Just can’t wait for V9. I’m on the edge of my seat with anticipation. Any news on a FINAL release date? Thanks.
Well, all you users are just too good at finding our “unintentional features” in the software 
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We are watching the bugs that get reported to see if there are any that cause crashes or could cause data corruption/loss or regressions from prior versions. There have been a few since the first RC, so we are just wanting to make sure no new major problems get reported. Trust me, we’re wanting to release this as much as you want it 
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I see 2 critical issues (one confirmed) and >20 high priority in the tracker.
Release with a confirmed critical issue is unusual.
I had a hard crash (fully shut down KiCad, rc3) while adjusting a number of things in Symbol Fields Table (in Schematic Editor) when I hit OK.
I tried to make the same changes, one at a time & saving it, hoping to find what caused the crash- couldn’t replicate it.
V9.0.0 is already out, so upgrade to this and try to repeat your crash
If get it again, please raise an issue on the tracker with details of what caused this. Reproducible crash bugs get fixed very quickly.
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What is the capability or feature that you are so eager to have?
I had something similar one a day ago . … not sure why, I’m hoping the Anonymous crash reporting caught it . . .
If you have reproduction steps or a project for it, it can still be useful to submit it onto GitLab (and if you are comfortable with it, you can provide that reporting ID from the panel there to allow us to cross-reference this with the crash log in the system - sometimes people do that also if the problem is hard to reproduce).
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If I did I certainly would . . . I hadn’t experienced it before yesterday or since . . . I was just messing with something doing some testing so I could try to give a coherent answer to a question on here I think.
I’ve been eager to try the python scripting. But I’ll have to wait for someone to do a tutorial so I can try it out.
OK thanks.
Python scripting is pretty much “off my radar screen.” It sounds like writing software. Or trying to instruct a snake. (Really I heard that the “Python” name comes from “Monty Python” of which I was a fan so ought to be “all in.” But I am not…)
I am curious about 9.0 and expect to get there at some point. But I am in the middle of a project with a company and will hold off any such changes until the point when I am confident I will not introduce any compatibility issues.