FreeCAD News

WIP Wednes­day, 11 Novem­ber 2026

The FreeCAD team has been elim­i­nat­ing block­ing issues ahead of the v26.3 release. Of the 119 pull requests merged in the last 7 days, 42 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.

Sketcher

• UnK­abaraQuiDev patched the Per­pen­dic­u­lar Con­straint tool to sup­port arcs (PR#31824).
• flav­i­ut improved the text dialog’s user inter­face (PR#32735).
• Vishal­RamKN added a user-vis­i­ble expla­na­tion why the fillet/chamfer ver­tex selec­tion is blocked for curves (PR#32759).
• chennes removed the code that for­bids cre­at­ing redun­dant con­straints (PR#34123).
• Pad­dle­Stroke fixed sev­er­al issues in the B‑S­pline-to-NURBS con­vert­er (PR#32504).
• Ayushjo fixed the han­dling of inter­nal geom­e­try when split­ting (PR#33592).

Assembly

• Rchiem­stra fixed the joint off­set on link-array ele­ments (PR#34146).
• maxwxyz updat­ed the Rev­o­lute joint’s angle to allow angle lim­its up to +/-360 degrees (PR#34182).
• GeeBee2 fixed the explod­ed lines (PR#33936).

TechDraw

• Wan­der­erFan fixed curved splines dis­played as straight (PR#34137).
• Ayushjo fixed a crash that occurred after remov­ing a cos­met­ic edge ver­tex or cen­ter­line (PR#34222) and anoth­er crash on can­cel­ing in-line dec­o­ra­tion (PR#34171).
• fatal­wir fixed com­pos­ite hit shapes of Bal­loon Anno­ta­tions and Leader Lines (PR#34007).

CAM

• Con­nor fixed a bug where Helix would take a coun­ter­bore and the hole under it for one hole, as they share a cen­ter, and drop the small­er one, so the bore was over­sized or left uncut (PR#34027). He also fixed Z posi­tion­ing on sim­u­la­tor helix arcs (PR#34026).
• davidg­ilka­uf­man port­ed the Adap­tive oper­a­tion to clipper2 (PR#33739).
• tarman3 updat­ed task pan­els of Pro­file and Pock­et­Shape (PR#33100).

Other changes

• Point after clos­ing a doc­u­ment with anoth­er work­bench active (PR#34125).
• flav­i­ut opti­mized the thread gen­er­a­tion code in Part­De­sign to work faster (PR#34132).
• Kirmy34 patched the Mea­sure tool to attach the length label to the edge mid­point (PR#33144).

Addi­tion­al improve­ments and fix­es were con­tributed by 3x380V, adri­an­in­saval, alfrix, Ayushjo, chennes, Con­nor, GeeBee2, kang­inXD, marioalexis84, maxwxyz, Phone­Droid, pieter­hi­j­ma, relikd, slip­ton­ic, sosaku­bito-cyber, and YashSuthar983.

If you want to test the lat­est week­ly build, you can grab it here.

Activity stats

PR stats: since the pre­vi­ous report, 119 pull requests have been merged, and 45 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: over­all, there are 3514 open issues in the track­er, up by 7 from last week. There is cur­rent­ly 1 unre­solved block­er issue for v26.3, down by 1 from last week.