Announcements

• Together Apart - Blender Conference 2020  last Friday.
• User Interface meeting notes .
• 2.91 bug spring  this week.
• Code quality  day this Friday.

Welcomes

• Robert Gützkow  accepted a grant to work part time in bug triaging starting November.
• Nicholas Rishel  is now a committer, currently working on improved Windows tablet support.
• Bassam Kurdali  and Christoph Lendenfeld  are now officially part of the animation and rigging module.

New Features and Changes

Blender 2.92

• Fluids: add APIC simulation method (commit ) (Sebastián Barschkis)
• Sculpt (Pablo Dobarro)
  • Dynamic topology detail size edit operator (commit )
  • Pie menu for global automasking options (commit )
  • Normal orientation for lasso trim tool (commit )
  • Paint Studio Light preset (commit )
• Grease Pencil (Antonio Vazquez)
  • Option to trace image sequences and convert to grease pencil strokes (commit )
  • Parameter in Texture modifier to rotate Dot textures (commit )
  • Material parameter to rotate texture (commit )
  • Improve join operator (commit )
  • Add interpolate operators in Draw mode (commit )
• Graph Editor: Un-Bake FCurves operator (commit ) (Sebastian Parborg)
• Multires: remove simple subdivision type, in favor of simple subdivide operator (commit ) (Sergey Sharybin)
• Lattice: apply modifier operator is now supported (commit ) (Erik Abrahamsson)
• Motion Tracking: simplified configuration of camera intrinsics to refine (commit ) (commit ) (commit ) (Sergey Sharybin)
• Cycles: tile stealing to improve CPU + GPU rendering performance (commit ) (Lukas Stockner)
• Outliner: properties editor sync on selection (commit ) (Nathan Craddock)
• User Interface:
  • Various improvements to layout and naming (Yevgeny Makarov, Sybren A. Stüvel, Philipp Oeser, Aaron Carlisle)
  • Cycle enum values with trackpad Ctrl-Pan (commit ) (Yevgeny Makarov)
• Windows: improved Wintab tablet support, fixing various bugs and improving sculpt and paint stroke quality (Nicholas Rishel)
• Python API: point sys.executable to the Python binary, bpy.app.binary_path_python  is now deprecated (commit ) (Campbell Barton)

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne 
• Campbell Barton 
• Germano Cavalcante 
• Hans Goudey 
• Jacques Lucke 
• Jeroen Bakker 
• Pablo Dobarro 
• Philipp Oeser 
• Richard Antalik 
• Sebastián Barschkis 
• Sebastian Parborg 
• Sergey Sharybin