2024

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2023

Release 1.9.0

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Besides many bug fixes and some minor new feature, the main feature of this release is the possibility to export an Antares circuit (and its sub circuits) to...

Release 1.8.0

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Besides many bugfixes, release 1.8.0 primarily contains the new features “Record mode for use cases” and “Circuit tests”.

Release 1.7.0

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Release 1.7 brings besides some smaller features a lot of bug fixes, especially the fix for the severe bug #648, which could lead to corrupt circuit files wh...

Building Ben Eater’s 8-bit computer

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Some of you may have noticed that I’ve decided it’s time to do a circuit project using Antares on my own, so I can experience myself how it’s like to use Ant...

Release 1.6.0

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Various bugfixes and new features, most notably “Subscript in component names (Rich Text)” and a fix for “Dead components”, which was a result of the circuit...

Release 1.5.0

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Various bugfixes and new features, most notably “Expose the project workspace” and “Avoid overlapping wires in layout algorithm”.

Antares usage statistics

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As some of you may wonder whether anybody else is using Antares, I’ve decided to disclose the current usage statistics.

Release 1.4.0

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Various bugfixes and new features.

Release 1.3.0

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Various bugfixes and new features.

Antares is on Twitter!

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Check out our new Twitter account for updates on what is currently going on in the Antares project.

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2022

Release 1.2.0

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Besides the usual bugfixes, this release contains some new features like a shape library in the symbol editor, a new circuit hierarchy tree view, support for...

Release 1.0.0

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After seven years of intense development, Antares finally reaches release 1.0! This release contains many major new features, which will be described in deta...

Release 0.31.0 with important bug fixes

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This release is a pure bugfix release that fixes some important bugs, especially a particularly severe one in the undo/redo system, and a bug that rendered m...

Release 0.29.2 with urgent bug fix

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Release 0.29.2 fixes a severe bug introduced in 0.28.0 related with the new auto-generation of circuit symbols. The bug could lead to loosing the blue-crosse...

Release 0.29.0 with ‘Search in circuits’

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Starting with this release, you can now search for components in a circuit. Press Alt-Ctrl-F (or Alt-Cmd-F on Mac) to display the search bar. If you enter a ...

Release 0.27.1 with some patches for 0.27.0

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Release 0.27.1 fixes two severe bugs introduced with 0.27.0, especially the unexpected error that could occur when dragging components within a circuit.

Release 0.27.0 with lots of bug fixes

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Release 0.27.0 fixes a lot of smaller bugs and brings a couple of minor usability features, especially regarding moving components. Also check out the new “K...

Release 0.26.0 with feedback system

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Along with a couple of bugfixes, this release mainly consists of a new feedback system that asks the user to give feedback about Antares when the application...

Release 0.25.0 with simulation engine fix

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The main reason for this release is a fix of a severe bug #341 in the simulation engine that could lead to infinite oscillation cross-coupled bi-directional ...

Release 0.24.0 with Oscilloscope

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The main purpose of this release is to make the oscilloscope component available to the users. It has been around for a couple of years as a development vers...

Critical bug in 0.23.0

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Release 0.23.1 fixes a critical bug that can occur when opening a project.

Release 0.23.0

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Release 0.23.0 brings a couple of useful new features. Besides the new component “Lookup Table”, additional Bit Width 6 and 7, and some extensions in the new...

New Module “Analysis” in 0.22.0

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Release 0.22.0 extends the “Synthesis” module introduced in 0.21.0 by adding the possibility to enter boolean expressions and minimize them. See the updated ...

New Module “Synthesis” in 0.21.0

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Release 0.21.0 brings the entirely new module “Synthesis”, which allows you to define truth tables, to let Antares create optimized boolean expressions from ...

Release 0.20.0

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Besides some bugfixes, improved simulation speed, and the new “Double-Throw Switch” component, the most awaited feature is probably #309, which allows you to...

Release 0.19.0

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Besides the new feature “Reconnect wire to existing wire”, this release fixes two severe bugs.

