This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketcher

• matthiasdanner added the angle constraint to the Polygon tool (PR#31180).
• flaviut fixed a memory leak (PR#32005)

Part and PartDesign

• chennes fixed a regression where files from FreeCAD 0.15 and earlier with Part Design features outside a PD Body could not be loaded (PR#30996).
• bwross sped up work with the vertices element map multifold in certain scenarios (PR#31329).
• maxwxyz improved the default shapebinder and subshapebinder contrast (PR#31912).

CAM

• davidgilkaufman patched the adaptive operation to skip finishing passes in pre-cleared regions (PR#31053). He also fixed the slicer (PR#31056) and an edge-splitting freeze (PR#31890).
• TD-4242 fixed the postprocessor override priority (PR#31508).
• tarman3 added the ability to use modifier keys (Shift, Ctrl, Alt) to force specific methods of the Select Loop tool (PR#31095) and improved the G-code editor dialog: added line enumeration and optional syntax highlighting (PR#31330).
• Connor added a command to sync tool presets from the library into embedded job tools (PR#31300).

Other changes

• chennes pushed part 1 of 3 of a new crash reporting system (PR#30951).
• zkasuran fixed an incorrect reference in DXF exports (PR#31896).
• kevenwyld improved SpaceMouse support: restored the functionality of middle-click to force rotational center at point when in “Drag at cursor” mode and made Z movement of SpaceMouse related to zoom in the perspective mode (PR#30615).
• WandererFan fixed incorrect B-spline representation in another part of the TechDraw following a recent fix (PR#29648) and exposed an overlapping edge “fixer” method to Python (PR#29009).

Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by awgrover, chennes, dkleszyk, Gaurang-2005, jlewin, krissrex, Lgt2x, marioalexis84, maxwxyz, PaddleStroke, Roy-043, tmendes13, tritao, and xtemp09.

The latest weekly build was broken for Linux and macOS. The bug has been fixed, and there will likely be a rebuild soon.

Activity stats

PR stats: since the previous report, 42 pull requests have been merged, and 52 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: overall, there are 3517 open issues in the tracker, up by 5 from last week.

Elsewhere in the community

Sliptonic, the CAM maintainer, posted an article on his blog that explores the growing gap between increasingly affordable multi-axis CNC machines and the software to create toolpaths for them.