The FreeCAD team has been hard at work eliminating blocking issues in preparation for the v26.3 release. Out of 89 pull requests merged in the last 7 days, 38 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. CAM sliptonic added a postprocessor for DynaPath control ( PR#33174 ). faecorrigan created a brand new EstlCam postprocessor with more features ( PR#33229 ). Connor fixed the speed readout’s invisibility in the simulator ( PR#33633 ). davidgilkaufman fixed Clipping arc fitting ( PR#33284 ). Other changes DesignWeaver3D fixed two bugs in Trimex (Draft): start/end points swapping ( PR#33442 ) and not accounting for Placement rotation when working on arcs ( PR#33463 ). maxwxyz fixed Sketcher toolbars disappearing when switching documents ( PR#33554 ). WandererFan fixed a bug where TechDraw-projected shapes would deviate from the body for curves/splines ( PR#33707 ). Additional improvements and fixes were contributed by 28arnab, 3x380V, Chaitanya-970, chennes, Connor, DesignWeaver3D, ElementW, flaviut, gudnimg, Lgt2x, Lokestrom, maxwxyz, mnesarco, relikd, sliptonic, theo-vt, UnKabaraQuiDev, VishalRamKN, WandererFan, wwmayer, and xtemp09. If you are interested in testing the latest weekly build, you can grab it here . Activity stats PR stats : since the previous report, 89 pull requests have been merged, and 29 new pull requests have been opened. Issue stats : overall, there are 3495 open issues in the tracker, up by 17 from last week (normal when release candidates start getting tested). There are currently 5 unresolved blocker issues for v26.3.