1 December 2025

Announcements Weekly Updates
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1 December 2025
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

  • Blender 5.0.1 bugfix release is planned for December 16th

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

  • Implement custom rna string lookup function for Shapekey drivers (commit) - (Christoph Lendenfeld)
  • Improve evaluation performance with std::move (commit) - (Christoph Lendenfeld)
  • Performance benchmark - check for time every frame (commit) - (Christoph Lendenfeld)

Core

  • LibOverride: Add systematic hierarchy data check/fix to manual resyncs. (commit) - (Bastien Montagne)
  • PackedData: Add sanity checks and workarounds in write code. (commit) - (Bastien Montagne)
  • PackedData: Detect and try to fix corrupted blendfiles. (commit) - (Bastien Montagne)

Cycles

  • Make HIP RT the default (commit) - (salipour)
  • Improve compilation time of tricubic interpolation (commit) - (Weizhen Huang)
  • Skip compiling surface nodes for volume (commit) - (Weizhen Huang)

EEVEE

  • Split forward pipeline to its own framebuffer (commit) - (ClĂ©ment Foucault)
  • Add support for Transparent BSDF through Shader To RGB (commit) - (ClĂ©ment Foucault)

GPU

  • Add support for passing SRT to entrypoint functions (commit) - (Clément Foucault)

Geometry Nodes

  • Remove soft limit on topology nodes (commit) - (Brady Johnston)
  • Support finding nodes by warning messages (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)

Spreadsheet

  • Support showing object values (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)

UI

  • Snapping and Improved Feedback for IMAGE_OT_view_zoom (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Don’t break playhead when drawing subframes (commit) - (Christoph Lendenfeld)
  • Bring back progress bars for file and asset browsers (commit) - (Julian Eisel)
  • Add workspace status text for wm.radial_control operator (commit) - (Sean Kim)
  • Quad View Resizing (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Capitalization of Quad View in Report Message (commit) - (Harley Acheson)

VSE

  • Add Echo sound modifier (commit) - (golden dragon)

Vulkan

  • Graphics Pipeline Libraries (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Dynamic State Stencil (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Add VK_EXT_line_rasterization support (commit) - (Mark van de Ruit)
  • Remove support for matrices as vertex attributes (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Dynamic State front face (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Disable features not available MacOS (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)

Weekly Reports

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