FreeCAD News

The main devel­op­ment branch of FreeCAD entered the hard fea­ture freeze on Mon­day, so we are now pret­ty much in bug­fix mode until the release of v1.1. There is no sched­ule for the release oth­er than “we do it when we hit zero release blockers”.

For v1.0, we entered the fea­ture freeze in June 2024 with approx. 40 release block­ers and released the final ver­sion five months lat­er, in mid-Novem­ber. You prob­a­bly should not expect exact­ly the same gap. How­ev­er, the ETA ulti­mate­ly depends on how many block­ers we end up fix­ing and how many peo­ple par­tic­i­pate in fix­ing them. Inci­den­tal­ly, the FPA now has a pilot bug­fix rewards pro­gram you could be part of.

The next mile­stone is Sep­tem­ber 30^th: this is the last day before the v1.1 release when main­tain­ers can merge changes that affect the user inter­face and trans­lat­able UI text.

With that infor­ma­tion out of the way, let’s move on to what’s been brew­ing under the lid for the past week.

Sketch­er: 

• matthi­as­dan­ner fixed sev­er­al reg­is­tered issues, includ­ing two release block­ers: one relat­ed to inputting num­bers into on-view para­me­ters, anoth­er one hap­pen­ing when tog­gling con­struc­tion geometry.
• theo-vt fixed a release block­er that would crash FreeCAD when trim­ming arc/lines.

Draft: Roy-043 fixed an issue with the Con­tin­ue Mode

Part: pieter­hi­j­ma added a dep­re­ca­tion warn­ing for users and addons that still attempt to use Part import/export.

Part Design: 

• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed two release block­ers, both were crash­ers hap­pen­ing when users cre­at­ed new sketches.
• captain0xff fixed a cou­ple of issues in the new giz­mo code.

Tech­Draw: 

• ryankem­brey drove one new fea­ture through the clos­ing gates of the hard fea­ture freeze: the dimen­sion task pan­el now has num­ber dec­i­mals and ref­er­ence dimen­sion options.
• Oth­er changes in this work­bench are bug­fix­es by ryankem­brey and Wan­der­erFan. No block­er fix­es this time, but there are just a few of block­ers in TD anyway.

CAM:

• tarman3 improved select­ing face loops and search­ing for non-pla­nar tan­gent edge loops.
• jffmichi patched the code to select rows rather than cells in the Drilling task panel.
• dei­mi and davidg­ilka­uf­man con­tributed sev­er­al fix­es, includ­ing one for a regres­sion in adap­tive profiling.
• Con­nor reordered minor parts of the UI and replaced the tool library man­ag­er with a new one. Here is a screenshot:

GUI:

• pieter­hi­j­ma con­tributed a new fea­ture that man­aged to squeeze through into the upcom­ing v1.1: a new dia­log to edit a prop­er­ty tooltip in Prop­er­ty View. He also replaced the old “Add Prop­er­ty” dia­log in favor of the “Add Prop­er­ty” dia­log of VarSets, which is now a gener­ic fea­ture (see PR#23426).
• tetek­toza fixed the use of Ctrl+A (Select All) in the Report View.

Mate­ri­als: pmjde­brui­jn added a PMMA (Acrylic), POM-(Homopolymer|Copolymer)-Generic, Alu­minum-7075-T6, and PEEK-Gener­ic, and updat­ed Aluminum-6061-T6.

On that note, check out Dave Carter’s new Woods addon—a wood mate­ri­als data­base. It’s avail­able for instal­la­tion through the Addon Manager.

Oth­er changes:

• marioalexis84 fixed a regres­sion in netgentools.
• Roy-043, paulee0, and furgo16 fixed sev­er­al issues in BIM/Arch.
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed a sim­u­la­tion crash with lim­its in Assembly.

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by pieter­hi­j­ma, NewJok­er, Roy-043, mrpilot2, slip­ton­ic, lon­grack­slabs, and PaddleStroke.

If you are inter­est­ed in test­ing the lat­est week­ly build, you can grab it here.

Trans­la­tors: your recent changes were merged from Crowdin on Sep­tem­ber 15.

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 74 pull requests have been merged, and 35 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 2970 open issues in the track­er, down by 2 from last week. 49 known release block­ers remain unfixed for v1.1, up by 3 from last week.