# FreeCAD weekly-2026.08.12 — Development Build weekly-2026.08.12

- Product: FreeCAD (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/freecad)
- Vendor: FreeCAD
- Date: 2026-08-12
- Version: weekly-2026.08.12
- Original notes: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/tag/weekly-2026.08.12
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/freecad/releases/weekly-2026.08.12
- Labels: Pre-release

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'.

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> [!IMPORTANT]
> Bleeding edge FreeCAD development builds for testing bugfixes, regressions, and recently implemented features. Do not use in a production environment.

**Changes since last weekly:** https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/compare/weekly-2026.08.05...weekly-2026.08.12

NOTE: Windows builds labelled "experimental" are built against OpenCASCADE 8.0.0p1, Python 3.14.6, and Qt 6.11.1.

###### How-to use

1. Download the appropriate asset for your OS below
2. Unpack the bundle to any folder on your system
3. Launch the application
    - **Windows**
    Run `\FreeCAD.exe` in the extracted directory
    - **macOS**
    Launch `/FreeCAD.app` in the extracted directory
    - **Linux**
    Open the `*.AppImage`