7 March 2022
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Announcements
- Blender has been accepted for Google Summer of Code 2022!
New Features and Changes
User Interface
- Support drag & drop of materials to the property editor panel (commit) (Azeem Bande-Ali)
- File browser:
- Allow dragging anywhere in a file preview tile to drag (commit) (Julian Eisel)
- Outliner:
- Node editor:
- Improve readability of selected node links (commit) (Leon Schittek)
- Search
- Take word order into account in string search (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
- Tools/Keymap
Curves
- Sculpt:
- Add brush to add curves on surface (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
- Geometry nodes:
- “Legacy” curve object type:
- Sync active material with selection (commit) (Red Mser)
UV Editor
- Addd edge selection support (commit) (Siddhartha Jejurkar)
Video Sequence Editor
- Allow creating scene in strip properties (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
Grease Pencil
- Improve subdivision modifier (commit) (Henrik Dick)
- Performance improvements
- Improve multi-user gpencil data performance with modifiers (commit) (Yann Lanthony, _Falk David")
Python API
- Add new
annotation_pre
&annotation_post
handlers (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)