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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 49,750 commits made by 998 contributors
representing 1,894,846 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 535 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in May, 2007
ending with its most recent commit 1 day ago

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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++	67%
XML	18%
C	9%
21 Other	6%

30 Day Summary

Aug 11 2025 — Sep 10 2025

545 Commits
37 Contributors
including 8 new contributors

12 Month Summary

Sep 10 2024 — Sep 10 2025

5716 Commits
Up + 1055 (22%) from previous 12 months
193 Contributors
Up + 10 (5%) from previous 12 months

Most Recent Contributors

	...pierre charras		Seth Hillbrand
	Jeff Young		Mark Roszko
	dsa-t		Alex Shvartzkop

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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for kicad )

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

Version: 9.99.0-3166-gceed9ca5f8-dirty

2025-09-09
Last Analyzed

2,009,666
Lines of Code Analyze

1.1
Defect Density

Defects by status for current build

7,157
Total defects

1,185
Outstanding

5,890
Fixed

CWE Top 25 defects

ID	CWE-Name	Number of Defects
190	Integer Overflow or Wraparound	25