Eeschema strangely accepts a new footprint in the symbol Properties dialog, but when I open the dialog again, the old footprint name is there. It doesn't also update the new footprint to the board. It would be a "normal" bug if it just would not change the footprint at all, but when I click the footprint field in the dialog, it suddenly shows the new name in the field, even though it's not effective otherwise. See the attached video. I had just changed the footprint from 1.0mm to 1.27mm and tried to update it to the board, but nothing happened. Then I opened the dialog again it looks like this.
Application: Eeschema
Version: (5.1.0-1073-g6aa0ceff3), release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.34.0
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.68.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.61.1
Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013
Build settings:
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON
I originally tried to change the footprint just by editing the text field, not by selecting a new footprints from a list. Now I could change it effectively from the list. Editing the field as text makes the bug appear again.