Updated the technology file to use the "requires" keyword, which will force magic to be updated to 8.3.99. Going forward, it will be much easier to deal with version requirements for magic when using the technology file, as the technology file can specify the version of magic required to use it. Also: Added the mask-hints operator introduced in magic 8.3.98. This allows automatically- generated mask layers to be supplemented by geometry specified as a cell property.

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 9435145..5ca0603 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.0.87
+1.0.88

diff --git a/sky130/magic/sky130.tech b/sky130/magic/sky130.tech
index 352c4f9..28f4be4 100644
--- a/sky130/magic/sky130.tech
+++ b/sky130/magic/sky130.tech

@@ -15,9 +15,6 @@
 # of the Apache 2.0 license agreement.
 #
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# This file is designed to be used with magic versions
-# 8.3.24 or newer.
-#------------------------------------------------------------------------
 tech
   format 35
   TECHNAME
@@ -25,7 +22,8 @@
 
 version
  version REVISION
- description "SkyWater SKY130: PRE ALPHA Vendor Open Source rules and DRC"
+ description "SkyWater SKY130: BETA Vendor Open Source rules and DRC"
+ requires magic-8.3.99
 end
 
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -805,6 +803,7 @@
 	grow	185
 	shrink	185
 	close   265000
+	mask-hints PPLUS
 	calma	94 20
 
  templayer extendNPLUS  baseNPLUS,CELLRING
@@ -816,6 +815,7 @@
 	grow	185
 	shrink	185
  	close   265000
+	mask-hints NPLUS
  	calma	93 44
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -997,6 +997,7 @@
 	and-not	CELLRING
 
  layer THKOX	baseTHKOX,extendTHKOX
+	mask-hints THKOX
  	calma 	75 20
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1038,6 +1039,7 @@
 	bridge 270 270
 	grow 130
 	shrink 130
+	mask-hints NPC
 	calma  95 20
 
  # NPC is also generated on xhrpoly and uhrpoly resistors