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Whilst we await our own sig­nif­i­cant releas­es, we want­ed to take an oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­grat­u­late our wider open source fam­i­ly mem­bers, KiCad, on the recent release of KiCad ver­sion 10.

The new ver­sion builds on the pre­vi­ous excel­lence with a whole host of new fea­tures and improve­ments which you can read up on over on this announce­ment post. As a tiny cross sec­tion of new stuff there are new fea­tures such as a new inter­face for edit­ing DRC rules, new meth­ods (hopovers) of visu­al­is­ing wires cross­ing in schemat­ics and track tun­ing fea­tures to allow user to max­imise con­trol over rout­ing parameters. 

With some crossover of the FreeCAD and KiCad com­mu­ni­ties, both users and devel­op­ers, and of course FreeCAD work­bench­es such as KiCon­nect and KiCad StepUp, we love watch­ing the KiCad project go from strength to strength. If you want to finan­cial­ly sup­port KiCad then it’s a great time to make a dona­tion.