KiCad 4.0.7 Stable Release
The KiCad project is proud to announce the latest stable release of KiCad. The 4.0.7 stable version contains critical bug fixes and other minor improvements since the last release. It also includes improved footprint, symbol, and 3D model libraries, translations, and documentation.
The stable release version 4.0.7 is made from the stable 4.0 branch with bug fixes cherry picked from the development branch of KiCad.
KiCad binaries are available or will be available in the near future for download for Windows, OSX and Linux, see the download page for guidance.
Instructions for packagers can be found on the download page describing how to build from source and its subpages.
Thank you to all developers, packagers, librarians, document writers, translators, and everyone else who helped make this release possible.
Changes
Changes related to a reported bug:
Changes without a bug report:
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Pcbnew: fix bug loading board files written when layers could have numeric names.
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Pcbnew: prevent segfault when outline has no vertices reading P-CAD file.
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Better error messages when throwing an I/O error or parse error.
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Cvpcb: fix incorrect assignments when using .equ files and automatic association.
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Fix possible crash and issues when a incorrect fp lib table is loaded.
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Fix crash when writing zip archive file to folder that is not writeable.
The KiCad development team hopes you enjoy this latest stable release of KiCad.
See Also
KiCad 4.0.6 Stable Release
2017-03-07
The KiCad project is proud to announce the latest stable release of KiCad. The 4.0.6 stable version contains critical bug fixes and other minor improvements since the last release. One other notable change was the replacement of the Avhttp library with the libcurl library when building the GitHub plugin. This should allow Linux distributions that are not compatible with the OpenSSL library license to distribute KiCad with the GitHub plugin enabled.
KiCad 4.0.5 Stable Release
2016-12-18
The KiCad project is proud to announce a new stable release of KiCad. The 4.0.5 stable version contains critical bug fixes and version string improvements since the last release. The stable release version 4.0.5 is made from the stable 4.0 branch with bug fixes cherry picked from the development branch of KiCad. KiCad binaries are available or will be available in the near future for download for Windows, OSX and Linux, see the download page for guidance.