WIP Wednesday, 18 February 2026
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 pa
https://blog.freecad.org/2026/02/18/wip-wednesday-18-february-2026/
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WIP Wednesday, 11 February 2026
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 12 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 incorrect labels preview when moving or rotating the object (PR#27480).

caio-venancio fixed th
https://blog.freecad.org/2026/02/11/wip-wednesday-11-february-2026/
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WIP Wednesday, 28 January 2026
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 14 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:

Sketcher:

amon-sha fixed a segfault that was happening during autoscaling (PR#27077).

PaddleStroke implemented displa
https://blog.freecad.org/2026/01/28/wip-wednesday-28-january-2026/
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WIP Wednesday, 21 January 2026
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 18 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 snapping to geometry when the object under the cursor is not snappable, e.g., an image (PR#26966). He a
https://blog.freecad.org/2026/01/21/wip-wednesday-21-january-2026/
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WIP Wednesday, 14 January 2026
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 31 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 the setting of the AutoColor property of sketches to False before applying colors (PR#25781) and an err
https://blog.freecad.org/2026/01/14/wip-wednesday-14-january-2026/
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WIP Wednesday, 21 December 2025
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 21 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:

PartDesign:

chennes with a release blocker where symmetric padding would not work with MidPlane set to True (PR#26462)
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/12/31/wip-wednesday-21-december-2025/
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Dec 2025 bug bounty update
We are currently at 17 release blockers for FreeCAD 1.1, so the FPA members have raised the price per fixed release blocker from $50 to $100.

Meanwhile, two more people have collected bugfix rewards:

Werner Meyer, who is a co-founder of FreeCAD.

Chris "ipatch" Jones, who previously contributed numerous improvements benefiting Mac users.

For more information
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/12/19/dec-2025-bug-bounty-update/
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WIP Wednesday, 10 December 2025
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 14 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:

Sketcher: PaddleStroke fixed incorrect creation of an offset when sketch directions differ (PR#25941) and invalid subname
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/12/10/wip-wednesday-10-december-2025/
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WIP Wednesday, 3 December 2025
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 33 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:

Sketcher:

PaddleStroke fixed a warning that is displayed when using the Dimension tool (PR#25920) and the importing of e
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/12/03/wip-wednesday-3-december-2025/
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WIP Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Maintainers have been backporting some of the fixes to the v1.1 branch where possible — 49 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:

Sketcher:

PaddleStroke fixed three bugs:

new geometry would always default to construction in certain circumstances (
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/11/26/wip-wednesday-26-november-2025/
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