KiCad is a set of applications used to capture electronic schematics and design printed circuit boards. KiCad runs on Windows, Linux, and Apple OSX and is released under the open source GNU GPL.
Please note that this is the KiCad developers website. If you have a user related question, please use one of the KiCad user resources listed in the "Community" section of the KiCad website http://
If you wish to contribute to KiCad see the Developers section in the KiCad website at http://
Useful links
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Main website:
http://
Users mailing list:
http://
Developers mailing list:
http://
Code repository (contributions are welcome):
https:/
Official footprint repositories (contributions are welcome):
http://
Official schematic parts and 3D models library repository:
https:/
Library developers mailing list:
https:/
Official documentation repository:
https:/
Documentation team mailing list:
https:/
Daily builds of product branch PPA (for Ubuntu):
https:/
Git mirror
https:/
(Patches should be submitted to the dev mailing list, because as a mirror, pull requests are not supported.)
Useful Tools
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A separately maintained project that assists in building from source on
Windows:
https:/
A script which automates the download and installation of footprint libraries
from github.com, should you decide not to use the standard "Github" plugin
for this same purpose:
http://
Original Author's site:
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http://
Project information
- Maintainer:
- Wayne Stambaugh
- Driver:
- KiCad Series Maintainers
- Licence:
- GNU GPL v3
View full history Series and milestones
product-git series is the current focus of development.
All code Code
- Version control system:
- Git
- Programming languages:
- C++, Python
All questions Latest questions
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pcbnew: graphic line type
Posted on 2017-12-31 -
KiCAD via password secured Proxy Servers
Posted on 2017-12-22 -
Cannot remove tracks
Posted on 2017-12-11 -
Footprint library wizard, improve file browsing
Posted on 2017-12-10 -
Why are soldermasks not allowed to be negative?
Posted on 2017-12-02
All packages Packages in Distributions
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kicad source package in Zesty
Version 4.0.5+dfsg1-4 uploaded on 2017-01-26 -
kicad source package in Yakkety
Version 4.0.4+dfsg1-1 uploaded on 2016-09-20 -
kicad source package in Xenial
Version 4.0.2+dfsg1-4 uploaded on 2016-03-04 -
kicad source package in Vivid
Version 0.20141025+bzr4029-2 uploaded on 2014-12-07 -
kicad source package in Trusty
Version 0.20131208+bzr4024-1ubuntu2 uploaded on 2014-09-29
All bugs Latest bugs reported
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Bug #1741787: Fallback to Cairo doesn't always work
Reported 2 hours ago -
Bug #1741783: PCBnew: offset in grid after changing grid size
Reported 2 hours ago -
Bug #1741757: Hotkey changes not preserved
Reported 8 hours ago -
Bug #1741755: Rescue: Renaming/adding "-RESCUE-ProjectName" to symbol name seems redundant
Reported 8 hours ago -
Bug #1741719: Libedit marks modified with bold rather than standard '*'
Reported 11 hours ago
All blueprints Latest blueprints
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Warn if a label relates to exactly 1 node
Registered on 2017-12-20 -
Import PCAD projects (.sch, .pcb)
Registered on 2017-11-27 -
Show current color on color picker palette
Registered on 2017-11-12 -
Select multiple parts with >= 1 common attribute, change chosen value
Registered on 2017-10-28 -
Allow aliases for footprints (similar to existing symbol alias feature)
Registered on 2017-10-24
More contributors Top contributors
- Eldar Khayrullin 838 points
- Wayne Stambaugh 680 points
- Jeff Young 399 points
- Nick Østergaard 392 points
- Nicholas Savenlid 310 points


