We’ve just released the fourth v1.0 release candidate, you can download it on GitHub. There was no official announcement of RC3 yesterday because we discovered a regression immediately after releasing the builds.
Currently, we are down to just one release blocker that is a macOS-specific UI issue. We’ll wait another week to see if there are any new blockers preventing us from releasing the final version. If all goes well, we will release FreeCAD 1.0 sometime next week.
18 responses to “FreeCAD 1.0 Release Candidate 4 is out”
Congratuations. It’s exciting to see how close we are to 1.0!
Great news, I’m confused though — Git has an RC3 released two days ago but no RC4?
There’s both rc3 and rc4.
Thanks, it was not showing up (from the UK at least) last night but it is this morning — many thanks to you all for the hard work, a big day looms!
Thank you so much for everyone that made FreeCad reach to this point. FreeCad 3D View is looking AMAZING! It can even be compared to pro industrial Cad Software.
Thank you, I’ll keep trying anyway!
I’m an ID student who has to learn a lot of bloated nonsense software.
I’m so hype for this release, I’m gonna recommend it to everyone
Great work! I am waiting the Release of 1.0 an I also will support you by a donation when ist out!
Great news to hear! If the full release is anything close to the RCs we’ve tried out, we’re all in for an early Christmas & New Years all rolled into one! Keep up the great work!!!
Great work!
Where / How is best way to donate $$ to the FreeCAD project? Will such donations be disbursed to those who have been doing all the hard work (e.g. the developers)? TIA.
There are multiple options, you can find them all at https://www.freecad.org/sponsor.php.
The vast majority of the funds has been earmarked for grants to developers. The TNP fixes port was among major achievements possible in 1.0 thanks to these grants.
Congratulations!! FreeCAD is awesome!! ;))
Is that macOS-specific UI issue the fact that it doesn’t respect dark mode? I. e., the title bar and open/save dialogs are rendered in light mode, and also some text might be unreadable because of dark/light theme mix.
Yes, I think so
Thanks for all the effort. Just downloaded RC4 and have already been using it successfully. The prior RC versions have been stable too. This is very exciting and the effort is greatly appreciated!
Merci pour tout ce que vous faites.
Je ne connais rien de la programmation, mais en tant que technicien en mécanique industrielle, ce logiciel m’est très utile en dessin technique. Je le recommanderais à mes amis au Bénin plus précisément en Afrique de l’ouest. Je pense c’est un bon logiciel, surtout pour les africains.
Une fois encore félicitations et merci à tous.
Congratulations to everyone involved in FreeCAD! I had tried the 0.21 version but I did not really find it user friendly, especially for the sketch constraints in Part Design.
I installed the 1.0 RC and I find it very pleasant to use and efficient. It is really competing with the commercial softwares.
Thank you and keep up the good work.