Which KiBot version should I use with KiCad 7.0?

[kosma]

Reason for asking: some time ago I tried using KiBot on 7.0 and things broke badly. I didn't have time to debug back then; I'd like to try again (because it worked wonders in 5.x) but I'm a bit confused (read: completely lost) as to which version I should use. Should I grab one from Releases? Or from Development? Any advice from someone experienced would be greatly appreciated.

[set-soft]

Hi @kosma !

For KiCad 7.0.x use KiBot 1.6.1 or newer (1.6.3 is the current release, 1.6.4 is in development).

As for today I suggest using KiCad 7.0.7. Some KiCad releases contains too much bugs that prevents using various KiBot features (I think 7.0.0, 7.0.3 and 7.0.4 are useless). We don't support the KiCad development snapshots, i.e. 7.99. They break one or more times in a week.

You can always consult the CHANGELOG.

Another thing to pay attention is to the kicad_auto_test releases: here

If you take a look at the kicad7_auto_full package you'll see that the current latest is 1.6.3-1_k7.0.7_d12.1_b3.5.1. This is KiBot 1.6.3 with KiCad 7.0.7, running on Debian 12.1 with Blender 3.5.1. You'll also see a tag dev that is currently pointing to dev_1.6.4-e88df7f_k7.0.7_d12.1_b3.5.1.

The dev code has some new stuff and fixes, but can occasionally break. But images are generated only when the commit passes all the tests (over than 500 and tested on KiCad 5, 6 and 7). So looking at the above mentioned tag you know that commit e88df7f passes the tests. The same information can be seen in the dev commits. At this moment you can see that e88df7f has a green mark, indicating it passed all tests.