KiCad Switches to Git for Version Control
The moment all of you Git fans have been waiting for has finally arrived! As of August 21st, 2016 the official version control system for the development repository for KiCad is now Git instead of Bazaar. The decision was made to stick with Launchpad as the hosting site rather than move to Github in order to keep our existing bug tracker history. The development team decided that the Lauchpad Git integration had reached a sufficient level of maturity to make the switch. You can now directly clone the KiCad product branch using:
git clone https://git.launchpad.net/kicad
Hopefully there will be minimal issues as we move forward using Git. Please be patient as we integrate Git into our normal development process. For help configuring Git for Lauchpad, please see the Git help page on Launchpad.
Happy version controlling!
The KiCad development team.
See Also
Announcing the new website
2015-08-25
We are happy to announce a new website for KiCad, this instead of the old website system which was using Confluence, that has proved very unstable. The goal of this new website is to be the go to place for official KiCad information and should support some way of having regular KiCad users contribute to the site, let that be fixing typing mistakes or just improving the content in what ever way seems fit.
First Feature Freeze
2015-03-30
It is time. Wayne, the current project leader, has now called the development status a feature freeze. See the announcement. This is to satisfy the road map and finally make a real release of KiCad since the latest release, the so called "Old Stable" also knows as the "4022 release". The number is referring to the bazaar revision number for that release. The task is now to make KiCad stable, which means bug fixing.