KiCad

What's new in this version:

General:
- Add more support for wxWidgets 3.3
- Update existing Git origin URL in setup remote instead of failing
- Test git connection with the full SSH URL
- Fall back to configured SSH key when SSH agent fails
- Prompt user for Git credentials when authentication fails
- Fall back to remote tracking reference when pull has no upstream
- Seed project .gitignore with KiCad generated paths on Git initialization
- Refresh Git repository authorization panel as URL is typed and mask password
- Prompt and save unsaved editors before git commit
- Add "Configure Default Remote" menu item for version control
- Set Git upstream tracking after a successful first push
- Show Git pull/push/fetch results in the project status bar
- Fix file status icons in project tree Git pane
- Show which Git branch and remote pull/push will be used
- Mark and pre-select the current branch on Git branch switch
- Add "Amend Last Commit" to the "Version Control" menu
- Keep toolbar group selection when rebuilding toolbars
- Don’t create empty toolbar groups
- Allow renaming toolbar groups in the customization editor
- Honor custom dash/gap line ratio when plotting
- Fix black PNG when exporting an OpenGL canvas
- Ignore .kicad_prl file on Git project initialization
- Fix Git branch switching
- Finish diverged pulls and offer user conflict resolution choices
- Do not automatically commit an untracked .kicad_prl file
- Sort exact matches first in library tree search
- Fix crash on exit
- Expand nested environment variables in template directory lookups
- Fix corrupted DXF file export
- Fix incorrect geometry when plotting text to PDF
- Fix infinite wait on 2-thread CPUs when loading footprints and symbols in background
- Fix group infinite loops and fields
- Prevent preferences plugin panel from growing past the screen
- Don’t prompt for autosave recovery on content-identical files
- Allow disabling libraries in read only library tables
- Show the Design Blocks panel the first time it’s opened
- Persist the symbol fields table scope between sessions
- Fix crash checking writability of failed library
- Fix unsupported $HANDSEED value in DXF plotter
- Allow aborting symbol/footprint library preload
- Allow read-only fields in the properties manager to be copied
- Allow folders be added to Git repository
- Fix crash checking writability of failed library
- Fix creepage DRC failures for complex paths around NPTH slots
- Fix unsupported $HANDSEED value in DXF plotter
- Import Altium project parameters as text variables
- Allow disabling libraries in read-only tables
- Make right-click work across the whole toolbar button
- Stop text entry dialog from clobbering caller’s text value
- Reduce OS priorities of worker threads to avoid main (UI) thread stutter
- Fix empty libraries not matching the library tree filter
- Fix oversized circle when rounding a rectangle to its maximum corner radius
- Fix DRC/ERC crash during tree view render

Schematic Editor:
- Preserve search current sheet only when toggling selection
- Find non current sheets on first press in hierarchical schematics
- Fix group in a sheet jumping to page origin when moved
- Assign unique group names when placing design blocks
- Fix field resolution order on EasyEDA import
- Improve Eagle schematic import label layout
- Fix XML netlist netclass for hierarchical bus members
- Escape net names when unfolding from bus
- Automatically wrap find on end of search
- Fix spurious mixed values in symbol fields table dialog when duplicating a symbol
- Fix symbol fields table shifting values on undo
- Use custom unit display names in reference designators
- Write canonical (untranslated) net class token for directive labels
- Include device technology attributes when importing Eagle symbol libraries
- Anchor power pin not driven ERC marker on a power input pin
- Emit global labels to match flat net namespace when importing Eagle schematic
- Fix broken break and slice tool behavior
- Preserve order of database mapped symbol fields
- Do not migrate HTTP or database libraries
- Fix conflicts on used designators field in kicad project file
- Fix netlist exporters truncating pin numbers to 4 characters
- Fix Eagle schematic import of devices that support multiple technologies
- Fix crash importing Eagle schematic
- Fix bus global labels reporting false "not connected" positives when used on hierarchical sheets
- Wait for background footprint preload before ERC footprint-link test.
- Keep design block members grouped through move and undo.
- Prevent broken wire positions when moving grouped items
- Place free text and lines on owning sheet when importing PADS schematics
- Treat empty/corrupt lock files as reclaimable stale locks
- Fix error when adding a hierarchical sheet from another folder
- Fix nested groups becoming unselectable after undo
- Ensure spaces in bus alias member definitions are separate members
- Fix symbol variant attribute erroneously overruling rule area and/or sheet attribute
- Iterate all schematic variants when generating netlist
- Strip "@<tag>" linking hint from pin names when importing Eagle schematic
- Copy parent field attributes for named device technologies on Eagle import.
- Correctly import Eagle schematic variants
- Fix crash updating board from sheet other than top level sheet
- Show current variant in variant selection box after Eagle import
- Fix typo affecting import of variants using multiple technologies on Eagle import.
- Fix broken polygons on Eagle import
- Add advanced configuration option to disable automatic field placement on Eagle import
- Fix line width of rectangle and circle fills on Eagle import

