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Project Summary

Kicad is an open source (GPL) software for the creation of electronic schematic diagrams and printed circuit board designs.

Tags

circuit_board design electronic_design_automation electronic_schematic_diagrams

In a Nutshell, KiCad...

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has had 50,880 commits made by 1,017 contributors
representing 2,008,930 lines of code
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is mostly written in C++
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
with increasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 569 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in May, 2007
ending with its most recent commit about 6 hours ago

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Licenses

GNU General Public License v2.0 or later

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Commercial Use

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Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

There are no reported vulnerabilities

Project Vulnerability Report

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Code

Lines of Code

Activity

Commits per Month

Community

Contributors per Month

Languages

C++	66%
XML	17%
C	11%
21 Other	6%

30 Day Summary

Nov 6 2025 — Dec 6 2025

272 Commits
18 Contributors
including 6 new contributors

12 Month Summary

Dec 6 2024 — Dec 6 2025

5816 Commits
Up + 1292 (28%) from previous 12 months
185 Contributors
Up + 3 (1%) from previous 12 months

Most Recent Contributors

	...pierre charras		Seth Hillbrand
	Jeff Young		Mark Roszko
	Magnus Lundmark		Alex Shvartzkop

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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for kicad )

Repository URL: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad.git

Version: 9.99.0-4285-g770e0612564-dirty

2025-12-05
Last Analyzed

2,129,256
Lines of Code Analyze

1.16
Defect Density

Defects by status for current build

7,352
Total defects

1,302
Outstanding

5,968
Fixed

CWE Top 25 defects

ID	CWE-Name	Number of Defects
190	Integer Overflow or Wraparound	33