De negende update voor KiCad versie 8.0.0 is uitgebracht. KiCad is een verzameling opensourceprogramma's waarmee elektronische schema's en printplaatlay-outs ontworpen kunnen worden. Verder kan het een bill of materials, Gerber-bestanden en een 3d-weergave van het pcb en de componenten maken. KiCad beschikt over een uitgebreide bibliotheek van componenten, inclusief het symbool, de footprint en 3d-modellen. Een Spice-simulator ontbreekt evenmin. Uitgebreide informatie over de vernieuwingen in versie 8.0 kan op deze pagina worden gevonden; de changelog voor versie 8.0.9 ziet er als volgt uit:
GeneralSchematic Editor
- Improve message panel alignment on high DPI monitors.
- Fix image size in properties panel layer selector on high DPI monitors. #13105
- Limit the number of search bar terms to prevent UI freezing. #19464
- Crash when closing update manager. #17103
- Improve project manager size and position at first launch.
- Fix PDF plot pop up location for mirrored objects. #19717
- Don’t automatically save future formats of project settings. #19910
- Fix broke DXF import. #18523
Symbol Editor
- Fix crash when spice model corrupted.
- Fix incorrect background area size when plotting a sheet. #19611
- Prevent self referential symbol fields from becoming very long. #19633
- Prevent crash when canceling partial load on update sheet file link. #19881
- Do not show each ERC message being deleted when deleting all ERC markers. #19531
- Use HTTP library field order instead of alphabetical sorting. #17584
- Fix ERC symbol not found in library warning using HTTP libraries. #17569
- Fix loading old (pre 2007) symbol
.cache
library files.- Fix cross probing from PCB editor when references contain leading zeros. #19724
Board Editor
- Don’t distort shapes when aligning to grid. #18739
- Fix pin synchronization mode when changing pin length or graphic style. #18566
Footprint Editor 3D Viewer
- Avoid zooming out to hidden text in find results. #19636
- Fix inches/mm confusion in IDF export. #19668
- Minor adjustments to automatic footprint placement. #19451 Get automatic footprint placement tool to skip locked footprints. #19690
- Fix unexpected DRC warning for footprints with copper layer rule area. #19694
- Prevent pack and move footprints from unexpectedly jumping from the original position. #19780
- Preserve layer visibility when loading projects opened with version 9.0. #19540
- Persist zone fills on all layers. #19775
- Prevent object visibility loss when opening project opened with new version of KiCad. #19540
- Do not add extra line segments in rounded corner board edge in STEP exports. #19901
- Fix broken geographical annotation. #19927
Linux
- Fix empty rendering at specific 3D ray tracing rendering angles. #18207
- Fix excessively dark board color in ray tracing preview mode. #17354
- Fix incorrect rendering of plated copper of texts.
- Improve infobar hyperlink button readability with some GTK themes. #19506