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Version History

QisMLib Version History

qismlib dll/so v3.43 (2026-01)

• New pre-processors QisMLoadProcOAS and QisMLoadProcHEXT based on QisMOasUtil and QisMHExtract respectively

qismlib dll/so v3.42.3 (2026-01)

• New API QisMLogV4 to generate a vector log (GDSII)

• Bug fix - Tile overlap during sizing in the Pre-processor

qismlib dll/so v3.42.2 (2025-12)

• New command script.capture

qismlib dll/so v3.42.1 (2025-11)

• Load pre-processor supports trusted/oem licensing

qismlib dll/so v3.42 (2025-11)

• New API and command to pre-process a GDSII/OASIS/DBLOAD design before loading (QisMFileLoadCtrlV2)

• New API and commands -- QisMBoundariesAPI

• New API functions and commands QisMBoolInstV3 to import/export settings based on a text file

• Bug Fix -- Clipping and window intersection check for round paths

• New commands script.file_size and script.phys_mem_size

• New commands file.copy_to and explcounter.count

qismlib dll/so v3.41 (2025-08)

• Uses FlexNet Licensing v11.19.8.0

qismlib dll/so v3.40 (2025-07)

• QisMBool API auto-partitioning supports polygon intersection calculation

• Config. file system changed to allow for parameters to be passed to extensions during load (no such parameters exist at the moment)

• draw.image has new color options

qismlib dll/so v3.39.1 (2025-05)

• New script options expand={uu} for script.new_window_set, explcounter.break_window_by_crossing and explcounter.break_window_by_vertnum

• script.window_set_to_file can now write the windows to Text, GDSII or OASIS

• explcounter.break_window_by_crossing has two new options, thrnum= and minvert=

• qismwinq.h has new capability to generate performance reports

qismlib dll/so v3.39 (2025-05)

• file.print_cell_tree can write to file and suppress printing the tree

• new exported function QisMCmd_set_error(..)

• Bug-fix: Merging GDSII blocks in QisMcadWriter

• New functions in qismcmd.h for working with handles (object pointers)

• Certain double script variables have more precision (12 decimal places)

• Log messages are explicitly flushed

• New API QisMExploderV4

• New commands exploder.get_cellref_boundaries and exploder.make_cellref_semiflat

• New command bool.unionize_to_file

qismlib dll/so v3.38 (2024-10)

• Display warnings from a GDSII/OASIS/Memmaps load using scripting

• Updated CQisLib 5.19 with a fix for occasional error creating DBLOAD maps

qismlib dll/so v3.37 (2024-08)

• New C++ API QisMcadWriterAPI to write GDSII/OASIS files

• cadwriter script commands now make use of the new API

• New built-in script string variable ((PLATFORM)) = WIN64 | LNX64

• Bug fix: CMD_ABORT in script.procedure did not abort

• New option extension={name} in script.if that is true only if the specified extension is loaded

• Script Error/Abort routine. Add a script.procedure called CLEANUP to define anything that needs to be done if the script terminates abruptly

• One can also use script.call CLEANUP to explicitly cleanup at the end of a normal script run

• The procedure CLEANUP will only be called for QisMScript::Run_command_file(). If the application is running individual commands directly, it's the application's/user's responsibility to cleanup appropriately

• Support for DOS-like regular-expressions in script.if

• Support for implementing flows (qismflow.h)

qismlib dll/so v3.36 (2024-04)

• Bug fix: Path to boundary conversion for round paths was not multi-thread safe

• Modified file.print_cell_tree command to receive the tree as a string

• New extern C API QisMCmd that provides a command-interface for .NET etc.

qismlib dll/so v3.35.2 (2024-01)

• commands usage.required usage.option and usage.info (handled by qismscript64.exe) are treated as comments

• new command script.ifset that set's a key to a new value only if it's defined (opposite of script.setif)

• new options for script.if -- {key}~!{value} (key does not contain value}, {key}|{key}..|{key} (OR operation), {key}&{key}..&{key} (AND operation)

qismlib dll/so v3.35.1 (2023-11)

