Changed in release 2.53 (15th December 2025)
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Design navigator pane :

  o A search box has been added to the top of the navigator tree. On entering text and hitting return, the
    master schematic libraries and the master outline library will be searched for all entries that have names
    containing the search text.

    Items displayed in the search results may be opened, or dragged/copied into designs.  A maximum of 50 search
    results will be displayed.

    The first time that the search option is used, there will be a short delay while schematic master libraries
    are processed.  Subsequent search operations will not have this delay.

CNC drill outputs :

  o The NC Drill & Rout output tool now contains RS-274X as an available output file format.

Outline editor :

  o The component outline editor 'Pad' menu now contains an 'Omit Pad Heat relief' option. When enabled on a
    outline pin, heat relief pattern will not appear on a powerplane layer to which the pin makes connection.

    The option may also be toggled on/off for all pins on an outline from within the outline properties pane,
    or the Outline->Configuration dialog within the outline editor.

Parts list editor & Bill of materials generation :

  o The File->System Setup dialog now contains a new entry named 'Parts list extra fields'.
    On clicking the Configure button, you may enable up to 5 extra fields which get added to the parts list editor.
    You may specify the column header text for each of these fields in the setup dialog.

    Please note that this is a global option, so when enabled the extra fields will appear in all designs.

    The new fields will appear in text and spreadsheet format outputs of the parts list, and also appear in
    the 'Bill of Materials' report.  For the BOM report, any extra fields that have different values across
    a set of grouped parts will have the option field values displayed as ??? in the report.
    At the moment, the part description + value attribute are the only values taken into account to determine
    if parts are identical to each other for grouping during BOM generation.

General system :

  o BUGFIX: Corrected incorrect navigator pane folder icon behaviour as folders were opened and closed.

  o Because of various internal changes made in this software release, designs saved with this version may
    only be loaded into XLDesigner 2.53 or later versions.