Development
- Developers start updating the manual this week. (organization task)
New Features and Changes
The focus continues to be on stablizing for the 2.80 release. About 105 bugs were fixed last week.
- COLLADA: reworked material import & export. (details) (Gaia Clary)
- Gizmo’s can now activate on drag or on press, with a preference in the keymap to choose. With drag objects behind the gizmo can be selected, but it introduces a few pixels delay when starting to drag. (Campbell Barton)
- Constraints now have icons in the outliner and properties editor. (Alessio Monti, Andrzej Ambroż)
- Keymap: drag to box select now works in all animation editors. (Jacques Lucke)
- Python API: allow external render engines to use Eevee for LookDev shading. (details) (Brecht Van Lommel)
Weekly Reports
Summer of Code
Follow progress and weekly reports in the Summer of Code forum