• New API QisMScriptRunnerV2

• Now script.foreach can also run a for loop between two numbers

qismlib dll/so v3.35 (2023-11)

• Windows only --

  • License failure during library operation will cause the process to be terminated

  • Application that makes use of the new QisMLibV4 api will have the opportunity to close matters before this exit

qismlib dll/so v3.34.2 (2023-06)

• New command script.convert for converting various values from one unit to another

qismlib dll/so v3.34.1 (2023-05)

• Faster GDS writing on Windows

qismlib dll/so v3.34 (2023-05)

• Support for generating C++ code from script commands (BETA)

• QisMBool settings file name includes object index

• QisMBndryWriter supports TIF8 format for images

• New error tags (QisMError) in qismbase.h

• New API QisMLogChannels for channel specific verbose logging

• New script commands script.file_name, exploder.print_vectors

qismlib dll/so v3.33 (2022-08)

• Misc. bug fixes and improvements in qismbool and scripting

qismlib dll/so v3.32 (2022-03)

• script.foreach can read tokens from a text file

• GDS BOX will now be converted into boundary during explosion (previously ignored)

qismlib dll/so v3.31 (2022-03)

• bug fix - in the past, aref element vectors could be received without a preceding aref vector

• new advanced controls for boolean settings

qismlib dll/so v3.30 (2021-08)

• Ability to evaluate arithmetic expressions enclosed by [[..]] in script commands

• Ability to pass a list of parameters to script.call command

qismlib dll/so v3.29.1 (2021-02)

• New logging API QisMLogV2 with extended logging control

• New utility script commands script.substr, script.tokenize , script.window_set_to_string

• Misc. API changes in QisMBool, QisMFile, QisMExploder etc.

• Support for trusted licensing

qismlib dll/so v3.29 (2020-07)

• Support for compressed GDSII (.gz and .Z) on Windows (was available on linux from the start)

qismlib dll/so v3.28 (2020-07)

• Much improved explcounter.break_window_by_crossing (QisMExplCounterV4::Break_window_by_vertcross) with a nearly constant memory footprint and multi-threaded operation

qismlib dll/so v3.27.1 (2020-06)

• Relaxation of checks that prevented data grid from being too fine

qismlib dll/so v3.27 (2020-02)

• Ability to define and execute procedures in QisMScript

• New command script.if for conditional execution of commands

• New command explcounter.break_window_by_crossing for generating a density map and corresponding C++ api QisMExplCounterV4

• New API QisMLibV3 with support to make use of .load memory maps when loading a GDSII file and a corresponding script command lib.load_gds_with_mmaps

• The EXTENSION entries in the config. file can now contain relative paths or no directories at all in which case the location of those entries is implied to be relative to the location of the QisMLib dll/so

qismlib dll/so v3.26.3 (2020-01)

• New set of script command bool.* for performing boolean operations on polygons sets using the QisMBool API

• New script command cadwriter.circle

qismlib dll/so v3.26.2 (2020-01)

• New set of script commands cadwriter.* for composing a GDSII/OASIS file

qismlib dll/so v3.26.1 (2019-12)

• New command script.window_set_to_file

qismlib dll/so v3.26 (2019-12)

• lib.load_file script command defines two new string variables {filedb_id}.grid which represents the file grid in meters and {filedb_id}.units which defines the file units in meters

• New script commands script.set and script.setif to define string variables

• New API QisMWinQ to run a multi-threaded window queue with any window processing operation defined by the client

qismlib dll/so v3.25.2 (2019-11)

• Bug fix: Spatial queries failed for designed with large data extents because of an integer overflow in the construction of the spatial db

• New QisMScript command draw.image to render a view of the database to an image file on disk

qismlib dll/so v3.25.1 (2019-11)

• New API QisMBoolXV2 for computing embedding levels for boundaries in a leonov data set

qismlib dll/so v3.25 (2019-11)

