Blender 5.1 just got BETTER! — Blender Today LIVE #279

Changelog between March 31, 2026 - April 14, 2026 at 12:00

371 commits in total, of which 165 are fixes, 46 cleanup, and 33 refactors.

Alembic

• 🔸 Alembic: Support Point Cloud single value radius for import - Hans Goudey

Animation

• Anim: Add unit tests for pose slide operators - Christoph Lendenfeld
• 🔸 Anim: Allow Auto-IK reverse-IK with non-connected parent - paulhanson2000
• Anim: Add unit tests for pose slide operators - Christoph Lendenfeld

Assets

• Assets: Make remote library listing work with custom properties - Julian Eisel
• Assets: Rework how asset libraries access their Preferences definition - Julian Eisel
• 🔸 Assets: "Download Asset" in asset shelf context menu for online assets - Julian Eisel
• Assets: Make finished asset downloads update asset shelf - Julian Eisel
• 🔸 Assets: Show online icon in asset shelves on asset highlight - Julian Eisel
• Assets: use mutex to protect parallel loading of asset catalogs - Sybren A. Stüvel

Benchmark

• Benchmark: Run multiple times and report avg/min/max - Jeroen Bakker
• Benchmark: Use markdown for status table - Jeroen Bakker

BLF

• 🔸 BLF: vertically reposition combining marks that overlap the base glyph - Campbell Barton

BLI

• 🔸 BLI: Optimize a few IndexMask array operations - Hans Goudey
• BLI: Use new IndexMask utilities for Virtual array methods - Hans Goudey

Build

• Build: Linux: Fix install_linux_packages.py command -v subprocess.run() error - Jonas Holzman
• 🔸 Build: Bump minimal CMake version to 3.21 - Clément Foucault
• Build: Fix shader_tool continually rebuilding with Ninja - Brecht Van Lommel
• Build: Set ARMV8.2-A as minimum architecture for Linux ARM64 - Brecht Van Lommel

Cleanup

• Cleanup: Reduce warning due recent changes - Jeroen Bakker
• Cleanup: Use BLI_color_types.hh instead of BLI_color.hh - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: EEVEE: Deduplicate node socket value checks - Weizhen Huang
• Cleanup: quiet unused variable warnings in release mode - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: resolve various Python warnings - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: spelling in comments (make check_spelling_*) - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: sort cmake file lists - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: quiet nonnull GCC warning by moving the check into a function - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: WM: Use lowercase wm prefix for various WM types - Jonas Holzman
• Cleanup: use ED_node_is_compositor - Habib Gahbiche
• Cleanup: ImBuf: Use type enum instead of int - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: ImBuf: Use std::string to store file path - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: fix code comments and remove unused operator - Pratik Borhade
• Cleanup: Remove profile data - Clément Foucault
• Cleanup: Geometry Nodes: Remove legacy settings access from RNA - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: Geometry Nodes: Rename settings to settings_legacy - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: EEVEE: Shadow: Invalid framebuffer name - Clément Foucault
• Cleanup: Use attribute math mixing utility - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: Geometry Nodes: Separate point distribute offsets and sampling - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: ImBuf: Create "real" ImBuf for radial control view - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: ImBuf: Make display buffer pointer const - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: ImBuf: Const correctness for byte to float transform - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: quite "unused variable" warning - Philipp Oeser
• Cleanup: Rename draw_handle constructor parameters - Miguel Pozo
• Cleanup: Grease Pencil: Remove legacy packing macros - Clément Foucault
• Cleanup: Reorder ColormanageProcessor fields - Sean Kim
• Cleanup: XR: Use CLOG logging in GHOST XR instead of printf/fprintf - AbinjithTK
• Cleanup: XR: Display event type string when logging unhandled events - Jonas Holzman
• Cleanup: Use accessor colorspace functions for byte and float buffers - Sean Kim
• Cleanup: glTF: Rename active uvmap to render - Julien Duroure
• Cleanup: quiet "unused variable" warning - Philipp Oeser
• Cleanup: scale the whole glyph metrics for VFont fallback glyphs - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: resolve divide by zero in 3D text justify calculation - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: Move LibraryFlag enum from DNA_ID.h to DNA_ID_enums.h - Bastien Montagne
• Cleanup: EEVEE: Wrap several functions into namespaces or classes - Clément Foucault
• Cleanup: Silence copy elision warning - Sean Kim
• Cleanup: CMake formatting - Jonas Holzman
• Cleanup: EEVEE: De-duplicate checks for transmissive closures - Weizhen Huang
• Cleanup: make format - Brecht Van Lommel
• Cleanup: Remove residual auto-address spaces defines - Sergey Sharybin
• Cleanup: Various non-functional Palette changes - Sean Kim
• Cleanup: Remove unused method - Sean Kim
• Cleanup: BLI: Skip group index sampling if there is only one group - илья _
• Cleanup: GPU: Shader Tool: Split processing path per language - Clément Foucault
• Cleanup: Const qualifiers in Cycles attribute utilities - Sergey Sharybin
• Cleanup: Add comment about bit-size of LibraryFlag. - Bastien Montagne

