KiCad 4

Via SoylentNews, via Hackaday, the KiCad project has released KiCad 4.0. This upgrade to the free (GPL) PCB design app includes a new "push and shove" router (video), differential trace length tuning features, a new part footprint format, and much better 3D board rendering.

Is it better than the previous version released in May 2013, or is it still crap?

In Debian Testing, I'm unable to locate a KiCad package.

On Debian, you'll have to build it from source, but 4.0.0 RC1 is in unstable.


No, not that Sid.

On Ubuntu, there's a PPA. There are also installers for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and a pair of disk images for OS X.

I never used any version of kicad besides trying to find which PCB editor for linux was even okay. But this version looks excellent, finally.