kicad was updated to 8.0.3 today

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 Electronics Design Automation Suite - newer than what is available from APT
-On PiOS Bookworm, only KiCad 6 is available from apt. KiCad 7 has a number of improvements over KiCad 6:
+On PiOS Bookworm, this will install KiCAD 8.0.3, whereas only KiCad 6 is available from apt. KiCad 8 has a number of improvements over KiCad 6:
+- Thousands of new footprints
+- Easy importing of boards and libraries from other PCB designers
 - Custom fonts
+- Add graphics to the schematic or board
 - Drag and drop
 - Command line interface
-- Layout enhancements
 - Smarter algorothms and crash reporting
 - Much more at https://www.kicad.org/blog/2023/02/Version-7.0.0-Released/
 
 To run: Menu -> Other -> KiCad
 To run in a terminal: kicad
 
 Note:
-If you are using PiOS Bookworm, only KiCad 6.0.11 is available from APT, but Pi-Apps will install KiCad 7.0.11 using bookworm-backports.
 - If you are using PiOS Bullseye, only KiCad 5.1.9 is available from APT, but Pi-Apps will install KiCad 6.0.11 using bullseye-backports.
 - If you are still on PiOS Buster or Ubuntu, Pi-Apps will install the default version available from the repositories.