I experience a crash problem after installing 9.0.5.
As this happens with a project I can’t share, I am including a cut-down version containing only the components that I added since installing 9.0.5. Those components were pasted from a small test project.
If I start drawing a track starting from the upper left via (above Q3), KiCAD will always crash without message after clicking to end the track. After cutting the project down to the minimum, the crash now occurs right after clicking on the via to start drawing the track.
Before opening a ticket, I would like to know if the same problem happens with anybody else. Thanks.
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I tried to reproduce this morning but apparently KiCad doesn’t crash as it always did yesterday.
Is it possible that memory was corrupted somehow ?
Before creating a ticket I’ll keep trying again later today. I’ll install the testing build as well.
Where can I see official information such as issue tags that show the differences between the test build and the release, and branches for test builds?
The test binaries are probably here, but are they still available in 9.5.0 after 9.5.x is released?
If this is information about binaries released in test builds after stable releases that does not include 10.x, I think the test build change information rules should be published in the public documentation. What do you think?
As soon as 9.99 gets tagged as 10.0.0, all commits to 9.0.x Testing stop. This means that there is often a slightly cleaner Testing from the previous release than the last official release. This can be expected around February.
Then there will be a 10.0 Testing branch and later a new 10.9.9 development unstable main will appear
I also encountered a program crash issue during PCB routing in version 9.0.5. Specifically, when I opened a PCB file previously edited in version 9.0.2 and performed routing operations, the crash occurred frequently. However, when I reinstalled version 9.0.2, the problem no longer persisted. My device configuration is AMD 4800H + NVIDIA 2060 + Windows 10.
I can confirm this is happening to me. MacOS - all was good with 9.0.4. Seems to happen each time I press X to route something over a pad. Will report if no one else does. I’ve since rolled back to 9.0.4 without any issues.
I also have problems with crashing in 9.0.5 - in my case its with some old files that were created years ago. Same thing - press X and boom. I went back to the last V8 that I have installed (8.0.8) and no problems at all. Win11.
Thanks for the project and video. I can’t reproduce this with a fresh build of the v9 branch; can you have a try with the latest testing build please (back up / commit the changes to your project first)?
If developers need another example to discover the source of the error, I can share a project where trying to draw a path on pcb causes an immediate crash (9.0.5 version on Linux Mint Cinnamon).