• New API QisMExploderV3 to compute a density map (in form of tiles) based on the no. vertices contained within. This can be useful for efficient load sharing in multi-threaded queue operations

• Also provides a corresponding QisMScript command explcounter.break_window_by_vertnum

qismlib dll/so v3.24.4 (2019-10)

• Bug fix: QisMExploder Get_vector_data thread resources were not being freed on Linux resulting in rise in the memory footprint

qismlib dll/so v3.24.3 (2019-08)

• New API QisMWindowProbe and corresponding script command probe.window

• Misc. bug fixes

qismlib dll/so v3.24.2 (2019-08)

• Misc. additions to QisMBoolSettings (qismbool.h)

• New QisMScript commands for branching and loops

qismlib dll/so v3.24.1 (2019-07)

• New QisMBool API (QisMBoolSettingV2 -- qismbool.h) with many more controls to flavor the results of boolean operations

• QisMBStore (qismbstore.h) extended with some utility functions

• New script commands for QisMFile, QisMExploder and QisMBStore

qismlib dll/so v3.24 (2019-07)

• QisMScript. Built-in support for defining and executing script commands. Script commands can be executed by any application using QisMLib. Any code attached to the QisM system can also add commands. qismscript64.exe is a console app that can be used to run scripts

qismlib dll/so v3.23.1 (2019-06)

• QisMExplCounter (qismexplcounter.h) has a new extension QisMExplCounterV2 to compute vertex counts up to the specified nesting level

qismlib dll/so v3.23 (2019-04)

• New API : QisMFileOut (qismfileout.h). A unified interface to write boundaries to disk as GDSII/OASIS (vector) or TIFF/BMP/RAW (images)

qismlib dll/so v3.22.1 (2019-03)

• Bug fix: QisMExplCounter::Get_counts_hierarchical crashed if the specified cell did not exist

qismlib dll/so v3.22 (2018-07)

• New API : QisMLibV2::Set_working_dir to change the current working directory for the process using QisMLib

• QisMLibV2 is an extension to the QisMLib class. It can be obtained as follows QisMLibV2* v2 = (QisMLibV2*)(qismlib->QisMLib_cast(2)); If (NULL == v2) { //error: New API QisMLibV2 not supported }

qismlib dll/so v3.21 (2018-07)

• QisMDrawFlag::IFF_BITMAP8 on Windows generates BMP data (previously DIB). BMP = DIB + BITMAPFILEHEADER so that the image data can be processed by one of the many .bmp processing functions

qismlib dll/so v3.20 (2018-06)

• Break in backwards compatibility. All applications built with earlier versions of QisMLib MUST be re-built

• Method overloading removed from all classes because of incompatibilities with non-MSVC compilers on Windows

• To prevent accidental use with older QisMLib, QisMLib_initialize_once fn has been replaced by QisMLib_initialize_once_ext so that the run-time will fail immediately. The application does not have to call QisMLib_initialize_once_ext. They can continue to call QisMLib_initialize_once exactly as before. QisMLib_initialize_once is now a macro that redirects to QisMLib_initialize_once_ext

qismlib dll/so v3.12, v3.12.1 (2018-04)

• Internal limit on the number of active files/exploders removed. These are not only contrained by the system resources (or licenses in case of exploders)

qismlib dll/so v3.11 (2018-03)

• New licensed API QisMClipper (qismclipper.h) for computing interaction of boundaries and paths with a set of windows/regions

qismlib dll/so v3.10 (2018-02)

• New API QisMLog (qismlog.h) for system-wide logging in QisMLib

• Some QisMLib_initialize_once options can be delivered by environment vars

qismlib dll/so v3.9 (2017-11)

• Break in the API compatibility. All apps/libs using QisMLib 3.9 and it's extensions MUST be re-built using the new header files

• The temp. heade file qismlib_extras.h is no longer available. It's two 'C" functions have been incorporated into QisMFileLoadCtrl class (qismfile.h)

