Update

WIP Wednesday: 17 Jan 2024

1 min Aleksandr Prokudin
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This week in FreeCAD development:

  • WandererFan committed several fixes and improvements to TechDraw, and edi271 contributed API extensions to the same workbench and fixed a bug in VertexAtIntersection.

  • Pesc0 and chennes committed further changes towards refactoring topological naming, patches include original code by realthunder.

  • PaddleStroke improved angle constraint rendering, implemented drawing arc helpers for radius constraints, and made several more small improvements in Sketcher.

  • Syres916 improved status bar tooltips visibility.

  • br4243 contributed a fix for missing letters when V-carving a string in Path.

  • 3x380V fixed the Qt6 build by replacing the use of QRegExp with QRegularExpression.

  • kadet1090 added automatic resetting of horizontal scrolling in the Preferences dialog after the recent UI change.

  • mosfet80 updated the Mesh workbench to depend on smesh v7.7.1+.

  • marioalexis84 contributed several fixes to FEM.

  • Roy-043 fixed a bug in Draft where the Task panel checkboxes were repositioned by accident.

PR stats: In the week from Wednesday, 10 Jan to Wednesday, 17 Jan there were 31 pull requests merged, with a total codebase change of +2,173 / ‑607. We had an average merged PR size of +70 / ‑20. 20 new pull requests were opened.

Issue stats: we closed 26 issues, and 29 new issues were opened. Overall, 1,156 issues are currently open.