Compositor

• 🔸 Compositor: Add Object Info node - Omar Emara
• Compositor: Use type default value for invalid links - Omar Emara
• Compositor: Track time dependencies in depsgraph - Omar Emara

Core

• Core: Add some very simple initial global undo unittests. - Bastien Montagne
• Core: Refactor BKE_id_delete API. - Bastien Montagne

Curves

• Curves: Keep radius single value status with add curves tool - Hans Goudey

Cycles

• Cycles: Add fundamental support for upscaling denoisers - Patrick Mours
• Cycles: Adding OSL closures translucent_bsdf and transparent_bsdf - Owen O'Malley
• Cycles: Use implicit sharing to avoid copying some attributes - Hans Goudey
• Cycles: Add NodeType::get_type_names() for iterating all node types - Brecht Van Lommel
• Cycles: oneAPI: Use sycl::inclusive_scan_over_group instead of ballot - Rafal Bielski
• 🔸 Cycles: Add Cast Shadows options to world - Sergey Sharybin
• Cycles: Support geometry motion blur with an even number of steps - Brecht Van Lommel

Deps

• Deps: Linux: Fix Blosc build errors with GCC 15 - Jonas Holzman

Docs

• Docs: Update RNA / User Manual Mappings - Aaron Carlisle
• Docs: bpy: Improve types.Int/FloatProperty soft/hard_min/max description - Jonas Holzman

DRW

• DRW: Point Cloud: Make shader file not depend on draw_object_infos - Clément Foucault
• DRW: Port View and Model lib to BSL - Clément Foucault

EEVEE

• 🔸 EEVEE: Fast GI: Resolve major issues - Clément Foucault
• EEVEE: Port LUT precomputation to BSL - Mark van de Ruit
• EEVEE: Rename some shader files to BSL extension - Clément Foucault
• EEVEE: Port raytrace denoise pipeline to BSL - Clément Foucault
• EEVEE: Update references - Clément Foucault
• EEVEE: Refactor of BxDF/LTC LUT access - Mark van de Ruit
• EEVEE: Workaround assert in update_mipmaps - Clément Foucault
• EEVEE: Port Volume Pipeline shaders to BSL - Clément Foucault

