This week in FreeCAD development:

Toponaming: bgbsww finished transferring the code to solve the save/restore errors with objects with element maps, this did away with 3 release blockers.

BIM: hasecilu, Roy_043, paullee0, and cjmayo fixed several bugs, including one blocker.

FEM: marioalexis84 fixed a bug where the workbench would spill red ink into the Report View about linked objects when meshing, and fandaL fixed a bug where the FemMesh2Mesh tool didn’t work with quad elements.

Assembly: PaddleStroke made it possible to edit joints by double-clicking them in the 3D view. He also reworked assembly properties to store the full path to objects so that two identical objects could be differentiated; this resolves another release blocker.

Materials: davesrocketshop fixed two blockers related to setting custom color to objects.

GUI:

• 3x380V added a workaround for missing custom cursors on Wayland when building FreeCAD with Qt6.

• Syres916 synced ‘Preferences > Display > UI’ page with actual defaults for new users: some checkboxes had incorrect states, one checkbox was missing.

• kadet1090 fixed various small cosmetic issues with the Preferences dialog, such as incorrect padding, inconsistent alignment, horizontal scrollbars that should not be present etc.

Among other changes:

• NewJoker added a missing 2D meshing algorithm, Quasi-structured Quad, to the Gmsh mesher in the Mesh WB.

• WandererFan fixed a loop in Techdraw during the calculation of the automatic scale.

• Roy_043 fixed a snap-at-intersection bug that would cause the infinite hanging of the program.

• pieterhijma fixed the use of the ‘–single-instance’ command line argument on Windows so that new files would always be opened in the already running instance of FreeCAD.

PR stats: since the previous report, 33 pull requests have been merged, 14 new pull requests have been opened.

Issue stats: 1839 issues are currently open, 20 issues up from last week. Of those, 35 issues still block the v1.0 release - 4 up from last week.