KiCad Version 9.0.9 Release Candidate 1 Available
The first release candidate for version 9.0.9 is available for testing. Version 9.0.9 will be released soon unless critical issues are found in testing this release candidate. There may be additional bug fixes to the 9.0 series available as testing builds for users who require those bugs fixed after 9.0.9 is released. This will be the last bug fix release of the 9.0 branch now that version 10 has been released.
There is no Flatpak beta due to 10.0.0-rc1 being released in the Flatpak beta channel. There will be a 9.0.9 release Flatpak. The same limitation also applies to Fedora. 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 9.0 testing builds PPA
All Linux distributions
You can see a list of closed issues in this release here: Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab
See Also
KiCad 10.0.1 Release
2026-04-15
The KiCad project is proud to announce the version 10.0.1 bug fix release. The 10.0.1 stable version contains critical bug fixes and other minor improvements since the previous release.
KiCad Version 10.0.1 Release Candidate 1 Available
2026-04-09
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. You can obtain the release candidate for your platform here: Windows x86_64 Windows arm64 macOS Linux testing AppImage Ubuntu: Using the 10.