In the past few days was the release of [1]FreeCAD 1.1 and [2]SolveSpace 3.2 for open-source computer aided design (CAD) while now joining the party is Design 50 Alpha as a GNOME-aligned 2D CAD design tool.

The new Design release brings polyline trim, polyline extend, chamfer command, fillet command, and a variety of other CAD commands now being supported. There is also better performance when panning and other enhancements. Design is written in part with JavaScript.

Those interested in this Design 50 Alpha 1 release can find Flatpak builds available via [3]Flathub or the sources over on [4]GitHub .

The new release of Design was noted in [5]This Week in GNOME as well as Serigy 2 as an updated GNOME-aligned clipboard manager and Fractal 14 Beta for the Matrix messaging app, among other improvements this week following the recent GNOME 50 stable debut.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeCAD-1.1-Released

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/SolveSpace-3.2-Released

[3] https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.dubstar_04.design

[4] https://github.com/dubstar-04/Design

[5] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/04/twig-243/