We’ve just released FreeCAD 1.0rc2, builds are already available for downloading on GitHub. The update is coming with just bugfixes.
The number of issues blocking the final release has been circling around 6–8 for the past few weeks and only went as high as 13 after we released rc1. We are currently at just 8 blockers.
Unless there’s a lot of issues that haven’t been previously uncovered by everyone who already tested the program, we think we can manage to finish off the rest of the blockers in a couple of weeks. The important thing is to fix and close new reports faster than they appear.
We’d be really grateful for testing rc2 and reporting bugs you run into, especially the critical ones like crashes and regressions (e.g. things that used to work before and now don’t work anymore).
14 responses to “The second release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out”
This is not a release candidate, but a beta. If there are blockers that need fixing before the final release then it’s not a release candidate, by definition. How can it be a candidate for the final release if it’s known that it can’t possibly be a final release because of blockers? Just call the beta a beta. It’s great to have a release, regardless of the name, so there is no need to misname it.
I think the release should be called Robbie.
Sure, and its name could be, say, Nick. But yes, I’m wrong in misnaming the state category as “name”. So, let’s agree that Nick (called Robbie), has the state category “beta” rather than “release candidate”, as Robbie there isn’t really a candidate for a final release, ok?
I had been putting off a few design projects until this 1.0 release. Excited to finally get my hands on it. RC1 is already feeling much better! I think this is a great thing for Open Source Software and Linux adoption, I know a lot of people who are locked into an operating system and a product ecosystem due to their dependence on commercial drafting software. As you guys keep pushing this closer and closer to a viable competitor with expensive subscription I think this will unlock a lot of people’s potential.
Happy with the work of this team and excited for the future of this project, keep it up!
I will be continuing to donate to this project and I encourage others to do the same if they have found this software liberating for design work.
I’m actually donating to realthunder’s FreeCAD, which is so very much nicer to use. I know mainline has some features that rt lack, but rt has so many very useful features that make it so much easier and faster to use, so at least for now my support is going to rt. Maybe mainline could copy other useful features from rt now that they’ve finished copying the main TNP stuff. Or maybe with some more donations rt would copy some of the few features that are in mainline but not yet in rt. For now my daily driver will be rt, just because it’s so much nicer and faster to work with.
Have you tried the weekly builds, or this new release candidate? I know rt still his some advantages, but the main branch is pretty darn good these days.
Yes, I’ve tried several versions, including both release “candidates”. They’re extremely frustrating to work with. I run into missing features every minute while trying to work with them. I can’t even view objects properly, since they lack a working hidden line view. Instead of being a combination of Wireframe and No Shading it shows tons of opaque triangles. The way it works in realthunder’s branch is way, way more useful than any view in mainline. And when you edit models some references will always break. In realthunder’s branch you can easily and quickly fix broken references (or change references), in mainline you have to re-create all of them, re-creating constraints, etc, which is insanely time-consuming. Already these 2 features makes mainline a no-go for me, because they 1) make it annoying to create things, and 2) make it very annoying to modify things.
new assembly doesn’t work with fasteners workbench
If you mean the integration like in Assembly 4, then no.
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I am following the development of Freecad 1.0 very closely. When working with version 1.0rc1 I was thrilled by the new features. I hope that the bugs of version 1.0 can be fixed quickly and that there will be an official release. At the moment, version 1.0 cannot yet be used for commercial applications. That is my personal impression.
I would like to thank the large developer community for the implementation and further development of FreeCAD. It’s going in the right direction.
Keep it up, thank you.
I am running FreeCad beta 2 on Ubuntu 24.04, installed as a snap file and still don’t see the miniature project icons on the FreeCad start screen. See screenshot at https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gbtsoi5baa1oennlol8n6/Bildschirmfoto-vom-2024–10-02–14-57–52.png?rlkey=z5rzskush7nb5zfyzhhzmizns&st=7aqhfuoz&dl=0
Have you enabled Edit->Preferences->General->Document->Save thumbnail into project file when saving document?
That’s issue https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/issues/13676 — feel free to comment there too