See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/07/KiCad-9.0.3-Release/ for details
- Use EGL for SLE/Leap 16.0, as wxWidgets also uses EGL. Use the
bundled GLEW, as the system GLEW does not use EGL.
Use the system GLEW for all other projects.
- Fix date syntax for old changelog entries
- Update to 9.0.2:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/05/KiCad-9.0.2-Release/ for details
- Use glew_EGL-devel for BuildRequires when building with egl
support.
- Update to 9.0.1:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/03/KiCad-9.0.1-Release/ for details
- Fix build after wxWidgets package broke its ABI. Unfortunately,
the SOVERSION was not changed, so users may still end up with
incompatible wxWidgets libraries. See boo#1239101.
- Update to 9.0.0:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/02/Version-9.0.0-Released/ for details
- Update to 8.0.9:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/02/KiCad-8.0.9-Release/ for details
- Update to 8.0.8:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/01/KiCad-8.0.8-Release/ for details
- Update to 8.0.7:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2024/12/KiCad-8.0.7-Release/ for details
- Drop upstream patches:
* fix_libgit2_API_breakage.patch
* fix_libgit2_API_breakage_again.patch
- Fix build with libgit2 >= 1.8.4, the previous API break was
re-reverted, add:
* fix_libgit2_API_breakage_again.patch
- Fix build with libgit2 >= 1.8.3, a previous API break was
reverted, add:
* fix_libgit2_API_breakage.patch
- Update to 8.0.6:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2024/10/KiCad-8.0.6-Release/ for details
- Drop upstream patches:
* fix_boost_1_86_compat.patch
* fix_bad_cast_boost_1_86.patch
* fix_boost_1_86_sha1_detail.patch
- update to 8.0.5:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2024/09/KiCad-8.0.5-Release/ for details
- Fix compilation with Boost 1.86:
* fix_boost_1_86_compat.patch
* fix_bad_cast_boost_1_86.patch
* fix_boost_1_86_sha1_detail.patch
- update to 8.0.4:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2024/07/KiCad-8.0.4-Release/ for details
- update to 8.0.3:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2024/06/KiCad-8.0.3-Release/ for details
- update to 8.0.2:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2024/04/KiCad-8.0.2-Release/ for details
- Drop upstream patches:
* fix_zone_fill_race.patch
* 0001-Fix-triangulationValid-check-race-for-zone-fill.patch
* libgit2-1.8.0-compatibility.patch
- Fix build with libgit2 >= 1.8.0, add
libgit2-1.8.0-compatibility.patch
- update to 8.0.1:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2024/03/KiCad-8.0.1-Release/ for details
- Fix some race condition, causing e.g. fails in qa_pcbnew:
* fix_zone_fill_race.patch
* 0001-Fix-triangulationValid-check-race-for-zone-fill.patch
- update to 8.0.0:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2024/02/Version-8.0.0-Released/ for details
- update to 7.0.10:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2023/12/KiCad-7.0.10-Release/ for details
- update to 7.0.9:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2023/11/KiCad-7.0.9-Release/ for details
- update to 7.0.8:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2023/09/KiCad-7.0.8-Release/ for details
- update to 7.0.7:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2023/08/KiCad-7.0.7-Release/ for details.
- update to 7.0.6:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2023/07/KiCad-7.0.6-Release/ for details.
- Ignore minor test failures on i586
- update to 7.0.5:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2023/05/KiCad-7.0.5-Release/ for details.
- update to 7.0.2:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2023/04/KiCad-7.0.2-Release/ for details.
- Reduce build parallelism to avoid occasional OOM errors.
- Disable qa_eeschema unit test on aarch64.
- update to 7.0.1:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2023/03/KiCad-7.0.1-Release/ for details.
- update to 7.0.0:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2023/02/KiCad-7.0.0-Release/ for details.
- Drop obsolete
0001-Use-library-target-install-for-python-module-to-fix-.patch
- Adjust memory _constraints, add memoryperjob
- update to 6.0.11:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2023/01/KiCad-6.0.11-Release/ for details.
- update to version 6.0.10:
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2022/12/KiCad-6.0.10-Release/ for details.
