I had been using kicad-nightly for over a year, and sometime in the last week or so a routine apt-get update of it caused me to get a new version that’s switched from 6.99 to 7.0. I’m confused how I got 7.0, I thought doing an upgrade of kicad-nightly would at some point switch from 6.99 to 7.99. The only reason I was on 6.99 was because I didn’t notice the ugprade of kicad-nightly from 5.99 to 6.99 a while back, and I then used 6.99 for weeks while making lots of schematic and layout changes in my designs and it seemed too difficult to go back and redo them in 6.0 with an archived copy of my old kicad 5.99 files. So now I want to make sure I don’t botch it again and get stuck on 7.99 accidentally.
I want to transition to a stable release of 7.0 and no longer use nightly. What’s the best way for me to accomplish that at this point? I’m using Ubuntu 20.04LTS but would be happy to switch to 22.04LTS if that would help. I have both “kicad” and “kicad-nightly” installed, but I never use “kicad”. Here’s version info for both on one of my 22.04 machines:
kicad:
Version: 6.0.10-86aedd382b~118~ubuntu20.04.1, release build
Platform: Linux 5.4.0-135-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, KDE, x11
Date: Dec 18 2022 19:39:35
kicad-nightly:
Version: 7.0.0-rc1-unknown-f153ff8453~164~ubuntu20.04.1, release build
Platform: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, KDE, x11
Date: Jan 10 2023 20:33:13
Ubuntu 20.04LTS has new packages available for both kicad and kicad-nightly, and I’ve purposefully avoided upgrading to them because I’m unsure what major and minor version number they will be, and I’d like to avoid accidentally making changes to my schematics and layouts using an incorrect version that’d be incompatible with 7.0 stable going forward.
I have an Ubuntu 22.04LTS machine that I’ve never used kicad on, and I tried doing an install there just to see what version it’d get, and it was “6.0.2+dfsg-1, release build”
Thanks for any advice!