• Bug-fix: QisMBool boolean functions returned error if set A was empty. This has been fixed. Set A can be empty

• Extension to QisMExploder to explode boundaries and cell references

qismlib dll/so v3.8 (2017-10)

• Bug Fix: Unloading files did not decrement the file index resulting in QisMLib reaching the max. number of files open

qismlib dll/so v3.7 (2017-10)

• OASIS code is now optimized for multi-threaded use

• New function QisMFileLoadCtrl_ignore_text_scale and to force text scale to 0.0 upon load in order to avoid using text extents in the computation of cell extents just like OASIS

• New function QisMFileLoadCtrl_load_empty_refs to control if the empty refs are loaded. If ignore-text-scale is ON, the load-empty-refs becomes necessary for cells containing only texts since those cell's extents will become 0,0,0,0

qismlib dll/so v3.6 (2017-07)

• Support for loading multiple files enables. API remains the same. Previously, QisMLib::Load_file unloaded the previously file automatically before loading a new file. Now, each call to QisMLib::Load_file creates a new QisMFile handle

• New QisMExplCounter function that uses hierarchical explosion to get counts much faster then the other method

qismlib dll/so v3.5.1 (2017-05)

• Build error: Undefined symbol SystemInfo::Get_num_processors()

qismlib dll/so v3.5 (2017-05)

• New extension api QisMBoolX

• Bug Fix: Multi-threaded access issues affecting QisMDraw::Redraw_image for XPM format

• Improvement: All methods accepting string parameters (lists) are immune to presence of spaces

• New extension api QisMExplCounter

• Bug fix: Error message for license failure

qismlib dll/so v3.4 (2017-02)

• Bug-fix : Get_vector_data (qismexploder.h) was returning true even if the client interrupted execution via callback return code

• New QisMLib_initialize_once arg (-qismcfg) to specify a config file other than qismlib.cfg or to not load any config at all

• Bug-fix: QisMLib::Load_file crashed if QisMLib::Unload_file was used to close the previous file

• Bug-fix: Undefined reference error for QisMDrawObject::Get_display_vector_data

qismlib dll/so v3.3 (2017-01)

• Support for creating memory maps (qismfile.h - QisMFileMemoryMaps)

• API to get exploded counts for a cell+layer (QisMFile::Get_cell_layer_exploded_vertices)

• Bug-fix : Exploders were not being freed correctly leading to an error after 512 calls to QisMFile::Create_exploder

• Buf-fix : GDSII/OASIS/Dbload errors were not handled correctly

qismlib dll/so v3.2 (2016-12)

• First cut with the QisMDraw extension

qismlib dll/so v3.1 (2016-12)

• Bug fix: File was not loaded to memory inspite of the setting being ON because of improper order of execution of the SetLoadMemory setting

qismlib dll/so v3.0 (2016-10)

• First cut

QisMRaster Version History

qismraster dl/so v1.25 01-2026

• Support for a new path rasterizer (OrthoPath)

qismraster dl/so v1.24 08-2025

• Bug fix - OemDither

qismraster dl/so v1.23.6 05-2025

• New command raster.compute_px_sz

qismraster dl/so v1.23.5 03-2025

• New command raster.get_buffer_info

• Rasterization commands that generate a single image also register a handle of type unsigned char* with the same name as the rasterizer

qismraster dl/so v1.23.4 05-2024

• New command oemdither.4x4 (reserved for internal use)

qismraster dl/so v1.23.3 01-2024

• New API QisMRasterizerV11

• Bug fix: Joints of paths with segments at highly obtuse angles were being rasterized improperly

qismraster dl/so v1.23.2 01-2024

• New API QisMRasterizerV10 with some more options for overlaying data

qismraster dl/so v1.23.1 12-2023

• New API QisMFormatterV4

• New script commands raster.overlay_path and raster.format_image

qismraster dl/so v1.23 10-2023

• Refresh callbacks during rasterization that also doubles as a mechanism to terminate it

qismraster dl/so v1.22 10-2023

• Circle rasterization for paint&scratch is now multi-threaded

qismraster dl/so v1.21 08-2023

• New support for rasterizing ellipses and paths natively

• New API QisMRasterParamsV5 that provides generic Set/Get methods

• New ON/OFF control to rasterize PATHs natively

• New API QisMRasterizerV8 overlaying ellipses and paths on an existing image

qismraster dl/so v1.20 04-2023

• New API QisMRasterNotifyV2 to get access to the thread-local rasterizer objects when using the *queue* based rasterization methods

