KiCad 8.0.8

What's new in this version:

General:
- Remove compensation padding in KiCad launcher for newer wxWidgets versions
- Make settings migration dialog re-sizable
- Fix parsing of Altium overbar notation
- Update pin table when model changes
- Recognize ${KICAD7_3DMODEL_DIR} and all future major releases
- Skip hidden files when making backup
- Fix crash when opening the PCB editor while closing the schematic editor
- Fix broken Eagle board and schematic file import

Schematic Editor:
- Plot labels in color
- Fix some issues that can crash editor on close.
- Don’t change selection after selecting find-next hit
- Display footprints in footprint assignment tool
- Avoid crash on save if a polyline is empty
- Don’t rename root sheet when switching language
- Do not save automatically placed flag for text with no fields
- Fix connectivity issue with global label connected to power symbol
- Preserve symbol unit when loading schematic with missing instance data
- Fix crash in schematic editor when finishing a wire
- Fix crash when opening footprint browser from schematic symbol properties
- Fix QA test failure in orcadpcb2 netlist exporter
- Fix a crash when library symbol is missing
- Fix crash after project save and reopened after cannot find symbol in netlist error
- Improve symbol load time when opening a large database library
- Fix crash when undoing new sheet action from within sheet
- Make PDF export respect background color fill
- Don’t lose reference designators when importing third party schematics
- Prevent freeze when pasting a long string into search bar

Symbol Editor:
- Fix crash on corrupt symbol library table
- Don’t hang when trying to paste image as text
- Allow opening color picker dialog from polygon shape properties panel

Spice Simulator:
- Only populate spice code in the simulation dialog code field
- Fix crash after probing and changing signal color
- Fix crash when a net named VT exists

Board Editor:
- Handle circular zone cutouts in Fabmaster import
- Don’t add zero radius holes on Fabmaster import
- Do not import unplaced footprints on Fabmaster import
- Handle circles on Fabmaster import
- Map unknown layers to KiCad user layers on Fabmaster import
- Handle rectangles on Fabmaster import
- Improve detection of open versus closed polygons on Fabmaster import
- Fix text import on Fabmaster import
- Handle squares, oblongs, and regular polygons on Fabmaster import
- Keep DRC marker exclusions up to date
- Make sure descendants get new UUIDs when pasting
- Fix crash when running DRC
- Allow plot options to override the board tenting settings
- Add example for silk_board_edge_clearance custom rule
- Fix rats nest issue where blind vias are treated as through vias
- Don’t trigger DRC footprint library warning when description and keywords do not match
- Allow selection of PCB DRC markers when not on active layer
- Allow DRC markers to be selected with area selection
- Rebuild layer preset list on language change
- Fix track start property display
- Fix thread deadlock when closing the footprint chooser dialog
- Prevent DRC freeze when using footprint with custom pad shapes
- Plot from render cache if fonts aren’t embedded
- Add rectangle height and width to properties panel
- Fix pad inside isolated zone "island" not marked as unconnected
- Allow custom rules that explicitly allow holes from one footprint to overlap the courtyard from another
- Fix pin rotation parsing in the legacy symbol library plugin
- Adjust DRC clearance for net ties
- Properly cancel 3D export
- Fix scale when exporting IPC-2581 using inches units
- Fix compatibility with Allegro PCB Router using Specctra sessions
- Fix Specctra session import from TopoR
- Handle wildcards and case-insensitivity in custom rule pin type comparisons

Footprint Editor:
- Properly handle group duplicate
- Ignore invisible pads in enumeration tool
- Do not add extra grid rows when resetting default field property preferences
- Update QR footprint wizard

Gerber Viewer:
- Fix crash on specific gerber files

3D Viewer:
- Use font render cache when available

PCB Calculator:
- Add measure unit to Rho constant in transmission line tab

Windows:
- Fix opening zip archives from project manager tree