The FreeCAD development towards the Version 1.1 ... insights into the development

[dhubs]

The FreeCAD team has announced the official feature freeze for version 1.1 on September 15, 2025

good day dear community hello dear Friends on Linux.org,

just to share this good news with you all here,

The FreeCAD team has announced the official feature freeze for version 1.1 on September 15, 2025.

image taken from the FreeCAD-Project-page: freecad.org


This marks the beginning of the release branch process, where bug fixes have top priority. This means that new features are largely complete. Instead, we are looking forward to a stable and robust 1.1 release. Currently under discussion are highlights such as the new transform manipulator and improvements to UI material rendering, as well as OpenGL textures (see the links below).

question: I'm curious: What changes would you see at the top of your wish list? or do you have specific bug fix requests?
Best regards

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FreeCAD 1.1 Feature Freeze Schedule: the anouncement: https://forum.freecad.org/viewtopic.php?t=99009

the forum of FreeCAD: https://forum.freecad.org/ :: Everything and anything related to FreeCAD



Update: and the development never stops - it goes on and on - see the Google-Summer of Code 25 with the following FreeCAD-Projects


see all https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/organizations/freecad :

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| Contributor          | Project Title                     | Link                                                                                                                          |

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| chiragsingh1711      | 3D PDF Export in FreeCAD          | https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects/istlFWLD                                                           |

| theo-vt              | Multiple Files Parallel Editing   | https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects/xukQtkzXTHEO                                             |

| Sayantan Deb         | Interactive Controls in 3D View   | https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects/CCXJAFdQ                                         |

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Image - taken from the GSoC-Projectpage:

 

[wendy-lebaron]

will have to bear with the fact. the appimage is at least 1gib.

i have a version. from late in 2022. that runs on debian "bullseye". i'm still trying to get around it.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

Didn't know there is free version of CAD, and honestly never understood what CAD is used for.
How is CAD different or better from blender?

 

[theLegionWithin]

Didn't know there is free version of CAD, and honestly never understood what CAD is used for.
How is CAD different or better from blender?

engineering drawings/architecture plans is my understanding though I believe some of that can also be done in blender.

 

[dhubs]

more good FreeCAD News - On the Way to v1.1: Feature Freeze and Release Status

dear Community, dear Friends hello dear @theLegionWithin and @CaffeineAddict and @wendy-lebaron - thank you so much for the comments, for sharing your ideas and thoughts.


... now things go very fast. Alexander published on the developer-blog: (see lnk below:

The main development branch has been in a hard freeze since Monday – no new features will be added, only bug fixes. There is no set release date yet; the version will be released as soon as all release blockers have been removed.

For comparison: For version 1.0, the feature freeze began in June 2024 with approximately 40 blockers, and the final version was released in November of the same year. The duration may be different for 1.1.

The next milestone is September 30th: this is the last day that changes affecting the user interface or translatable UI text can be merged. After that, these changes are also considered locked.

...see more Infos bout the latest development: a videoclip ....a actual Clip from Yesterday : FreeCAD 1.1 bringt neue UI-Funktionen ähnlich wie SolidWorks und Blender

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more Infos more see much more and the Announcements:

developernews: published by Aleksandr Prokudin on September 17, 2025 https://blog.freecad.org/2025/09/17/wip-wednesday-17-september-2025/

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have a great day.