Changelog

0.9.0 - 2026-10-20

KiCad's own outputs, GitHub projects, and a faster board editor.

Added

• Open any public KiCad project on GitHub straight from its address: designer.ziroeda.com/gh/<owner>/<repo>, read-only, with "Save a copy" to make it yours. An "Open in ZiroEDA" badge for repository READMEs.
• Gerber and PDF output through KiCad's own plotters, so fabrication and documentation files come out the way KiCad writes them.
• Electrical Rules Check runs KiCad's full ERC tester, including library, footprint-link, text-variable and simulation-model checks.
• Zone fills run in the background with KiCad's progress dialogs, and the board can draw in a background worker, so a large board no longer freezes the window.
• Anonymous usage counts (which kind of screen is open and for how long, never which project), opt-out, off under Do Not Track.

Fixed

• Accounts created before end-to-end encryption (10 September) were refused with their correct password and told nothing. Sign-in now explains the one-time upgrade: use "Forgot password?" once; no recovery key is needed.
• ERC no longer flags every title-block field of a correct schematic.
• Toolbar toggles and zone display switches no longer repaint the whole board.

0.8.0 - 2026-09-27 - Public beta

Added

• Live multiplayer in the schematic editor: edit a schematic together in real time, with everyone's cursor and selection, end-to-end encrypted like the projects themselves. Contributed by @kaminaris (#638).
• KiCad's graphics engine on WebGL2: the board editor now draws through a port of KiCad's own GAL renderer, shaders, antialiasing and bitmap font.
• Public beta opened at designer.ziroeda.com.

0.7.0 - 2026-09-13 - End-to-end encryption

Added

• End-to-end encrypted cloud projects. Every project has its own key and is encrypted in the browser before upload; the server stores ciphertext only. Board files, schematics, file names and project metadata are all covered.
• A recovery key, shown once at sign-up, that is the only way back into encrypted projects if the password is forgotten.
• Your password never reaches the server; it is used to derive the keys.

0.6.0 - 2026-09-06 - Sharing

Added

• Share a project by link or invite, so someone else opens the real project in their browser instead of a zip file or screenshots.
• Project version history in the cloud, with compare-and-swap saves so two devices cannot silently overwrite each other.

0.5.0 - 2026-08-16 - Routing

Added

• KiCad's interactive router (PNS): route tracks with push-and-shove, the same router KiCad uses, including interactive differential-pair routing.
• Design Rules Check in the board editor, including copper-sliver checks.
• Netlist exports, among them the PADS, CadStar and Cadence Allegro formats.

0.4.0 - 2026-08-02 - Zones and schematic-to-board

Added

• Copper zones: pour, refill and hatch-pattern fills that KiCad reads back unchanged.
• Update PCB from Schematic, the step that turns a schematic into a board.

0.3.0 - 2026-07-19 - The KiCad tools

Added

• Gerber Viewer. Contributed by @gcoenwebber.
• PCB Calculator and the Image Converter.
• The Plugin and Content Manager.

0.2.0 - 2026-07-12 - Accounts and cloud

Added

• Accounts and cloud projects: sign in and open your projects from any device.
• Symbol Editor and Footprint Editor.
• Demo projects that open with no sign-up.
• Click selection and a Properties readout in the PCB editor.

0.1.0 - 2026-07-06 - First editors

Added

• Schematic editor reading and writing .kicad_sch losslessly: symbols from KiCad's libraries, wires, selection, move, undo and redo, save.
• PCB editor, first version: reads .kicad_pcb and draws it like KiCad.
• 3D viewer for boards.
• The KiCad-style project manager home screen.