13 October 2025

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13 October 2025
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

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

  • Remove “Render Viewport Keyframes” operator (commit) - (Sybren A. StĂĽvel)
  • Time jump operator (commit) - (Nika Kutsniashvili)
  • VSE: Add overlay to visualize scene strip range when using scene syncing (commit) - (Falk David)
  • Move pose bone selection state to bPoseChannel (commit) - (Christoph Lendenfeld)
  • Remove selection rna properties of Bone (commit) - (Christoph Lendenfeld)
  • Indicate Parent Inverse Matrix State in UI (commit) - (Andrej730)
  • Do not access clipboard in Paste Global Transform poll function (commit) - (Sybren A. StĂĽvel)

Armature

  • Elongate tiny bones instead of deleting them (commit) - (Sybren A. StĂĽvel)

Assets

  • Compositor: Add tag color (commit) - (Habib Gahbiche)

BKE

  • CurveMap: Update more curve presets (commit) - (Sean Kim)

BLI

  • inline fast case of CacheMutex.ensure (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)

Benchmark

  • Allow exclusion filters using ! (commit) - (Ray Molenkamp)

Compositor

  • New essential node assets for 5.0 (commit) - (Andy Goralczyk)
  • Make asset shelf visible by default (commit) - (Habib Gahbiche)
  • Perform LGG Color Balance in linear space (commit) - (Omar Emara)
  • Rename Lift to Offset in Color Correction node (commit) - (Omar Emara)

Constraint

  • Geometry Attribute (commit) - (Cartesian Caramel)
  • Order Geometry Attribute alphabetically in menu (commit) - (Cartesian Caramel)

Core

  • De-duplicate bpy.context and context logging (commit) - (Nick Alberelli)
  • Add --no-window-frame command line option (commit) - (Campbell Barton)

Cycles

  • Disable jumptablerdata cxx option for ARM64 devices compiled with MSVC. (commit) - (Sean Stirling)
  • Add Vulkan/oneAPI graphics interop (commit) - (Christoph Neuhauser)
  • oneAPI: Update UI about minimal driver version on Linux (commit) - (Nikita Sirgienko)
  • oneAPI: use ocloc 101.8132 on Windows (commit) - (Nikita Sirgienko)
  • Fix OptiX context log no longer showing up (commit) - (Patrick Mours)
  • oneAPI: Fix duplicated GPU device entries on some setups (commit) - (Nikita Sirgienko)
  • OSL Camera: Allow mm as parameter unit, use as cam distance (commit) - (Damien Picard)

Essentials Assets

  • Adjustments and fixes for the new Geometry Nodes assets (commit) - (Simon Thommes)

GPU

  • Codegen: Native support for repeat zones (commit) - (Miguel Pozo)

Geometry Nodes

  • Show warning in viewer when modifier is disabled (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
  • SDF Grid filtering nodes (commit) - (Brady Johnston)
  • Improve link-drag-search for grid nodes (commit) - (Brady Johnston)
  • Remove default geometry in bake node (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
  • Advect Grid node (commit) - (Brady Johnston)
  • Show single value in viewer node directly (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
  • Change order of sockets for Set Grid Transform (commit) - (Brady Johnston)
  • Support lists and grids in more function nodes (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

Grease Pencil

  • Add Sample Color operator to Vertex Color Mode (commit) - (Casey Bianco-Davis)

Mesh

  • Propagate attributes in automatic edge calculation (commit) - (Iliya Katushenock)
  • Use attribute API in merge by distance code (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Reference UV map and tangents by name in draw requests (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

Nodes

  • Simplify editing group interface based on selected group input/output node (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
  • Minor speedup for usage inferencing (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
  • Skip processing some unlinked outputs in usage inferencing (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
  • Mix alpha in Mix node Mix mode (commit) - (Omar Emara)

Rigify

  • Full Action Slot Support in Blender 5.0 (commit) - (Demeter Dzadik)

UI

  • Cosmetic changes to “Global Transform” sidebar panel (commit) - (Nika Kutsniashvili)
  • Nodes: Show custom color on muted nodes (commit) - (Leon Schittek)
  • Add Preference for Menu Close on Leave (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Toggle Icon Changes (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • SVG Icons for Collection Colors (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Tree View: Active item focus (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)
  • 3D Cursor style and contrast adjustments (commit) - (Pablo Vazquez)
  • Remove Tutorials from Help menu (commit) - (Pablo Vazquez)
  • Slightly shorten 3D cursor colored axis tips (commit) - (Jonas Holzman)
  • Decrease Edge Icons Color Saturation (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Nodes: Sort packed groups below assets in add menu search (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Add tab filter popover to vertical tabs (commit) - (Richard Antalik)
  • Show Movie Clip frame properties UI template (commit) - (irex124)

UV

  • Initial implementation of UV sync select (commit) - (Campbell Barton)
  • Track select sticky & sync options with edit-mesh undo (commit) - (Campbell Barton)
  • Remove per-UV-map selection data (commit) - (Campbell Barton)
  • Update align, randomize & follow active quads for recent API changes (commit) - (Campbell Barton)

VSE

  • Execute modifiers in strip-local space (#145688) (commit) - (Aras Pranckevicius)
  • Add render options for sequencer scene and active scene (commit) - (John Kiril Swenson)

Weekly Reports

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