What’s new in 1.0
- KiCAD import
- 4000 and 7400 library for KiCAD import
Earlier release builds
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1.0 Build 202610091856 9 October 2026 12.8 MB
Changes
- Agent panel: attach images and files to a message
- Programming: flash limits, lost transfers; Tang Nano flash is off
- Programming: SRAM or flash each time, and a Programmer panel
- Navigator bar: larger icons across the sidebar, like Xcode's
- Hierarchy: clicking a module opens its own file; Show Instance
- Hierarchy: "?" for missing modules with ways to fill them; icon bar
- Project sources step 7: exit run and report — feature complete
- Project sources: an imported folder's testbenches land in sim/<folder>
- Project sources: an imported folder's src/ and sim/ halves go together
- Project sources: an import test for a typical downloaded core
- Project sources step 6: MCP add_files through the Add Files sheet
- Project navigator: the top module's file leads Sources
- Project navigator: subfolders as folder rows in the groups
- Project sources step 5: navigator context menus, Move to Trash
- Project sources step 4: Add Files to Project… and drops from Finder
- Project sources step 3: File ▸ New File… (⌘N)
- Project sources step 2: include directories for Yosys and Icarus
- Project sources step 1: the import plan for files and folders
- Tang Nano: green LED works — no IO_TYPE in bank 2 (pack 1.5.3)
- Editor: a click into or below the empty last line puts the cursor there
- Tang Nano: UART on RECONFIG_N/DONE tried, green LED dark
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1.0 Build 202610091042 9 October 2026 12.3 MB
Changes
- Tang Nano: UART on RECONFIG_N/DONE tried, green LED dark
- Tang Nano: UART on RECONFIG_N/DONE tried, green LED dark
- (no uncommitted changes yet)
- Tang Primer 25K, step 4: hardware run; DONE can't be an LED
- (no uncommitted changes yet)
- Tang Primer 25K, step 3: starter board; GW5A without LUT RAM
- Tang Primer 25K, step 2: Gowin configuration pins as I/O
- Tang Primer 25K, step 1: synthesize the GW5A for its own family
- HANDOVER: what doesn't travel between the two Macs
- docs: GateLab Releaser spec; download page step corrected
- PLAN: PLL helper as a future milestone
- Tests: monitorsUntilStopped no longer depends on timing
- PLAN: Paddle sandbox purchases tested
- Standard and Pro editions, About GateLab with the licence
- Agent: sign in and out inside GateLab, without Terminal
- Agent settings: Fable model, Sign Out in Terminal
- Identify Chip on the welcome screen; board choices without a serial
- Starter board: Trenz TEC0117 LittleBee (starter pack 1.4.0)
- Starter board: original Sipeed Tang Nano (starter pack 1.3.0)
- (no uncommitted changes yet)
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1.0 Build 202610081916 8 October 2026 12.3 MB
Installing
- Open the downloaded file and drag GateLab into your Applications folder.
- Start GateLab. The first time, macOS asks whether you want to open an app downloaded from the internet. Choose Open.
- Activate it by clicking the link in your license email, or choose Enter License… and paste your key.
To check a download, compare the SHA-256 shown here with
shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/GateLab-1.0-202610101406.dmg