Announcements

• The minimum system requirement for Intel Macs has been bumped to macOS 10.15.
• Updated policy regarding High Priority bug reports

Modules & Projects

• 2023-01-09 Grease Pencil Module Meeting
• 2023-01-10 Geometry Nodes sub-module meeting
• 2022-01-10 Blender Admins Meeting
• 2022-01-10 Render & Cycles Meeting
• 2023-01-12 Pipeline, Assets & I/O Meeting
• 2023-01-12 Animation & Rigging module meeting
• 2023-01-16 Eevee/Viewport Module Meeting

New Features and Changes

Sculpt

• Add support for pivot points to curves sculpt (commit) (Joseph Eagar)

Geometry Nodes

• Reorganize geometry nodes add node menu (commit, commit) (Dalai Felinto)
• Add a selection input to the store named attribute node (commit) (Charlie Jolly)
• Only allow geometry nodes modifier for curves and point cloud (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• User interface
  • Rename Interpolate Domain and Field at Index nodes (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Only set soft range for modifier properties (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Performance
  • Slightly decrease field evaluation overhead (commit) (Jacques Lucke)

Core

• Mesh
  • Move UV layers to generic attributes (commit) (Martijn Versteegh)
  • Move positions to a generic attribute (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Move sharp edge flag to generic attribute (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Add boolean custom property type (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Reduce CPU use while idle (commit) (Campbell Barton)

Import/Export

OBJ: add split by objects/groups import options (T103839) (commit) (Aras Pranckevicius)

User Interface

• Include ‘drag-’ prefix in the short-cut text for menu items (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Improve wording of node operator descriptions (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Improve CJK Font Preview Differentiation (commit) (Harley Acheson)

Assets

• Add “All” asset library (commit, commit) (Julian Eisel)

Grease Pencil

• Add “natural drawing” time feature to Build modifier (commit) (Marc Chehab)

Weekly Reports

• Aaron Carlisle
• Bastien Montagne
• Campbell Barton
• Chris Blackbourn
• Christoph Lendenfeld
• Clément Foucault
• Dalai Felinto
• Germano Cavalcante
• Hans Goudey
• Jacques Lucke
• Jeroen Bakker
• Julian Eisel
• Miguel Pozo
• Philipp Oeser
• Pratik Borhade
• Richard Antalík
• Sergey Sharybin
• Sybren Stüvel
• Thomas Dinges
• Weizhen Huang