The FreeCAD team has been eliminating blocking issues in preparation for the v26.3 release.

Of 44 pull requests merged in the last 7 days, 15 were backports from the main development branch to the dedicated 26.3 release branch. This overview focuses on the work in the main branch only.

Part and PartDesign

UnKabaraQuiDev fixed three path pattern issues in PartDesign (PR#33865 and PR#33822).

Assembly

• GeeBee2 fixed a bug where a subshape binder surface couldn’t be used for mating correctly (PR#33835).
• Ayushjo fixed a bug where double-clicking an exploded view tree node would apply explosion to the normal drawing in a certain scenario (PR#32497).

TechDraw

WandererFan fixed a bug where it was impossible to create an angle dimension on a chamfer of a cylinder (PR#33820). He also fixed an unwanted rotation of detail geometry in axonometric view (PR#33833) and two issues related to cosmetic object deletion (PR#33880).

Other changes

• DesignWeaver3D fixed a Trimex issue in Draft (PR#33619).
• Connor fixed a bug with a round stock in the Adaptive command in CAM (PR#33705).
• tritao fixed Spreadsheet numeric values changing after saving and reopening a document (PR#32464).

Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by 3x380V, Ayushjo, chennes, flaviut, gudnimg, MortenVajhoj, PhoneDroid, xSetech, and xtemp09.

If you want to test the latest weekly build, you can grab it here.

Activity stats

PR stats: since the previous report, 44 pull requests have been merged, and 39 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: overall, there are 3517 open issues in the tracker, up by 22 from last week (normal when release candidates start getting tested). There are currently 5 unresolved blocker issues for v26.3.