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KiCad 4.0.0 RC2

Now, approximately two months after the first release candidate we can now announce the second release candidate, 4.0.0 RC2, this is BZR 6303 from the product branch.

Since the previous release candidate 115 commits have been made to fix bugs reported by users and developers alike.

The 4.0 source code branch is available in the BZR repository on launchpad here: KiCad 4.0 Branch

The RC2 branch has been packaged as a source archive available here: KiCad 4.0.0 RC2 Archive

The latest GUI translations can be found in the kicad-i18n repository on github.

They have not yet been tagged as a release yet, they are still some languages that are not 100% translated. No matter the state when the final release is made the translations will be tagged to make a release tarball.

Binaries

In addition to the source code, the following binary downloads are available:

OSX and additional Linux packages are coming as soon as maintainers package them! Please check back at a later time.