Maybe they've decided it isn't worth the hassle.
Lets hope so and they now turn out a PROFFESIONAL product with modern interface and gui.
+1... But from their youtube video it doesn't look like it... just looks like they added some more features,and decided to change their parts library.
I almost wish they would do away with their Free version, so the hobbyist community would move over to something else. lol.
Hmm! If they did decided to drop the free version what would you use instead? I like design spark and diptrace but only make very simple pcb's on a very occasional basis. (one of the reasons I dislike Eagle, it is not intuitive and so you forget quite quickly how do do something that would take you 2 mins in Diptrace and spend half an hour reading the help file)
Through different jobs I've used a lot of design packages, Orcad/Cadence, PADS, and now Altium. A while ago I was looking for something for just little projects at home, so I checked them all out...
Eagle's UI was simply terrible... I mean so bad, I think that they should be charged with crimes against humanity for developing that POS. To me it's so sad that so many students, hobbyists and new engineers have to work with it.
DesignSpark isn't a lot better... to me it was more of a "windows 3.11" style, whereas Eagle reminded me of some bad open source project. Plus they have some crazy activation scheme that made me scared they would shut it off at any time.
TinyCad/FreePCB - Both seem like good little programs (for free as-in-beer), but they were just missing features and weren't integrated enough. But the seemed easy to use.
KiCad... Didn't like how they dealt with the libraries, and it had that "linux" like feel... plus not a lot of support.
list goes on...
I finally settled on Diptrace, and think that Diptrace is without a doubt the best for a hobbyist hands down.... it intuitive, and easy to use. And their support is great... responsive and knowledgeable e-mails. They also have a way better "free" version... the limit is based on number of pins, not the physical size of the board! It's 300 pins I think by default, but if you need more, you can request a free upgrade to 500. I purchased the non-profit license for $125 US, which got me 4 Layer, 1000 pins... I use it for stuff at home. At work and for more complicated stuff, I have access to Altium.
Aaron