Fixes

• Fix: Remove redundant check for scrolling views - Pratik Borhade
• Fix #156352: EEVEE: Broken Render Region in Viewport Image Render - Philipp Oeser
• Fix: Vulkan: Disable texture pools on legacy Intel iGPUs - Christoph Neuhauser
• Fix: PyDoc format of gpu.types classes do not align with other classes - nutti
• Fix #141180: Grease Pencil: Strokes are displayed as polylines in Weight Paint mode - Casey Bianco-Davis
• Fix #156634: Texture paint normal falloff broken for all-sharp faces - Hans Goudey
• Fix: nullptr check when loading online assets without custom properties - Sybren A. Stüvel
• Fix: Cycles: Number of Integrator node sockets is beyond limit - Patrick Mours
• Fix crash caused by uninitialized memory use in the sequencer - Campbell Barton
• Fix: Mantaflow memory leak in PbArgs temporary storage - Brecht Van Lommel
• Fix #156587: Crash when Ctrl + Scroll on empty item list in group node setting - Pratik Borhade
• Fix: Node Wrangler: Outdated math operations list - quackarooni
• Fix: Cycles denoise animation test is flaky with parallel ctest - Brecht Van Lommel
• Fix: Cycles: Wrong minimum value for render texture resolution - Brecht Van Lommel
• Fix #156474, #156473: Cycles wrong mipmap with some types of texture coords - Brecht Van Lommel
• Fix: Cycles: Generate texture cache wrong error on missing file - Brecht Van Lommel
• Fix #156698: Windows: Use the character count instead of buffer size when setting window title - Owen Mooney
• Fix: Build error in Cycles Hydra render delegate after implicit sharing - Brecht Van Lommel
• Fix #156686: Crash registering node tool from outdated asset meta-data - Hans Goudey
• Fix #156687: Even-odd CDT concave polygons resulting in an empty fill - Campbell Barton
• Fix: File stuck highlighted after renaming in file browser. - Nik
• Fix #155467: Artifacts Wayland + NVIDIA 595 - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix: GPU compositor has bad implicit conversion - Omar Emara
• Fix #156512: Using Asset Browser with many asset libraries causes lag - Julian Eisel
• Fix: Error in earlier commit - Julian Eisel
• Fix #139646: Invalid node editor scissor tests - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix: Memory leak in cached image code - Omar Emara
• Fix: release variance_history_tx after last use in eevee_raytrace - Mark van de Ruit
• Fix #156748: Geometry Nodes modifiers lose pointer property on save/reload - Tibo Stans
• Fix #116725: Reset active section after factory settings disables Developer Extras - Kyle Jensen
• Fix: Quiet warning WITH_PYTHON=OFF - Guillermo Venegas
• Fix #156431: LineArt: Correct collection flags inheritance - YimingWu
• Fix: Crash when opening certain files with library overrides - Nathan Vegdahl
• Fix #156643: Animrig: Don't insert frames for keying sets without path - YimingWu
• Fix #156414: UI: Area dock cursor doesn't update when executed from hotkey - Pratik Borhade
• Fix #156647: Use-after-free with Stop at End Frame animation playback - Sybren A. Stüvel
• Fix #156757: quick fur operator uses old geometry nodes modifier api - Jacques Lucke
• Fix #156381: Axes-to-Rotation node needs a fallback function - Lukas Tönne
• Fix #156801: Don't remap edge vertices of edges that are not part of a face - Martijn Versteegh
• Fix #156819: UI: Dragging a menu executes the first item in the list - Guillermo Venegas
• Fix #156651: assert when building geometry nodes lazy function - Jacques Lucke
• Fix: UI: Store popup attach direction in button - Guillermo Venegas
• Fix: Negative ref-count assert in debug builds using bpy_run_string_exec_with_locals_assume_gil - Guillermo Venegas
• Fix #151154: rotation floating point errors with 90-degree rotations - Campbell Barton
• Fix #156860: Renaming UV maps causes them to disappear - Tariq-Sulley
• Fix #156791: Cannot draw asset shelf header when disabled from the rna property - Pratik Borhade
• Fix #156415: glTF UVMaps export - Julien Duroure
• Fix: Missing updates in Set Attribute operator for full domain selection - Hans Goudey
• Fix: PyDoc: BPyOpsSubModOp.poll positional-only arg - Andrej730
• Fix #156786: Invalid links crash GPU compositor - Omar Emara
• Fix #156830: GPU Compositor crashes for huge resolutions - Omar Emara
• Fix #156778: Capitalize 'Workbench' in VSE tooltip - Alaska
• Fix (studio-reported) GeoNode Modifier: Crash when missing linked geonode ID. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix (unreported) Core: Invalid memory access at readfile time. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix: GPU: Shader Tool: Exception on empty token error - Clément Foucault
