KICAD Nightly 10/11 July not showing project files

Software
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Fedora 41 Nightly build does not show project files. Installed directly from the COPR Build Service.

I opened demo project Stickhub, none of the expected project files are observed in the “Project Files” pane. Yesterdays nightly did not have this problem.

I have built the same nightly build on a CentOS 8 System and observed the same behaviour.

The problem seems to be due to commit: 743988bd57b2f7, Add support for SHAddToRecentDocs on windows with app model id.

Nightly build kicad-nightly-9.99.0-1.20250710gitbdd8790 (which doesn’t display the problem) + commit 743988bd57b2f7 does.

Version Info is after the image of the project manager.

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Application: KiCad x86_64 on x86_64

Version: 9.99.0-unknown-1.20250710gitbdd8790.fc41, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.6
FreeType 2.13.3
HarfBuzz 9.0.0
FontConfig 2.15.0
libcurl/8.9.1 OpenSSL/3.2.2 zlib/1.3.1.zlib-ng libidn2/2.3.7 nghttp2/1.62.1

Platform: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition), 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, X11, , tty

Build Info:
Date: Jul 10 2025 17:15:04
wxWidgets: 3.2.6 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.83.0
OCC: 7.8.0
Curl: 8.9.1
ngspice: 44.2
Compiler: GCC 14.3.1 with C++ ABI 1019
KICAD_IPC_API=ON

Locale:
Lang: en_AU
Enc: UTF-8
Num: 1,234.5
Encoded кΩ丈: D0BACEA9E4B888 (sys), D0BACEA9E4B888 (utf8)

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I’m confused here - because that nightly build will have that commit in it, so your first statement implies to me there isn’t a problem in that nightly build - look at the commit history here: Commits · bdd8790180c54b30eccb729d1a6289ffbd822304 · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab.

Second, that commit is Windows-only essentially - it won’t affect a RedHat install. It is more likely fa00626512ef859a5385f49b0ada083f0de31ce5 or 53c90b04692a64390cf329635d05409806097f23 from the symptom you describe.

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Should be fixed in 5b91a2438014824839816b4d8a466a57da6d3408.

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I just gave that same nightly a try in a Fedora41 VM and I do see the same problem. No files show in the “Project Files” pane, but if I click the icon to open the Schematic Editor, PCB Editor, etc they all start up with the correct files loaded.

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I’ll make a private build with 5b91a243801 which is the current tip of the master tree and see if is still a problem.

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My private build is ok, so this should be fixed in the next Copr nightly build, which should start automatically in a few hours.

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I’m confused here - because that nightly build will have that commit in it, so your first statement implies to me there isn’t a problem in that nightly build - look at the commit history here: Commits · bdd8790180c54b30eccb729d1a6289ffbd822304 · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab.

You are correct.
Cut and Paste error from my notes file for the nightly builds. The line should read:
"kicad-nightly-9.99.0-1.20250709git06346f5 (which doesn’t display the problem) + commit 743988bd57b2f7 does.*

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Tested kicad-nightly-9.99.0-1.20250711git33a4d6e.
Project files are now displayed.
Marked Jeff Youngs post as the solution.
Thank you Jeff and Steve.