Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 22 June 2026

n8n · June 26, 2026

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Welcomes

Le Gia Bao receives a development fund grant to help the EEVEE & Viewport team.

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.

Assets

Explain why asset shows warning icon in tooltip (commit) – (Julian Eisel)
Draw download overlay button on hover (commit) – (Julian Eisel)
Explain why asset shows warning icon in tooltip (commit) – (Julian Eisel)

Compositor

Add playback cache (commit) – (Omar Emara)

Core

Add –console-crash-handler flag (commit) – (Ray Molenkamp)

Cycles

Reduce SVM stack usage with improved node scheduling (commit) – (Brecht Van Lommel)
Raycast Visibility Toggle (commit) – (Miguel Pozo)

EEVEE

Make Sky sun rotation uniform (commit) – (Clément Foucault)

Geometry Nodes

Deactivate Voxels node (commit) – (Lukas Tönne)

Materials

Support remapping materials on Curves and PointCloud (commit) – (Campbell Barton)

Mesh

Improve and simplify modifier evaluation logic (commit) – (Hans Goudey)

Nodes

Remove single-node exception from Frame Selected (commit) – (W_Cloud)
Track animated properties in node dependencies (commit) – (Omar Emara)
Highlight links through reroute nodes (commit) – (Abir Debnath)

Texture Paint

Calculate and store pixel row bounds for coarse filtering (commit) – (Sean Kim)

UI

Persistent “Asset” menu in Asset Browser (commit) – (Nika Kutsniashvili)
Allow disabled text-box buttons to be scrolled/resized (commit) – (Guillermo Venegas)
Theme: Draw Grid Axis Brightness slider as factor (commit) – (Pablo Vazquez)
New Project Icon (commit) – (Harley Acheson)

USD

Add support for matrix attributes (commit) – (Jesse Yurkovich)

WM

Prevent Selection Operators From Overriding Operator Repeat (commit) – (Tariq-Sulley)

Weekly Reports

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