Features:
Enhancement: Porting 2.5d view for compatibility with OpenGL 3.0 for better support on other platforms
This however comes with a larger memory footprint during rendering. Something to fix later.
Bugfix: Cannot read LVS or L2N report with generic devices
Bugfix: LVS soft connections: making a soft connection to a device terminal disconnects the device
Bugfix: Spice reader accepts circuits without definition but pins get shorted
Bugfix: Spice reader ".endl" should accept lib name
Bugfix: Update sample macros for migration to Qt6
Enhancement: Qt major version-wise Assistant
Bugfix: Search and replace: Delete instances crashes KLayout
Enhancement: 'Visibility Follows Selection' option for the 2.5d view
Bugfix: HTTPS timeout included time to enter password
So you had 10 seconds max. to enter your password

Bugfix: marker and net browser windows did not get closed when clicking on close icon
Bugfix: "duplicate interactive" now also working for rulers
Enhancement: "upcase", "downcase" functions for expressions
Enhancement: DRC features to reduce coding effort for certain rules
New options for "corners": 'absolute' and 'negative' options
New options for with/without_angle: 'absolute' option.
Bugfixes: SPICE reader
now detects recursive circuit calls
skips empty top level circuit now, which did not happen when control statements were present at top level
Enhancements: DRC report category formation:
"output" will add shapes to a category is the category name was used before
"output" accepts an array of names for the category name, creating a sub-category hierarchy
Enhancement: Enhanced handling of cell variants in DRC reports
Now, cell variants are listed with the original cell name and a description of the variant formation.
Enhancement: Marker browser enhancements and RDB API
items can be added comment strings now.
"info" and "save" function in marker database browser File menu
file name shown in RDB selection drop-down
Enhancement: DRC waiver concept
KLayout now includes a way to store waive flags along with RDB databases. A waiver DB is nothing else than a report database file annotated with waive flags and other attributes like comments, images etc. For details see documentation under "DRC Basics". New functions in marker browser:
apply waiver DB
save as waiver DB
Enhancement: Editor hooks
This feature allows dynamically annotating shapes while they are edited. This feature is somewhat experimental as of now. See "EditorHooks" class for an example.