20 July 2020

Announcements Weekly Updates
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Notes for meeting of Monday, 20 July 2020. 18:00 CEST / UTC 16:00 on #blender-coders on blender.chat.

2.90

  • bcon3 still scheduled for July 22.
  • There will be no splashscreen ready for bcon3/beta.
  • List of targets is updated
    • Some were marked as done because they were postponed or non blocking (particle nodes, Cycles sampling patch).
    • Others were marked as done because they are effectively done and documented.
  • Patches that are blocking for bcon3 and need final review and to be committed:
  • Patches that need final review/committed or postponed:
  • Features with undefined status:
    • Add Object Tool
  • Antonio Vazquez to decide on the SVG I/O feature - it won’t be complete to 2.90 so it is either postponed or released in a known weak state.
  • Dalai Felinto to organize the 2.90 workboard to make the release status more clear.
    • There are too many tasks on the backlog.
    • Some of the TODO tasks are bugs, so not bcon3 blocking features.
  • Julian Eisel suggests bcon3 may need to be postponed, but to be seen based on the pending tasks in the workboard once it is organized.

New Features and Changes

2.90

  • UV Editing
    • Edge-ring selection support (commit) (Campbell Barton)
    • Region fill for path select (commit) (Campbell Barton)
    • Show connected icon for proportional editing (commit) (Campbell Barton)
  • User Interface
    • Status bar can optionally show scene statistics again, through the right click menu (commit) (Harley Acheson)
    • Shortcuts for constraint panels (commit) (Hans Goudey)
    • Improved layout for custom property editor (commit) (Hans Goudey)
    • Disable ‘Alt’ click for tools prompt by default (commit) (Campbell Barton)
    • Improve design of macOS .dmg background (commit) (Francesco Siddi)
    • Draw hook relationship lines (commit) (Campbell Barton)
  • Sculpt
    • Add extra deform types to Smear (commit) (Pablo Dobarro)
  • Overrides
    • 3D viewport: rework make override operator (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
    • Outliner: add operation to override the selected ID and its parents (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
  • Python API
    • Element multiplication for vector, matrix, quaternions (commit) (Campbell Barton)
    • Option to use OpenGL context in RenderEngine.render (commit) (Miguel Pozo)
    • VSE: Python API, allow creation of VSE Movie strips with missing file (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
    • New property Screen.is_scrubbing (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)

2.91 or Later

  • Sculpt: color palettes for sculpt vertex colors (commit) (Pablo Dobarro)
  • macOS: build system changes towards support for arm64 architecture. (commit) (Stefan Werner)

Weekly Progress Reports

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