Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible - 27 backports in the past 7 days. The list of changes in this recap applies to the main development branch (future v1.2).

This week in FreeCAD development:

Sketcher:

• PaddleStroke fixed the sluggishness of dragging complex constraint systems (think 500+ constraints, PR#26598). He also fixed Snap to object not working on axis (PR#26558), the handling of autoconstraints in slot geometry (PR#26559), selection and zoom lag in large sketches (PR#26671), sped up large bulk selection (PR#26663), and fixed dimensional constraint text rendered backwards (PR#26554).
• AjinkyaDahale contributed part 5 of his code refactoring work (PR#22951).
• wwmayer added support for Bezier and Offset curves as external geometry (cherry-picked by leoheck, PR#25144).
• tetektoza changed the rendering of constraint text, arrowheads, and constraint icons to be above geometry lines (PR#26703).

PartDesign:

• PaddleStroke fixed the issue where it was impossible to select multiple points on two sketches (PR#26596) and enabled the dragging and dropping of shapebinders (PR#25264).
• kadet1090 fixed the incorrect preview for polar patterns (PR#26563).
• ipatch fixed invalid edge links (PR#26425).
• Krrish777 fixed the Boolean’s operation type drop-down list not updating after recomputation (PR#26582).
• captain0xff fixed the gizmo direction when the calculated point lies outside the face (PR#26616).

TechDraw:

• WandererFan fixed crashes in scripts on CosmeticEdge delete (PR#26646), restored manual control of view frames (PR#26125), and fixed two issues with axonometric length dimensions (PR#26445).
• Lgt2x improved drawing performance; the issue was especially noticeable when TD needed to scale hundreds of items on a page (PR#25898).

CAM:

• Connor added 0.05 um to V-bit tip diameter to prevent invalid sketch constraints (PR#26535) and fixed duplicate label issues with toolbits (PR#26647).
• jffmichi fixed the Radius Mill Tip Diameter always resetting to 5.0mm when opening a file (PR#26707).

FEM:

• marioalexis84 added support for 2D geometries to SectionPrint (PR#25081). He also added the magnetic flux density boundary condition (PR#25897).
• mac-the-bike added half-cycle animation (PR#24129).
• xtemp09 modernized a function in the FEM code (PR#23743).

GUI:

• Krrish777 reordered the Add Property dialog fields to Name-Value-Group-Type (PR#26567).
• tetektoza fixed broken image plane transparency (PR#26590) and fixed an issue where Selection View - Picked object list would add the whole object to face highlights (PR#26589).
• Krrish777 improved error feedback when a user creates a Mirrored, LinearPattern, or PolarPattern feature (or other Transformed features) without selecting any base features to transform (PR#26565).

Other changes:

• Roy-043 fixed a regression in Draft where an object would be displayed incorrectly when the Draft Object Pattern property is used. He also removed v1.1 Sill Height code in BIM; this was one of release blockers (PR#26641).
• tetektoza fixed an issue where the Selectable property would not work on a Body in a Part (PR#25009).
• WandererFan applied a patch that allows the Measure module to retrieve geometry information for Surface module objects (PR#26479).
• drwho495 fixed another toponaming issue (PR#26691).
• kevinsmia1939 added diameter measurement (PR#24853).

Roy-043, wwmayer, 3x380V, kadet1090, PaddleStroke, TONY8779, YashSuthar983, adrianinsaval, and luzpaz contributed additional improvements and fixes.

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

PR stats: since the previous report, 78 pull requests have been merged (including backports to the v1.1 branch), and 40 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: overall, there are 3146 open issues in the tracker, same as last week. There are 4 release blockers for v1.1 currently, same as last week too.