Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible - 12 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:

Draft:

• Roy-043 fixed incorrect labels preview when moving or rotating the object (PR#27480).
• caio-venancio fixed the availability of Relative and Global modes in the Dimension’s task panel when Alt is pressed (PR#27422).
• YashSuthar983 fixed the MaxChars property in Label (PR#27478).

Sketcher:

• skelliam added tooltips for Symmetry parameters (PR#27131).
• ipatch fixed a crash when using “Remove Axes Alignment” on partially constrained sketches (PR#27344).
• YashSuthar983 fixed the broken dragging of non-circular conics and arc of conics (PR#27085).
• TomPcz fixed dimension label alignment and inactive strikethrough (PR#27346).
• chennes fixed two minor issues (PR#27439 and PR#27438).

Part and PartDesign:

• kadet1090 refactored the TopoShape::splitWires method to make it easier to follow and use variable names that better describe the intent (PR#23096).
• captain0xff added interactive gizmos for the Box, Cylinder, and Sphere operations (PR#23700).

Assembly:

• PaddleStroke fixed the BOM tool to separate mirrored links (PR#26113).
• TomPcz fixed the help text height in the BOM tool (PR#27387).

CAM:

• petterreinholdtsen reintroduced matching pre-/postamble and help text for the dynapath_4060 post-processor (PR#27331). He also added the M8x1.25 (aka M8 coarse) thread tapping bit (PR#27114).
• Daniel-Khodabakhsh fixed the case when the Start Depth of an operation equals the Final Depth and the Step Down is zero (PR#27247).
• Connor updated SVG annotation IDs for tool shapes (PR#27325).
• tarman3 fixed an issue where _getCutAreaCrossSection() would sometimes return False because it would incorrectly define the bounding box for the cut area (PR#27295).
• jffmichi integrated the new simulator into the main window (PR#22204).

BIM/Arch:

• Roy-043 fixed a regression caused by Link Hosts handling (PR#27406) and the case of some titles (PR#27474).
• paullee0 fixed a regression in baseless walls creation (PR#27324).

Other changes:

• wwmayer fixed several issues, including two release blockers, all patches cherry-picked by 3x380V (PR#27355).
• WandererFan patched TechDraw to make it possible to create a local section with a sketch made up of a line in ’no parallel’ or ‘aligned’ mode (PR#27361).
• krissrex added code documentation for the Web module (PR#27369).
• PhoneDroid improved the overview of 3rd-party libraries in the About window (PR#27219).
• ScholliYT patched Mesh to export original object names to 3MF (PR#27064).
• JoesCat added 15 copper alloy materials to Material-Metals (PR#25832). The definitions include appearance, hardness, Young’s and Shear modulus, tensile and yield strengths, elongation, area reduction, and ultimate strain.
• sw1nn improved spacenav integration for 3DConnexion devices support by setting the client name to FreeCAD (PR#27264). This allows the daemon to do things like provide application-level default settings.
• drwho495 removed unneeded migration dialog pop-up from toponaming code (PR#27352). This fixes a release blocker and a regression.

Krrish777, kkocdko, skelliam, PhoneDroid, mosfet80, cniethammer, ipatch, chennes, and jijinbei 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, 59 pull requests have been merged (including backports to the v1.1 branch), and 59 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: overall, there are 3236 open issues in the tracker, up by 37 from last week. There are 5 release blockers for v1.1 currently, up by 1 from last week.