XTrackCAD Version 5.3.1 General Availabilty Notes

Welcome to the XtrackCAD V5.3.1 General Availabuilty release!

V5.3.1 contains many bug fixes, new and updated parameter files, new
features and enhancements.

Enjoy!

Adam, Dave, Dwayne, Heiko, Martin, Philip, Russell: your volunteer
developers.

PS The full change log is a file in the XtrkCAD download folder as
CHANGELOG.md

The files written by XTrackCAD 5.2 are versioned to only be read by 5.2,
but it can also read files from earlier versions. If you get into
trouble, please reach out, we may be able to help - but always back-up.

We will fix important bugs you find in subsequent releases.

To report bugs, please use the SourceForge bugs reporting page
https://sourceforge.net/p/xtrkcad-fork/bugs/

To discuss the Release, please use the user forum
https://xtrackcad.groups.io/g/main/topics

V5.3.1 GA Notes

This file contains installation instructions and up-to-date information
regarding XTrackCad.

Contents

- About XTrackCad
- License Information
- Installation
- Upgrading from earlier releases
- Building
- Where to go for support

About XTrackCAD

XTrackCad is a powerful CAD program for designing Model Railroad
layouts.

Some highlights:

- Easy to use.
- Supports any scale.
- Supplied with parameter libraries for many popular brands of turnouts,
  plus the capability to define your own.
- Automatic easement (spiral transition) curve calculation.
- Extensive help files and video-clip demonstration mode.

Availability: XTrkCad Fork is a project for further development of the
original XTrkCad software. See the project homepage at
http://www.xtrackcad.org/ for news and current releases.

License Information

Copying:

XTrackCad is copyrighted by Dave Bullis and Martin Fischer and licensed
as free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
which you can find in the file COPYING.

Installation

Please see https://sourceforge.net/p/xtrkcad-fork/wiki/DownloadInstall/

Note: The Linux version has intrduced changes to make co-existance of
Beta and GA releases easier. Please see
https://sourceforge.net/p/xtrkcad-fork/wiki/LinuxInstall/ for details.

Upgrade Information

Note: The 5.2 version of XTrackCAD came with the several new features
like background images or extensions to notes. In order to support this
feature, an additional file format for layout files (.xtce) was added.
The old .xtc format is still supported for reading and writing. So files
from earlier versions of XTrackCAD can be read without problems. Layouts
that were saved in the new format cannot be read by older versions of
XTrackCAD.

Building

Please see https://sourceforge.net/p/xtrkcad-fork/wiki/BuildNotes/

Where to go for support

The following web addresses will be helpful for any questions or bug
reports

- The group mailing list https://xtrackcad.groups.io/g/main
- The group Wiki http://xtrkcad.org
- The official Sourceforge site
  https://sourceforge.net/projects/xtrkcad-fork

Thanks for your interest in XTrackCAD.
