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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 48,699 commits made by 985 contributors
representing 1,856,829 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 stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 524 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in May, 2007
ending with its most recent commit about 16 hours ago

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GNU General Public License v2.0 or later

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Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

There are no reported vulnerabilities

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Code

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Activity

Commits per Month

Community

Contributors per Month

Languages

C++	66%
XML	18%
C	9%
21 Other	7%

30 Day Summary

Jun 10 2025 — Jul 10 2025

470 Commits
34 Contributors
including 6 new contributors

12 Month Summary

Jul 10 2024 — Jul 10 2025

5175 Commits
Up + 155 (3%) from previous 12 months
196 Contributors
Up + 17 (9%) from previous 12 months

Most Recent Contributors

	...pierre charras		Jeff Young
	Mark Roszko		dsa-t
	Alex Shvartzkop		Sárkány Lőrinc

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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for kicad )

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

Version: 9.99.0-2126-g743988bd57-dirty

2025-07-10
Last Analyzed

1,961,077
Lines of Code Analyze

1.11
Defect Density

Defects by status for current build

7,070
Total defects

1,168
Outstanding

5,820
Fixed

CWE Top 25 defects

ID	CWE-Name	Number of Defects
190	Integer Overflow or Wraparound	20