Update

WIP Wednesday: 30 August 2023

1 min Chris Hennes
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As the new development cycle begins in earnest, there are many projects going on in the FreeCAD world that will soon be making their way into the development builds:

  • @FlachyJoe finally saw the merge of PR 9559 – Sketcher: Point to Circle Distance Constraints

  • @kaktus is learning about the mechanism to provide translation support in code, and has submitted several PRs to address translation bugs

  • @wandererfan is continuing his ongoing refactoring effort, plus adding adjustable section line length and investigating reports of zooming anomalies

  • @mlampert is continuing to work on Cavalier Contours POC and its use for Path generation

  • @PaddleStroke is putting the finishing touches on the first of many PRs related to the new core Assembly workbench, and also saw the merge of PR 9810 – Sketcher: Constrain Contextual

  • @qewer33 continues to refine the new Start Page

  • I (@chennes) am (still) building a new LibPack with Qt6 and Python 3.11

PR stats: In the week from Wednesday, 23 Aug to Wednesday, 30 Aug there were 59 pull requests merged, with a total codebase change of +12,713 / ‑6,667 lines (not counting translation changes). That’s an average merged PR size of +219 / ‑114. We closed 21 Issues, and 42 new Issues were opened.