29 June 2026

Announcements Weekly Updates
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29 June 2026
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

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

  • Add “Align to Transform Orientation” to armature pose mode (commit) - (RedMser)

Compositor

  • Improve GPU playback performance (commit) - (Omar Emara)
  • Avoid redundant copies in cached images (commit) - (Omar Emara)
  • Add Bit Math node (commit) - (Criss-Ivana)
  • Make Inpaint boundary detection more robust (commit) - (Omar Emara)

Core

  • Increase maximum number of open file handles (commit) - (Brecht Van Lommel)

Cycles

  • Show devices with outdated drivers as disabled in preferences (commit) - (Nikita Sirgienko)
  • Simplify shadow evaluation for homogeneous volume (commit) - (Weizhen Huang)
  • Skip evaluating volume emission for shadows (commit) - (Weizhen Huang)
  • Skip evaluating emission for volume extinction (commit) - (Weizhen Huang)
  • Swap volume exit entry instead of shifting all entries (commit) - (Weizhen Huang)
  • Remove backward motion pass from Denoising Data passes (5.2 only) (commit) - (Brecht Van Lommel)
  • Use identity motion transforms to avoid numerical inaccuracies (commit) - (Christoph Neuhauser)

EEVEE

  • Remove limit of 8 object attribute per material (commit) - (ClĂ©ment Foucault)
  • Add support for normal map node Base option (commit) - (Clément Foucault)
  • Add placeholder for Cycles blocklist (commit) - (Clément Foucault)
  • Combine Minv, T matrices in LTC disk evaluation (commit) - (Mark van de Ruit)

Geometry Nodes

  • NURBS input nodes (commit) - (quackarooni)
  • Skip mixing bake states with zero factor (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Add dynamics assets back into the Simulation catalog (commit) - (Lukas Tönne)

UI

  • Use Action Constraint Icon (commit) - (Christoph Lendenfeld)
  • Page Scroll for views (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)

VSE

  • Update startup template (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)

Vulkan

  • Make default (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)

glTF

  • Enable Animation Pointer for all animation mode export (commit) - (Julien Duroure)
  • Performance enhancement for material (commit) - (Julien Duroure)

Weekly Reports

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