Category: Roadmap
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WIP Wednesday: 7 June 2023
FreeCAD is in a “feature freeze” as developers prepare for the 0.21 release. For those of you running development versions of FreeCAD, please help us test! If you think you’ve got a bug, please search the GitHub Issues to see if it’s a new one, and if so, help us out by writing it up. Some…
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WIP Wednesday: 17 May 2023
FreeCAD is now in a “feature freeze” as developers prepare for the 0.21 release. Everyone’s focused on finding and squashing bugs for the next couple of weeks. Any pull requests that don’t address bugs will be held until after the release has been completed. For those of you running development versions of FreeCAD, please help…
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WIP Wednesday: 10 May 2023
Our first-ever full-developer-community meetup was this past Sunday, and we had excellent attendance. Thanks to everyone who joined us, and thanks to the folks at Blender, whose own meetups inspired the launch of ours. Over the past week we’ve squashed dozens of translation-related bugs, as well a several other things causing crashes or bad geometry.…
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WIP Wednesday: 3 May 2023
It was a relatively quiet week for FreeCAD developers, with only 32 merged pull requests, mostly related to small translation problems and minor bugfixes (though one of the fixed bugs prevented Windows builds from starting if the splashscreen was disabled, so I’m sure there are going to be some happy Windows users out there!). We…
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WIP Wednesday: 26 April 2023
In the past week we continued merging translation fixes, plus a significant visual cleanup of the Navigation Cube. In this upcoming week: PR stats: In the week from Tuesday, 18 Apr to Tuesday, 25 Apr there were 55 pull requests merged, with a total codebase change of +19,551 / ‑10,610 lines (not counting translation changes, but counting…
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WIP Wednesday: 19 April 2023
In the past week we merged quite a few minor translation fixes, as well as a new layout for several Preferences pages, and we feel like we’ve finally squashed a five-year-old “massive” memory leak report in Draft. In this upcoming week: PR stats: In the week from Tuesday, 11 Apr to Tuesday, 18 Apr there were 45…
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WIP Wednesday: 12 April 2023
The past week saw a lot of refactoring and developer-oriented work (including the activation of pre-commit hooks that we expect will begin the process of unifying our disparate code formatting styles, and a new CI workflow running on Windows 11). In this upcoming week: PR stats: In the week from Tuesday, 4 Apr to Tuesday, 11 Apr…
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WIP Wednesday: 5 April 2023
Last week a number of exciting things happened: first, @wwmayer finished porting TechDraw to Qt6, so we are almost ready to have end-users testing Qt6 builds of FreeCAD. Second, @xtemp09 implemented a radial gradient background that is sure so make some users very happy. In addition, @PaddleStroke has been working to refine several different preferences…
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WIP Wednesday: 29 Mar 2023
This past week saw the removal of the old Image workbench and the integration of its functionality into the core of FreeCAD, the merge of a significant usability improvement to fillets and chamfers in the Part Design workbench, the merge of the last of the Topological Naming Problem mitigation Stage 1 PRs, and the consolidation…
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WIP Wednesday: 21 Mar 2023
There have been a number of exciting changes to FreeCAD in the past week, most notably the merge of a new notification system from Sketcher developer @abdullah. It’s still a work-in-progress, so expect to see significant refinement of this feature in the coming weeks. The FreeCAD Project Association also released its first Annual Report, so…