Blender Development

Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 22 September 2025

n8n ·

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Blender Conference in Amsterdam

Modules & Projects

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.

Color Management

  • Show descriptions for displays, views, and looks (commit) – (Damien Picard)
  • Better preserve views when switching between displays (commit) – (Brecht Van Lommel)

Compositor

  • Turn Double Edge Mask node menus into inputs (commit) – (Omar Emara)
  • Add a kernel convolution mode to glare node (commit) – (Mohamed Hassan)

Core

  • Reduce cost of DupliObject random_id generation (commit) – (Jesse Yurkovich)

EEVEE

  • Move AOV clearing to its own separate pass (commit) – (Clément Foucault)
  • Optimize Principled BSDF compilation time (commit) – (Clément Foucault)
  • Detect simple GBuffer packing cases (commit) – (Clément Foucault)

GPU

  • Split GLSL, C++ and metal shader defines (commit) – (Clément Foucault)
  • FrameBuffer (commit) – (Clément Foucault)
  • Shader Codegen: Split different graph includes (commit) – (Clément Foucault)

Logging

  • Cycles: Change various warnings to errors (commit) – (Brecht Van Lommel)

Mesh

  • Restructure join operator for simplicity, speed, consistency (commit) – (Hans Goudey)

Metal

  • Add workaround for imageAtomic synchronization issue (commit) – (Clément Foucault)

Modeling

  • Support adding lattices to selected objects (commit) – (tariqsulley)
  • Use the central vertex when finding duplicates (commit) – (Campbell Barton)

Render

  • Add Multiple Scattering Sky Texture (commit) – (marcopavanello)

Sculpt

  • Improve and optimize undo data compression (commit) – (Hans Goudey)

UI

  • Add ability to collapse paint pressure curves (commit) – (Sean Kim)
  • Geometry Nodes (commit) – (Pablo Vazquez)
  • Move OpenGL render operators to sub-menu (commit) – (Pablo Vazquez)
  • Amend description of asset shelf registration property (commit) – (Julian Eisel)
  • Use regular sentence case for Arrange/Align description (commit) – (Eitan Traurig)
  • Shorten Display Device to Display, and View Transform to View (commit) – (Brecht Van Lommel)

Weekly Reports

Author n8n
Advertisement