50 new features on master, 19–30 September 2026

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The last 50 new features merged into master, newest first within each group. Bug fixes, translations, tests and build changes are left out. All of these landed between 19 and 30 September 2026, so they are in the current development builds but not yet in a release.

Thanks to everyone who contributed: @Kellermorph, @arummler, @jp2images, @ispyisail.

Drawing and placing

• Element picker at the cursor: press Insert, type part of a name, place it (Add an element picker that opens at the cursor with Insert #1052)
• Shortcut bar at the cursor: press S for a bar of your most-used commands (Add a shortcut bar that opens at the cursor with S #1053)
• Customise the shortcut bar in place: drag commands on, off and into order (Add customising the shortcut bar in place #1054)
• Pin elements to the shortcut bar, with a width you can set (Add pinned elements to the shortcut bar, with a width you can set #1060)
• Command bar beside the selection after a click (Add a command bar beside the selection after a click #1055)
• Enter repeats the last drawing or placing command (Add repeating the last drawing or placing command with Enter #1056)
• Mouse gestures: right-drag in a direction to run a command (Add right-drag mouse gestures to run commands #1057)
• Command search: type part of a command's name and press Enter (Add a command search: type part of a command's name, press Enter #1049)
• Drawing tools in the folio's right-click menu (Add the drawing tools to the folio's right-click menu #1041)
• Place the last element, or a folio reference, from the folio menu (Add placing the last element and folio references to the folio menu #1050)
• Double-click an element in the collection to place it, then A to place another (Add double-click placement from the collection, and A to repeat it #1042)
• Ctrl+D duplicates the selection, offset by a grid step you choose (Add Ctrl+D: duplicate the selection, offset by a configured grid step #993)
• Double-click a colour in the wire colour dialog to pick it and close the dialog (Add double-click to choose a wire colour #1172)
• Wire properties in the Selection properties panel, as an option (Add wire properties to the Selection properties panel, as an option (#500) #502)

Arranging items

• Align left, centre, right, top, middle and bottom, with toolbar icons (Add Align left/centre/right/top/middle/bottom for the selection #1087, Add icons for the Align commands #1153)
• Snap to grid for selected symbols, pictures and texts (Add "Snap to grid" for selected symbols, pictures and texts #1073)
• Group and Ungroup items on a folio (Add Group and Ungroup for items on a folio #1074)
• Groups rotate as one piece, and clicking again on a grouped item selects just that item (Rotate a selected group as one piece #1111, Click again on an item of a selected group to select it alone #1110)
• Drag to resize the width of a symbol's text (Add drag-to-resize for dynamic element text width (#577 phase 1) #591)
• Texts snap to the grid when dragged, with an optional finer text grid (Snap a device's text to the grid when it is dragged (#923) #927, Add a finer snap grid for dragged texts #1040)

Moving around a folio

• Centre on cursor: recentre a zoomed-in folio on the mouse position (Add a Centre on cursor command to move around a zoomed-in folio #1190)
• Go to a folio cell such as B13, or 3-B13 on another folio, from Ctrl+G (Add jumping to a folio cell such as B13 from Ctrl+G (#1034) #1036)
• Keep the folio's row and column headers visible while scrolling (Add an option to keep the folio row and column headers visible (#1034) #1038)
• Show the folio cell limits across the whole drawing (Add an option to show the folio cell limits across the drawing #1048)
• 3D mouse (SpaceMouse) support on Linux (3D mouse (SpaceMouse/SpacePilot) pan/zoom via libspnav — Linux phase (discussion #599) #635)
• 3D mouse support on Windows and macOS, reading the device directly over USB (Add a 3D mouse backend that reads the device over USB (hidapi) #1025, Build the Windows package with 3D mouse support #1026)
• 3D mouse settings: speed, direction, and twist to zoom (Add 3D mouse speed, direction and twist-to-zoom settings #1023)

Collections and the symbol editor

• Collection search results as a ranked list, or as a tree with a setting (Show collection search results as a ranked list #1051, Add a setting to show collection search results as a tree #1083)
• Warning about repeated or missing terminal names when saving a symbol (Add a terminal name check when saving a symbol (#1157) #1159)
• Background frame in the symbol editor, the size of a folio, to judge how big a symbol will look (Add an adjustable background frame to the symbol editor #1164)
• Edit the label prefixes of your own collection in Settings, instead of editing qet_labels.xml by hand (Settings: configure the folder prefixes of the user collection #1168, @Kellermorph)
• Material list: pick article data from a CSV catalogue into an element's fields (Add a material list lookup for the element article fields #1088, @Kellermorph)

Cross-references, numbering and parts

• Contact comb can show every contact the coil defines, before any contact is drawn (Full contact comb #1010, @Kellermorph)
• Renumber elements with the auto-numbering rules (Autonumbering: renumbering of elements #704, @arummler)
• Default auto-numbering rules for every new project, in Settings (Add global auto-numbering rules to QElectroTech settings #924, @Kellermorph)
• Copying or duplicating a folio keeps coil–contact links (Preserve master/slave links when pasting or duplicating a folio #997)
• PLC input/output table: columns can be resized, and the dialog opens wider (Plc table size #1001, @Kellermorph)
• Cabinet thumbnails generated from each device's manufacturer and reference (Add cabinet thumbnails generated from a device's manufacturer and reference #1170)
• Labels on pictures (Add a label to pictures (#349) #1068)

Export

• DXF export on named layers, so a CAD program can hide the title block or recolour all the wires at once (Put the DXF export on named layers #1079)
• DXF export from the command line with --export-dxf (Add DXF export from the command line (--export-dxf) #1078)

Appearance and settings

• Folio drawn dark on a dark theme, and the Collections and Projects panels follow the theme (Draw the folio with inverted lightness on a dark palette #954, Let the Collections and Projects panels follow the palette #946, @jp2images)
• Colour pickers for the folio background (remembered between runs) and for the application (Add diagram background color picker with adaptive border/titleblock #968, Remember the sheet background colour between runs #1011, Add custom application color picker in global settings #979, @Kellermorph)
• Save and load your configuration to a file (Add saving and loading the configuration to a file #1166)
• Dialogs remember their size (Remember dialog sizes, and drop a light-grey box in dark themes #1165)
• Three crash-recovery snapshots kept instead of one (Keep three crash-recovery snapshots instead of overwriting one #1167)

Scripting and AI assistants

• Scripting API: draw, cross-reference and query a project from a script; off by default and asks first (Scripting API: draw, cross-reference and query a project #970, Scripting API: make it feature-complete, sync misc/qet-mcp #980, Scripting off by default, with a prompt and a setting to turn it on #984)
• MCP server so an AI assistant can read and edit QElectroTech projects (Add misc/qet-mcp: a Model Context Protocol server over QET projects #969)
• Help → Connect an AI assistant, with the server installed alongside QElectroTech and Python offered by the Windows installer (Add Help → Connect an AI assistant #1138, Install the MCP server with QElectroTech #1136, Offer Python with the Windows installer, for the MCP server #1137)
• Lasting ids for symbols, wires, terminals, shapes, texts and pictures, including those in older projects, so scripts can refer to them reliably (Add a permanent id to shapes, texts, pictures and symbol parts #1065, Give symbols in older projects the same uuid every time they open #1105, Give wires in older projects a lasting uuid, from what they connect #1107, Give terminals in older projects a lasting uuid #1118, Give old symbols' terminals their lasting uuid in the symbol editor #1122)

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The 50 features before these, from 1 August to 19 September, are in #1195.