KiCad Version 9.0.1 Release Candidate 1 Available
The first release candidate for version 9.0.1 is available for testing. Version 9.0.1 will be released soon unless critical issues are found in testing this release candidate. There may be additional bug fixes to the 9.0 series available as testing builds for users who require those bugs fixed after 9.0.1 is released.
You can obtain the release candidate for your platform here:
Windows x86_64
Windows arm64
macOS
Ubuntu: Using the 9.0 testing builds PPA
Fedora: Using the @kicad/kicad-testing COPR
Flatpak: Using stable builds
You can see a list of closed issues in this release here: Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab
See Also
Version 9.0.0 Released
2025-02-20
The KiCad project is proud to announce the release of the next major version of KiCad. Version 9 is packed with new features, improvements, and hundreds of bug fixes. We hope you enjoy the new version! Head to the KiCad download page to get your copy of the new version (note that some packages may still be in the process of being released at the time this announcement is published). Our thanks go out to everyone who contributed to KiCad this past year. Whether your contribution was large or small, writing code, submitting bug reports, improving our libraries and documentation, or just supporting us financially: your help made a difference.
In accordance with the KiCad stable release policy, version 8 of KiCad will no longer be actively maintained, and we will release bug fix versions of KiCad 9.x over the next year as we develop new features for KiCad 10. Read on to see some of the highlights of the new version!
KiCad 8.0.9 Release
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.