• New API QisMRasterPolygonSetV4 to add polygons to a polygon set

• New API QisMRasterizerV7 for overlaying single polygons, creating a new blank image for subsequent overlays etc.

• New API QisMRasterSharedBuf and QisMRasterV7 for having multiple rasterizers work together on a single shared image buffer

qismraster dl/so v1.18 05-2022

• Support for 2x2 subsampling

qismraster dl/so v1.17 03-2022

• New API QisMRasterPolygonSetV3 to allow third party polygon sets to feed data to the rasterizer

• New API QisMFormatterV3 for writing big tiff format

qismraster dl/so v1.16.1 09-2021

• Improved rasterization where single pixel aberrations have been fixed

• Raster buffer is only re-allocated if the new image size greater than old or less than 2/3rd of the old

qismraster dl/so v1.15 08-2021

• Multi-threaded TIF/TIF8 formatting for large disk images

qismraster dl/so v1.14 03-2021

• New API and script for rasterizing paint & scratch data

• New API and script for rasterizing very large images straight to disk (because there is not enough system memory to hold the image)

• Limited support for trusted licensing

qismraster dl/so v1.13 09-2020

• New API QisMRasterizerV4::Rasterize_px_window and script command raster.px_window to rasterize an exact window (without adjustments)

qismraster dl/so v1.12 07-2020

• New API QisMRasterizerV3::Rasterize_window_paint_scratch and equivalent qismscript command raster.window_paint_scratch to rasterize a set of layers representing paint and scratch polygons

• Fix for a bug in the window adjustment computation that could potentially introduce 1 pixel gaps between contiguous windows.

qismraster dl/so v1.11 06-2020

• bug-fix: raster queue API resource&license leak

qismraster dl/so v1.10 02-2020

• New image format QisMRasterFlags::IFF_VBMP for a bottom-top BMP image where only the header (biHeight) value is changed

• New parameter option format=VBMP for the commands raster.create_params

qismraster dl/so v1.9 12-2019

• bug fix: top row of a raster image was blank

qismraster dl/so v1.8 12-2019

• New API QisMRasterV3 to rasterize a queue of windows using multiple window threads

• New script commands raster.queue_mt, raster.get_pixelsize, raster.get_dpi, raster.compute_buf_sz, raster.compute_tile_sz

• Improvement - Rasterization of vertical manhattan polygons (stripes) was significantly slower than comparable horizontal stripes

qismraster dl/so v1.7 09-2019

• New rasterization parameter to generate bottom-up image (reverse-y)

• Support for scripting using QisMScript

qismraster dl/so v1.6 05-2019

• Bug-fix: Raster compare two files crashed when cell names were different

• New API: QisMRasterWriter and QisMRasterV2 for creating an image writer that can write one or more polygons at a time

qismraster dl/so v1.5 02-2019

• Support for comparing two files (QisMRstrCmp2Files)

• Linux Build change -- the optimization flag in use -O1 was found to cause slower performance. -O3 fixes that issue

qismraster dl/so v1.4 01-2019

• New API extension QisMRasterPolygonSetV2 to import polygons from QisMBStore

qismraster dl/so v1.3 11-2018

• New API extension QisMRasterizerV2 with functions to generate multiple raster images from a preset cell, layers and overlay polygons on an existing raster image as well as enabling overlay via multiple rasterization calls

qismraster dl/so v1.2 10-2018

• Bug fix: Significant jump in memory footprint if the raster window crosses polygon(s) that are significantly taller (along Y) relative to the window of interest

qismraster dl/so v1.1 06-2018

• Compatible with QisMLib v3.20 (API break)

