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Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 30 June 2025

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

Modules & Projects

Technical Discussions

New Features and Changes

This is a selection of changes that happened over the last week. For a full overview including fixes, code only changes and more visit projects.blender.org.

Anim

  • Hide unassigned bone when any collection is marked as solo (commit) – (Pratik Borhade)

Assets

  • Add scene assets (commit) – (Falk David)

Attributes

  • Use AttributeStorage instead of CustomData for Instances (commit) – (Hans Goudey)

Compositor

  • Remove Texture node (commit) – (Omar Emara)
  • Support rotation for split node (commit) – (Habib Gahbiche)
  • Avoid redundant executions for only previews (commit) – (Omar Emara)
  • Support structure type (commit) – (Omar Emara)
  • Add extension mode to Translate node (commit) – (Benjamin Beilharz)

Core

  • Add new ‘system IDprops’ storage for runtime-generated RNA properties. (commit) – (Bastien Montagne)
  • Add more variables for path templates (commit) – (Nathan Vegdahl)

Curves

  • Support cyclic curves in Proportional Editing (commit) – (_илья __)

IO

  • Make new FBX importer the default one, mark Python as legacy (commit) – (Aras Pranckevicius)

NDOF

  • Apply YZ axis swap to rotations (commit) – (Campbell Barton)
  • Removed impact of the auto orbit center on Fly Mode (commit) – (Patryk-Skowronski)

Overlay

  • Move text cache managment to the Overlay (commit) – (Clément Foucault)

UI

  • Collection visibility number shortcuts for the Outliner (commit) – (Pratik Borhade)
  • Fade In Active Editor Border Highlight (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
  • Dope Sheet: Add Cache visualization (commit) – (Pablo Vazquez)
  • Tree View: Click select operator (commit) – (Pratik Borhade)
  • Use Fit as the default frame method for Camera background images (commit) – (Jonas Holzman)
  • Disable remove material unused slots in edit mode (commit) – (Pratik Borhade)

VSE

  • Keyframing in Preview (commit) – (Ramon Klauck)

Vulkan

  • HDR support for Wayland (commit) – (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Switch Qualcomm to switch to OpenGL (commit) – (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Hide WoA message on non Woa devices (commit) – (Jeroen Bakker)

WM

  • Increase the maximum name length for the select_pattern operator (commit) – (Campbell Barton)

Workbench

  • Avoid CustomData lookup when unnecessary (commit) – (Hans Goudey)

Weekly Reports

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