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Since our edi­tor-in-chief @chennes is away today, and we’re lost with­out him, we have no WIP Wednes­day! So let’s have a look at the pro­gress­es towards the forth­com­ing 0.21 release. Things are going well and we are on track. The 0.21 project sum­ma­rizes every­thing that needs to be done and where we stand. About 45% of the issues are fixed already, and anoth­er 15% is being addressed now. In the remain­ing 40% are many long-stand­ing issues that might get report­ed to the next release if need be. But we are now all try­ing to process a max­i­mum of it.

Among the most inter­est­ing issues fixed recent­ly are a moun­tain of work on the sketch­er by @abdullahtahiriyo, @wmayer and @AjinkyaDahale, a load of trans­la­tion-relat­ed fix­es by @chennes and @kaktus, and fix­es all over the place by all the team. I can’t men­tion every­body here oth­er­wise we would not fin­ish today, but have a look your­self at the fre­net­ic activity.

There are also sev­er­al oth­er mat­ters being addressed that are not strict­ly 0.21 goals but are relat­ed to it. The first part of the big topon­am­ing project, which has shak­en the inter­net and made moth­ers cry, is almost ful­ly merged into mas­ter. This first part is just the func­tion­al­i­ty need­ed for topon­am­ing algo­rithms to work, and won’t affect FreeCAD’s per­for­mance. The rest will be for after the 0.21 release.

Like for release 0.20, we also orga­nized a splash­screen con­test. Today is the last day to sub­mit entries, tomor­row vot­ing begins. There is still time to add your idea!

Do you want to help the 0.21 release effort? There is a lot to do! For example:

• Help to trans­late FreeCAD in your language
• Help work­ing on the remain­ing 0.21 issues
• Work on the release notes