25 March 2024

Announcements Weekly Updates
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25 March 2024
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

  • Blender 3.3.17 and 3.6.10 LTS updates have been released on Tuesday.

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 changes and more visit projects.blender.org.

Anim

  • Only sort FCurves that need it (commit) - (Christoph Lendenfeld)
  • Add Sharpness to Ease operator (commit) - (Christoph Lendenfeld)

BLF

  • Optimizations and fixes to font shader (commit) - (Aras Pranckevicius)

Compositor

  • Make Hue Correct node wrap (commit) - (JonasDichelle)

Curves

  • Draw evaluated curves and handles in edit mode (commit) - (laurynas)

Cycles

  • Allow enabling OIDN for HIP with environment variable (commit) - (Brecht Van Lommel)

EEVEE

  • Overscan/Border mixed resolution rendering (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)

EEVEE-Next

  • Disable viewport motion blur outside of playback (commit) - (Miguel Pozo)
  • Add correct support for volume anisotropy from probe volumes (commit) - (ClĂ©ment Foucault)
  • Horizon Scan (commit) - (ClĂ©ment Foucault)
  • Shadow resolution scale and adaptive filtering (commit) - (Miguel Pozo)
  • Jittered Shadow Transparency (commit) - (Miguel Pozo)
  • Show world volume properties (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)

GPv3

  • Multithread fill triangulation (commit) - (Falk David)
  • Build Modifer migration (commit) - (YimingWu)
  • Show stats in edit mode (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)
  • Fill texture coordinates system (commit) - (casey bianco-davis)
  • Clean loose points in draw mode menu (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)

Metal

  • Implement support for compressed textures (commit) - (Aras Pranckevicius)

Node Editor

  • Improve padding around buttons and sockets (commit) - (Leon Schittek)

Nodes

  • Have either input or output socket in declaration (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
  • Don’t use combined input/output sockets in node tree interface (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
  • Support accessing socket type directly from declaration (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)

UI

  • Extend description of Grid, Cube, UV Sphere and Ico Sphere (commit) - (Bartosz Kosiorek)
  • Always report to the user when an add-ons fail to load (commit) - (Campbell Barton)
  • Use icon for View in Graph Editor menu item (commit) - (Pablo Vazquez)
  • Correction to Weight of 3D Viewport Overlay Text (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Updated Interface Font to Inter Version 4.0 (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Adjustments to Minimum Area Sizes (commit) - (Harley Acheson)

Weekly Reports

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