Symbol Editor:
- Fix saving symbols with more than two body styles
- Prevent "Edit footprint filter" dialog from being filled with incorrect string
- Fix broken right click menu in footprint filters
- Normalize legacy library arc geometry on load
- Sort libraries alphabetically in "Save As" dialog
- Fix placement of field positions for multiple technologies on Eagle import
- Prevent crash editing symbol properties from the library tree

Simulator:
- Preserve scale prefixes and parameter references in PWL source netlists
- Allow showing more than two FFT plots
- Restore single shot PULSE default for ngspice 46

Board Editor:
- Hide table export and length tuner settings from toolbars
- Support a PCB rule entries on EasyEDA Pro import
- Allow implicit net names on EasyEDA Pro import
- Fix length tuning and select connection for traces with off center via endpoints.
- Allow creating array with zero spacing with confirmation before stacking
- Grow rounded rectangle mask radius linearly with clearance
- Correctly place via without moving mouse between via hot key press and left mouse button click
- Make pad properties panel changes propagate to DRC
- Silence enumeration compare warning in DRC rules cursor scan.
- Enforce physical_clearance rules in the interactive router
- Exclude tuning patterns from differential pair uncoupled length total.
- Fix false annular DRC errors on pads with overlapping same number pads
- Fix DRC missing hole clearance violations on first run
- Allow ctrl key to bypass angle snap when editing line endpoints
- Prevent 45 degree corner snap from pulling rectangles off grid
- Export barcodes to ODB++
- Fix physical_hole_clearance not being enforced in the interactive router.
- Prevent crash writing DRC report when there are existing DRC markers
- Do not plot drill marks on layers a pad isn’t on
- Deduplicate teardrop-vs-teardrop DRC pairs.
- Filter merged items for delay calculation correctly.
- Correctly filter merged items for delay calculations.
- Hide knockout property on table cells.
- Avoid duplicate teardrop-vs-teardrop DRC markers.
- Properly handle via-in-pad delays when routing.
- Drop URN suffix from board footprint names when importing Eagle board
- Stabilize polygon edge dragging on coarse grids
- Fix Altium PCB import zone clearance rule matching for polygon pours
- Respect absent solder paste on SMD pads on IPC-2581 export
- Copy non-copper graphics when applying design block layout
- Support shift+click range selection in table cells
- Clear silkscreen over drilled holes in STEP export.
- Prevent rule area takes selection precedence over everything else
- Prevent duplicate DRC edge clearance reports across padstack layers.
- Stop treating net code 0 as a real net in soldermask bridge check.
- Do not the reset the polar angle field to 0 every time the dialog is opened
- Ensure moving objects with arrow keys is aligned to grid
- Support mirroring tables in the PCB editor.
- Fix crash after apply design block layout.
- Fix delete removing hovered footprint instead of locked track
- Fix STEP export failing when board body is unchecked
- Respect update footprint fields and round trip exclude from position files.
- Respect update footprint fields for jumper pad attributes
- Apply design block layout to many groups at once.
- Limit hatch fill courtyard knockout to the courtyard layer
- Don’t leave footprint selected after lock/unlock hover shortcut
- Prevent crash due to symlink loops in directory scans
- Tent vias with hole referenced mask when importing an Altium board
- Import dielectric loss tangent when importing Altium boards
- Match project variants by unique ID when importing Altium boards
- Reconcile duplicate board stackup on load
- Prevent zone fill issues which include unrelated rule areas
