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FWIW my work on the adaptive toolpaths got merged in FreeCAD- it's in the weekly builds. See: forum.freecad.org/viewtopic.php?t=96548

tl;dr is it adds a more-or-less one-click "rough the entire model" mode and- perhaps more relevantly- properly evaluates the stock and model instead of blindly projecting the contour you specify. Put differently, it's far smarter about not machining into the model, including avoiding areas it can't reach in 2.5D due to overhanging geometry. The attached image shows that on a demo model I threw together.

Not world-changing, but still a really nice QoL upgrade if you like adaptive toolpaths. Plenty of other... quirks... in FreeCAD remain, of course, but it's getting better all the time if you're not afraid of the weekly builds.

Is there a write-up in addition to the ngc files?

I have a shuttle pro by Contour that I have used with linuxcnc for years under version 2.7 using the old HIDCOMP component which is now outdated and not included in the new distro.    The shuttle always worked perfectly.

Now, I have upgraded to 2.9.4 using the iso installer.     WIth only the single line "loadusr shuttle" it throws a error as "dev/hidraw0 is not a known device."          Looking at the docs it does not recognize a valid usb ID for my contour shuttlepro.     LSUSB lists the ID as "011" and that is not provided for in the shuttle component but is indeed valid for a shuttlepro.   The component only covers ID's of 0020, 0240 and 0030.    

LSUSB displays Device 003   0b33 and ID 011 Contour shuttlepro

I did make the appropriate rule using the 011 ID but apparently the failure to recognize the id is withing the component coding.

Edit: I found the attached document that confrims that 011 is a valid usb id   (chart on pg2)

Hopefully someone will correct this in the shuttle.1 component.      

Thanks,
George