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Continue reading →: FreeCAD: It IS Rocket Science!
In full disclosure the author of this post is involved in model, amateur and high power rocketry so forgive their over excitement! The National Association of Rocketry in the USA has run NARCON a rocketry themed convention for many years and recently has moved to vNARCON moving the majority of…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 1 April 2026
Now that FreeCAD 1.1 is out, maintainers will keep backporting some changes from the main development branch to the 1.1 branch for future bugfix releases. There have been 37 such backports these last 7 days. We’ve also accumulated a backlog of 400+ open pull requests, and we keep getting new ones,…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 25 March 2026
FreeCAD 1.1 is now out, maintainers will keep backporting some changes from the main development branch to the 1.1 branch for future bugfix releases. This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: Part and PartDesign: Assembly: PaddleStroke fixed a bug where double-clicking would be broken when a linked assembly is in an…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD Version 1.1 Released
After an enormous amount of work and dedication from FreeCAD contributors we are delighted to announce that FreeCAD Version 1.1 is now released and available for download. There are significant amounts of improvements and new features. These include; transparent Part Design previews, interactive draggers added to tools like Fillet and…
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Continue reading →: KiCad 10 is released!Whilst we await our own significant releases, we wanted to take an opportunity to congratulate our wider open source family members, KiCad, on the recent release of KiCad version 10. The new version builds on the previous excellence with a whole host of new features and improvements which you can…
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Continue reading →: The bug bounty program has been renewed
The FreeCAD Project Association has renewed the bug bounty program it launched last year. The budget is once again €5,000. The rules are simple: fix 5 confirmed issues from the FreeCAD GitHub issue tracker and receive a reward of €250. For a quick guide on finding the issues and claiming…
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Continue reading →: New Feature Merged; Cosmetic Threads
We don’t always write individual blog posts about single new features that have been merged into the weekly development versions of FreeCAD, but this one, deserves a special mention. Lots of people have been eagerly and patiently waiting the arrival of cosmetic threads in fact the arrival of this closes…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 18 March 2026
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 6 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2). This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Sketcher: Part and PartDesign: Assembly: PaddleStroke added…
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Continue reading →: Rules regarding AI-generated patches
Big and small free/open-source projects have been facing an avalanche of AI-generated patches lately. Some patches are more or less OK, others have convoluted, badly designed code. The net effect is that code review becomes more difficult, to the point where numerous projects give up and introduce some form of…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 5 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2). This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Sketcher: Part and PartDesign: Assembly: PaddleStroke fixed…