- Run creepage checks with malformed board outline
- Fix test point layer and duplicate via when importing PADS board
- Model rounded rectangle slots in creepage DRC
- Don’t double rotate pad offset when importing PADS board
- Keep pad size consistent for flipped parts when importing PADS board
- Import per layer pad stack geometry when importing Fabmaster boards
- Normalize legacy library arc geometry on load
- Add option to keep KiCad layer names when importing Altium boards
- Fix broken zone cut outs that contain arcs
- Fix teardrop spikes on the edge
- Fix router snapping dragged footprints back with physical clearance rules
- Allow differential pair routing from a neckdown area
- Route creepage DRC paths around NPTH holes
- Tolerate rounding in creepage arc shared end point exclusion
- Export unsaved board state when exporting STEP
- Fix DRC missing clearance violations for curved tracks near rounded edge cuts
- Optionally apply design block layouts when updating PCB
- Preload libraries in standalone mode before board load
- Regenerate footprint chooser library tree when loading pin number and footprint filters
- Fix iterative zone refill blocking low priority zones after island removal
- Fix router reacting too late to physical_hole_clearance rules
- Fix zone filling that includes rule area(s) to keep out part of fill results in for unrelated zones
- Run creepage checks without board outline
- Fix test point layer and duplicate via on PADS import
- Model rounded rectangle slots in creepage DRC
- Fix broken pad offset rotation on PADS import
- Keep pad size consistent for flipped parts on PADS import
- Import per-layer Fabmaster pad stack geometry
- Fix broken circular zone cut outs
- Export dimensions to ODB++
- Snap to the active layer when no reference item is given
- Limit hatch-fill courtyard knockout to the courtyard layer
- Fix segfault in footprint chooser measure tool.
- Notify user when mirror skips footprints in selection
- Show net names on arc tracks.
- Preserve the source net when converting to tracks or arcs.
- Fix PADS import decal scalar.
- Keep boundary signal nets in design block topology match.
- Fix crash when excluding a DRC violation with no items.
- Refresh track width and via size selectors on units change
- Fix keepout DRC marker placed at origin
- Fix "Select All" missing zone hatching offsets in import settings.
- Hide locked-item shadow when the item’s layer is off
- Show inner copper layers in design block preview.
- Fix crash when applying a design block layout containing a table
- Prevent crash when adding track width to predefined sizes

3D Viewer:
- Apply rotation increment changes made in preferences
- Fix 3D model rotation normalization
- Persist "Export Image" dialog state across opens
- Fix "Export Image" pixel size readout in % mode
- Fix Export Image file size in mm and inches modes
- Prevent washed out copper look in ray trace view
- Fix model distortion during preset view animations
- Crash importing board setup
- Support footprint free design block layouts

Gerber Viewer:
- Fix automatic layer assignment on PCB export

Page Layout Editor:
- Fix status bar field position assertion on launch (Sentry KICAD-10XP)
- Make the grid origin you set actually stick

Job Sets:
- Create parent folders for archive output paths
- Expand text variables after path separators

Command Line Interface:
- Report rule driven exclusions as excluded DRC output
- Apply component class rules in headless board loader
- Fix DRC missing tuning profile synchronization on board load
- Make headless ERC match GUI on hierarchical sheet instances
- Correctly expand ${SHEETNAME} variable in the root sheet using the headless loader
- Export correct schematic variant
- Fix crash when running job set