bug#51448: kicad-pcb.org is now controlled by a most likely malicious third party

[Julien Lepiller]

Le Wed, 27 Oct 2021 21:18:35 +0200,
Mikołaj Wielgus <wielgusmikolaj@gmail.com> a écrit :

> In 2020 KiCad moved its official website to kicad.org [1].
> 
> Recently, a former member has betrayed the project and sold the
> kicad-pcb.org domain name to an unknown third party. The new owner has
> subsequently set up a fake KiCad website that is very similar to the
> real one, probably for the purpose of serving malware.
> 
> Please change all kicad-pcb.org links to kicad.org in kicad,
> kicad-doc, kicad-footprints, kicad-packages3d, kicad-symbols,
> kicad-templates and all other relevant packages.
> 
> [1]
> https://www.kicad.org/blog/2021/10/Avoid-links-to-former-kicad-domain/
> 
> -Mikolaj
> 
> 
> 

Thanks for the report! I did updated the home-page as soon as I came
back from work thise evening, and this is now pushed to master as
e2ce7fc73d7333003f04f2dd7f7fc989db254721.