KiCad 6.0.5 Release

[johnboxall]

New version of KiCAD has been released, visit:
https://www.kicad.org/blog/2022/05/KiCad-6.0.5-Release/

[John B]

Fingers crossed that the track routing issue is fixed.....

Woohoo looks like it has been.

[thinkfat]

Fingers crossed that the track routing issue is fixed.....

Woohoo looks like it has been.

Which one?

[John B]

For me at least, when you were routing a trace, the routing algorithm would struggle after a single bend in the track, especially when close to another track, ie within the clearance design rules. The program would lag to a near standstill. It wasn't like that in KiCad 5, so I guess they altered something and it's taken a few versions to iron that out. In 6.0.5, the trace routing can sometimes "snag" on corners of other nets, but it's greatly improved and no longer infuriating.

[thinkfat]

Oh yes. I noticed that, too. It looks like the router was just trying too hard to optimize a set of tracks and the complexity got out of bounds. If that's fixed, that'd be awesome.

[Bassman59]

... is the GUI still horrific?

 

[TomS_]

I'm a first time KiCad user (v6.0.5, macOS), migrating from Eagle, and I'm noticing a couple of annoying bugs/behaviour - does anyone else see this?

I've been spending a lot of time familiarising myself with the symbol/footprint creation process as this has been a big part of my Eagle work, and I seem to frequently hit an issue where I create a new symbol, and then go to draw a box around which to put all of the pins, but I can't draw the box. Sometimes I can't even move the mouse cursor out of the "canvas" and into the toolbar on the right to get to the box drawing tool.

This is happening very frequently, but I haven't yet figured out what triggers it.

The only way I've found to fix the issue is to close the symbol editor and reopen it.

[jaromir]

It could be this unfortunate bug https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/11607
I suppose new release will fix that.

[TomS_]

Hmm, my cursor doesnt freeze, I can still move it around enough that I can select the tool to draw the box, but I just cant draw a box.

Maybe I'll try the previous version and see if that is any more stable.

[mf_ibfeew]

It's most probably the mentioned issue 11607.
workaround until next bugfix (estimated 4weeks): don't use the "add pin"-function, instead copy/paste existing pins. This will not trigger the bug.