KiCad Version 10.0.1 Release Candidate 1 Available
The first release candidate for version 10.0.1 is available for testing. Version 10.0.1 will be released soon unless critical issues are found in testing this release candidate. There may be additional bug fixes to the 10.0 series available as testing builds for users who require those bugs fixed after 10.0.1 is released.
There is no Flatpak beta due to 10.0.0-rc1 being released in the Flatpak beta channel. There will be a 10.0.1 release Flatpak. Testing version release AppImages are now available for Linux.
You can obtain the release candidate for your platform here:
Windows x86_64
Windows arm64
macOS
Linux testing AppImage
Ubuntu: Using the 10.0 testing builds PPA
Fedora: Using the @kicad/kicad-testing COPR
All Linux distributions
You can see a list of closed issues in this release here: Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab
See Also
Version 10.0.0 Released
2026-03-20
It’s the turning of the seasons today, and to celebrate, the KiCad project is proud to announce the release of Version 10! This release is packed with new features, improvements, and hundreds of bug fixes. We hope you enjoy it! Head to the KiCad download page to get your copy (note that some packages may still be in the process of being released at the time this announcement is published). Our thanks go out to everyone who contributed to KiCad this past year. Whether your contribution was large or small, writing code, submitting bug reports, improving our libraries and documentation, or just supporting us financially: your help made a difference.
Read on to see some of the highlights of the new version!
KiCad 9.0.8 Release
2026-03-16
The KiCad project is proud to announce the version 9.0.8 bug fix release. The 9.0.8 stable version contains critical bug fixes and other minor improvements since the previous release.