22 June 2026

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22 June 2026
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Welcomes

  • Le Gia Bao receives a development fund grant to help the EEVEE & Viewport team.

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.

Assets

  • Explain why asset shows warning icon in tooltip (commit) - (Julian Eisel)
  • Draw download overlay button on hover (commit) - (Julian Eisel)
  • Explain why asset shows warning icon in tooltip (commit) - (Julian Eisel)

Compositor

  • Add playback cache (commit) - (Omar Emara)

Core

  • Add --console-crash-handler flag (commit) - (Ray Molenkamp)

Cycles

  • Reduce SVM stack usage with improved node scheduling (commit) - (Brecht Van Lommel)
  • Raycast Visibility Toggle (commit) - (Miguel Pozo)

EEVEE

  • Make Sky sun rotation uniform (commit) - (ClĂ©ment Foucault)

Geometry Nodes

  • Deactivate Voxels node (commit) - (Lukas Tönne)

Materials

  • Support remapping materials on Curves and PointCloud (commit) - (Campbell Barton)

Mesh

  • Improve and simplify modifier evaluation logic (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

Nodes

  • Remove single-node exception from Frame Selected (commit) - (W_Cloud)
  • Track animated properties in node dependencies (commit) - (Omar Emara)
  • Highlight links through reroute nodes (commit) - (Abir Debnath)

Texture Paint

  • Calculate and store pixel row bounds for coarse filtering (commit) - (Sean Kim)

UI

  • Persistent “Asset” menu in Asset Browser (commit) - (Nika Kutsniashvili)
  • Allow disabled text-box buttons to be scrolled/resized (commit) - (Guillermo Venegas)
  • Theme: Draw Grid Axis Brightness slider as factor (commit) - (Pablo Vazquez)
  • New Project Icon (commit) - (Harley Acheson)

USD

  • Add support for matrix attributes (commit) - (Jesse Yurkovich)

WM

  • Prevent Selection Operators From Overriding Operator Repeat (commit) - (Tariq-Sulley)

Weekly Reports

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