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CHANGELOG - BLENDER TODAY #208
20 Years of Blender Open Source! / 1580582619414409224
Volkswagen joins Blender Development Fund! / 1580903182427095041
BCON22 Live Podcast https://conference.blender.org
Blender Extensions Platform - https://code.blender.org/2022/10/blen...
CYCLES
Cycles: Add "Bake from Camera" option https://developer.blender.org/D15921
Cycles: Enable MNEE on Metal (macOS higher than 13) https://developer.blender.org/rBba67a3
PERFORMANCE
Curves: Multithread position vertex buffer extraction https://developer.blender.org/rB98aa72
BLI: Unroll vector loops for better performance on GCC https://developer.blender.org/rBd2f0cb
Mesh: Multithread some boolean domain interpolation logic https://developer.blender.org/rB3d209d
Armature Modifier: skip non-deforming vertices in Multi-Modifier mode. https://developer.blender.org/rBf43c2d
Draw: Add missing TBB define to draw module https://developer.blender.org/rB6c4210
Sculpt: Raise pbvh leaf_limit to 400 for dyntopo https://developer.blender.org/rB53d937
Sculpt: Clean up Dyntopo's original triangle api https://developer.blender.org/rB7f133b
UI
Sculpt: Auto-masking UI improvements https://developer.blender.org/D16145
3D View: depth sort candidates in the selection menu https://developer.blender.org/rB47d3e7
Outliner: Use row background color for elements count indicator https://developer.blender.org/rBa5d3b6
UI: New modifier Icons Envelope and Outline https://developer.blender.org/rB6942f0
UI: show the windowing environment in the "About" splash https://developer.blender.org/rBa24f11
Animation: Update tooltips to be more readable https://developer.blender.org/rBda6d6f
Nodes: Add "Legacy" to legacy node UI names, skip in search https://developer.blender.org/rBa1bc05
GEOMETRY NODES
Attribute Node: support accessing attributes of View Layer and Scene. https://developer.blender.org/rBf61ff2
Attribute Node: access geometry node instance attributes https://developer.blender.org/rB2f7234
Geometry Nodes: new Sample UV Surface node https://developer.blender.org/rBe65598
Geometry Nodes: Set Curve Normal https://developer.blender.org/rB748fda
Geometry Nodes: Rename Control Point Neighbors Node https://developer.blender.org/rBc3b6e3
Geometry Nodes: Change order of outputs in topology nodes https://developer.blender.org/rB248def
Geometry Nodes: Add soft min for points node radius input https://developer.blender.org/rBf9a10e
Node: Add blend modes to Mix node link drag search https://developer.blender.org/rBf5e1a2
Nodes: Change Mix node link drag weighting https://developer.blender.org/rBa376c4
Nodes: Duplicate Linked operator + User Preference option for Node Tree https://developer.blender.org/rB6beeba
COMPOSITOR
Realtime Compositor: Implement variable size bokeh blur https://developer.blender.org/rB50943f
Realtime Compositor: Keep interpolation in Scale node https://developer.blender.org/rB1a9480
UV
UV: add grid shape source to the uv editor, and add new "pixel" option https://developer.blender.org/rBb7deca
GREASE PENCIL
GPencil: New Fill Extend lines adjust with MMB https://developer.blender.org/rBbf8507
IO
IO: support Presets in Alembic, Collada, OBJ, STL, USD importers https://developer.blender.org/rB25b745
OBJ: add global scale factor import setting https://developer.blender.org/rB42b1a7
POTPOURRI
Point Cloud: Support applying modifiers https://developer.blender.org/rBb3e6a2
Linux: enable WAYLAND by default https://developer.blender.org/rBf9ab22
Preferences: support loading factory settings only for app-templates https://developer.blender.org/rB781d03
Curve: increase max of order U/V https://developer.blender.org/rB6fac4b
Images: remove option to choose between BW/RGB/RGBA for multilayer EXR save https://developer.blender.org/rB42f406
Support environment variables to override USER & SYSTEM resource paths https://developer.blender.org/rBbf4926
Beginning of automated SVG regression test https://developer.blender.org/rBL63059
FIXES
Fix T100699: Older preferences from 2.93 wont load https://developer.blender.org/rBfabf4e
Fix T90782: add uv pack option to specify margin as a fraction https://developer.blender.org/rBc2256b
Fix T101746: Node copy and paste changes multi-input socket order https://developer.blender.org/rB6c4b72
