Blender Development

Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 3 November 2025

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

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.

Anim

  • Operator to manually version animation of the Bone.hide property (commit) – (Christoph Lendenfeld)

Compositor

  • Support domain realization for all GPU types (commit) – (Omar Emara)

Core

  • add –no-window-frame command line option (commit) – (Campbell Barton)

EEVEE

  • SSS: Enable local radiance cache on Metal (commit) – (Clément Foucault)

GPU

  • Add names to GPUFences (commit) – (Jeroen Bakker)

Geometry Nodes

  • Add custom to pack region to pack node (commit) – (Eitan Traurig)
  • Support for baking lists of primitive values and bundles (commit) – (Lukas Tönne)

Geometry Nodes Essentials

  • Full pass of descriptions for node-group sockets and panels (commit) – (Simon Thommes)

Mesh

  • Boolean: Inline simple exact boolean method (commit) – (Hans Goudey)

Metal

  • Rewrite shader interface and source generator (commit) – (Clément Foucault)

Modeling

  • Disable mirror support for the hide operator (commit) – (Campbell Barton)

Motion Tracking

  • Add anamorphic coefficients to Nuke lens distortion model (commit) – (David Murmann)

NDOF

  • Dynamic speed for “Fly” mode (commit) – (Patryk-Skowronski)

Node Wrangler

  • Reload images defined in modifier interface (commit) – (Damien Picard)

Nodes

  • Replace node socket labels with label_fn declaration callback (commit) – (Damien Picard)
  • Node Wrangler: Add “Center Nodes” operator (commit) – (Andrea-Lanaro)

OpenXR

  • Implement Metal Graphics Binding (commit) – (Jonas Holzman)

Template

  • Update default startup template (commit) – (Pablo Vazquez)

UI

  • Fix or improve a few messages (commit) – (Damien Picard)
  • Allow Holding Ctrl Before Area Move Operator Starts (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
  • Tree View: Search filtering (commit) – (Pratik Borhade)
  • Close Color Picker on Mouse Wheel out of Area (commit) – (Harley Acheson)

Vulkan

  • Compute Pipeline Compilation Improvements (commit) – (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Graphics Pipeline Compilation Improvements (commit) – (Jeroen Bakker)

Weekly Reports

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