• Fix #156521: Grease pencil modifier add menu shows duplicate categories - Karim
• Fix: Experimental texture paint doesn't tag image as dirty - Sean Kim
• Fix #156793: Sculpt ignore_background_click setting not always used - Henry Jiang
• Fix #111039: Texture Paint Backface Culling does not work with symmetry - Philipp Oeser
• Fix #156601: Crash when relocating a linked library. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix #156496: Add Intel workaround for VKImageCache - Mark van de Ruit
• Fix: GPU: Shader Tool: Match error message typo - Clément Foucault
• Fix: VSE: Text style presets missing location - Pablo Vazquez
• Fix: GPU: Shader assert condition not escaped in printf - Clément Foucault
• Fix #156415: Ensure an active UV map for meshes when applying a modifier - Martijn Versteegh
• Fix: Accidental change in versioning code - Falk David
• Fix: GPU: Shader Tool: Few issues with template instantiation - Clément Foucault
• Fix #156694: Rendering Anamorph with Mulit-Layer EXR cannot save file - Philipp Oeser
• Fix #141156: Broken Stereo view in EEVEE - Miguel Pozo
• Fix #156514: Crash in bpy.ops.preferences.keymap_restore - Brecht Van Lommel
• Fix #156958: Tooltip cleanup for conversion_threshold property. - YimingWu
• Fix #156483: Raycast node does not work properly if a direction is specified - илья _
• Fix: Grease Pencil: Draw Tool option to hide fill while drawing broken - Falk David
• Fix: GPU: Shader Tool: Incomplete template support - Clément Foucault
• Fix: Geometry Nodes: Color input soft limits are broken - Falk David
• Fix: Grammar error in recently added error message - Hans Goudey
• Fix: Experimental paint mode doesn't update certain UI elements for active objects - T0MIS0N
• Fix #143244: Geometry Nodes: Disable header UI for unsupported objects - MarcHamamji
• Fix #156993: Mask from Cavity creates inverted mask - Sean Kim
• Fix: BLF control character check used wrong codepoints for LF/CR - Campbell Barton
• Fix #155155: Vertex paint fails when no active color attribute exists - shivesh
• Fix #156854: GPU buffer, invalid Python buffer access - Campbell Barton
• Fix: BLF word-wrap boundbox returning negative values for empty content - Campbell Barton
• Fix: BLF used non-deterministic spacing for control characters - Campbell Barton
• Fix: BLF buffer draw position to match GPU path - Campbell Barton
• Fix: Sequencer can use potentially wrong color space - Sean Kim
• Fix: Ensure an active UV map for meshes when converting to mesh - Philipp Oeser
• Fix #156812: Error regarding online assets when dragging local assets - Philipp Oeser
• Fix #155844: Nondeterministic 3D Viewport Trackpad orbiting direction on Windows - Jonas Holzman
• Fix #154325: UI inconsistency in Principled BSDF Anisotropy label - Tibo Stans
• Fix: crash when pasting pose without objects in buffer - Christoph Lendenfeld
• Fix: Asset browser loading stuck with invalid remote libary - Julian Eisel
• Fix #156734: Cycles texture cache issue with missing derivatives - Brecht Van Lommel
• Fix (chat-reported) assert in depsgraph building of scene. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix #156955: Crash from node group asset meta data inconsistencies - Hans Goudey
• Fix #156840: Freestyle edge type section not working correctly - Le Gia Bao
• Fix #156766: EEVEE: Shadow: Performance regression - Clément Foucault
• Fix #156481: EEVEE: Some node combinations can corrupt the Raycast node across the entire scene - Miguel Pozo
• Fix #157071: Sculpt brush toggle doesn't reset in certain situations - Sean Kim
• Fix: Silence rna.define warning for cavity_factor - Sean Kim
• Fix #157033: BLF combining characters invalid position & kerning error - Campbell Barton
• Fix: combining character support for 3D text - Campbell Barton
• Fix #155442: Node input percentage slider displays with incorrect minimum - Pratik Borhade
• Fix #156885: glTF: UI: Enable UIList filter for glTF Collections - Julien Duroure
• Fix: glTF: Fix preparation of additional textures - Julien Duroure
• Fix #156989: Make the eraser and the startcap/endcap dropdowns work on the same attribute type - Martijn Versteegh
• Fix #156273: Normalization in Graph Editor error with flat curves - Christoph Lendenfeld
• Fix #155019: Text objects in edit mode won't select characters by material slot - Tariq-Sulley
• Fix: (unreported) Core: Invalid memory access at readfile time. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix #156995: Pose library applies to bones hidden by collection - Christoph Lendenfeld
