4 May 2026

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4 May 2026
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

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.

Color Management

  • Always do display transform on GPU when showing ImBufs (commit) - (Aras Pranckevicius)

Compositor

  • Support partial static lazy evaluation (commit) - (Omar Emara)
  • Use depsgraph updates for triggering execution (commit) - (Omar Emara)

Core

  • Add wm.save_auto_save operator (commit) - (Sean Kim)
  • Simplify cache directory access (commit) - (Campbell Barton)
  • Report failure for autosaves (commit) - (Sean Kim)

Cycles

  • Implement attribute access in Raycast node (commit) - (Sergey Sharybin)

Draw

  • Mesh: Use default color with no active color attribute (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

EEVEE

  • Add MipMap downsampling to Fast GI input (commit) - (Clément Foucault)
  • Raytracing: Resolve major issues (commit) - (Clément Foucault)
  • Improve AO far occluders (commit) - (Clément Foucault)
  • Port surface shader to BSL (commit) - (Clément Foucault)

FFMPEG

  • Add stereoscopic metadata (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Attach AVStereo3D to stream (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Add panoramic equirectangular metadata (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)

Geometry Nodes

  • Instance Reference Index node (commit) - (Cartesian Caramel)
  • Deduplicate internal fields before evaluation (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Move lists out of experimental (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Support for experimental Typed Bundles (commit) - (Lukas Tönne)

Modeling

  • Flatten from looptools (commit) - (Tariq-Sulley)

Modifiers

  • Improve rotation alignment options in Array modifier asset for better UX (commit) - (Simon Thommes)

Node Tools

  • Additional warning for outdated asset metadata (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

Nodes

  • Preserve grid-alignment on Make Group (commit) - (Endor H)
  • Resize all selected nodes (commit) - (Endor H)
  • Drag multiple selected sockets into editor (commit) - (Endor H)
  • Transfer compatible reroute links on Swap (commit) - (Endor H)

OpenEXR

  • Faster writing of half-precision (FP16) EXRs (commit) - (Aras Pranckevicius)

Outliner

  • Colored icons in collection list (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)

UI

  • Add placeholder to textbox buttons (commit) - (Guillermo Venegas)
  • Show Placeholders During Focus When Empty (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Date & Time Internationalization (commit) - (Harley Acheson)

UV

  • Improve rip operator error message (commit) - (Eitan Traurig)

VSE

  • Modifier Preview Visibility Toggle (commit) - (John Kiril Swenson)

Weekly Reports

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