- Update to version 6.0.9
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2022/10/KiCad-6.0.9-Release/ for details.
- Update to version 6.0.8
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2022/09/KiCad-6.0.8-Release/ for details.
- Update to version 6.0.7
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2022/07/KiCad-6.0.7-Release/ for details.
- Update to version 6.0.6
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2022/06/KiCad-6.0.6-Release/ for details.
- Update to version 6.0.5
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2022/05/KiCad-6.0.5-Release/ for details.
- Use Boost >= 1.71 on Leap.
- Update to version 6.0.4
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2022/03/KiCad-6.0.4-Release/ for details.
- Update to version 6.0.2
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2022/02/KiCad-6.0.2-Release/ for details.
- Fix suse_update_desktop_file invocation on Leap (missing new
"org.kicad." prefix for desktop file names).
- Update to version 6.0.1
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2022/01/KiCad-6.0.1-Release/ for details.
- Update to version 6.0.0
See https://www.kicad.org/blog/2021/12/KiCad-6.0.0-Release/ for details.
- Drop no longer necessary kicad-suse-help-path.patch
- Add 0001-Use-library-target-install-for-python-module-to-fix-.patch
- Adjust disk constraints (now 11G)
- Update to version 5.1.12
See https://kicad.org/blog/2021/11/KiCad-5.1.12-Release/ for details.
- Update to version 5.1.11
See https://kicad.org/blog/2021/11/KiCad-5.1.11-Release/ for details.
- Replace references to old domain (hijacked) with kicad.org
https://www.kicad.org/blog/2021/10/Avoid-links-to-former-kicad-domain/
- Update to version 5.1.10
See https://kicad.org/blog/2021/05/KiCad-5.1.10-Release/ for details.
- Update to version 5.1.9
See https://kicad.org/blog/2020/12/KiCad-5.1.9-Release/ for details.
- On TW, disable XDG category mangling, keep new upstream category
Science;Electronics.
- Update to version 5.1.8
See https://kicad.org/blog/2020/11/KiCad-5.1.8-Release/ for details.
- Update to version 5.1.7, no changelog provided
- Drop now upstream
0001-Remove-creation-on-the-fly-of-wxPaintEvent-instances.patch
- Update to version 5.1.6
See http://kicad-pcb.org/blog/2020/05/KiCad-5.1.6-Release/ for details.
- Switch from OCE to OCC OpenCascade implementation, as recommended
by upstream (FreeCAD uses OCC now as well).
- Fix compilation with latest wxWidgets:
0001-Remove-creation-on-the-fly-of-wxPaintEvent-instances.patch
- Drop kicad-user-library.patch, only relevant for KiCad 4.0
footprint libraries.
- Update to version 5.1.5
See http://kicad-pcb.org/blog/2019/11/KiCad-5.1.5-Release/ for details.
- Update to minor release 5.1.4
See http://kicad-pcb.org/blog/2019/08/KiCad-5.1.4-Release/ for details.
- Update to minor release 5.1.2
This version contains critical bugfixes and minor improvements.
See http://kicad-pcb.org/blog/2019/04/KiCad-5.1.2-Release/ for details.
- Update to minor release 5.1.1
(Withdrawn due to a critical bug in netlist generation)
- Enable build for PowerPC, supported since KiCad 5.1.0.
Also fixes a recurrent rebuild of kicad-doc, due to it having
an unresolvable dependency on kicad.
- Update to minor release 5.1.0
This version contains critical bugfixes and minor improvements.
See http://kicad-pcb.org/blog/2019/03/KiCad-5.1.0-Release/ for details.
- Remove obsolete kicad-library-repos-install.patch
- Remove upstream 0001-Use-absolute-path-CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LIBDIR-for-3d-v.patch
- Revert broken change for symbol etc. library versions, there is nothing
disallowing recent packages.
- Exclude PPC, not yet supported
- Set disk size constraint to avoid build failure seen on aarch64
- Allow up to date versions of symbol, footprint, template and 3D
packages.
- Update to bugfix release 5.0.2
This version contains critical bugfixes and minor improvements.
See http://kicad-pcb.org/blog/2018/12/KiCad-5.0.2-Release/ for details.
