Announcements

• blender.org was under DDoS attack last week, but all seems well. Kudos for Dan McGrath and Sergey Sharybin for keeping an eye on things.
• The 2020 big projects proposal was posted on code.blender.org . No big concern was raised so for now we move on with them.
• LA Blender conference was official confirmed, dates: June 1 and 2. Call for talks and tickets will come later.
• Tracker curfew is under 1,000 open issues, great work everyone.
• This Friday we start the code quality day (first Friday of each month), email to bf-committers will be sent soon. Everyone interested in been involved can hang out on blender.chat to help tackle technical debts, code refactoring, variables renaming, …
• Aaron Carlisle is working with Nathan Letwory on a Git-LFS support proposal. The idea is to start with the manual. Dalai Felinto suggest them to write to bf-committers since this is a big topic.

Blender 2.82 - bcon3

• bcon4 starts this Thursday, so everyone be sure to commit bugs before that.
• Anything that comes after must be a critical fix.
• Users encouraged to treat builds from Thursday on as release candidates, please test them as much as possible.

Blender 2.83 - bcon1

• Nothing to report.

FOSDEM

• Ton Roosendaal presented on “Blender, Coming of Age ”, video is online.
• Dalai Felinto gave a short talk on the game development room about Blender development process (using the VR project as example).
• Meeting with Godot about community management, pull requests, how they handle feature requests, gltf2 status and integration with Blender.
• FOSSASIA is looking for people to talk about Blender. Anyone interested that lives in Singapore contact Dalai Felinto to get a contact with their organization.

Changes and New Features

• User Interface:
  • Info editor visual refresh. ( Harley Acheson )
  • NLA editor sidebar layout reorganized. ( William Reynish )
  • File browser has improved system paths and icons on all platforms. ( Yevgeny Makarov, Harley Acheson )
  • Tweaks to sculpt symmetry and BVH user interface layout. ( William Reynish )
  • Better icon sharpness preservation at different UI scales. ( Yevgeny Makarov )
  • Text kerning improvements when using translation. ( Harley Acheson )
  • More platform standard shortcut naming in menus. ( Harley Acheson )
• Objects: Affect Parents option now works for snapping and clear transform. ( Campbell Barton )
• Modifiers: cast, warp and displace modifiers now have an invert vertex group option. ( Cody Winchester )
• Eevee: tangent space normal map support for curves and surfaces. ( Clément Foucault )
• Shading: color output for White Noise node. ( Charlie Jolly )
• macOS daily builds on builder.blender.org are now code-signed, so they can be run without having to change the system preferences. ( Sergey Sharybin )

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne
• Brecht Van Lommel
• Campbell Barton
• Dalai Felinto
• Germano Cavalcante
• Jacques Lucke
• Jeroen Bakker
• Julian Eisel
• Pablo Dobarro
• Philipp Oeser
• Sebastián Barschkis
• Sebastian Parborg
• Sybren Stüvel