As mentioned above, FreeCAD v0.17 has been released, as of April 6th, 2018.
https://freecadweb.org/wiki/Release_notes_0.17 Also, OpenCascade v7.3.0 has been packaged for Debian. https://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/opencascade Hopefully, this means that the Debian FreeCAD package can soon be updated to v0.17, the current release.