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Electronics => PCB/EDA/CAD => KiCad => Topic started by: SiliconWizard on May 16, 2020, 03:57:35 pm

Title: KiCad 5.1.6 released
Post by: SiliconWizard on May 16, 2020, 03:57:35 pm

In case anyone missed it, KiCaD 5.1.6 was just released. I recommend updating as it fixes a relatively large number of bugs.

https://kicad-pcb.org/blog/2020/05/KiCad-5.1.6-Release/

Title: Re: KiCad 5.1.6 released
Post by: ivi_yak on May 16, 2020, 09:06:26 pm

thx God

Title: Re: KiCad 5.1.6 released
Post by: MarkR42 on May 19, 2020, 08:50:24 am

I'm sure it's a good choice in general, but I've been using unsable (nightly) versions of Kicad for a while, and it's much better:

* They changed the user interface dramatically in the schematic editor, it now behaves more like other programs (click-select etc)
* The PCB editor has various auto-routing / constraint resolving modes - "shove" other traces out of the way. These are super awesome if doing a very tight board.

Of course running the unstable nightly version has a lot of drawbacks, such as compatibility, and it sometimes crashes!

Title: Re: KiCad 5.1.6 released
Post by: Doctorandus_P on May 19, 2020, 05:47:45 pm

Recommending nightlies of a program (any program) to people not acquainted to it is simply a bad Idea. Especially for a program which receives so many changes (all improvements of course) as KiCad.