KiCad 6.0.10 Release

The KiCad project is proud to announce the latest series 6 stable release. The 6.0.10 stable version contains critical bug fixes and other minor improvements since the previous release.

A list of all of the fixed issues since the 6.0.9 release can be found on the KiCad 6.0.10 milestone page. This release contains several critical bug fixes so please consider upgrading as soon as possible.

Version 6.0.10 is made from the 6.0 branch with some cherry picked changes from the development branch.

Packages for Windows, macOS, and Linux are available. See the KiCad download page for guidance.

Thank you to all developers, packagers, librarians, document writers, translators, and everyone else who helped make this release possible.

Changelog

General

• Resolve embedded text variables.
• Keep keyboard placement on grid. #13027
• Clean up autosave file handling edge cases.

Schematic Editor

• Fix broken legacy schematic file save.
• Fix broken instance data loading legacy schematics.
• Fix unconnected bus from hierarchical sheet bug. #12165
• Prevent mirror of text elements. #13007
• Fix search for text containing slashes. #12789
• Add symbol library table mapping for rescue library on project save as. #12503
• Fix crash when "M" key pressed after clicking on end of unconnected wire. #12936
• Fix a issues with translated field names.
• Fix wxWidgets 3.2 assertion when opening symbol field table editor.
• Fix NC and label logic.
• Don't report a pin ERC if the pin is null.
• Prevent shared schematic UUIDs from changing when importing shared schematics. #11076

Symbol Editor

• Fix symbol SVG export. #13093

PCB Editor

• Return to original active layer after routing. #12313
• Resolve embedded text variables when project file is missing.
• Fix an issue when importing SVG files using CR+LF as end of line. #10096
• Fix graphic snapping.
• Use snap position for segment routability checks.
• Fix DRC crash when using negative clearance. #12981
• Fix DRC crash Pcbnew when moving ungroupable item to a group. #13026
• Allow nested groups.
• Allow a single net collision with a free pad.
• Honor zone fill minimum width setting. #12797
• Fix Z order of zone outline drawing. #12438
• Restore broken position relative to behavior. #12912
• Add support for unit-less values to custom rules evaluator. #13016
• Use correct pad to die lengths in differntial pair length tuner. #12859
• Fix an incorrect calculation in length tuning tools. 12881
• Respect the "report all errors" checkbox in DRC.
• Fix crash when moving empty selection. #13114

Footprint Editor

• Fix crash when clicking on footprint properties button. #12944
• Fix crash when attempting to launch dimension tool. #12841

Gerber Viewer

• Don't generate error on paths when loading from zip archive.

Windows

• Fix icon scaling issue. #11880
• Fix simulator crash due to old ngspice version.