Release of v0.17

[NormandC]

One more bug I forgot to report

The Dependency Graph no longer updates automatically after changes to the document. Anybody can confirm?

[bernd]

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/1198 should fix the unit test failure in uptodate master

[triplus]

Sounds good and looking forward for the release.

[NormandC]

Another blocking bug: most of the Draft tools are kaput in the latest freecad-daily build.

I'll do a proper dedicated topic tomorrow...

[wmayer]

But what about the trouble of "Links go out of scope"? If this is not addressed somehow, it will create a lot of incomprehension for newcomers, and a lot of frustration among existing users.

If it was up to me then I would simply disable the "Links go out of scope" check and would maybe only put a warning to the output window. The purpose of this check is to force a certain structure in the document for the upcoming assembly workbench and to force the user to model in a certain workflow. But what does it help if a lot of functions are not prepared yet for this workflow? And I don't think that we are able to improve this in relative short time.

When deleting a feature in the middle of a sequence of features, in 0.16 it was possible to repair the model by first deleting external geometry in sketches, then remapping the sketches. Now in 0.17, once a feature in the middle of a Body tree is deleted, I haven't found a way to repair the following features. But I need to do further testing and create reproducible steps, then report it on the tracker.

Must be this one issue #0003084

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OK, I will look at these PRs first.

The Dependency Graph no longer updates automatically after changes to the document. Anybody can confirm?

I am not sure if this behaviour has changed wrt Qt4. But with Qt5 it's currently not possible anyway the way how it's implemented.

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/1198 should fix the unit test failure in uptodate master

OK.

Another blocking bug: most of the Draft tools are kaput in the latest freecad-daily build.

What exactly is broken?

[NormandC]

When deleting a feature in the middle of a sequence of features, in 0.16 it was possible to repair the model by first deleting external geometry in sketches, then remapping the sketches. Now in 0.17, once a feature in the middle of a Body tree is deleted, I haven't found a way to repair the following features. But I need to do further testing and create reproducible steps, then report it on the tracker.

Must be this one issue #0003084

Exactly, I wasn't aware abdullah had reported it so long ago. We found the same workaround; I would say that it is not a blocking issue then.

The Dependency Graph no longer updates automatically after changes to the document. Anybody can confirm?

I am not sure if this behaviour has changed wrt Qt4. But with Qt5 it's currently not possible anyway the way how it's implemented.

In 0.16.6712, the dependency graph updates automatically with changes to the FC document. I guess this means it no further works since the changes made by ickby to it?

Another blocking bug: most of the Draft tools are kaput in the latest freecad-daily build.

What exactly is broken?

Draft Tools broken with 0.17 and French language

[yorik]

Hi everybody, happy new year!

Sorry for the blackout, just came back from vacation. The schedule looks good to me as well.
I'll go through the bug tracker too in the coming days and have a series of minor fixes to commit too, but there shouldn't be anything important.
I'll take care of the translation stuff (will do a new upload next week), maybe we can start spreading the word on social networks too.

It would be good if someone could also look at the wiki and see if something urgent is missing, that could be fixed easily.

I'll be at FOSDEM in feb. 3rd, so that will be good to be able to announce the imminent release!

[wandererfan]

Sorry for the blackout, just came back from vacation.

I had a few of those vacations in my youth.

[Kunda1]

Sorry for the blackout, just came back from vacation.

I had a few of those vacations in my youth.

[kkremitzki]

I mentioned it in Gitter/IRC but figured it was worth posting here as well:

https://mentors.debian.net/package/opencascade

I have a package under review/revisement for OCCT 7.2 in Debian Sid (Unstable). Once this gets in to Sid, it also means the package will be in the upcoming Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver as well as being available in daily builds before the release. Hopefully this will help make sure 0.17 will be available in both Ubuntu 18.04 as well as the maybe-not-that-far-off Debian 10 release.

It's a bit slow going because while I already had a functional package, I'm trying to make it nicer by utilizing Debian's new GitLab instance at salsa.debian.org, which means learning the git-buildpackage tool gbp and revising the package to use it (via https://salsa.debian.org/kkremitzki-guest/opencascade) but hopefully the package will be available in the next 2 weeks.