Announcements

• As part of the four 2022 Blender strategic targets, a workshop to help refine the Overrides topic was held during the week of the 17th of January at the Blender HQ in Amsterdam.

New Features and Changes

Cycles

• Support rendering attributes for Curves objects (commit) (Kévin Dietrich)
• macOS support
  • Enable Metal on AMD GPUs, set macOS minimum versions (commit) (Michael Jones)
  • Show Metal device in preferences also on Intel Macs (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
  • Expose “Use MetalRT” checkbox (commit) (Michael Jones)

Library Overrides

• Use new ‘hierarchy root’ info in for more robust operations with complex heirarchies (commit, commit) (Bastien Montagne)
• Performance improvements
  • Improve file loading performance by remapping multiple referenced data-blocks together (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Add partial override resync (commit) (Bastien Montagne)

Grease Pencil

• Massively improve the performance of some operations using an update cache (commit) (Falk David, Yann Lanthony)

Compositor

• Add a “Sharpen Less” kernel for the Filter Compositor node (commit) (Colin Basnett)

User Interface

• Enable Filtering of woff and woff2 Fonts in the file browser(commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Node editor
  • Change computation of node socket position to align with label (commit) (Dominik Fill)
  • Improve node drop shadow with different zoom levels and high resolution displays (commit) (Leon Schittek)
  • Use a dynamic header color for the Map Range node (commit) (Charlie Jolly)
  • Fix poor selection behavior inside frame nodes (commit) (Philipp Oeser)
  • Geometry Nodes
    • Show indicator when realize instances node is in legacy mode (commit) (Jacques Lucke)

EEVEE

• Performance improvements
  • Support the no-op Bump node optimization like in Cycles. (commit) (Alexander Gavrilov)

Modeling

• Add option to select mesh vertices by similar vertex crease (commit) (Kévin Dietrich)

Curves

• Rename in-development “Hair” data-block, types, and internal code to “Curves” (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Video Sequence Editor

• Add filter method to strip transform (commit) (Dimitry Kaplin)
• Use floats for transformation offset (commit) (Richard Antalik)

Weekly Reports

• • Bastien Montagne
  • Campbell Barton
  • Germano Cavalcante

• Hans Goudey
• Jacques Lucke
• Jeroen Bakker
• Julian Eisel
• Omar Emara
• Philipp Oeser
• Pratik Borhade
• Richard Antalik
• Sebastian Parborg
• Sybren Stüvel
• Thomas Dinges