Blender 2.8 Beta
Finally released! For info see here:
The bug tracker is open again for general reports and is being flooded. Developers focus on triaging and fixing. Some interesting tracker stats are here.
New Features and Changes
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Left click select as default, spacebar defaults to play animation (video).
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Toolbar added in node editor.
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Font textbox overflow methods: overflow, truncated and scale-to-fit (release notes).
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Better thread scheduling for AMD Threadripper and EPYC NUMA.
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New Timer API for addons. (docs)
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Workbench studio lights were changed from HDRIs to 4 distant lights, have preset support, and now use PBR materials.
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Cycles: new runtime profiler that measures time spent in various parts of the CPU kernel.
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Annotations have onion skinning support again, useful for animation notes.
Other Projects
- New skin for the developer wiki is coming. (task)