• Fix: Benchmark: Missing output keys - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix #156603, #155951: Cycles corner normals not preserved through displace - Brecht Van Lommel
• Fix #156996: String To Curves node Truncate mode has no Height input - Kévin Dietrich
• Fix #156668: Support initialization of the color and float value nodes in shaders on a drag-search creation - илья _
• Fix #156815: Crash after asset browser refresh with no 3D view visible - Hans Goudey
• Fix: Geometry nodes realize instances material index mapping - Hans Goudey
• Fix: cattrs was not listed as a dependecy for the bpy module - Sebastian Parborg
• Fix #154317: Eevee: Floating point precision issue with Mix node - Simon Thommes
• Fix: String sockets in compositor leak memory - Omar Emara
• Fix #127707: wrong parameters passed to NodeTreeInterfaceSocket.from_socket & init_socket - Kévin Dietrich
• Fix #156438: constraints missing decimal digits when values are >= 100 - Henry Jiang
• Fix: crash when loading file from within asset library - Sybren A. Stüvel
• Fix #155953: Geometry nodes bake paths not reported via foreach_path - Hans Goudey
• Fix #156810: Restore local scissor clipping for curve and scope widgets - Tibo Stans
• Fix #157126: Crash at startup when compiled with SDL support - Campbell Barton
• Fix #157131: Editor tooltip overlapping title text - Le Gia Bao
• Fix: Benchmark: Python error when output not found - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix #142229: Disable texture pool on Qualcomm 8cx Gen 3 devices. - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix: collection preview lost when writing via bpy.data.libraries.write() - Sybren A. Stüvel
• Fix: Targetless IK Stretch - paulhanson2000
• Fix #157072: Renaming Keyframed Shapekey results in frozen Animation - Philipp Oeser
• Fix #156765: Prevent crashes whan an empty attribute is read as single value - Martijn Versteegh
• Fix #157176: EEVEE: Wrong Camera Shift Y in viewport - Le Gia Bao
• Fix: Node Editor: memory leak when creating inputs via socket drag/drop - Kévin Dietrich
• Fix: Node tools data-block inputs broken - Hans Goudey
• Fix: Silence previous declaration warning - Sean Kim
• Fix #157219: Bevel modifier weight attribute search broken - Hans Goudey
• Fix: Attribute unique name issue in edit mode - Hans Goudey
• Fix: VSE: Preview gizmos don't draw when active scene differs from sequencer scene - John Kiril Swenson
• Fix #157220: Crash when painting in image editor without image - Sean Kim
• Fix #157213: Sculpt: Crash when stroke starts and ends in empty area - Sean Kim
• Fix: Texture & Image paint doesn't work - Sean Kim
• Fix #157233: Disable 'Input Attribute Toggle' for String type - Le Gia Bao
• Fix: Benchmark: Error when rendering graphs - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix #157000: Vertex paint operations also affect hidden geometry - Philipp Oeser
• Fix #156871: Blender crashes with path guiding in viewport or final render - sherholz
• Fix #156094: Symmetrize armature duplicates FCurves of Action Constraints - Christoph Lendenfeld
• Fix: GPU: Shader resource check had mismatched variable names - Clément Foucault
• Fix #156892: EEVEE: Regression in max allowed number of samplers - Miguel Pozo
• Fix: GPU mipmaps: Incorrect usage flags - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix: GPU: Shader Tool: Exception thrown on windows in - Clément Foucault
• Fix part of #156911: link hierarchy root when linking liboverride ID. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix part of #156911: validate liboverride hierarchy roots after ID deletion. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix: EEVEE: Remove previous layer bindings for opaque - Miguel Pozo
• Fix: ED_view3d_draw_offscreen null dereference - Miguel Pozo
• Fix #157210: GPU: Move VKTexturePool allocations to discard pool. - Mark van de Ruit
• Fix #157237: Overlay: UV-grid drawn incorrectly - Le Gia Bao
• Fix #156275: Overlay: push grid z-order to far above UDIM tiles - Mark van de Ruit
• Fix: Assets: Null pointer dereference in case of assert failure - Julian Eisel
• Fix: Asset saving potentially saving to online library cache - Julian Eisel
• Fix: EEVEE: Volume indirect lighting is disabled by default - Clément Foucault
• Fix #157183: Crash if Group Output has unused output connected - Omar Emara
• Fix: Assert during drag operation near edges of tree view - Pratik Borhade
• Fix #157309: Grease Pencil misses "Assign Shortcut" for brushes - Philipp Oeser
• Fix: incorrect types size in library flag reading - Bastien Montagne

