Version 9.0.0 Released
Written by The KiCad Development Team
Published 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!
Version 9 Changes
Most, if not all, of the new features as well as usability improvements in KiCad 9 are described in a running thread on the KiCad user forum. This thread is being kept reasonably up to date so users running nightly builds know about new features to take for a test spin and provide bug reports and feedback. Wayne Stambaugh also presented them in his FOSDEM 2025 talk which is available to watch on the FOSDEM website. This post highlights some of the major changes, but is not a complete list. There were also hundreds of bug fixes, performance improvements, and other smaller changes since KiCad 8. A full list of issues addressed in KiCad 9 can be found on the |
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