Possibly related: I use Rockwell PLC programming software. It was crashing repeatedly under Win11 24H2. The fix appears to be an optional Windows Update. See Microsoft KB5053656.
The language I am using is Traditional Chinese.
Installed KiCad 9.0.2-rc1 and a driver pack from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Also set some file permissions in the KiCad documents tree an bit more relaxed.
So far my problems seem gone, no more crashes.
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Lots and lots of crashing for me too. Mac OS though.
Seems related to PCB editor, Undo/redo and/or using the 3D viewer.
Application: KiCad PCB Editor x86_64 on x86_64
Version: 9.0.1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.6
FreeType 2.13.3
HarfBuzz 10.2.0
FontConfig 2.15.0
libcurl/8.7.1 (SecureTransport) LibreSSL/3.3.6 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.51.0
Platform: macOS Ventura Version 13.7.5 (Build 22H527), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
OpenGL: ATI Technologies Inc., AMD Radeon Pro 570 OpenGL Engine, 2.1 ATI-4.14.1
Build Info:
Date: Mar 29 2025 16:44:10
wxWidgets: 3.2.6 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.87.0
OCC: 7.8.1
Curl: 8.7.1
ngspice: 44.2
Compiler: Clang 16.0.0 with C++ ABI 1002
KICAD_IPC_API=ON
First step is to try updating to v9.0.3 (released today) and see if that helps. If you are still able to consistently get crashes, consider making a bug report via KiCad > Help > Report a bug.
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We upgraded to 9, and it crashes all the time. Most notably copying any PCB circuit from one PCB file to another. We have a power supply layout that we were able to copy all day long using 8. Terrible crashing on 9. All of this is on Linux.
Are you on 9.0.3?
If you can replicate the issue it would be best to raise a bug.
Help / Report Bug
No. 9.0.1. Unfortunately I do not have time to mess with this. Instead, I copied the Kicad 9.0 pcb into Geany, changed all the version numbers to 8, and pasted into 8 to work around. Works great. I know this is worthless without an example, but this is a work around for now. 9.0.1 crashes way too often.
Best would be to upgrade to 9.0.3
There would loads of bug fixed since 9.0.1 release.
I also had a frequent crashes on Ubuntu which was fixed in 9.0.2
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maybe thatās why thereās been two bugfix releases sinceā¦
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Sorry for the late update, but I am still using V 9.0.1 and have not experienced any crashing issues as of late, Thanks
New point releases just fix bugs, no new features, so upgrading to the latest is sensible. I am expecting 9.0.4 very soon.
Edit
9.0.4 is released
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