6 September 2021

dfelinto · August 30, 2021, 4:37pm

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

Google Summer of Code: The first report is out with the Geometry Nodes related projects.
Credits page updated to handle renames and de-duplications.
Bug triaging updates:
- New canned response for reports from feature branches.
- New procedure for high-priority unclassified reports.
Buildbot now supports (again) branch and patch links.
- To get the patch/branch link click in the # besides the build.
- For example: cycles-x builds.
Blender 3.0 release dates proposal announced:
- September 22 - bcon2
- October 20 - bcon3
- November 24 - bcon4
- ~~December 1~~ - December 3 - bcon5 (release)

New Posterize Node to limit number of values in each color channel (commit) (Aaron Carlisle)
Improve performance by merging equal operations (commit) (Manuel Castilla)

Add support for restricting measure tool dimensions to one axis (commit) (Erik Abrahamsson)
Split output properties dimensions panel (commit) (Aaron Carlisle)
Show the UDIM UV grid even when images are loaded (commit) (Jesse Yurkovich)
Sync the active texture with the node editor and image editor (commit, commit) (Philipp Oeser)
Increase display size of Blend file thumbnails (commit) (Harley Acheson)

Smooth thickness when joining strokes (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
Change default Scale Thickness to True in 2D template (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)

Allow closing areas with scripting (commit) (Harley Acheson)
File Browser
- Expose list of selected files in context (commit) (Julian Eisel)
- Expose relative path of a file (commit) (Julian Eisel)
Add read-only ‘is_valid’ attribute to mathutils types (commit) (Campbell Barton)