KiCad 10.0.5 RC1 client canary evidence
- Recorded: 2026-07-21
- Repository commit:
3d590f2337c5aee724de3f7fea864c3662faed57 - Host:
ops-vps-2, Ubuntu 24.04 - Fixture:
packages/kicad-fixtures/fixtures/clean-led-kicad10 - Stable control: KiCad 10.0.4
- Preview candidate: KiCad 10.0.5 RC1
Source artifacts
Both binaries were downloaded from the official KiCad Linux AppImage release surface and extracted without FUSE.
| Artifact | Bytes | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|
kicad-10.0.4-x86_64.AppImage.tar | 480,457,728 | 4b1da0156cb1d180ba4a672e9a9981672390545c3b3b4575382b1662e959b220 |
kicad-10.0.5-rc1-x86_64.AppImage.tar | 475,209,216 | 43704e7b2a1b592e1b1811d0f77819e09b36dcfc039f0b1f41252957a8b9a83c |
Result
| Probe | 10.0.4 | 10.0.5 RC1 |
|---|---|---|
| Version discovery | 10.0.4 | 10.0.5 (10.0.5-rc1 in generated metadata) |
| Top-level CLI help | PASS | PASS; no surface drift |
| PCB export help | PASS | PASS; no surface drift |
| PCB import help | PASS | PASS; no surface drift |
| Schematic export help | PASS | PASS; no surface drift |
| PCB DRC JSON | 17 fixture violations | 17 fixture violations |
| Schematic ERC JSON | 0 violations | 0 violations |
| BOM and netlist | PASS | PASS |
| Gerber and drill | PASS | PASS |
| Schematic and PCB PDF | PASS | PASS |
| STEP and board statistics | PASS | PASS |
The PCB importer format list remained auto, pads, altium, eagle, cadstar, fabmaster, pcad, and solidworks. Allegro remains absent from the CLI surface and therefore remains capability-blocked in KiCad Studio.
Generated text and plot files differ in version/date headers and PDF producer metadata, so byte-for-byte hashes are not used as the compatibility criterion. The command surface, output inventory, and semantic DRC/ERC/board statistics were stable.
Ownership and release interpretation
The permanent real-KiCad canary belongs to KiCad MCP Pro. Its checked-in 10.0.4 report records 31 passing canary steps and one intentional optional Allegro-import skip. This Studio-side RC probe verifies the client-facing command contract only.
KiCad 10.0.4 remains the stable, release-blocking baseline. KiCad 10.0.5 RC1 is non-blocking preview evidence. Do not update kicad.latestVerified to 10.0.5 until the final release is published and passes the owning canary.