Blender Development

Developer Meeting Notes, November 11, 2012

Bart ·

Blender 2.65 development has entered “BCon3” status – just feature fixes, bug fixes and get ready for release. Planning for release of 2.65 early December is on track.

Ton Roosendaal writes:

Hi all,

Here’s the notes from today’s meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders

1) Blender 2.65 release status

  • UI translations: Bastien Montagne tested boost::locale, it works much better than our current gettext library. Meeting agrees on removing gettext/iconv and have the i8n module use boost for it. Bastien will handle this further with the platform maintainers.
  • Thomas Dinges mentions OpenImageIO released stable 1.1. Brecht van Lommel will check on it.
  • Short discussion happened on how OpenImage and Blender’s ImBuf/Image system could relate – but this is a topic for after the release.
  • OpenCL support for Cycles will be still on hold, and not part of release. You can compile it by setting CYCLES_TEST.
  • Two release targets were moved to 2.66 (Python nodes, Bullet integration).
  • Development will now enter “BCon3” status – just feature fixes, bug fixes and get ready for release. Planning for release of 2.65 early December is on track.
  • Massive bug tracker cleanup and fixing has paid of! We’re already in the low 70ies! (Was 211 3 weeks ago).

2) Other projects

  • Sergey Sharybin worked several days on solving image thread conflicts (preview renders, UI, render). He couldn’t solve it reliably yet. Will be checked on this week if there’s a chance to add it, otherwise it’s for later.

Thanks!

-Ton-

Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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