Functions

• Functions: move bit math to multi-function registry - Jacques Lucke
• Functions: make conversion from untyped to typed field more explicit - Jacques Lucke

Geometry Nodes

• Geometry Nodes: optimize division by single value - Jacques Lucke
• Geometry Nodes: remove field category and just sort by name instead - Jacques Lucke
• 🔸 Geometry Nodes: Rename attribute node - Hans Goudey
• Geometry Nodes: Runtime RNA for node tree interface - Jacques Lucke
• 🔸 Geometry Nodes: support recursive closures - Jacques Lucke
• Geometry Nodes: Increase alignment of socket value type - Hans Goudey
• Geometry Nodes: Use single value for Distribute Points on Faces radius - Hans Goudey
• Geometry Nodes: Use MultiFunction to clamp point distribute densities - Hans Goudey
• Geometry Nodes: Support single value attributes in point distribution - Hans Goudey
• 🔸 Geometry Nodes: Optimize Distribute Points on Faces - Hans Goudey
• 🔸 Geometry Nodes: Optimize point distribution for single value density - Hans Goudey

GHOST/Wayland

• GHOST/Wayland: correct IME API usage - Campbell Barton

Git

• Git: Renormalize LFS modeling test blob file - Jonas Holzman

🔸 glTF

• glTF: Use socket identifier instead of socket name - Julien Duroure
• glTF: Enhance performance of disabling viewport - Julien Duroure
• glTF: Import: Support extensions on Accessor, BufferView, and Buffer types - Julien Duroure
• glTF: Allow Extensions to pass data through without __fixing - Julien Duroure
• glTF: Sort nodes by name - Julien Duroure

GPU

• GPU: SRGB mipmap generation - Jeroen Bakker
• GPU: Add remaining mipmap formats - Jeroen Bakker
• GPU: Shader Tool: Improve template support - Clément Foucault
• GPU: Shader Tool: Use template for callbacks - Clément Foucault
• GPU: Shader Tool: Refactor error reporting - Clément Foucault
• GPU: Shader Tool: Avoid warning in release builds - Clément Foucault
• GPU: Improve GPU_max_textures - Miguel Pozo
• GPU: Shader Tool: Remove dependency to regex - Clément Foucault
• GPU: Shader Tool: Emit dependency file - Clément Foucault
• GPU: Shader Tool: Support binary literals - Clément Foucault

Grease Pencil

• 🔸 Grease Pencil: Draw tool option for creating all curve types - Casey Bianco-Davis
• 🔸 Grease Pencil: Articulated Dots render (i.e. GPU dot placement) - Casey Bianco-Davis

I18N

• I18N: updated UI translations from git/weblate repository (37a1f0154ea48a8). - Bastien Montagne
• I18N: Updated UI translations from git/weblate repository (eb6ff3cc8fe19). - Bastien Montagne

