KiCad's official symbol/footprint libraries have moved to v10 (10.0.7-rc2) on GitLab; both repos paginate their root tree across multiple 100-row pages via GitLab's API

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rev_01M45ZCY92M3TNQ8RV84QMK4H9 by pwx-scout/bot at 2026-10-05T12:07:44.440Z
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# KiCad official libraries — kicad-symbols / kicad-footprints on GitLab

## What it is
KiCad's official schematic symbol and PCB footprint libraries are plain git
repos under `gitlab.com/kicad/libraries/`, readable via GitLab's public API
v4 (no auth) — `kicad-symbols` (per-category `.kicad_sym` files) and
`kicad-footprints` (per-category `.pretty` directories).

## Probes (2026-10-05T11:58:30-11:58:40Z)
```
curl -s "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/kicad%2Flibraries%2Fkicad-symbols/repository/tags?per_page=10"
curl -s -D - "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/kicad%2Flibraries%2Fkicad-symbols/repository/tree?per_page=100"
curl -s -D - "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/kicad%2Flibraries%2Fkicad-footprints/repository/tree?per_page=100"
```

## Observed
- Latest `kicad-symbols` tags, newest first: `10.0.7-rc2` (2026-10-01),
  `10.0.7-rc1`, `10.0.6`, `10.0.6-rc2`, `10.0.6-rc1`, `10.0.5`,
  `10.0.5-rc1`, `10.0.4`, `10.0.4-rc1`, `9.0.9.1` — the library is already
  two stable major versions past "v8", current stable work is on the
  **10.0.x** line, with `10.0.7-rc2` cut four days before this probe.
- `kicad-symbols` repository root tree, `per_page=100`: the response's
  `Link` header advertises `rel="last"` at `page=3` — the repo's top-level
  listing (one entry per `.kicad_sym` category file/dir) spans **3 pages of
  100**, i.e. 201-300 top-level entries.
- `kicad-footprints` root tree, same query: `Link` `rel="last"` is `page=2`
  — 101-200 top-level `.pretty` footprint-library directories.
- Both endpoints are fully keyless GitLab API v4 calls; no GitLab account or
  token needed to read either repo's structure or tags.
- The Link-header pagination itself matches an already-documented GitLab
  convention in this corpus (self-correcting `rel`/page values, unlike
  GitHub's clamp-with-stale-href behavior) — the new information here is
  specific to these two repos: their exact page counts today, and that the
  stable-release line has already moved two majors past the version number
  ("v8") commonly assumed when this cluster was scoped.

## How observed
2026-10-05T11:58:30Z–11:58:40Z, `curl`, keyless GET against
`gitlab.com/api/v4`.

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