• This extension will not load with earlier versions of QisMLib

QisMmTool Version History

qismmtool dll/so v1.0 2024/02/13

• First cut

QisMPatterns Version History

qismpatterns dl/so v1.0 2024-02-15

• First cut

QisMLOA Version History

qismloa dll/so v1.4 2025-07-16

• New API/command to merge annotations with a paint&scratch DB to create a paint&scratch file

• New API/command to merge annotations and load the output to a new DB

qismloa dll/so v1.3 2023-11-27

• Bug fix - Crash when New_annotation_set was called repeatedly a certain number of times

qismloa dll/so v1.2 2023-05-04

• Text strings can containing commas now

• New command create_ann_set_from_file that reads the annotation text file format

qismloa dll/so v1.1 2022-07-22

• Bug fix - single pixel at the very end of a row was dropped

• Improved TTF font support

qismloa dll/so v1.0 2022-06-08

• First cut

QisMCorrX Version History

qismcorrx dll/so v1.4 04-2023

• Bug fix - QisMCorrXObj::Get_corrected_extents

• New API QisMAffineX to apply affine transformations

qismcorrx dll/so v1.3 02-2020

• New script command corrxobj.correct_window_extents

qismcorrx dll/so v1.2 12-2019

• Support for scripting with QisMScript

• QisMCorrXObj extended to V3 to retrieve the underlying QisMFile db

qismcorrx dll/so v1.1 10-2019

• New feature (QisMCorrXObjV2) with the ability to compute corrections for arbitrary list of points and use an existing rasterizer (QisMRasterizer) (using the QisMRaster extension) to generate raster image from the corrected polygons

qismcorrx dll/so v1.0 01-2019

• First cut

QisMOdbPS Version History

qismodbps dll/so v1.3.1 06-2025

• Fix to disable console popup during cleanup

qismodbps dll/so v1.3 09-2024

• Improved progress updates and ability to interrupt the load

qismodbps dll/so v1.2 11-2023

• Support for basic transformations (rotate, mirror, scale)

qismodbps dll/so v1.1 05-2023

• Suppresses console window of the translator

qismodbps dll/so v1.0 02-2023

• First cut

QisMGbrPS Version History

qismgbrps dll/so v1.6 11-2025

• New API and script commands to query dcodes in a region-of-interest

qismgbrps dll/so v1.5.1 04-2025

• Fix to avoid console popup during cleanup

qismgbrps dll/so v1.5 04-2025

• gbrpsfile.print_meta can be used to retrive values for image polarity and ignore layers

qismgbrps dll/so v1.4 05-2024

• Default behavior w.r.t path data has changed. Now, by default paths are present in the newly created DB. This can be overriden using a new option

• Sizing will force the conversion of paths to boundaries

qismgbrps dll/so v1.3 06-2023

• Ability to support files with large SR counts

qismgbrps dll/so v1.2.1 05-2023

• Bug fix - If only arcres was specified, it was reset to 0.0 causing issues in the underlying engine

qismgbrps dll/so v1.2 03-2022

• Support for sizing

qismgbrps dll/so v1.1 12-2021

• Bug fix - Loading failed if QisMLib was initialized without logging (QisMLog)

qismgbrps dll/so v1.0 06-2021

• First cut

QisMSnpUtil Version History

qismsnputil dll 1.4.1 06-2025

• Misc. fixes and improvements

qismsnputil dll 1.4 19-05-2025

• New QisMSnPExploder

• New API and script commands to unionize to file and booleanize two files using a multi-threaded Queue

• Breaking change in the qismsnpunion.h API

qismsnputil dll 1.3 24-07-2024

• Speed improvement by not having to merge partition lines for scratch data in Pre_process_to_file

qismsnputil dll 1.2 11-2022

• New APIs QisMSnPExploder, QisMSnPUnion to get paint & scratch data as well as generate a unionized (positive-only) file on disk

qismsnputil dll 1.1 03-2022

• bug fix - crash during initialization when QisMLog was not enabled by the application

