Log message:
Update OpenSCAD to 2015.03p2
from the release notes:
# OpenSCAD 2015.03
**Language Features:**
* Added text() module for 2D text
* Added offset() module for 2D offsets
* Added list comprehensions and let()
* Added concat() function
* Added chr() function
* surface() can now take PNG images as input
* min() and max() can now take a vector argument
* 2D minkowski can now handle polygons with holes
* Variables can now be assigned in local blocks without using assign()
**Program Features:**
* Added Toolbar icons
* New code editor based on QScintilla
* Added Splash screen
* Added SVG export
* Added AMF export
* Added --viewall and --autocenter cmd-line parameters
* GUI is now translated into German, Czech, Spanish, French and Russian
* MDI (Multiple Document Interface) is now available on all platforms
* Color schemes for viewer and editor can be user-edited using JSON files
* GUI components are now dockable
* Added Tickmarks on axes
**Bugfixes/improvements:**
* Performance improvement: 2D (clipper), preview, hull, minkowski, surface
* Performance improvement: Reduce duplicate evaluation of identical expressions
* Better recursion behavior
* STL export and import is now more robust
* Internal cavities are better supported
* New examples
* Windows cmd-line behaves better
* Better mirror() and scale() behavior when using negative factors
**Deprecations:**
* polyhedron() now takes a faces= argument rather than triangles=
* assign() is no longer needed. Local variables can be created in any scope
# OpenSCAD 2014.03
**Language Features:**
* Added diameter argument: circle(d), cylinder(d, d1, d2) and sphere(d)
* Added parent_module() and $parent_modules
* Added children() as a replacement for child()
* Unicode strings (using UTF-8) are now correctly handled
* Ranges can have a negative step value
* Added norm() and cross() functions
**Program Features:**
* Cmd-line: --info parameter prints system/library info
* Cmd-line: --csglimit parameter to change CSG rendering limit
* Cmd-line: Better handling of cmd-line arguments under Windows
* GUI: Added Reset View
* GUI: Added Search&Replace in editor
* GUI: Syntax highlighting now has a dark background theme
* GUI: We now create a backup file before rendering to allow for recovery if \
OpenSCAD crashes/freezes
* GUI: Accessibility features enabled (e.g. screenreading)
**Bugfixes/improvements:**
* Reading empty STL files sometimes caused a crash
* OPENSCADPATH now uses semicolon as path separator under Windows
* polyhedron() is now much more robust handling almost planar polygons
* Automatic reloads of large designs are more robust
* Boolean logic in if() statements are now correctly short-circuited
* rands() with zero range caused an infinite loop
* resize(, auto=true) didn't work when shrinking objects
* The $children variable sometimes misbehaved due to dynamic scoping
* The --camera cmd-line option behaved differently then the corresponding \
GUI function
* PNG export now doesn't leak transparency settings into the target image
* Improved performance of 3D hull() operations
* Some editor misbehaviors were fixed
* Stability fixes of CGAL-related crashes
* Windows cmd-line can now handle spaces in filenames
* Default CSG rendering limit is now 100K elements
* Fixed a crash reading DXF files using comma as decimal separator
* Fixed a crash running the cmd-line without a HOME env. variable
* Intersecting something with nothing now correctly results in an empty object
**Deprecations:**
* child() is no longer supported. Use children() instead.
* polyhedron(triangles=[...]): Use polyhedron(faces=[...]) instead.
**Misc:**
* Test framework now shares more code with the GUI app
* Test report can now be automatically uploaded to dinkypage.com
* Better compatibility with BSD systems
* Qt5 support
# OpenSCAD 2013.06
**Language Features:**
* linear_extrude now takes a scale parameter:
linear_extrude(height=a, slices=b, twist=c, scale=[x,y])
* Recursive use of modules is now supported (including cascading child() \
operations):
https://github.com/openscad/openscad/blob/master/examples/example024.scad
* Parameter list values can now depend on earlier values, e.g. for (i=[0:2], \
j=[0:i]) ..
* value assignments in parameters can now depend on already declared parameters
* Added resize() module:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Transformations#resize
**Program Features:**
* Added basic syntax highlighting in the editor
* There is now a built-in library path in user-space:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Libraries#Library_Locations
* Commandline output to PNG, with various camera and rendering settings.
Run openscad -h to see usage info or see the OpenSCAD wiki user manual.
* Attempting to open dxf, off or stl files in the GUI will now create an \
import statement.
* The preview operator (%) will now preserve any manually set color
* The highlight operator (#) will now color the object in transparent red
* Mac: Added document icon
* Mac: Added auto-update check
* Windows: Better cmd-line support using the openscad.com executable
**Bugfixes:**
* Importing files is now always relative to the importing script, also for \
libraries
* We didn't always print a warning when CSG normalization created too many \
elements
* Binary STLs can now be read on big endian architectures
* Some binary STLs couldn't be read
* Fixed some issues related to ARM builds
* CGAL triangulation more lenient- enables partial rendering of 'bad' DXF data
* The Automatic Reload feature is now more robust
* If a file couldn't be saved it no longer fails silently
* Fixed a number of crashes related to CGAL and OpenCSG rendering or complex \
models
* The lookup() function had bad boundary condition behavior
* The surface() module failed when the .dat file lacked a trailing newline
* The hull() module could crash if any of the children were empty objects
* Some problems using unicode filenames have been fixed
**Misc:**
* Build scripts have been further improved
* Regression test now creates single monolithic .html file for easier uploading
* Regression test auto-starts & stops Xvfb / Xvnc if on headless unix machine
* The backend is finally independent of Qt
* Windows: We now have a 64-bit version
**Known Bugs:**
* Linux: command-line png rendering on Gallium is flaky.
Workaround: use CGAL --render or hardware rendering.
# OpenSCAD 2013.01
**Features:**
* Snappier GUI while performing CGAL computations (computations running in \
separate thread)
* The size of the misc. caches can now be adjusted from Preferences
* The limit for when to disable OpenCSG can now be adjusted from Preferences
* Added Dot product operator: vec * vec
* Added Matrix multiplication operator: vec * mat, mat * mat
* Added search() function
* Dependencies are now tracked - any changes in uses/included files will be \
detected and cause a recompile
* The OPENSCADPATH environment variable is now implemented will have \
precedence when searching for libraries
* .csg files can now be opened from the GUI
* linear_extrude() will now assume that the first parameter means 'height' \
if it's a number
**Bugfixes:**
* use'ing an non-existing file sometimes crashed under Windows
* Better font handling: Ensure a monospace font is chosen as default
* Division by zero caused hang in some cases (e.g. sin(1/0))
* Larger minkowski operations sometimes caused a crash after a CGAL assert \
was thrown
* Fixed crashes in shared_ptr.hpp (or similar places) due bugs in cache \
management and CSG normalization
* scale() with a scale factor of zero could cause a crash
* Fixed a number of issues related to use/include
* Providing an unknown parameter on the cmd-line caused a crash
* cmd-line overrides using -D now also work for USEd modules
* Modifier characters can now be used in front of if statements
* rotate() with a vector argument with less that 3 elements used \
uninitialized variables, ending up being non-deterministic.
* .csg files will now have relative filenames whenever possible
* Don't just ignore geometric nodes having zero volume/area - when doing \
difference/intersection, they tend to turn negative objects into positive ones.
* Always use utf-8 file encoding, also under Windows
* A lot of build script fixes
* Some other crash bugs fixes
**Deprecations:**
* The old include syntax "<filename.scad>" without the \
include keyword is no
longer supported and will cause a syntax error.
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