16 new features on master, 1–7 November 2026

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The new features merged into master since #1701, grouped. Bug fixes, translations, tests and build changes are left out. All of these landed between 1 and 7 November 2026, so they are in the current development builds but not yet in a release.

Changes you will notice straight away:

• Printing and exporting warn about items outside the sheet. Before printing or exporting, QET lists what lies wholly or partly outside the border, folio by folio (Folio 5 (Kitchen): -K1, a text), and asks whether to go on. Saving only mentions it in the status bar. You can switch it off in Settings > General (Warn about items outside the sheet before printing and exporting #1639, @DaTweety).
• A wire whose two ends sit on the same point is no longer drawn. It still connects, but the upper of two stacked junctions can be clicked again (Conductors between two terminals on the same point are not drawn #1728, @DaTweety).
• A wire that is a core of a cable takes its section, colour and type from the cable. Those fields are locked in its properties, with a ❗ that says why (A cable core keeps its fields and takes nothing from the potential #1752, @Kellermorph).

Most of the rest only appears when you use it, or sits behind a setting.

Thanks to everyone who contributed: @DaTweety, @Kellermorph, @neitri, @elevatormind, @jzmf, @emincan2000, @spodri-lab, @Neira12, @victorienea, @ispyisail.

Wires, terminals and potentials

• Potential types: give L, N, PE, 24 V and 0 V each a colour, line style and width in Project properties > New sheet > Potential types. Pick a type on one wire and the whole potential is drawn in it, on screen and in every export (Add potential types: draw wires from the project's type list (#1539) #1746, Add a mode setting and a mixed-type check for wire types (#1539) #1768)
• Project > Check potential types lists the potentials where two types meet, such as a 24 V wire joined to PE, and selects their wires. Types joined on purpose (0 V and PE at a power supply) can be declared. Queries can read the same check: SELECT * FROM potential_mismatch (Add a check for mixed potential types, and joined pairs (#1539) #1770)
• Wire number, colour and section on terminal symbols: %{conductor_text}, %{conductor_color}, %{conductor_section} for all wires, or %{conductor_text_1}, %{conductor_color_2}, … for one side (Add the wire number to a terminal symbol's texts (#1585) #1748, Add wire colour, section and per-side numbers to terminals (#1585) #1764)
• Conductor type (H05V-K, H07V-K …), a new field beside colour and section (Add a conductor type field beside wire colour and section #1750, @Kellermorph)
• A connected terminal drawn in its wire's colour instead of red (setting, off by default) (Terminals: a setting to draw a connected one in its conductor's color #1719, @DaTweety)
• A new corner or T-junction replaces the one under it, and takes its wires with it (setting, off by default) (Setting: a new corner or T-junction replaces the one under it, its wires with it #1670, @DaTweety)

Drawing and viewing

• Zoom by round steps: 100 %, 110 %, 120 % … instead of 132.25 %, in Settings > General > Zoom step (Zoom step: zoom by a fixed number of percent (a setting, off by default) #1714, @DaTweety)
• Choose what a selection rectangle selects: everything it touches (as before), only what lies wholly inside, or by direction as in CAD programs (Selection rectangle: a setting for what it selects #1729, @DaTweety)
• Drag symbol texts without holding Shift (setting, off by default) (Add an option to drag symbol texts without holding Shift (#1576) #1726)
• Title block position: inside or outside the sheet's edge, on the left, in the centre or on the right (Configuring the position of the title block—outside, inside, on the left, centered, or on the right of the drawing sheet. #1740, @neitri)

Texts and tables

• Edit > Keep texts clear of wires: texts that sit on a wire move to the nearest free spot, in one undo step (Add a command to keep texts clear of wires #1700, idea from @victorienea)
• Edit > Reference destination: a reference text such as /2.1 leads to its folio. Ctrl-click it in QET, or click it in the PDF export (Add a folio destination for reference texts #1702, idea from @victorienea)
• Formula columns in parts lists and other tables without writing SQL: "if the article is empty use the description", "quantity times two" (Add a formula builder for table columns #1703, idea from @victorienea)

Symbols and projects

• Project > Update elements from the collections brings symbols you edited in a collection into a project that already uses them, with their wires still connected (Update elements from the collections #1718, @DaTweety)
• Projects keep the parts this version does not know: blocks written by a newer QElectroTech or by a fork are no longer dropped on save, in .qet, .qetz and .qetdb (Keep the XML blocks QET does not know, in every format #1724)
• Projects with many symbols open a little faster: about 3 % on a 136-folio, 5,412-symbol project (Speed up opening a project with many symbols #1704)

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The 47 features before these, from 15 October to 1 November, are in #1701.