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.