The KiCad project is proud to announce the release of version 8.0.0. Despite coming only a year after KiCad 7 was released, version 8 is packed with new features, improvements, and hundreds of bug fixes.
In accordance with the KiCad stable release policy, KiCad 7.x will no longer be actively maintained, and they will release bug fix versions of KiCad 8.x over the next year as we develop new features for KiCad 9.
Read more in the announcement here. You can go to the KiCad download page to get the new version (note that some packages may still be in the process of being released at the time this announcement is published).
Changes:
- Improvements to the official KiCad libraries
- Expanded support for importing data from other tools
- New possibilities for data export
- Improvements to the command-line interface (CLI)
- Improvements to documentation
- New UI panels for properties, net navigation, and search
- New BOM exporter
- Comparison of symbols to library versions
- Improvements to grid handling
- Editable power symbols
- New simulation features
- Multiple footprint dragging
- 3D Viewer UI overhaul
- and more
See the video below and read more here.
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- Source: https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/26/kicad-8-released-pcb-kicad_pcb/
