Announcements

• Thursday is holiday in the Netherlands (21/5 - ascention day).
• Tracker curfew wrap up - blog post .
• Yiming Wu is resuming his work on LANPR.
• Welcome Ubisoft developers: Nicolas Fauvet, Sylvain Magdelaine and Thomas Capelle. They have been granted commit access to work in the xr-world-navigation branch.

Bug Fixing Sprint

• The average of daily fixes went up 92%, from 13 to 25.
• High priority bugs went down from 18 to 5.
• Unclassified went from 117 to 105 (need to improve further).
• New reports and untriaged continues around the same (which is good).
• Known issues went up 24, to a total of 594.
• Reports that need developers attention when down 6%, from 770 to 732.

2.83

• LTS final plan is still to be proposed/announced.
• Brecht Van Lommel created T76058 to address the changes in Blender regarding LTS numbering.
• There are still open bugs tagged as 2.83 . Dalai Felinto to assign them to developers.

Google Summer of Code

• Regression Testing Framework by Himanshi Kalra starts this week - branch soc-2020-testing-frameworks .
• The updated proposals for all the projects will be in the GSoC 2020 page .

New Features and Changes

Blender 2.90

• User Interface: new About dialog, accessible from the Blender app menu. ( Harley Acheson )
• User Interface: undo/redo support for text fields. ( Hans Goudey )
• Grease Pencil: X-ray option for canvas grid, to make the grid always visible and not occluded by meshes. ( Antonio Vazquez )
• Grease Pencil: anti-aliasing threshold render option, to control trade-off between sharpness and over-blurring. ( Antonio Vazquez )
• Preferences: option for default empty size for collection instances. ( Jacques Lucke )

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne
• Brecht Van Lommel
• Campbell Barton
• Clément Foucault
• Dalai Felinto
• Germano Cavalcante
• Hans Goudey
• Jacques Lucke
• Jeroen Bakker
• Julian Eisel
• Nathan Letwory
• Pablo Dobarro
• Philipp Oeser
• Richard Antalik
• Sebastián Barschkis
• Sebastian Parborg
• Sergey Sharybin
• Sybren Stüvel