- Drop upstreamed 0001-Use-fixed-version-for-libngspice.so.0.patch
- Drop COPYRIGHT/LICENSE.AGPLv3, both files are included in the tarball now.
- Add Requires: libngspice0
- Fix name for dlopen'ed libngspice.so.0
Add 0001-Use-fixed-version-for-libngspice.so.0.patch
- Update to bugfix release 5.0.1
This version contains critical bugfixes and minor improvements.
See http://kicad-pcb.org/blog/2018/10/KiCad-5.0.1-Release/ for details.
- Do proper fix for 3d plugindir, use absolute LIBDIR instead of
deriving it from BINDIR:
Add 0001-Use-absolute-path-CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LIBDIR-for-3d-v.patch
- Drop upstream kicad-fix-boost168-build.patch.
- Add Recommends: for new kicad-templates package
- Correct license to GPL-3.0-or-later AND AGPL-3.0-or-later
Add LICENSE.AGPLv3 for some included third party code
- Add build option to fix boo#1107776 kicad: 3D models do not work
- Correct license, KiCad 5.0 no longer is GPL-2.0. Stop distributing
a wrong license file inside the package.
- Enable spice simulator support
- Install python bindings in python_sitearch
- Deduplicate pcbnew python binary module
- Adapt libboost_* BuildRequires for current distribution versions
- Remove obsolete CMAKE options
- Set various pathes using using CMAKE options instead of patching
files.
- Fix build against boost-1.68 with kicad-fix-boost168-build.patch.
- Update to new release version 5.0.0
- Removed incorporated patches:
kicad-4.0.7-remove-internal-CheckCXXSymbolExists.patch,
kicad-boost-1_61-boost-context-changes.patch and
kicad-set-cxx-version.patch.
- Rebased kicad-user-library.patch.
- Upstream changes:
This version has many new features and improvments over 4.0.7.
See kicad-pcb.org/blog/2018/07/KiCad-5--a-new-generation/ for
all the details.
- Fix build with CMake 3.11 (deb#897100):
* Add kicad-4.0.7-remove-internal-CheckCXXSymbolExists.patch,
picked from upstream.
- Use %license for license file instead of %doc (boo#1082318).
- Use SPDX 3 license identifier.
- Don't call empty macros in %post and %postun.
- Update to version 4.0.7.
- Build with fPIE.
- Rebased kicad-set-cxx-version.patch.
- Upstream changes:
* Bugs Fixed:
Fix broken links and add correct links to about dialog.
Eeschema: highlight the first choice in rescue dialog.
Eeschema: fix zone properties dialog level setting tooltip.
Pcbnew: fix segfault when appending a board in GAL mode.
Remove some useless or incorrect asserts in plot functions.
Pcbnew: continue loading footprints after first failure.
Eeschema: don’t apply last line width to text thickness in
symbol library editor.
Pcbnew: add option to plot DXF lines in outline mode.
Pcbnew: add option to plot DXF editable text.
Pcbnew: fix crash when dragging a track.
Fix crash when dragging a track.
Remove leading/trailing white space error message from field
validator.
* Other changes:
Pcbnew: fix bug loading board files written when layers could
have numeric names.
Pcbnew: prevent segfault when outline has no vertices reading
P-CAD file.
Pcbnew: fix tooltip error in copper zones dialog.
Eeschema: move BOM scripts so they are installed correctly.
Apply changes from master to GOST page layouts.
Save text thickness in worksheet editor.
Fix default line widths for non-mm units in DXF import.
Better error messages when throwing an I/O error or parse error.
Cvpcb: fix incorrect assignments when using .equ files and
automatic association.
Fix possible crash and issues when a incorrect fp lib table is
loaded.
Fix crash when writing zip archive file to folder that is not
writeable.
Fix issues in plot functions when used from python scripts.
