KiCad 8.0.9 Release

Written by The KiCad Development Team

Published 2025-02-19

The KiCad project is proud to announce the version 8.0.9 bug fix release. The 8.0.9 stable version contains critical bug fixes and other minor improvements since the previous release.

A list of all of the fixed issues since the 8.0.8 release can be found on the KiCad 8.0.9 milestone page. This release contains several critical bug fixes so please consider upgrading as soon as possible.

Version 8.0.9 is made from the 8.0 branch with some cherry picked changes from the development branch.

Packages for Windows, macOS, and Linux are available or will be in the very near future. See the KiCad download page for guidance.

Thank you to all developers, packagers, librarians, document writers, translators, and everyone else who helped make this release possible.

Changelog

General

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

Schematic 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

Symbol Editor

Don’t distort shapes when aligning to grid. #18739
Fix pin synchronization mode when changing pin length or graphic style. #18566

Board Editor

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

Footprint Editor

Fix crash when saving footprint. #19713
Fix crash when importing Eagle footprint library. #19958

3D Viewer

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.

Linux

Improve infobar hyperlink button readability with some GTK themes. #19506

Release Notes

The first release candidate for version 8.0.9 is available for testing. Version 8.0.9 will be released soon unless critical issues are found in testing this release candidate. This will most likely be the final 8.0 series bug fix release with the release of the 9.0 series is happening soon. There may be additional bug fixes to the 8.0 series available as testing builds for users who require those bugs fixed after 8.

KiCad Version 9.0.0 Release Candidate 3 Available

2025-02-08

The third release candidate for version 9.0.0 is available for testing. Version 9.0.0 will be released soon unless critical issues are found in testing this release candidate. You can obtain the release candidate for your platform here: Windows x86_64 Windows arm64 macOS Ubuntu: Using the nightly builds PPA Fedora: Using the @kicad/kicad COPR Flatpak: Using testing builds You can see a nearly complete list of new features and usability improvements on the "Post-V8 New Features and Development News" on the KiCad User Forum.