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WIP Wednesday, 25 February 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:

Lgt2x sped up the solving for the Move/Array operation (PR#26977).

theo-vt changed the way driven constraints a
https://blog.freecad.org/2026/02/25/wip-wednesday-25-february-2026/
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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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Standing room only in a full #fosdem #openhardware #CAD #CAM room for Yoriks "state of #FreeCAD" presentation. #opensource

Busy start on the joint #FreeCAD and @kicad@fosstodon.org booth at #FOSDEM Come and see us... we have micro manipulator robots, @librespace@fosstodon.org spaceships and more.. all designed in FreeCAD and KiCad.

What’s new in FEM for FreeCAD 1.1?
Now that the feature freeze for FreeCAD 1.1 is on, and we are not too far off from the final release, let’s summarize the main changes in the FEM workbench. Just like in the case of the revolutionary 1.0.0 release (see this blog post), FEM dominates the release notes. There have been many significant improvements, so let’s go through them.

Electromagnet
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/09/09/what-is-new-in-fem-for-freecad-1-1/
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