QisMHExtract Version History

qismhextract dll/so v1.7.2 10-2024

• Fix to suppress console popup during Create_db/Destroy_db

qismhextract dll/so v1.7.1 10-2024

• hextract script commands use the new QisMcadWriterAPI

qismhextract dll/so v1.7 04-2023

• Bug-fix : OASIS files with Arrays

• BREAKING CHANGE in the API. v1.7 is not compatible with older clients. All clients MUST be re-compiled with the new header file.

qismhextract dll/so v1.6.1 05-2020

• New script command hextract.select_dbu and new options to enable extraction to an output with a different grid, units

qismhextract dll/so v1.6 02-2020

• New API QisMHExtractV2 to create a database from an extraction of the source database

• New scripting commands hextract.create_db, hextract.destroy_db and hextractfile.save_as

• Support for clipping and extracting zero width paths

qismhextract dll/so v1.5 01-2020

• Support for scripting with QisMScript

qismhextract dll/so v1.4 06-2019

• QisMHExtractOpts extended to V2 to set layer offset for output

qismhextract dll/so v1.3 03-2019

• QisMHExtractor extended to V2 to get human readable extraction report

qismhextract dll/so v1.2 06-2018

• Compatible with QisMLib 3.20 (API break)

• This extension will not load with earlier versions of QisMLib

• API to receive progress updates during extraction (QisMHExtractUpdate)

qismhextract dll/so v1.1 04-2018

• Bug-fix: Loading the qismhextract64.so caused a crash because of invalid use of dynamic_cast

qismhextract dll/so v1.0 03-2018

• First cut

QisMRTCR Version History

qismrtcr dll v1.6 04-2023

• Support for TIF8 in script commands

qismrtcr dll v1.5 05-2022

• Support for 2x2 subsampling

• VS 2015 port

qismrtcr dll v1.4, v1.4.1 05-2020

• Bug fix - adding annotations

qismrtcr dll v1.3 12-2019

• bug fix: top row of a raster image was blank

• New API QisMRTCRJobV3::Get_raster_image_opts as an alternative to QisMRTCRJob::Get_raster_image for specifying additional image options

• Script command rtcrjob.get_raster_image has a new option bottom_to_top

qismrtcr dll v1.2 10-2019

• QisMScript command rtcr.create_rasterizer has been updated to support second level corrections

• New feature (QisMRTCRJobV2) to create a rasterizer object with the ability to apply second level corrections to every image generated by it

qismrtcr dll v1.1 08-2019

• Misc. bug fixes

qismrtcr dll v1.0 07-2019

• First cut

QisMMRtcr Version History

qismmrtcr dll/so v1.0 04-2023

• First cut

QisMLayerSynth Version History

qismlayersynth dll/so v2.7 06-2020

• misc. bug fixes & memory leaks

qismlayersynth dll/so v2.6 08-2019

• New API QisMLayerSynthObjectV2 to facilitate advanced control of the results by specifying the QisMBoolSettingsV2 object

• Support for scripting via QisMScript

qismlayersynth dll/so v2.5 06-2018

• Compatible with QisMLib 3.20 (API break)

• This extension will not load with earlier versions of QisMLib

qismlayersynth dll/so v2.4 02-2018

• New LSynthNotify extension to check with the client if the layer synthesis is to be terminated

qismlayersynth dll/so v2.3 11-2017

• Compatible with QisMLib v3.9 (API break)

