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KiCad 8 Released

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ataradov:
https://www.kicad.org/blog/2024/02/Version-8.0.0-Released/

Lots of good improvements.  A couple notable ones: properties panel now in the schematic editor, improved grid handling, power symbols now name the power rail from their value. No need to create a ton of power symbols anymore.

Doctorandus_P:
And of course, if you want to install KiCad, take it directly from the KiCad website:

https://www.kicad.org/download/

I've seen vague sources being used in the past. The KiCad website. The KiCad website has also been spoofed at least twice. Once when they lost control over their old domain name, and more recently:

https://www.kicad.org/blog/2023/11/Malicious-Site-Warning/

And traditionally, for each new mayor KiCad version there is also a thread that announces new features at the moment they get inplemented in the nightly version. The new features for V8.0.0 are therefore listed in the Post V 7 thread. That topic has 41 posts, and thus (at least very close to) 41 new features in KiCad V8.0.0

https://forum.kicad.info/t/post-v7-new-features-and-development-news/

SiliconWizard:
Yes, looks nice. Just being able to drag several footprints in the layout editor at once sounds good. But has anyone here tried it? The video to illustrate it on the web page actually only shows one footprint being dragged. Unless I can't see straight. Not a great illustration if you ask me. :-//

Apart from that, I suppose, like every new major version, projects and libraries once modified in v8 won't be usable in v7. I know that's to be expected, but that's kind of a real problem for people who use KiCad professionally and have to collaborate with other teams/companies that may not upgrade at exactly the same time as you do. Not sure what we can do about it. Nothing?

ataradov:
I have not needed multiple component dragging, but I just tried and it works as I would expect - select the components, press D, they are dragged with attached traces extended as needed.

Version update is an issue. The only thing you can do is ignore new elements when opening in the old versions, but this may break things and existing versions don't do that, so even in theory it would be only possible going forward.

IanJ:
I tried multiple component dragging and it seemed to work, however:-

Multiple passives inc. multiple 8pin IC's dragged ok together.

Multiple passives and a 44-pin IC, the IC despite being selected didn't move. Tried the same on a completely different board with a 64-pin IC and got the same result.

Tried moving the 44-pin/64-pin devices on their own and they move just fine (so not locked etc).

I need to do more digging to find out why.

Ian.

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