Will 2.90 be release tomorrow? There are still a few showstopper bugs - the final decision will be made later today..

Blender 2.90

• A few high priority bugs are showstoppers.
  • Multi-view fix will be reverted (it introduced new issues), and fixed properly for 2.91.
  • Other already reported issues (OSL, sculpting) needs fixing or re-tagged as 2.91.
  • Fixes to be done by the end of today - if an issue persist tag as 2.90 + move to show stopper.
• Tomorrow (25/Aug)  Dalai Felinto  will check the tracker again.
  • If no new showstopper comes up we confirm release on Wednesday, August 26th.
• All eyes on the new untriaged reports to spot any showstopper.

Blender 2.91

• Antonio Vazquez  needs two libraries for grease pencil - pugixml  and potrace .
  • They are required for T79877  and T79876 .
• Next week there will be a new round of modules meetings to confirm the roadmap for 2.91.
  • Dalai Felinto  will hand out the invitation for the module members, notes will be posted online afterwards.
  • If things go well this can be repeated every week to check the status of each module.

Google Summer of Code

• This is the last week of Google Summer of Code.
• Students reports are due this week, mentors’ in the following.
• Himanshi Kalra  asks her project to be reviewed  as soon as possible due to short availability after GSoC.

New Features and Changes

Blender 2.91

• Sculpt ( Pablo Dobarro )
  • Multires: base mesh sculpting (commit )
  • Filters: add orientation and axis options (commit ) (commit )
  • Pose and Boundary brushes: cloth simulation target (commit )
  • New Erase Displacement mesh filter (commit )
  • New Enhance Details mesh filter (commit )
  • Invert smooth to enhance details (commit )
• USD: option to export only visible or all objects (commit ) ( Sybren A. Stüvel )
• Outliner: improve performance by avoiding full updates when only selection changes (commit ) ( Julian Eisel )
• Overrides: new Resync and Delete Override Hierarchy operators (commit ) (commit ) ( Bastien Montagne )
• Sequencer: improvement performance of transform effect with multithreading (commit ) ( Richard Antalik )

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne 
• Campbell Barton 
• Clément Foucault 
• Dalai Felinto 
• Germano Cavalcante 
• Hans Goudey 
• Jacques Lucke 
• Jeroen Bakker 
• Julian Eisel 
• Pablo Dobarro 
• Philipp Oeser 
• Richard Antalik 
• Sergey Sharybin 
• Sybren Stüvel