Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Announcements
- Google Summer of Code: The first report is out with the Geometry Nodes related projects.
- Credits page updated to handle renames and de-duplications.
- Bug triaging updates:
- Buildbot now supports (again) branch and patch links.
- To get the patch/branch link click in the
#besides the build. - For example: cycles-x builds.
- To get the patch/branch link click in the
- Blender 3.0 release dates proposal announced:
- September 22 - bcon2
- October 20 - bcon3
- November 24 - bcon4
December 1- December 3 - bcon5 (release)
Modules & Projects
New Features and Changes
Compositor
- New Posterize Node to limit number of values in each color channel (commit) (Aaron Carlisle)
- Improve performance by merging equal operations (commit) (Manuel Castilla)
Mesh Editing
- BMesh: Optimize edge and face group calculation (commit) (Mikkel Gjoel)
User Interface
- Add support for restricting measure tool dimensions to one axis (commit) (Erik Abrahamsson)
- Split output properties dimensions panel (commit) (Aaron Carlisle)
- Show the UDIM UV grid even when images are loaded (commit) (Jesse Yurkovich)
- Sync the active texture with the node editor and image editor (commit, commit) (Philipp Oeser)
- Increase display size of Blend file thumbnails (commit) (Harley Acheson)
Grease Pencil
- Smooth thickness when joining strokes (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
- Change default Scale Thickness to True in 2D template (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
Python API
- Allow closing areas with scripting (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- File Browser
- Add read-only ‘is_valid’ attribute to mathutils types (commit) (Campbell Barton)