- Update to version 4.0.6
- Upstream changes
*Library changes:
You may need to update your footprint library table in pcbnew,
because some footprint libraries have been renamed as follows:
Buttons_Switches_ThroughHole.pretty ->
Buttons_Switches_THT.pretty
Capacitors_ThroughHole.pretty -> Capacitors_THT.pretty
Connect.pretty -> Connectors.pretty
Diodes_ThroughHole.pretty -> Diodes_THT.pretty
Display.pretty -> Displays.pretty
Relays_ThroughHole.pretty -> Relays_THT.pretty
Resistors_ThroughHole.pretty -> Resistors_THT.pretty
Sockets_BNC.pretty -> Connectors_TE-Connectivity.pretty
Sockets_Mini-Universal.pretty ->
Connectors_Mini-Universal.pretty
Sockets_WAGO734.pretty -> Connectors_WAGO.pretty
Terminal_Blocks.pretty -> Connectors_Terminal_Blocks.pretty
*Bugs fixed:
Pcbnew: fix an issue where path separators are not translated
from \ in Windows to / on Unix.
Pcbnew: do not use default board solder mask clearance in
footprint editor.
Pcbnew: fix a potential incompatibility (due to an old bug)
with files which could be created by some recent Pcbnew versions.
Eeschema: fix rotate bug in symbol library editor.
Changes:
Replace avhttp with libcurl.
Pcbnew: fix a potential bug where a GAL canvas method was
called from the legacy canvas.
Eeschema: reorder toolbar slightly.
*The KiCad development team hopes you enjoy this latest stable
release of KiCad.
- use individual libboost-*-devel packages instead of boost-devel
- Update to version 4.0.5
- The KiCad project is pleased to announce that it is the first
electronic development application to fully support the Gerber X2
extensions.
- Upstream changes
*Bugs Fixed:
KiCad: fix crash when attempting to view ERC log with text
editor.
Pcbnew: fix several auto save file issues.
Eeschema: fix assertion on delete node hot key while busy.
Pcbnew: fix drill file naming issue.
CvPcb: remove broken footprint documentation feature.
Footprint editor: fix transform for incorrect mirroring of pads
(only effects pads with offset).
Pcbnew: prevent drawing tracks on non copper layers in GAL
canvas.
Fix crash when BOARD members are changed and PNS is active.
Fix wrong CSV BOM format using bom2csv.xsl script with custom
entries.
*Changes:
Fixed a crash when drawing a single point polyline.
Gerbview: make print dialog display graphic layers list on some
windows managers like Unity.
Pcbnew: fix epic footprint editor DXF import fail.
Fixed a crash when a negative (although invalid) net code
occurs in legacy plugin.
Pcbnew: prevent reversal of pad loading order when loading board.
Fix incorrect indentation which generates compiler warnings.
Pcbnew: make polygons strictly simple before fracturing them
in zone fill calculations.
Fix off-by-one in saving bitmaps.
Version string improvements.
*The KiCad development team hopes you enjoy this latest stable
release of KiCad.
- No longer depend on boost_1_58_0 explicitly as it now provides
boost-devel with correct version numbers.
- Update to version 4.0.4
*bugfix release
- Ran dos2unix and rebased
kicad-boost-1_61-boost-context-changes.patch
- Rebased kicad-set-cxx-version.patch,kicad-suse-help-path.patch,
and kicad-user-library.patch.
- Pull some coroutine changes from kicad master, to fix build
with boost 1.61 (boo#994383). Use on Leap and TW.
* Add kicad-boost-1_61-boost-context-changes.patch
- Set C++ version to C++11, required by boost patch
* Add kicad-set-cxx-version.patch
- Update to version 4.0.3
* Bugfix release
* Drop obsolete kicad-swig-3.0.10.patch
- Fix broken swig import script when using swig >= 3.0.10
* kicad-swig-3.0.10.patch
- Added kicad-suse-help-path.patch to enable help in kicad.
- Added post and postun macros to allow proper integration with
various gui systems.
