[announcement] Integrated Python support dropped in nightlies

[Mark Roszko]

KiCad Nightlies and the future 11.0 release no longer include the SWIG based python API. This means no depends on python or wxpython for Linux and the removed inclusion of custom built and bundled python on Windows and macOS.

Windows users will see a new installer page soon that asks if they want to download and install an upstream python build.

The IPC API is the only way forwards as of today 3/22/2026. Any missing API should be posted as a request in the issue tracker. Plotting support was recently added to the IPC API which should address the last main use case.