Errors, mistakes or to be enhanced:
you’ll find the introduction of a new format for the schematic and layout files
That’s not true: layout (and footprint) files were s-expression already in v4, I think.
KiCad 6 has a new theme editor.
This passage is a bit confusing because it doesn’t mention colors.
Virtual [sic!] all aspects of the layout and schematic editor are customisable.
Not of course all aspects, but all colors in the work area.
- Circle.
- Arc.
- Circle.
'Nough said. And more small spelling mistakes in this part: “KiCad add”, toobar.
obvious defects (such as the same pad number, and even overlapped their copper areas), but the Footprint Checker did not complain.
Same pad number isn’t a defect, it’s used on purpose in many footprints and is allowed by design.
Here’s an example of a checked defect:
I don’t know what else it would check. I have seen some discussion about this but don’t remember anymore.
KiCad 6 will go through its RC1 and perhaps RC2 iterations until the developer team squashes all bugs and agrees that the 6.0 milestone is reached.
That’s yet to be seen. I have expressed my strong opinions about RC versioning in Yet another release date 6.x question (linked here earlier). We’ll leave this to the core development team, but ATM there’s no indication that the situation would be any different, so there may be many more RC’s before the final. I still hope the name “beta” would be used when the software is clearly still under polishing.