As the new devel­op­ment cycle begins in earnest, there are many projects going on in the FreeCAD world that will soon be mak­ing their way into the devel­op­ment builds:

• @FlachyJoe final­ly saw the merge of PR 9559 — Sketch­er: Point to Cir­cle Dis­tance Constraints
• @kaktus is learn­ing about the mech­a­nism to pro­vide trans­la­tion sup­port in code, and has sub­mit­ted sev­er­al PRs to address trans­la­tion bugs
• @wandererfan is con­tin­u­ing his ongo­ing refac­tor­ing effort, plus adding adjustable sec­tion line length and inves­ti­gat­ing reports of zoom­ing anomalies
• @mlampert is con­tin­u­ing to work on Cav­a­lier Con­tours POC and its use for Path generation
• @PaddleStroke is putting the fin­ish­ing touch­es on the first of many PRs relat­ed to the new core Assem­bly work­bench, and also saw the merge of PR 9810 — Sketch­er: Con­strain Contextual
• @qewer33 con­tin­ues to refine the new Start Page
• I (@chennes) am (still) build­ing a new Lib­Pack with Qt6 and Python 3.11

PR stats: In the week from Wednes­day, 23 Aug to Wednes­day, 30 Aug there were 59 pull requests merged, with a total code­base change of +12,713 / ‑6,667 lines (not count­ing trans­la­tion changes). That’s an aver­age merged PR size of +219 / ‑114. We closed 21 Issues, and 42 new Issues were opened.