Release 0.18.0

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Besides the usual small bugfixes,release 0.18.0 brings a refresh of the UI’s look & feel, support for rotating entire selections of components, and a lot...

Release 0.17.1

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This patch release fixes some bugs, especially the severe bug #280 which altered the view’s zoom/pan setting when undoing operations such that the circuit wa...

Release 0.17.0

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Release 0.17.0 brings important fixes for some bugs, amongst of which #276 being the worst, as it prevented users from changing the name of a circuit.

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2021

Bugfix Release 0.15.1

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This bugfix release fixes some bugs, especially #259 which prevented you from changing the bit width properties in RAM, ROM or LED Matrix components.

Release 0.14.0

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Along with a couple of bugfixes, of which “Error in ‘Import Circuit’” was the most severe one, there are some useful new features regarding transistors, zoom...

Making Logic Gates from Transistors

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The heart of every computer consists of logic gates that perform the basic logical operations necessary to run programs. A modern microprocessor like the one...

New scripting language

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Release 0.13.0 of Antares brings an entirely new scripting language that is much simpler to use than the old JavaScript based scripting language, because it ...

Release 0.12.1 revoked

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Unfortunately, we have to revoke release 0.12.1 as it turned out that it produces more new problems than it actually solves. Issue #227 seems to need an enti...

Antares Web <iframe> Integration

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In the past couple of weeks, we’ve put a lot of time and effort into pushing Antares Web to the next level.

Release 0.12.0 with bugfixes and new features

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Release 0.12.0 fixes some bugs and brings some new interesting features, especially colored subcircuit symbols and the possibility to move folders within a p...

Online textbook sample with Antares

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The Antares web project has made quite progress recently, and I’m happy to be able to show you a first teaser of how online textbook pages could look like us...

Sharing Antares Assets

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There is now a public GitHub project where users can publish and share their circuits, projects and libraries.

Release 0.9.0 with new features

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Sharing circuits, DIL package support, 64 bit, decimal signal representation, and a fundamental rework of unconnected input handling: Release 0.9.0 brings a ...

Release 0.8.0 with some cool improvements

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Release 0.8.0 brings a couple of new features and improvements, as well as a fix for a regression bug preventing some components from being rotated.

Release 0.7.0 with new components!

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Relase 0.7.0 brings some new cool components like joystick and “real switch”, and other features like logic gate input negation or variable LED sizes.

Bugfix Release 0.6.1

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Release 0.6.1 contains a lot of bug fixes, including one regarding inital simulation states of wires connected to pull resistors.

Stability Release 0.6.0

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Besides a couple of new features, Release 0.6.0 contains a lot of bug fixed that improve the stability of Antares significantly.

Release 0.5.2 with a critical bugfix

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Release 0.5.2 contains a fix for a critical bug that prevented users from setting properties of wires (in the circuit editor) and ports (in the symbol editor...

Release 0.5.1 with critical bugfixes

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Release 0.5.1 contains fixes for some critical bugs, especially for bugs that resulted in saving old snapshots instead of the current circuit, and wrong simu...

Release 0.4.1 with critical bugfixes

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Release 0.4.1 contains fixes for some critical bugs, especially for some bugs that resulted in the dreaded “Unexpected error” dialog, mainly occuring after u...

Release 0.4.0 with quasi-analog components

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Besides many smaller features and bugfixes, the 0.4.0 release contains in particular the new quasi-analog components “Pull Resistor”, “Transistor”, “Ground” ...

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2020

Release 0.3.0 with dark mode

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Along with lots of small features and bugfixes, this release brings the new optional dark mode and a new “break” components that allows you to single-step th...

Oscilloscope preview

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I’ve been working on adding an oscilloscope component to Antares for some time now. Its purpose is todisplay signal waveforms in a circuit. Although it is qu...

Release 0.2.0 is available!

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Along with lots of small features and bugfixes, this release contains a major rework of the entire undo/redo system, which also required deep changes in the ...

Release 0.1.0

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After more than 4 years of development, the first public release of Antares is finally available.

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