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KiCad 7.0.7

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  • Latest Version

    KiCad 8.0.7

  • Operating System

    Windows 8 (64-bit) / Windows 10 (64-bit) / Windows 11

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  • Author / Product

    KiCad Team / External Link

  • Filename

    kicad-7.0.7-x86_64.exe

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of KiCad 7.0.7.


For those interested in downloading the most recent release of KiCad or reading our review, simply click here.


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What's new in this version:

General:
- Fix build link error when linking nanoodbc
- Fix broken text shadow offsets
- Fix bitmap transparency in Cairo GAL
- Treat undo as backspace and/or escape when drawing polygons
- Handle some macOS standard keyboard shortcuts in custom text editors
- Fix text variable auto completion with return key
- Always show the footprint in the default orientation in the 3D viewer panel

Schematic Editor:
- Improve search performance
- Fix printing background fill when paper orientation or size differs.
- Import Altium net label justification.
- Do not arbitrarily zoom when canceling page settings dialog
- Fix slow warping and zoom reset when searching with find dialog
- Create correct new wire color when dragging net labels
- Fix incorrect color when continuing a wire
- Do not ignore custom fields when updating from text and graphics properties dialog
- Respect ERC error indicator color setting
- Fix crash when loading schematic with missing sub-sheet files
- Sort bus aliases by name to prevent VCS issues
- Ensure the bitmap exported to the clipboard is valid
- Fix broken cancel button in export symbols to new library dialog
- Preserve unit associations when re-annotating
- Database libraries performance improvements
- Remove unwanted outline in exported graphics
- Fix crash when power symbol is connected to hierarchical bus
- Fix crash when using '/' character in sheet name

Footprint Assignment Tool:
- Fix crash when attempting to use ratsnest settings

Board Editor:
- Check for zone to zone overlap.
- Fix EAGLE import footprint text alignment.
- Fix unconnected track end warning for track stubs inside vias and pads
- Fix crash interpreting malformed rule
- Fix DRC bug created by broken rounded rule zone fill
- Fix crash when selecting grouped items
- Save project when saving the board
- Tailor object inspector text properties for dimension objects
- Allow routing to a free pad when it has a hole
- Add SHORT_NET_NAME processing to footprint variable resolution
- Fix crash when opening zone properties dialog or object properties panel
- Fix shorts created by zone fill
- Fix plotting performance issues when text is on mask layers
- Make undo of set grid origin restore Y coordinate correctly
- Fix DRC error indicator position
- Fix Altium importer orientation of polygons and non copper pads in footprints
- Fix broken net-tie DRC
- Do not ignore trace routing clearances
- Fix incorrect GERBER X3 key word.
- Prevent copper finish setting in board setup dialog from getting reset to none
- Fix layer preset object visibility regression
- Do not ignore NPTHs when dragging via in shove mode
- Allow shoving tracks with attached via on layers other than the top and bottom
- Fix loading of via drill default sizes and other settings from legacy board files
- Remove invalid polygons, import holes in non-copper polygons, import solder paste/mask expansion rules, import dashed outlines, and other improvements to the Altium importer
- Minor router and DRC performance improvements

Footprint Editor:
- Update new footprint library save path when changing projects
- Fix crash when moving a solder paste aperture relative to an existing pad
- Prevent crash when typing '${' in text control

3D Viewer:
- Improve calculation of min and max zoom

Drawing Sheet Editor:
- Fix saving text with custom font

Windows:
- Move kicad-vcpkg forward to pickup new version of OpenCascade
- Fix 3D model viewer panel height to prevent clipped controls