KiCad 9, Assembly Variants

Looking at the KiCad roadmap for version 8 and beyond presented by CERN page 19 talks about Assembly Variants being introduced in version 9. Is there somewhere that I can find more information?

I have looked through the Post-V8 New Features and Development News forum post and have not seen assembly variants mentioned, Google and the kicad_source_mirror GIT repo have also come up empty.

I am trying to determine if it is worth investing in a workflow using kivar or if the proposed assembly variants in KiCad 9 will meet my needs.

That presentation was speculative and it ended up being more work than expected to do variants, so they are not in KiCad 9.

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