KiCad

What's new in this version:

General:
- Add tool framework to footprint preview widget
- Don’t bleed settings between 3D viewer and 3D footprint preview
- Improve text alignment in grids and one-line Scintilla controls
- Include hidden fields when searching
- Fix ambiguous data collection opt in dialog text
- Handle home folder shortcut in jobset destinations
- Refresh search when showing search panel
- Add support for mixed state checkboxes in grids
- Do not export unused copper layers in job set PDF output
- Don’t assert or crash on shutdown
- Update default schematic when creating a new project
- Prevent empty job set type list
- Don’t always pop up warning regardless of setting rendering engine to fallback graphics
- Prevent project backup and archive from growing infinitely
- Add menu item to control searching of hidden fields
- Remove unnecessary tool tips from rules check dialog
- Fix too small angle increment when stroking arcs
- Allow multple line text in table cell
- Use schematic editor default font setting for plot job
- Allow checking/unchecking of multiple rows' check boxes in library configuraton window
- Fix table and text box rotation and text justification
- Allow embedded files to come from symbols and footprints
- Fix copying embedded file URIs in grids
- Exclude brackets at the end of a URL when linking from HTML
- Retain use board center origin 3D model export job set setting
- Fix crash in footprint chooser
- Don’t write unused part of the buffer into image data
- Fix line width issue when plotting many pages in one PDF file

Schematic Editor:
- Allow context menus in footprint chooser
- Ensure text variable in link is substituted during PDF export
- Fix off by one error when dragging symbol fields table columns to the left
- Do not leave unwanted right-most vertical border when merging table cells
- Enable navigation controls on read only projects
- Fix broken netlist output
- Don’t use net/netclass colors for label graphic shapes
- Test symbol outline collisions for rule areas not just bounding boxes
- Prevent duplicate sheet names on paste
- Prevent crash when clicking link added by symbol field editor
- Use clearer column title in symbol fields editor
- Remove assert that fires when applying field table editor preset
- Don’t create invalid schematic in project path when linking sheet shematic outside the project path
- Do not plot text box shape twice
- Prevent overwriting alias members when adding new rows in panel setup
- Fix simulation model dialog crash when no spice model library loaded
- Fix infinite recursion crash when building connect graph
- Fix zoom on large schematic sizes
- Fix broken label position in Eagle schematic importer
- Do not allow property inspector to assign items to non-existent symbol units
- Match partial strings in symbol fields table editor
- Properly expand variables when exporting BOM
- Fix symbol chooser filtering with custom library
- Fix LTSpice file import with minor version number
- LTSpice import fixes
- Do not allow illegal design block name characters
- Ensure label dialog text is correctly auto-completed
- Make paste annotation work correctly
- Add junctions on LTSpice import
- Do not duplicate resolved net classes
- Fix broken symbol arcs in Eagle importer
- Don’t crash on missing symbols when importing LTSpice schematic
- Honor template field name visibility setting when adding fields
- Fix crash when loading a version 8.0 schematic
- Add warning when the default library is not found when importing LTSpice schematic

Board Editor:
- Plot the appropriate ${LAYER} tag when plotting to single document PDF
- Fix crash when changing units
- Correctly rotate silk screen text on Eagle board import
- Generate correct Gerber file names if the project name contains a dot
- Process non-copper keepouts in footprints
- Properly mirror pad numbers when plotting
- Correctly import settings from another board
- Ensure PNS length tuning calculation uses correct layer ID
- Add new DRC expression function isMemberOfSheetOrChildren
- Prevent crash when using net inspector
- Reset tool tip when aborting position interactive tool
- Preserve text box size when rotating angles other than 90 degrees
- Fix broken edge cut copy and paste
- Improve performace for complex polygons
- Always print the via hole
- Improve pan performance when showing a large amount of through hole pads
- Fix false positive when performing footprint parity DRC
- Restore visibility editing for fields
- Prevent duplicate find results
- Fix incorrect tool tip in rule area properties dialog
- Improve zoom and pan performance with large number of through hole pads
- Resolve fonts for tablec ells
- Fix broken table highlight colors
- Use a better position for the DRC marker with arc tracks
- Fix missing traces when exporting to STEP
- Prevent tables from walking when flipping them to other side of board
- Remove artefacts after deleting appended board
- Fix broken footprint chooser measurement tool behavior after changing display modes
- Remove horizontal/vertical constraints limitation from footprint chooser
- Fix broken Python demo script
- Mark ODB++ as export only
- Fix broken pads in GenCAD export
- Avoid popping a dismabiguation menu after point selection completes
- Add sorting functionality for netclass assignments
- Prevent tracks created by multi-channel tool from swapping groups on save
- Add dedicated anchor points for table
- Correctly handle solder masks for tear drops on tracks with solder masks
- Export text box borders to STEP
- Don’t reserve source pad number in array tool
- Fix pad snapping on non front copper layer in high constrast mode
- Correctly match implicit composite netclass DRC rules
- Fix arc winding and layers on GenCAD export

Footprint Editor:
- Check for silk screen to solder mask collisions in DRC
- Ensure attribute deleted in schematic is deleted in board
- Allow changing the default layer for text items
- Be explicit about custom pad default anchor shape
- Fix crash when deleting grouped text
- Fix crash when loading Altium designer footprints with polygon pour cut outs on plane layer
- Correctly cleari thermal relief override (gap/spoke) in pad properties dialog

3D Viewer:
- Add missing user defined layers
- Use custom layer names instead of canonical layer names
- Reset colors when clicking properties dialog "Reset to Default Settings" button
- Fix look of some exposed copper pads
- Account for aperture and track masks in plated copper calculations

Gerber Viewer:
- Fix issues when loading zip files
- Fix crash when file load error log window overflows

PCB Calculator:
- Add calculation of unit propagation delay
- Reset default units along with values

Command Line Interface:
- Correctly handle user defined layer names
- Do not plot all gerber layers when an invalid layer list is provided
- Fix Gerber --output command help

API:
- Fix crash updating reference designator
- Windows:
- Fix crash when closing some KiCad main windows