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Modules & Projects
New Features and Changes
Outliner
- Performance improvements
- Workaround for big performance issue in Library Overrides mode (commit, commit, commit) (Julian Eisel)
- Use C++ map instead of GHash (commit) (Julian Eisel)
Grease Pencil
- New operator to convert strokes to perimeter. (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
Cycles
- Add Sobol-Burley sampling pattern (commit) (Nathan Vegdahl)
- Disable Metal inlining optimization on Apple GPUs (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
User Interface
- Add View pie to File Browser (commit) (Fynn Grotehans)
- Increase range of font size for text editor & console (commit) (Campbell Barton)
- Apply gamma correction to text (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Avoid the word “Use” in checkbox labels (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
Library Overrides
- Add Make/Reset/Clear entries to IDTemplate contextual menu (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
- Preserve active object when creating overrides (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
- Remove the ‘make all editable’ user preferences (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
- Tweaks to new menus in Outliner (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
UV Editor
- Respect UV selection for smart UV, cube, sphere and cylinder projection (commit) (Chris Blackbourn)
- Add geometry driven UV relax brush (commit) (Chris Blackbourn)
- Support live unwrap in grab tool (commit) (Chris Blackbourn)
- Add constrain-to-bounds support for UV relax, UV grab and UV pinch (commit) (Chris Blackbourn)
- Improve UV sculpt tools with boundary support and pin support (commit) (Chris Blackbourn)
Wayland
- Add NDOF/3D Mouse support (commit) (Campbell Barton)
Render
- Introduce headless OpenGL rendering on Linux (commit) (Sebastian Parborg)
- Support Ctrl-C to cancel rendering with headless builds (commit) (Campbell Barton)
EEVEE-Next
- New implementation for heirarchical Z-buffers (commit) (Clément Foucault)
Realtime Compositor
- Implement nodes
- Bilateral blur node (commit) (Omar Emara)
- Despeckle node (commit) (Omar Emara)
- Directional blur node (commit) (Omar Emara)
- Filter node (commit) (Omar Emara)
- Bokeh image node (commit) (Omar Emara)
Miscellaneous
- Evaluate metaball objects as mesh components (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Optimize adding notifier duplication check (commit) (Campbell Barton)
Weekly Reports
Google Summer of Code
About the Author
Bart Veldhuizen I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.
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