Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 27 April 2026

n8n · April 28, 2026

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

Blender Lab Activity Report – Q1 2026 — Blender

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

Add operator to select keyframes by type (commit) – (Christoph Lendenfeld)

Assets

Allow downloading asset with already downloaded asset active (commit) – (Julian Eisel)
Better error in Preferences UI when remote library URL isn’t set (commit) – (Julian Eisel)
Hide source path button for online assets (commit) – (Julian Eisel)
(Almost) always use packing for online assets (commit) – (Julian Eisel)
Show import method for online libraries in Preferences (commit) – (Julian Eisel)
Include download size in tooltip for online assets (commit) – (Julian Eisel)
Disallow linking from online libraries in the asset browser (commit) – (Julian Eisel)
Disable “Open Blend File” for online assets (commit) – (Julian Eisel)
Don’t show “Downloading asset” text in red while dragging (commit) – (Julian Eisel)

BMesh

Take all vertices into account in BM_verts_calc_normal_from_cloud (commit) – (Campbell Barton)

Color Management

Add more color spaces (commit) – (Brecht Van Lommel)

Compositor

Make viewer transform gizmo following image display offset (commit) – (W_Cloud)
Support int4 types internally (commit) – (Omar Emara)

Cycles

Widen ray differentials based on BSDF roughness (commit) – (Brecht Van Lommel)
Texture cache eviction for final renders (commit) – (Brecht Van Lommel)
Texture cache eviction for viewport rendering (commit) – (Brecht Van Lommel)
Texture cache eviction statistics (commit) – (Brecht Van Lommel)

DNA

Add per-member alignment override from parsing (commit) – (Brecht Van Lommel)
Add support for intN/floatN/floatNxN types (commit) – (Brecht Van Lommel)
Support enum types for struct members (commit) – (Brecht Van Lommel)

EEVEE

Port deferred thickness amend to BSL (commit) – (Clément Foucault)
Always support overscan (commit) – (Miguel Pozo)
Port shadow tilemap shaders to BSL (commit) – (Clément Foucault)

Geometry Nodes

New Sample Sound Frequencies node (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)

Grease Pencil

Material Dot Randomization (commit) – (Casey Bianco-Davis)

MaterialX

Support boolean and integer types within exported node-graphs (commit) – (Jesse Yurkovich)

Modeling

Support for snapping to lattice objects (commit) – (Tariq-Sulley)

Nodes

Expose node panel state and UI panel open/close via Python API (commit) – (Brady Johnston)
Affect all selected items when holding alt in node tree interface (commit) – (W_Cloud)

Outliner

Scroll to active selection option (commit) – (Pratik Borhade)

UI

Don’t move image if asset shelf is hidden (commit) – (Omar Emara)
Panel Category Tab Icons (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
Spreadsheet: Make the overflow indication account for the fixed left column (commit) – (W_Cloud)
Add Select All by Trait menu to UV editor (commit) – (Eitan Traurig)
Consistent “Key” menu between Dope Sheet and Graph Editor (commit) – (Christoph Lendenfeld)
Match textbox cursor and selection bounds to line height (commit) – (Guillermo Venegas)
Fix label and tooltip mention of sidebar tabs (commit) – (Pablo Vazquez)
Mention “Panel” in “Pin” (commit) – (Pablo Vazquez)
Scroll lines while hovering textbox buttons (commit) – (Guillermo Venegas)
Always Close Panel Category Tooltip on Region Exit (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
UV: Rename UV Rip to Rip UVs (commit) – (Eitan Traurig)
Rename Import SVG as Curves operator (commit) – (Guillermo Venegas)
Improve textbox mouse cursor feedback (commit) – (Guillermo Venegas)
Tree View: Invert search filter (commit) – (Pratik Borhade)

USD

Use single-value attributes when possible during import (commit) – (Jesse Yurkovich)

UV

Add Select by Winding operator (commit) – (Eitan Traurig)

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