Post-v5 new features and development news

The Plugin and Content Manager has been enabled by default and will start showing up in nightlies tomorrow.

There is work-in-progress documentation aimed at plugin/content creators on the dev docs site. Adventurous plugin authors can already start submitting their work to the official repository by following the guidelines there (take a look at the things already in the repository for examples).

There are some things to be aware of when testing:

  • Uninstalling a color theme using the PCM does not remove the theme. This is by design currently, but we’re looking at ways to improve this UX.
  • If you have a saved size of the KiCad project manager window (i.e. if you have run KiCad before), the saved size will not be updated now that this is turned on. So, the button for the PCM may appear off-screen and you may need to manually make the KiCad manager window larger. This should not affect new installs.
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