13 July 2026

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13 July 2026
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Welcomes

  • Tibo Stans receives a development fund grant to help the Nodes & Physics module.

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

  • Replace with duplicate Action operator (commit) - (Christoph Lendenfeld)

Assets

  • Delay import of listing_downloader on startup (commit) - (Sergey Sharybin)

BMesh

  • Support extracting edge loops with junctions (commit) - (Tariq-Sulley)

Compositor

  • Fallback to group output if no viewer exists (commit) - (Omar Emara)
  • Add ID_RECALC_COMPOSITOR for scene IDs (commit) - (Omar Emara)

EEVEE

  • Add denoising render passes (commit) - (Christoph Neuhauser)

GPU

  • OpenGL: Remove explicit_location_support workaround (commit) - (ClĂ©ment Foucault)
  • Shader: Remove unused auto_resource_location_ (commit) - (ClĂ©ment Foucault)
  • Initialize Vulkan on demand in background mode (commit) - (Brecht Van Lommel)
  • Pass gpu_backend to get_gpu_device_vendor in render tests (commit) - (Mark van de Ruit)

Geometry Nodes

  • Properly propagate selection in point distribution (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

Modeling

  • Relax from looptools (commit) - (Tariq-Sulley)

Overlay

  • Move mesh edit x-ray mode from draw_color_only to draw_line_only (commit) - (Mark van de Ruit)

Paint

  • Add support for automasking in Vertex & Weight Paint (commit) - (Sean Kim)

Render

  • Render pipeline scene if Group Input node exists (commit) - (Omar Emara)

UI

  • Outliner Scroll view to the recently created collection (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)
  • Add tests for pie menus (commit) - (phantomsoldierking)

VSE

  • Improve meta strip selection logic (commit) - (il4n)

Weekly Reports

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