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KiCad EDA @kicad.org · 22/07/2026

KiCad v11 will be gaining geometric constraints. This is based on the excellent library by @freecadnews.bsky.social planegcs. You can test-drive this feature in today's nightly builds downloads.kicad.org/kicad/

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David Lawrence @dlaw.me · 25/03/2026

I'm excited and humbled to share that I will be presenting a session on "Real-Time Rust on Research Robots" at RustConf 2026 in Montreal. I hope to see some of you there!

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KiCad EDA @kicad.org · 20/03/2026

KiCad version 10 is out today! Lots of features, lots of speed. We hope you like it. www.kicad.org/blog/2026/03...

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KiCad EDA @kicad.org · 31/10/2025

www.kicad.org/blog/2025/10...

Cartoon trick or treaters receiving KiCad version 9.0.6. Caption says "No Tricks, Only Treats This Year"

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The race for Mayor of the Community Path grows heated.

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Diana @lesbian.dev · 06/03/2025

The FAA is a dumpster fire when it comes to mental health. This is an amazing and heartbreaking video by @xylafoxlin.bsky.social speaking up about her experience and the struggle of mental health in the aviation community. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj0H...

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The FAA is in Crisis

YouTube video by Xyla Foxlin

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Jon Evans @craftyjon.com · 17/01/2025

I've been building a new API for #KiCad for the past year, and we're getting ready to release the first version of it with V9 at the end of the month!

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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 08/01/2025

I've just announced my new (blazing-fast) kernel for implicit surfaces: mattkeeter.com/projects/fid... It's got something for everyone: Cool graphs! Multithreaded WebAssembly! Terrible mesh topology! JIT compilers! After three years, I'm excited to finally show it off to a wider audience 😎

Screenshot of a window showing two panes: on the left is a script, and on the right is a fidget spinner

A wireframe mesh of an architectural cross-section

Marge Simpson, holding a squishy cube-sphere-intersection, with the caption "I just think they're neat!"

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KiCad EDA @kicad.org · 22/12/2024

The KiCad project is excited to announce the first release candidate for the next major version is available for testing. Version 9.0.0 is expected to be released by 01/31/25. New features can be found here forum.kicad.info/t/post-v8-ne... Packages are available www.kicad.org/download/

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Jon Evans @craftyjon.com · 22/12/2024

The first release candidate for #kicad 9 is available! More info over on the forum: forum.kicad.info/t/stable-ver...

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Jon Evans @craftyjon.com · 14/12/2024

What KiCad features are the most mysterious to you?

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Jon Evans @craftyjon.com · 08/12/2024

KiCad 9 will visualize some DRC errors in a more clear way. Shown here is a new creepage test, which particularly benefits from this. Thanks to Fabien Corona for these two additions.

A screenshot of the KiCad PCB editor in a recent nightly build, showing a creepage violation in the DRC dialog as well as the actual creepage path that was calculated.

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Jon Evans @craftyjon.com · 04/12/2024

Multi-track drifting, er, dragging coming to KiCad 9! Video and code courtesy of Tom W :)

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adafruit @adafruit.com · 03/12/2024

Giving Tuesday – KiCad open-source design #GivingTuesday 💻🔧🌍❤️🤝 #electronics

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Jon Evans @craftyjon.com · 02/12/2024

KiCad 9 will also come with a ton of smaller tweaks and quality-of-life improvements, like this Chamfer feature added by John Beard:

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Jon Evans @craftyjon.com · 01/12/2024

A new feature coming to the schematic editor in KiCad 9: rule areas, contributed by James Jackson. These allow you to do things like assign net classes to a number of nets at once (even if the nets are not themselves named)

A screenshot of the schematic editor in a KiCad nightly build, showing a rule area assigning the netclass RAM_ADDR to a set of 8 net wires

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Jon Evans @craftyjon.com · 28/11/2024

KiCad 9 also will bring the selection filter to the schematic and symbol editors. This adds another workflow to edit multiple things in bulk (for example: set the filter to Pins, hit Ctrl+A to select all pins, and edit their properties in the Properties Panel)

Screenshot of a KiCad nightly build showing the symbol editor and schematic editor windows, with the properties panel attached to the left of the graphical editing canvases and the new selection filter appearing below the properties panel

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Jon Evans @craftyjon.com · 26/11/2024

Another nice feature coming to #KiCad 9: The Zone Manager, contributed by Ethan Chien. This dialog lets you quickly check and re-arrange the fill order (priority) of all the copper zones in a board, and includes a graphical preview so you can more easily tell what zone you have selected.

A screenshot of the Zone Manager dialog in KiCad nightly, showing a copper zone's properties, a graphical preview of the zone fill, and a re-orderable list of zone priorities

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Jon Evans @craftyjon.com · 25/11/2024

KiCad 9 also adds the ability to mark a track on an outer layer as having no soldermask. You could do this before by copying the shapes to the mask layer, but this is much faster. Thanks to Andrzej Wolski for contributing this feature.

Screenshot of KiCad showing a copper track with soldermask removed, in the 2D and 3D views

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Jon Evans @craftyjon.com · 24/11/2024

Another thing coming to KiCad 9 is custom padstacks. While you've been able to completely remove unconnected pads from a layer in recent versions, sometimes the situation calls for different shapes or sizes within the same pad. I'm looking forward to having this flexibility.

Screenshot of KiCad 3D viewer, showing several through-hole pads with different shapes on 4 different copper layers

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Jon Evans @craftyjon.com · 20/11/2024

#KiCad 9 will have a native multichannel feature! (video by Tom W)

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KiCad EDA @kicad.org · 19/11/2024

Hey Folks! We're getting close to tagging 8.0.7 for release. You can help test for bugs by using an 8.0 testing release and reporting any issues. As a bonus, you get all the older bugs fixed. downloads.kicad.org/kicad/window... downloads.kicad.org/kicad/macos/... launchpad.net/~kicad/+arch...

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Downloads | KiCad EDA

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Timon @timonsku.zip · 14/11/2024

If you are into product engineering, this is a great video. Going over many small design decisions and problems and how stuff gets manufactured. Also perfect example why design files by themselves do not enable product clones. They could fully open source this and still no one could just clone it.

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I went to my old job and took apart their new 3D printer

YouTube video by Stuff Made Here 2

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Jon Evans @craftyjon.com · 10/11/2024

Booked my trip to #FOSDEM 2025! Always enjoy getting to hang out with other KiCad developers and users in-person :)

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