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  <title>HexForge releases</title>
  <subtitle>Release notes for the HexForge FPGA toolchain</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-10-03T12:00:00Z</updated>
  <author><name>Nils Haraldsen</name><email>hexforge@hexforge.cloud</email></author>
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    <title>HexForge 0.7.2 - Router iteration cap, M1 pin tables, two crashes</title>
    <id>tag:hexforge.cloud,2026:release-0.7.2</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hexforge.cloud/changelog.html#072"/>
    <updated>2026-10-03T12:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Router iteration cap lowered from 60 to 40; two hxc/hxpack crashes fixed; M1-8K pin tables corrected; W214 now names the array. Verified on Pebble-25, Pebble-12 and openbench-t4.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>HexForge 0.7.1 - Fenwick A2 configuration mode, warning W204</title>
    <id>tag:hexforge.cloud,2026:release-0.7.1</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hexforge.cloud/changelog.html#071"/>
    <updated>2026-09-07T12:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Added --config-mode (spi-x1, spi-x4) to hxpack, bringing Fenwick A2 to full support; new warning W204 for unconstrained clock crossings; hxta --json gained per-path hop counts.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>HexForge 0.7.0 - Netlist format v4, flags renamed, hxta split out</title>
    <id>tag:hexforge.cloud,2026:release-0.7.0</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hexforge.cloud/changelog.html#070"/>
    <updated>2026-08-22T12:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Netlist format bumped to v4 (no converter from v3); hxta split out of hxsyn as its own tool; several flags renamed. A file-format break, marked.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>HexForge 0.6.0 - Mica M1 family, determinism check</title>
    <id>tag:hexforge.cloud,2026:release-0.6.0</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hexforge.cloud/changelog.html#060"/>
    <updated>2026-05-14T12:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Mica M1 family added; a determinism check that re-runs placement with the same seed and diffs the result.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>HexForge 0.5.0 - New packer, block RAM inference</title>
    <id>tag:hexforge.cloud,2026:release-0.5.0</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hexforge.cloud/changelog.html#050"/>
    <updated>2026-02-09T12:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>New packer and first block RAM inference; vga_bars dropped below the LUT4 budget on T4-12K as a result.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>HexForge 0.4.0 - Timing analysis, delay tables, frame format frozen</title>
    <id>tag:hexforge.cloud,2025:release-0.4.0</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hexforge.cloud/changelog.html#040"/>
    <updated>2025-10-30T12:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Static timing analysis and delay tables arrive; the device frame format is frozen from here, so bitstreams are stable across later releases.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>HexForge 0.3.0 - Negotiated-congestion router, constraints file</title>
    <id>tag:hexforge.cloud,2025:release-0.3.0</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hexforge.cloud/changelog.html#030"/>
    <updated>2025-06-18T12:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Negotiated-congestion router replaces the maze router; the .hxs constraints file is introduced.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>HexForge 0.2.0 - Generate blocks, parameters, T4-25K</title>
    <id>tag:hexforge.cloud,2024:release-0.2.0</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hexforge.cloud/changelog.html#020"/>
    <updated>2024-11-12T12:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Generate blocks and parameters; T4-25K support alongside the original T4-12K.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>HexForge 0.1.0 - First public release, T4-12K only</title>
    <id>tag:hexforge.cloud,2024:release-0.1.0</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hexforge.cloud/changelog.html#010"/>
    <updated>2024-05-20T12:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>First public release. T4-12K only, no timing, no constraints - source to bitstream and nothing more.</summary>
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