16 January 2023
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Announcements
- The minimum system requirement for Intel Macs has been bumped to macOS 10.15.
- Updated policy regarding High Priority bug reports
Modules & Projects
- 2023-01-09 Grease Pencil Module Meeting
- 2023-01-10 Geometry Nodes sub-module meeting
- 2022-01-10 Blender Admins Meeting
- 2022-01-10 Render & Cycles Meeting
- 2023-01-12 Pipeline, Assets & I/O Meeting
- 2023-01-12 Animation & Rigging module meeting
- 2023-01-16 Eevee/Viewport Module Meeting
New Features and Changes
Sculpt
- Add support for pivot points to curves sculpt (commit) (Joseph Eagar)
Geometry Nodes
- Reorganize geometry nodes add node menu (commit, commit) (Dalai Felinto)
- Add a selection input to the store named attribute node (commit) (Charlie Jolly)
- Only allow geometry nodes modifier for curves and point cloud (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- User interface
- Performance
- Slightly decrease field evaluation overhead (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
Core
- Mesh
- Add boolean custom property type (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Reduce CPU use while idle (commit) (Campbell Barton)
Import/Export
OBJ: add split by objects/groups import options (T103839) (commit) (Aras Pranckevicius)
User Interface
- Include âdrag-â prefix in the short-cut text for menu items (commit) (Campbell Barton)
- Improve wording of node operator descriptions (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Improve CJK Font Preview Differentiation (commit) (Harley Acheson)
Assets
Grease Pencil
- Add ânatural drawingâ time feature to Build modifier (commit) (Marc Chehab)
Weekly Reports
- Aaron Carlisle
- Bastien Montagne
- Campbell Barton
- Chris Blackbourn
- Christoph Lendenfeld
- Clément Foucault
- Dalai Felinto
- Germano Cavalcante
- Hans Goudey
- Jacques Lucke
- Jeroen Bakker
- Julian Eisel
- Miguel Pozo
- Philipp Oeser
- Pratik Borhade
- Richard AntalĂk
- Sergey Sharybin
- Sybren StĂŒvel
- Thomas Dinges
- Weizhen Huang