The standard footprint libraries have improved substantially. Additionally there are quite a large number of 3rd party libraries. I have started collecting them all at: https://github.com/monostable/kicad_footprints#kicad-footpri....
For anyone using KiCAD also check out Xess's list of third part tools: https://github.com/xesscorp/kicad-3rd-party-tools.