FreeCAD News

The FreeCAD team has been hard at work elim­i­nat­ing block­ing issues in prepa­ra­tion for the v26.3 release.

Out of 89 pull requests merged in the last 7 days, 38 have been back­ports from the main devel­op­ment branch to the ded­i­cat­ed 26.3 release branch. This overview focus­es on the work in the main branch only.

CAM

• slip­ton­ic added a post­proces­sor for Dyna­P­ath con­trol (PR#33174).
• faecor­ri­g­an cre­at­ed a brand new Estl­Cam post­proces­sor with more fea­tures (PR#33229).
• Con­nor fixed the speed readout’s invis­i­bil­i­ty in the sim­u­la­tor (PR#33633).
• davidg­ilka­uf­man fixed Clip­ping arc fit­ting (PR#33284).

Other changes

• DesignWeaver3D fixed two bugs in Trimex (Draft): start/end points swap­ping (PR#33442) and not account­ing for Place­ment rota­tion when work­ing on arcs (PR#33463).
• maxwxyz fixed Sketch­er tool­bars dis­ap­pear­ing when switch­ing doc­u­ments (PR#33554).
• Wan­der­erFan fixed a bug where Tech­Draw-pro­ject­ed shapes would devi­ate from the body for curves/splines (PR#33707).

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by 28arnab, 3x380V, Chai­tanya-970, chennes, Con­nor, DesignWeaver3D, Ele­men­tW, flav­i­ut, gud­nimg, Lgt2x, Loke­strom, maxwxyz, mne­sar­co, relikd, slip­ton­ic, theo-vt, UnK­abaraQuiDev, Vishal­RamKN, Wan­der­erFan, wwmay­er, and xtemp09.

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

Activity stats

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 89 pull requests have been merged, and 29 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3495 open issues in the track­er, up by 17 from last week (nor­mal when release can­di­dates start get­ting test­ed). There are cur­rent­ly 5 unre­solved block­er issues for v26.3.