• New feature LSynthSpec::Remove_partitions to remove thread partitions or not after boolean operations

qismlayersynth dll/so v2.1 08-2017

• Bug fix: Rounding error during conversion of double to int

qismlayersynth dll/so v2.0 07-2017

• Support for a new post-fix layer synthesis expressions which is both compact and more efficient. This should be the best way to use layer synthesizer

qismlayersynth dll/so v1.0 03-2017

• First cut

QisMBoolFiles Version History

qismboolfiles dll/so v1.4 08-2022

• Improved script command twofiles.xor with new options margin and xorinput

qismboolfiles dll/so v1.3 02-2020

• Support for scripting with QisMScript

qismboolfiles dll/so v1.2 07-2019

• New advanced arg ARGT_QISMBOOLOPTS for Booleanize_two_files so that the client can flavor the output of the boolean operations beyond what is permitted by the API

qismboolfiles dll/so v1.1 06-2018

• Compatible with QisMLib 3.20 (API break)

• This extension will not load with earlier versions of QisMLib

qismboolfiles dll/so v1.0 02-2018

• First cut

QisMClipExtract Version History

qismclipextract dll 1.13 11-2023

• Uses the most recent rasterizer

• Misc. bug fixes

qismclipextract dll 1.12.1 09-2021

• Improved rasterization where single pixel aberrations have been fixed

• Raster buffer is only re-allocated if the new image size greater than old or less than 2/3rd of the old

qismclipextract dll 1.11 09-2020

• Ability to terminate clip extract during layer synthesis

qismclipextract dll 1.10 06-2020

• misc. bug fixes & memory leaks

qismclipextract dll 1.9 02-2020

• New image format QisMClipExtractFlags::VBMP for a bottom-top BMP image where only the header (biHeight) value is changed

• New parameter option format=VBMP for the command clip.extract_images

qismclipextract dll 1.8 12-2019

• bug fix: top row of a raster image was blank

qismclipextract dll 1.7 12-2019

• Improvement - Rasterization of vertical manhattan polygons (stripes) was significantly slower than comparable horizontal stripes

qismclipextract dll 1.6 09-2019

• Support for bottom-to-top rasterization (reverseY)

• Support for scripting (with QisMScript)

• Misc. bug fixes

qismclipextract dll 1.5, 1.5.1 10-2018

• Major bug fix in the rasterizer that caused a steep rise in the memory footprint for polygons/paths that are extremely long along Y relative to the window/pixelsize in question

qismclipextract dll 1.4 06-2018

• Compatible with QisMLib v3.20 (API break)

• This extension will not load with earlier versions of QisMLib

qismclipextract dll 1.3 11-2017

• Compatible with QisMLib v3.9 (API break)

qismclipextract dll 1.2 03-2017

• New api QisMClipExtractV2 to extract clips of synthesized data using QisMLayerSynth

qismclipextract dll 1.1 12-2016

• Bug Fix: File was not being loaded to memory

• Bug Fix: Initialization of boolean inside a thread was causing a crash

qismclipextract dll 1.0 12-2016

• First cut

QisMOasUtil Version History

qismoasutil dll/so v1.5 02-2026

• Bug fix: GDS writer for multiple XY records

qismoasutil dll/so v1.4 03-2025

• Bug fix: Installation path with spaces caused failure

• Bug fix: Returning a non-zero code from OasUtilNotify did not terminate the processing

qismoasutil dll/so v1.3 02-2025

• Bug fix: Inconsistent progress updates. Some messages were being written to stderr

qismoasutil dll/so v1.2 01-2025

• Bug fix: Processing TRAPEZOIDs

qismoasutil dll/so v1.1.1 10-2024

• New options workdir, dbg for oas2dbload command

qismoasutil dll/so v1.1 09-2024

• C++ API for QisMOasUtil

• Ability to map layers, drop texts and drop cells by names/regular expressions

• Ability to generate .gds.gz

• Ability to create a filedb (QisMFile*) from OASIS

• Script command to create dbload memory maps from OASIS file

qismoasutil dll/so v1.0 06-2024

• First Cut

QisMCmd (.NET Standard 2.0) Version History

qismcmd_cs_s20 dll v1.1 03-2025

• New API functions to get access to object handles and setting error message

qismcmd_cs_s20 dll v1.0 03-2024

• First cut