9 March 2026

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9 March 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.

Anim

  • Add loop modes to the playback popover (commit) - (Sybren A. StĂĽvel)
  • Parallelize check of existence keyframe at frame for data block with many actions (commit) - (_илья __)

Attributes

  • Add missing threading to mix_groups function (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Optimize mixing in some cases (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

Compositor

  • Disable Text Info overlay in default workspace (commit) - (Habib Gahbiche)
  • Support integer vector socket (commit) - (Omar Emara)

Cycles

  • Smoothly blend denoising features to avoid artifacts (commit) - (Brecht Van Lommel)
  • oneAPI: Implement proper checks for ocloc binary (commit) - (Nikita Sirgienko)

EEVEE

  • Port Horizon Scan (Fast GI) to BSL (commit) - (ClĂ©ment Foucault)
  • Anisotropic filtering (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)

GPU

  • Shader Preprocessor: Optimize and cleanup implementation (commit) - (ClĂ©ment Foucault)
  • Enable C++ Shader compilation by default (commit) - (ClĂ©ment Foucault)

Geometry Nodes

  • Support finding last occurrence in Find in String node (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
  • Mix more socket values in bakes (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Rename node “Set Curve Order” to “Set NURBS Order” (commit) - (Romain Guimbal)

Grease Pencil

  • Draw: Make fills cyclic by default (commit) - (Falk David)
  • Add icons for the Stroke Mode (commit) - (Falk David)

ImBuf

  • Avoid buffer manipulation during save for the IRIS format (commit) - (Campbell Barton)

Node Wrangler

  • Add support for integer math to nw_merge_selected operator (commit) - (Ido Shahar)

Nodes

  • Create “Constant” submenu for inputs in Shader Node Editor (commit) - (quackarooni)
  • Add integer vector socket (commit) - (Omar Emara)

Sculpt

  • Remove extra user confirmation for entering Dyntopo (commit) - (Sean Kim)
  • Warn and prevent sculpting when shape keys are muted (commit) - (Sean Kim)
  • Scene Project Brush (commit) - (Nicola)

Transform

  • Use a modal keymap and show status bar for “Look at Surface” (commit) - (Eqkoss / T1NT1N)

UI

  • Subdirectory support for Menu.menu_path, use for text templates (commit) - (quackarooni)
  • Python: Hide (most) core add-ons (commit) - (Campbell Barton)
  • Add Copy Constraints To CTRL+L (Link/Transfer Data) Menu (commit) - (Jackson Zheng)
  • Add Icon name in the tooltips when Developers Extra is enabled (commit) - (Dalai Felinto)
  • Show linked/overridden/asset state icon in data-block enum selectors (commit) - (Julian Eisel)
  • Add icons to Set Parent menu (commit) - (Pablo Vazquez)
  • Grey out and add tooltips for disabled buttons in color ramp template (commit) - (quackarooni)

VSE

  • Add “All Channels” snap option (commit) - (John Kiril Swenson)

Vulkan

  • Reduce small allocations in render graph (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)

macOS

  • Liquid Glass App Icon (commit) - (Alexander Käßner)

Weekly Reports

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