Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Announcements
- Blender 3.2 has been released on June 8.
- Blender 2.83 LTS versions will no longer be maintained.
Modules & Projects
- 2022-06-07 Render & Cycles Meeting
- 2022-6-8 Sculpt/Texture/Paint Module Meeting
- 2022-06-09 Animation & Rigging meeting
- 2022-06-13 Eevee/Viewport Module Meeting
New Features and Changes
Library Overrides
- Make animated/driven properties system overrides in Outliner (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
- Improve handling of cyclic deps between libraries (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
- Make 'image/movieclip user` properties editable (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
Geometry Nodes
- Add Instance Scale input node (commit) (Johnny Matthews)
- Add Instance Rotation input node (commit) (Johnny Matthews)
- Performance improvements
Curves
Sculpt/Paint
- Improve drawing performance when sculpting with EEVEE enabled (commit) (Joseph Eagar)
- Add operator to duplicate the active color attribute layer (commit) (Dennis Ranish)
Import/Export
- STL: Add new C++ based STL importer (commit) (Iyad Ahmed)
- USD import: Handle material name collisions (commit) (Michael Kowalski)
- OBJ: Use filename as the default object name (commit) (Jesse Yurkovich)
User Interface
- Add Instance Offset operators to Collections property panel (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Performance improvements
- Optimize search from an RNA path + index. (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
- Nodes
- Show node description in Node add menu (commit) (Monique Dewanchand)
- Wayland support
Cycles
- Add Metal backend debug & profiling functionality (commit) (Michael Jones)
Video Sequence Editor
- Improve preview transform auto-keying (commit) (Philipp Oeser)
Python API
- blend_render_info: Zstd support, skip redundant file reading & cleanup (commit) (Campbell Barton)
