LDraw's history [3] hasn't been updated for a long time. With permission from BrickJournal publisher Joe Meno we are going to mirror an article published in BrickJournal, Spring 2006, Volume #1, Issue 4, which covers also the missing years 'til 2004. This leaves us with 2005, 2006 and 2007. Browsing the various newsgroups a Lugnet [4] I compiled a chart of the highlights, but the list is far from being complete. Feel free to add the missing pieces to this post [5] at Lugnet.

2005

• Trying to contact CA Authors at end of the year down to 22
• James Jessiman Memorial Award to Michael Lachmann
• Start thinking about the internationalisation of part library
• Willy Tschager ran the LDraw booth at LEGOWorld
• William Howard releases a client-side browser for the LDraw Parts Tracker
• Change to existing policy regarding the subfiling of dithered colors
• Txt2dat released
• LDraw Design Pad v1.5.7 Released
• MPDCenter 1.0.14 released
• Txt2dat released
• Lpub 2.4 released
• Bricksmith 1.0 the first LDraw editor for Mac
• MLCad 3.2 released
• Version 513 of Anton Raves library released

2006

• Authors start rewriting non-CA-parts
• Willy Tschager appointed as second webmaster
• Tim Gould appointed as third webmaster
• Ross Crawford appointed as PT admin
• LDView is the first prog downloading automatically unofficial parts from the PT
• SteerCo publishes policy for authors who aim to fix other peoples parts
• LSC Final Draft ratification passes
• LSC election moved to November
• Approved Version 1.0 of the Back Face Culling (BFC) specification
• Adopted the "de-facto" BFC extension as the official draft specification
• Approved new parts header format of the "~Moved to" files to support the Contributor Agreement [6]
• Approved a format of the !LDRAW_ORG meta-statement suitable for the LDraw Parts Tracker
• Approved a new LDraw file header to support the Contributor Agreement.
• LDraw.org MOTM/SOTM Relaunch
• First year without any part updates
• James Jessiman Memorial Award to Orion Pobursky [7]
• LeoCad 0.75 released
• LDView 3.1 released
• L3pAdd-on 1.4.1 released
• LDraw Script Compiler 0.61 released
• Version 527 of Anton Raves library released

2007

• Official launch of the LDraw POTM - Part Of The Month contest
• RACHAL - the Raytracing Challenge launched
• Approved version 1.0 of the LDraw File Format specification
• Approved proposal to allow zero or more qualifiers in the !LDRAW_ORG meta-command
• Rejected proposal to allow one optional qualifier in the !LDRAW_ORG meta-command
• Approved Version 1.4 of the Category and Keyword specification.
• Voted down a proposal to make "Unofficial" directory an official location for unofficial parts
• Added description of using " (needs work)" in the part title to allow for parts to be certified with known problems.
• Second year without any part updates
• Added the accountability of "Key Positions" to the Bylaws
• The Lego Universe team has started to share information regarding the brick shapes
• Rediscovered James Jessimans original website
• Commemoration of the 10th anniversary of James Jessiman's passing
• Introducing LD4DStudio - New animation software
• Introducing LIC – LEGO Instructions Creator
• SR 3D Builder released
• Lsculpt released
• IseCalc 1.0 released
• Coverer 1.0 released
• Linetrim 1.0 released
• LDView 3.2 released
• LDraw Wiki launched
• Txt2dat 0.2.1 released
• Bricksmith 1.6 released
• LDMerge 1.0 released
• Bitsticker released
• PreL3P 1.0 released
• Version 530 of Anton Raves library released
• DATHeader released

Willy Tschager
LDraw Administration Team