8 December 2025

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8 December 2025
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.

Assets

  • Use reports to communicate errors on asset import (commit) - (Julian Eisel)

Compositor

  • Forward compatibility for Composite node (commit) - (Habib Gahbiche)
  • Implement duplicate sequencer modifier node group (commit) - (Ramon Klauck)

Core

  • Writefile: Add basic ‘log info’ timing when writing blendfile. (commit) - (Bastien Montagne)
  • Preserve ‘stable pointers’ data accross undo steps. (commit) - (Bastien Montagne)

Cycles

  • Show CPU only name under Cycles devices for CPU (commit) - (salipour)

EEVEE

  • Add “EEVEE.render_frame” gpu scope (for renderdoc frame capture) (commit) - (Jordan Justen)
  • Add Material Pipeline States (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Add Glossy reflection evaluation to planar probe capture (commit) - (ClĂ©ment Foucault)

GPU

  • Shader Tool: Add support for string builtin types (commit) - (ClĂ©ment Foucault)

Geometry Nodes

  • Add Minimum stretch unwrap option (commit) - (Eitan Traurig)
  • Register separate operator for each node tool (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

Grease Pencil

  • Allow all remaining sculpt tools to sculpt Bezier handles (commit) - (Casey Bianco-Davis)

Nodes

  • Node Wrangler: Add “Start Frame” property to “Add Image Sequence” Operator (commit) - (IREXTIA)
  • Additional check for availability of next socket before adding spacing (commit) - (IREXTIA)

Paint

  • Improve cancelling stroke support (commit) - (Sean Kim)
  • Expose debug options in UI (commit) - (Sean Kim)

Subdiv

  • Avoid function call overhead for face propagation (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

UI

  • Don’t show progress bar cancel button if not cancel-able (commit) - (Julian Eisel)
  • Area Movement Soft Snapping at Region Heights (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Center Align Non-Overlapped Header Status Text (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Camera (Restrict Render) Icon Changes (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Monitor (Restrict View) Icon Vertical Adjustment (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Show User Fonts with System Fonts (Win32) (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • USB Drive Icon for Windows (commit) - (Harley Acheson)

VSE

  • Add Meta Strip Volume (commit) - (Ramon Klauck)
  • Add Search entry in add menu (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
  • UI: Consistently name scene sync feature (commit) - (Falk David)
  • Move strip time related functions to DNA (commit) - (Richard Antalik)
  • Python API: Add SequenceTimelineChannel.number property (commit) - (John Kiril Swenson)

Vulkan

  • Vertex Input Dynamic State (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Report missing pipeline states (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Workaround AMD driver issue (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)

XR

  • Prevent displaying uninitialized error string on instance creation failure (commit) - (Jonas Holzman)

macOS

  • Animation Player zoom window size fix and keybinds improvements (commit) - (Jonas Holzman)

Weekly Reports

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