Fritzing 1.0.5 released

Fritzing Software

Fritzing 1.0.5 is a maintenance release. It has been tested on Windows 11 24H2 (ARM and Intel), macOS Sequoia, macOS Ventura, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 24.04.

Fritzing 1.0.5

What is new

Windows ARM Support for Windows on ARM CPUs. Fritzing uses Prism on Windows 24H2 to run on ARM.

New Fonts We are fading out Droid Sans and Open Sans in favor of Noto Sans. This affects mostly the Breadboard and the Schematic View. A bunch of Fritzing parts was using unknown fonts, which resulted in using whatever fallback font the operating system provided. We have replaced these with either Noto Sans, or OCR-Fritzing-mono.

This results in better i18n support, and fixes several font related bugs. Sketches will be more consistent when shared between different OSes. We tried to iron out some subtle differences between OpenType (Linux), Core Text (MacOS) and DirectWrite (Windows) font rendering. Fritzings additional SVG layer made this quite difficult.

Speed We added an option to enable hardware acceleration. Start Fritzing with --opengl to enable it. The speed gain is notable with some complex sketches, but not huge. In some cases, it will just save battery power, in others you might see a 20-30% speed improvement.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed crash when loading .fzbz files containing parse errors
  • Fixed crash that occurred when swapping packages without any matching connectors
  • Corrected bounding box size for text items placed in sketches
  • Fixed undefined connectors for the D31A* relay.
  • Fixed sparkfun-relay display issue where it appeared as a red rectangle.
  • Fixed issue where resistance was displayed twice in component properties.
  • Fixed application crash that occurred during export operations.
  • Fixed unexpected switching to image logos
  • Fixed unexpected bold fonts usage
  • Fixed disappearing LogoItems after type switch
  • Corrected font size calculation across macOS, Windows, and Ubuntu.
  • Fixed rotation and flipping issues in SVG export for IC and Mystery part pin labels.
  • Fixed relay parts to properly fit on breadboards and added spice models.

New parts

New Parts

  • Infineon XMC1400 Kit with support for shields and CAN interface
  • Infineon PSoC™ 6 Artificial Intelligence Evaluation Kit (CY8CKIT-062S2-AI)
  • Infineon Boot Kit XMC1100
  • Strawberry Linux SHT-25 High-precision single-chip temperature and humidity sensor module (THT and SMD)
  • Dual Color LED 8mm

OS Requirements

  • The minimum macOS Version is Big Sur.
  • Windows 10* or 11 are supported on x86 CPUs.
  • Windows 11 (24H2 and later) is supported on x86 and ARM CPUs.
  • For Linux, Fritzing requires glibc >= 2.31 and OpenSSL 3 (64-bit Intel/AMD). The latter OpenSSL requirements typically mean Ubuntu 22.04 or later, but Fritzing should also run on Ubuntu 20.04.

*) Very old versions of Windows 10 that have not been updated since 2016 are not supported!

GitHub Issues

In addition, with some overlap, here is a list of issues that have been resolved for the 1.0.5 release .

The release is available in our downloads section.