- Update to version 4.0.2
* Bugfix release
- Update to version 4.0.1
- Increase diskspace constraints to 8GB
- Update to version 4.0.0
Changes from previous stable release:
* New graphics rendering backend GAL (OpenGL and Cairo)
* New s-expression based pcb format (.kicad_pcb)
* New footprint library format (.pretty folder with .kicad_mod footprints)
* Updated footprint editor
* More advanced footprint manager concept called footprint library table (fp-lib-table)
* Ability to download footprints on the fly from git repositories
* Official libraries are now stored on github and regularly updated
* Awesome/Advanced Push and Shove (PnS) router (only usable with GAL renderer)
* Interactive differential trace routing and tuning
* Interactive trace length tuning
* Much more realistic 3D board rendering
* Intelligent library search with preview in Eeschema
* Initial Python api for Pcbnew
- Update to version 4.0.0-rc2
- Set minimal memory size for building: 3500 Mb
- Update to version 4.0.0-rc1
* Drop kicad-gost package
* Drop pre_checkin.sh
* Drop container_fwd.hpp.patch
* Drop kikad-no-templates-install.patch
- Change license to "GPL-2.0+ and GPL-3.0+" due to source code changes
- Use user library instead of system
* kicad-user-library.patch
- Replase kicad-libraries package with kicad-library-install.sh
script for creation offline library copy.
* kicad-library-repos-install.patch
- Mend build breakage by using 'system' list class rather than kicad/boost one
* container_fwd.hpp.patch
- Do not conflict with self-provides
- Update to version 20140120
* Bug fixes
- Removed templates to avoid conflict with kicad-library package
* kikad-no-templates-install.patch
- Removed obsolete kicad-2012.01.19-build-with-old-wxwidgets.patch
- Update to version 20130707
* no changelog available
* removed obsolete kicad-2012.01.19-gcc-4.7.patch
- Change package license to GPL-2.0+ [bnc#796377]
- new version 20130330
- removed version patch
- Update to version 20120521
* various bugfixes, no detailed changelog available
- Change package license to GPL-3.0 [bnc#796377]
- Build with Unicode support
- Add switcher for build with GOST support
- Fix displayed version
* kicad-version.patch
- fix build with old wxWindow on SLE 11
- add patch from debian to fix build with gcc-4.7
- new version 2012-01-19
- new version 2011-12-28
- new version 2011-07-08
- new version 2011-04-29
- explicit request for DOUBLEBUFFER and DEPTH>=16
fixes SwapBuffer() crash on Intel and Radeon GPUs
- build fix for openSUSE 11.4
- added l10n files and patch fixes bug [#650383]
- Update to 2010-05-05-stable
- Make it build with older wxGTK (wxAuiToolBar)
- Update to 2010-04-06-SVN2508
Currently only builds on 11.2
- new version 2009.02.06
- build fix for openSUSE 11.1
- added freeglut-devel and update_desktop_file
- directory fixes
- new version 2008.08.25
- new version 2008.03.20
- adapted spec file from kicad-2007.07.09-2.fc8.src.rpm
- removed french project descriptions
- use cmake build process
- new version 2007.11.29
- Update desktop file
- New upstream version
- Merge previous patches
- Remove X-Fedora, Electronics and Engineering categories
- Update desktop file
- License tag clarification
- Rebuild
- Fix desktop entry. Fix#228598
- New upstream version
- Add patch to build with RPM_OPT_FLAGS and remove -s from LDFLAGS
Contribution of Ville Skyttä <ville[DOT]skytta[AT]iki[DOT]fi>
Fix#227757
- Fix typo in french summary
- Rebuild with wxGTK 2.8.
- rebuilt for unwind info generation, broken in gcc-4.1.1-21
- New upstream version
- Use macro style instead of variable style
- Install missing modules. Fix#206602
- FE6 rebuild
- Removing backup files is no more needed.
- Remove BR libGLU-devel that is no more needed (bug #197501 is closed)
- Fix files permissions.
- s/mesa-libGLU-devel/libGLU-devel/
- BR mesa-libGLU-devel
- New upstream version
- Change name
- Use %%{_docdir} instead of %%{_datadir}/doc
- Use %%find_lang
- Update desktop database
- Convert MSDOS EOL to Unix EOL
- Remove BR utrac
- Patch to suppress extra qualification compile time error on FC5
- BR utrac to convert MSDOS files before applying patch
This will be remove for the next upstream version.
- Install help in /usr/share/doc/kicad/ as the path is hardcoded
in gestfich.cpp
- Add desktop file
- Add a second tarball that contains many things that are not included in
the upstream source tarball such components and footprints librairies,
help, localisation, etc.
- Initial Fedora RPM
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/electronics/kicad?expand=0&rev=162
