Blender Development

Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 27 October 2025

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Modules & Projects

Geometry Nodes

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

  • Bring back Timeline as mode of the Dope Sheet (commit) – (Sybren A. Stüvel)
  • Bring back “Render Playblast on Keyframes” operator (commit) – (Sybren A. Stüvel)

Compositor

  • Change asset shelf preview size to 48 (commit) – (Habib Gahbiche)
  • Add Sequencer Strip Info node (commit) – (Ramon Klauck)
  • Support Index Switch node (commit) – (Eqkoss / T1NT1N)

Cycles

  • Increase minimum required AMD HIP GPU driver version on Windows (commit) – (Alaska)

DRW

  • Add debug scope for subdiv extraction (commit) – (Clément Foucault)
  • Add debug flush before each draw engine (commit) – (Clément Foucault)
  • Disable eevee_shadow_shift tests on Linux-AMD (commit) – (Miguel Pozo)

GPU

  • Add support for Min and Max blend modes (commit) – (Clément Foucault)
  • Shader: Parse Create Info (commit) – (Clément Foucault)

Keymap

  • Additional shortcuts for 1x zoom in Image Editor (commit) – (Damien Picard)

Linux

  • Preload system TBB if it is compatible and newer (commit) – (Brecht Van Lommel)

Mesh

  • Boolean: Simplify and share attribute propagation code (commit) – (Hans Goudey)
  • Boolean: Avoid function calls in boolean attribute propagation (commit) – (Hans Goudey)

Node Wrangler

  • Implement Reload Images for Geometry Nodes (commit) – (Damien Picard)

Outliner Purge

  • Do not allow deleting scenes. (commit) – (Bastien Montagne)
  • Support deleting scenes. (commit) – (Bastien Montagne)

UI

  • Outliner Rename Auto-Scroll Only at Edges (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
  • Move the asterisk before “* Save Preferences” (commit) – (Damien Picard)
  • Move asterisk before string to indicate “modified” (commit) – (Damien Picard)
  • Add an optional item_search_property to uiLayout.prop_search. (commit) – (Bastien Montagne)
  • Nodes: Improve readability of Node Group indicator (commit) – (Pablo Vazquez)

VSE

  • Show status bar info when duplicating scenes/masks/movieclips (commit) – (John Kiril Swenson)

Vulkan

  • Remove descriptor buffers (commit) – (Jeroen Bakker)

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