CERN has really done wonders to revive the project and get it organized again. Before that, the 2012 build became the last sane build from the project team for

CERN has really done wonders to revive the project and get it organized again. Before that, the 2012 build became the last sane build from the project team for a few years. The project appeared to have lost steam and began to fragment. You had to download "latest" windows builds from some random server. Linux distributions stopped packaging at the 2012 build making it appear as if kicad was dead. This forced you to find a 3rd party package or build from source. Then there were a few forks to add features started by random individuals which were always unstable. Component names were renamed with stupid and confusing names to the point where I stopped using it. It almost looked like the project was dead at that point and this was 2014/15. I recently picked it back up to investigate and was pleasantly surprised. It felt like the team dearly missed the sanity of 2012 version, continued from there and modernized it. Thank you CERN.