The current state of the KiCad project -- Wayne Stambaugh -- KiCon Europe 2024

KiCad Project Lead Wayne Stambaugh gives an overview of the current state and roadmap for the KiCad project as of September, 2024.
Slides: pretalx.kicad....
Presented at KiCon Europe 2024, Bochum, Germany Sept 20, 2024
KiCon Europe is made possible by Open Skunkforce e.V. (skunkforce.org/) and KiCad Services Corporation (kipro-pcb.com).

[@khomo12]

Just started to use it for the first time with the help of the introduction manual. Great tool! Thank you!

[@CoolNamesAllTaken]

So excited for KiCAD 9! Y'all are doing amazing work.

[@jusaca01]

Really love to see that full pad stacks, schematic variants and outjobs are on their way to stable release, great work! Also I'm looking forward for custom grids, especially polar grids. You have some nice selling points for the next two version, keep up your great work =)

[@AndersSandblad]

Is the git integration being worked on? That was not mentioned in the status update. I just tested in version 8 and it does not seem complete, I will try in nightly, but automatically git fetch seems to be missing even on kicad start or refresh.

[@HansWurst-bk9sb]

Thumbs up for issue 18864

[@AndersSandblad]

@@HansWurst-bk9sb you have the same problem?

[@HansWurst-bk9sb]

@@AndersSandblad No. But I can upvote other people's requests nevertheless.

[@hardwareful]

How is pin/gate swapping still not implemented? It's one of the most basic features you can imagine.
Granted, unlike in Eagle, KiCad wires can change nets much more easily, but I cannot think of a project with logic gates where I didn't need to swap gates and pins.
The "KiCad" way seems to be to select and mirror the gate, but that falls apart when there are input-output pairs in level shifters, isolators and bus transceivers. By the looks of it, don't hold your breath that these concepts will be represented in KiCad.