WIP Wednesday, 11 November 2026 The FreeCAD team has been eliminating blocking issues ahead of the v26.3 release. Of the 119 pull requests merged in the last 7 days, 42 have been backports from the main development branch to the dedicated 26.3 release branch. This overview focuses on the work in the main branch only. Sketcher UnKabaraQuiDev patched the Perpendicular Constraint tool to support arcs ( PR#31824 ). flaviut improved the text dialog’s user interface ( PR#32735 ). VishalRamKN added a user-visible explanation why the fillet/chamfer vertex selection is blocked for curves ( PR#32759 ). chennes removed the code that forbids creating redundant constraints ( PR#34123 ). PaddleStroke fixed several issues in the B‑Spline-to-NURBS converter ( PR#32504 ). Ayushjo fixed the handling of internal geometry when splitting ( PR#33592 ). Assembly Rchiemstra fixed the joint offset on link-array elements ( PR#34146 ). maxwxyz updated the Revolute joint’s angle to allow angle limits up to +/-360 degrees ( PR#34182 ). GeeBee2 fixed the exploded lines ( PR#33936 ). TechDraw WandererFan fixed curved splines displayed as straight ( PR#34137 ). Ayushjo fixed a crash that occurred after removing a cosmetic edge vertex or centerline ( PR#34222 ) and another crash on canceling in-line decoration ( PR#34171 ). fatalwir fixed composite hit shapes of Balloon Annotations and Leader Lines ( PR#34007 ). CAM Connor fixed a bug where Helix would take a counterbore and the hole under it for one hole, as they share a center, and drop the smaller one, so the bore was oversized or left uncut ( PR#34027 ). He also fixed Z positioning on simulator helix arcs ( PR#34026 ). davidgilkaufman ported the Adaptive operation to clipper2 ( PR#33739 ). tarman3 updated task panels of Profile and PocketShape ( PR#33100 ). Other changes Point after closing a document with another workbench active ( PR#34125 ). flaviut optimized the thread generation code in PartDesign to work faster ( PR#34132 ). Kirmy34 patched the Measure tool to attach the length label to the edge midpoint ( PR#33144 ). Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by 3x380V, adrianinsaval, alfrix, Ayushjo, chennes, Connor, GeeBee2, kanginXD, marioalexis84, maxwxyz, PhoneDroid, pieterhijma, relikd, sliptonic, sosakubito-cyber, and YashSuthar983. If you want to test the latest weekly build, you can grab it here . Activity stats PR stats : since the previous report, 119 pull requests have been merged, and 45 new pull requests have been opened. Issue stats : overall, there are 3514 open issues in the tracker, up by 7 from last week. There is currently 1 unresolved blocker issue for v26.3, down by 1 from last week.