #3694
Finish pending move operation before deleting an item. Fixes issue #3697
Ignore breadboard and schema wires when setting PCB layer count #3699
Deselect all items before exporting an image to PNG or JPG. Fixes #3712
Export PNG without selection rectangles #3712
2.2mF capacitor #3713
Fritzing 0.9.4 crashes on macOS Catalina 10.15.7 #3747
Export as image, toggled layers not honored #3771
Fix the number of allowed digits within the resistor regex
Fix bug that prevented trace width for autorouter to be remembered
Fix SVG path element parse and matching of extra graphics to PCB connector pad
Fix broken duplicated network calls
Fix nullptr dereference
Workaround: show a white icon instead of nullptr crash
Fix crash when SVG file was not found
Features
It is now possible to store multiple parts in one fzpz (Fritzing part package). This will make it more convenient
to handle and share a group of parts. Older versions of Fritzing should show an error message and only
load the first part in the file. So it will take a while until this feature becomes fully usable.
New parts
The majority of new parts have been created in the forum and can be found there.
However, besides fixing issues with some parts, we also integrated a few to the
core library.
Raspberry PI 4B
Kameleon STM32F board
Voltage regulators
Heltec Wifi Lora 32 V2
HiFive1
More predefined capacitors
Updated software stacks
We updated to a newer version of C++ and Qt5 libraries. On Mac, we use the 5.15.2 release of Qt; on Windows 5.12.10; on Ubuntu, we use the one that comes with Ubuntu 20.04. Increasing the C++ version to C++14 enabled some cleanups in the codebase, which will benefit Fritzing in the long term. This sounds like an internal thing, not important to users. But by bumping up to the latest libraries, we have fixed countless quirks and were able to discover and fix some severe bugs.
Updated translations
The following translations have received some care
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Ukrainian
What happened to 0.9.5?
We had a development build named 0.9.5d around for a while, although we never published an official release. To avoid mixups, we skip 0.9.5 and proceed with 0.9.6.
Big thanks to developers
Joshua Scoggins, H. Phil Duby, and A. Faina!
Head to the downloads section, and we hope you will enjoy using it!
End of 2019, we crafted a maintenance release of Fritzing, version 0.9.4.
There was no announcement on this blog, as things were quite in movement.
So, as we add it, the following is old news.
Version 0.9.4 is a maintenance release. There are few new features, but we
fixed some of the bugs.
Critical bug fix for autorouter
Fixed a memory corruption that would cause random crashes.
Thanks to Filipp Mikoian for your help.
Color-coded wires
A new option was added to colorize wires according to their length automatically.
Transport Layer Security
Long overdue, Fritzing now uses transport layer security for all links. This will
mostly affect the part updates, since parts are hosted at github, and they will not allow unsecured access for much longer. For some time, the Fritzing website continues to allow HTTP for older versions of the Fritzing application. This way, update checks, and the projects gallery will continue to work.
Fix a bug where Fritzing would potentially search the whole disk for parts
Depending on installation location, Fritzing might try to search many subfolders
for its parts. Depending on the machine's speed and directory structure, this would
take a long time, during which Fritzing would show "Application does not respond" or
similar. The workaround was to wait about ten minutes until it finishes, as it only happens on the first start. This annoyed many users, our apologies, this behavior should be fixed now.
No 32 bit builds
We don't provide 32 bit builds of Fritzing anymore. It might still be
possible to build for 32 bit.
Under the hood
We dropped Qt4 support
Continuous builds for Linux, MacOS, and Windows. This means faster
release cycles in the future.
Use libgit 0.28.1
New/updated Translations
Russian thanks to Alexey Loginov
Indonesian, thanks to Rizqy H
Slovak, thanks to jose1711
Slovenian, thanks to Filip Stamcar
German
French
Bulgarian, thanks to Lyubomir Vasilev
Thanks to Chris Mayo, Peter Van Epp, Ben Williams, Michael Anderson, and Roman Vekshin. Thanks to the guys at Aisler.net, without whom this release would not have been possible.
The Fritzing Creator Kit is out of stock for a long time. But when we reorganized Fritzing last year,
we found several of the original Fritzing Creator Kits deep in the basement underneath the old Kreuzberg office.
The kits are complete, with a nice colored book, and either an Arduino Mega or the Arduino Ethernet.
Kaya is selling them via eBay: 
I am happy to announce a new tariff from our PCB manufacturer, AISLER. From now on, you get 3 Arduino-sized PCBs for 11.92€ instead of 
