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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. Lot’s 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…
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Continue reading →: Forged in FreeCAD (and OpenSCAD): OpenBrushoGraph
Pen plotters are cool and there are plenty of open designs to choose from. What if we want to experiment beyond pens? Well then perhaps brushes and paint are fun to play with! The openBrushograph is exactly this, an XYZ style pen plotter with additional paint dishes and some pretty…
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Continue reading →: WIP Wednesday, 4 March 2026
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 3 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: Sketcher: Part and PartDesign: Assembly: BIM/Arch: FEM: CAM:…
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Continue reading →: Q1 2026 Grant Program
The FreeCAD Project Association is now accepting grant applications for the first quarter of 2026. If you are interested in participating, please submit your application by March 10. We will announce the results by March 31. Please note that we’ve changed the program rules in several ways: The rest of the program…
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Continue reading →: FPA Grant Program 2025 year-in-review
Let’s talk about the 2025 FPA grant program: what projects were voted for, what projects weren’t, and what we think needs to change for this year’s program. 2025 grants Last year, we got 46 grant applications. We voted ‘yes’ on 31 of them and ‘no’ on 15. Here is a…
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Continue reading →: FreeCAD 1.1rc3
Earlier this week, we published the third release candidate of FreeCAD 1.1. With just two outstanding release blockers (fingers crossed), this should be the last release candidate before we call it a day and release the final v1.1. If you are interested in helping us test the release candidate, please…