Padstacks and text boxes
Per-layer pad shapes and text boxes on the board.
Padstacks (KiCad 9/10). A through-hole pad can have a different shape on the front, inner and back copper layers. The Pad properties show a Padstack section with KiCad’s mode (Normal, Front / Inner / Back, Custom (per layer)) and the shape, size and corner ratio of each stack layer; the canvas, the zone filler, DRC and the 3D view use the shape of each layer. The pad’s own fields stay the F.Cu shape, so tools and files that do not know padstacks keep working. Pad and via protection (tenting, covering, plugging, capping, filling) is read and kept.
Text boxes and knockout text. Board and footprint text boxes word-wrap their text inside the box as KiCad 8 does, with a border, margins and alignment; Knockout (text properties) draws the text as a filled area with the glyphs cut out (text boxes: the whole box), on screen, in zone fills and in plots.