FreeCAD News

This week in FreeCAD development:

• We merged the @realthunder PR that adds a trans­paren­cy to the side­bars. There is still some work to do with the themes to smooth things out, but the basic fea­ture is present now.
• @paddle reports: “I’m mak­ing good progress on assem­bly solv­ing. I con­nect­ed to Ond­sel­Solver cor­rect­ly and man­aged to solve for the first time some fixed joints. Some quirks remain­ing and more work to be done, but we’re get­ting there.”
• @yorik switched our pri­ma­ry branch’s name from mas­ter to main, in keep­ing with the cur­rent stan­dard for new pri­ma­ry branches.
• I (@chennes) got the new Base64-han­dling code merged, and am now writ­ing tests for the topon­am­ing-relat­ed func­tions being added to the PropertyTopoShape class.

PR stats: In the week from Wednes­day, 4 Oct to Wednes­day, 11 Oct there were 43 pull requests merged, with a total code­base change of +13,855 / ‑1,452 lines. We had an aver­age merged PR size of +322 / ‑34 (though that’s a lit­tle bit skewed by the #7888 PR, which itself was +11,428/−322). We closed 40 Issues, and 9 new Issues were opened.