KiCad 9.0.0 released! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Karel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 23, 2025, 11:50:42 am
content: https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/02/Version-9.0.0-Released/

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 05:23:02 am
content: Yep, I just upgraded.- Trying to figure out the "Multi-channel design" feature, which I used to do by createing hierarchichal blocks in schematics and duplicating them (from a single schematic file), which I think is still the way it works, but for layout, I used the "replicate layout" plugin. I guess KiCad 9 now includes that without the need for a plugin.- The "component class" thing looks useful.- Design blocks.And a bunch of other new features. Looks like a pretty significant upgrade.

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 08:26:16 am
content: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4152-kicad-project-status/

author: blackfin76
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2025, 09:01:35 am
content: Just installed KiCad for the first time. Coming from OrCad and Altium, wish me luck

author: hpw
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 01, 2025, 08:18:00 am
content: Quote from: blackfin76 on February 26, 2025, 09:01:35 amMay usehttps://gitlab.com/groups/kicad/-/milestones/to see what's going onWhile usual, some updates to wait, until using it for any important project(s) ... see V7 or V8

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 03, 2025, 08:21:34 pm
content: Has anyone used KiCad 9 already?I upgraded and worked on one project with it so far. Unsurprisingly for early major versions, it has, well, bugs.What I've found so far:- Clicking on pins doesn't always trigger the "wire" mode. It seems temperamental. And yes, all pins are grid-aligned. But I suspect some bug introduced by changes in how KiCad deals with the grid.- More severe: cut-and-paste often doesn't work. For instance, cut some parts on one sheet and paste them on another sheet: the paste doesn't paste anything. You need to undo the cut to get the cut block back, and try again.- Moving large symbols (with many pins) is slowish. Not a deal breaker, but annoying.I'm sure there are many more issues that I haven't run into yet.What's your experience with it?

author: Picuino
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 03, 2025, 08:40:52 pm
content: Have they finally added a tool for PCB panelization?

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 04, 2025, 12:58:46 am
content: Quote from: Picuino on March 03, 2025, 08:40:52 pmThat's what the board shop is for. Quit trying to take those poor people's jobs!

author: Karel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 04, 2025, 09:25:54 am
content: Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 03, 2025, 08:21:34 pmYou can help improving KiCad by filing bug reports:https://www.kicad.org/help/report-an-issue/

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 04, 2025, 08:25:52 pm
content: Yes. Now, most of the above annoyances may come from wxWidgets rather than KiCad itself, and I'm on Wayland, which wxWidgets still has some issues with. Not sure it's even really supported officially to use KiCad on Wayland, so all of us on Wayland are likely to be nicely told to uh... you know.One bug I just ran into that doesn't look like one of these GUI issues though is the following:- Importing constraints in the PCB editor from another PCB layout (made with KiCad v7 for that matter). Half the constraints are incorrectly imported, some set to 0.

author: Karel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2025, 10:45:46 am
content: I'll only switch to wayland when it's necessary or when I'm forced to. Why switching early and risk possible bugs...Fortunately, my distro still uses xorg by default.