Every VectorForge release

1. v0.12.2Latest2026-10-21

   Merge scope, baked moves, guided lofts

   • Merge scope: a pocket, groove, pattern copy or mirror copy stays in the body it was made in (default for new features) or cuts every solid it meets (old files keep this); right-click the feature's timeline cell to switch, or choose the body it cuts by clicking it
   • Make this position the design position: right-click a moved part to bake its translation into the timeline; dimensions to the world axes are re-read at the new spot
   • Reference cycles between sketches on different planes (a line snapped to a circle's centre that is snapped back to the line) are detected and the forward snap dropped, with a note in the status line; they used to pin the sketch at a stale position and show a false conflict
   • Guided lofts between circles of different tessellation no longer fail with "folds over itself": the ring merge pinned vertices on both sides and left near-duplicate rulings
   • Distance between lines auto-selects the partner when the line is already parallel to exactly one other line
   • Arcs follow the cursor's travel from the first rim point: moving clockwise draws the clockwise slice
   • Horizontal and vertical between two points (two circle centres, an arc end and its centre) get their own menu items on a vertex
   • Horizontal / vertical inferred while drawing lines and polylines (within 4 degrees), glyph shown on the rubber band; Shift draws free
   • Backspace and Delete auto-repeat in every text field
   • Only the constraint glyphs that conflict are drawn red; the sketch wire keeps its colour
   • AppImage baseline moved to Debian 12 (glibc 2.36); BASELINE_GLIBC=host builds without a container
2. v0.12.12026-10-20

   NPT threads, view modes, solver and Pi fixes

   • NPT pipe threads to ASME B1.20.1: tapped holes (type 1/4 NPT), external threads on a pipe end with the crests turned to the taper, internal threads in a bore; 1/16" to 12", 1:16 taper, standard TPI and lengths
   • View modes: shaded, transparent, wireframe from a tile in the button column or the V key
   • Sketch solver: angular constraints are judged at the sketch's scale, not the edge's, and a collapsing edge is a reported conflict; an over-constrained wall profile used to "solve" by shrinking two 45-degree steps to nothing and reporting itself consistent
   • A sketch in conflict holds still instead of creeping on every rebuild; the conflicting constraints are drawn red
   • Raspberry Pi / Rock Pi / Mali: the depth read-back that occluded-glyph tests did on the whole window every frame is now one pixel per query, and picking is scissored to the cursor and coalesced to one pick per frame
   • The renderer is printed at start-up and a software rasteriser (llvmpipe) is called out, so an idle GPU is noticed
   • Makefile: the TBB autodetect always said yes; fixed, with TBB=0/1 to override
   • New test suite: npttest
3. v0.122026-10-18

   Quality of life improvements

   • Lofts with just a sketch and a path
   • Perpendicular sketches on vertices
   • ARM64 support
   • Anchor planes to vertices
   • Grouped timeline elements

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