Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible - 26 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 ghost previews of Arch_SectionPlane and Draft_WorkingPlaneProxy (PR#27605) and fixed dependency of patharray normal on view direction (PR#27538).

Sketcher:

• Lokestrom fixed the issue where arcs of ellipses would be centered incorrectly due to the 2nd point having the same X coordinate as the 1st one (PR#27327).
• marbocub added a fourth way to specify the symmetry constraint: an element (line, arc, or open B-spline) and a symmetry line (PR#25525).
• theo-vt fixed a crash when scaling splines (PR#27188).
• PaddleStroke added tooltips for Offset options (PR#26114), fixed an issue where Tab would not work after you move the mouse (PR#27638), fixed the loss of expression when trimming a shape (PR#27505), and fixed an error in SketchObject::getHigherElements (PR#27560).

Part and PartDesign:

• chennes returned inversion status by reference (PR#27435) and improved error handling for RevolMethod::ToFirst (PR#27457).
• ipatch fixed a release blocker in Part where Mirror would place a copy at the wrong location (PR#27370).

Assembly: PaddleStroke fixed a regression in the BOM generator that stopped grouping items (PR#27522), fixed link objects becoming permanently non-selectable (PR#27567), and fixed an issue with isolation of grounded joints (PR#24952).

BIM/Arch:

• Roy-043 fixed a Placement task panel issue for Arch_SectionPlane and Draft_WorkingPlaneProxy (PR#27101) and ArchReference issues with BuildingPart (PR#27133).
• furgo16 fixed coordinate normalization and area calculation for generic ArchComponents (PR#27322), prevented child objects from moving during Arch Wall debasing (PR#27290), and added a Window options task box (PR#27381).
• paullee0 fixed a regression in ArchWall (PR#27676).

Measurement:

• Anakin100100 added on-the-fly measurement unit change (PR#27462).
• Lokestrom fixed a bug that was causing build failures (PR#27580).
• YashSuthar983 fixed angle measurement for face and edge selection (PR#27432).

Other changes:

• marioalexis84 removed unnecessary code from the Preferences page of FEM (PR#25538).
• mnesarco fixed a regression introduced during the TNP Integration (PR#27491).
• 3x380V cherry-picked multiple fixes from wwmayer (PR#27363).

Syres916, ipatch, chennes, hyarion, Roy-043, bdieterm, greg19, Lgt2x, xtemp09, WandererFan, and pyro9 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, 76 pull requests have been merged (including backports to the v1.1 branch), and 52 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: overall, there are 3266 open issues in the tracker, up by 30 from last week. There are 2 release blockers for v1.1 currently, down by 3 from last week.