1.4.0

• Better routing round fine-pitch chips and GND pours, documents as PDF, and eight problem reports fixed
• PowerLab router: every pin of a fine-pitch row (QFN, LQFP, TSSOP) now fans out toward its other pads, so fewer joins are lost at the chip; tracks no longer jog where a fan-out turns or hook past a pad. After routing, the router mends GND pours its tracks cut into pieces by moving all the joins that close a piece at once, and never trades one pour for another.
• Documents as PDF (#102, #103): ask Claude for a report, parts list or notes as a PDF and it writes it to documents\ in your project; the panel shows it in the chat and prints the PDF next to it with Edge, like the design review. For a Word file, open the PDF in Word.
• claude.ai connectors (#97, #101): the panel's runs no longer see your claude.ai connectors, which they weren't allowed to use; calls to them only failed with a permission error.
• Bill of materials (#98): Claude makes BOMs with the kicad tool, so the quantity column (${QUANTITY}) is no longer blocked as a shell variable.
• Model shown under replies (#93): the line names the model that answered (e.g. Opus 5.5) first; the small model Claude Code uses itself for side jobs is named separately as its helper.
• Large schematic batches (#91): batch_add_and_connect and the other batch schematic tools get 10 minutes instead of 30 s, so a big batch no longer reports a timeout while it is still placing parts.
• KiCad busy (#95): setting the design rules and other edits that go through the saved board wait up to 8 s while KiCad is busy (a dialog open, zones filling); if it stays busy, the message says to close the dialog and try again.

Update from the panel's Update button, or: pull, close KiCad, run install.ps1 -Update. The KiCad MCP server is rebuilt, since its patch changed.