LineArt

• 🔸 LineArt: Make intersection lines follow face mark filtering - YimingWu

Linux

• Linux: Remove bundled libraries and resolve deadlock issues in package install script - Sebastian Parborg
• Linux: fix snap package spawning multiple process - Gaktan

Mask

• 🔸 Mask: speedup rasterization with more precise & faster bucketing - Aras Pranckevicius

Mesh

• 🔸 Mesh: Parallelize sampling utility functions - Hans Goudey

New global undo test

• New global undo test: fix mistake in code. - Bastien Montagne

Node Wrangler

• 🔸 Node Wrangler: Simplify selection scheme of "Reset Nodes" operator - quackarooni
• 🔸 Node Wrangler: Add "Swap Node" support for "Attribute" menu - quackarooni

Nodes

• 🔸 Nodes: UI: preserve pan and zoom levels when switching node groups - Habib Gahbiche
• 🔸 Nodes: init default group node width from node when creating group - Jacques Lucke
• 🔸 Nodes: NoOp defautls for Vector Math node when added using link drag search - Habib Gahbiche
• 🔸 Nodes: Defaults for Integer Math node depend on operation - Habib Gahbiche
• 🔸 Nodes: Initialize Integer node with reasonable defaults when added through link drag search - Habib Gahbiche
• 🔸 Nodes: Defaults for Vector Math node depend on operation - Habib Gahbiche
• 🔸 Nodes: Add Pixel socket subtype - quackarooni
• Nodes: Add versioning for interface socket indentifier sanitization - Falk David

Outliner

• 🔸 Outliner: Scroll active element into view - Pratik Borhade

Python

• PyAPI: Add the missing active_render property to the UVLoopLayers collection interface - Martijn Versteegh
• PyAPI: add NO_FALLBACK flag for BLF - Campbell Barton
• BPY: properly compute absolute path in bpy.data.libraries.write() - Sybren A. Stüvel
• BPY: Expose some library info to bpy.data.libraries.load() API. - Bastien Montagne

Refactor

• Refactor: Apply RAII for ColormanageProcessor - Sean Kim
• Rework memfile undo & pointer stability interactions. - Bastien Montagne
• Refactor: Functions: update field storage and API - Jacques Lucke
• Refactor: Avoid passing Context to compositor job - Omar Emara
• Refactor: Nodes: use UString for idname of node types - Jacques Lucke
• Refactor: ImBuf: Access byte and float buffers with functions - Hans Goudey
• Refactor: Geometry Nodes: use more static fields - Jacques Lucke
• Refactor: Geometry Nodes: align typed versions of GVolumeGrid and GField - Jacques Lucke
• Refactor: Use BKE conversions to check conversion validity - Omar Emara
• Refactor: Geometry Nodes: Split point distribution method code - Hans Goudey
• Refactor: WM: UI: Use typed function for button callbacks when binding ui::Block - Guillermo Venegas
• Refactor: Replace playback range macros - Christoph Lendenfeld
• Refactor: Remove unused pose lock flags - Christoph Lendenfeld
• Refactor: Use Vector instead of listbase in pose slide code - Christoph Lendenfeld
• Refactor: Move eAction_TransformFlags to tPChanFCurveLink - Christoph Lendenfeld
• Refactor: ImBuf: Clarify cropping ownership, don't change buffers in-place - Hans Goudey
• Refactor: Compare to and from colorspace when constructing processor - Sean Kim
• Refactor: Assign ColorSpace to float buffer for generated images - Sean Kim
• Refactor: Paint: Migrate automask settings to Paint struct - Sean Kim
• Refactor: Cycles: Replace uint4 SVM packing with structs - Brecht Van Lommel
• Refactor: UI: Make view item hovered query available for grid views - Julian Eisel
• Refactor: Grease Pencil: Use gather_next_available_fill_ids - Falk David
• Refactor: Cycles: Split displacement normal code into smaller functions - Brecht Van Lommel
• Refactor: Nodes: Use UString for idnames in some API functions - Hans Goudey
• Refactor: Benchmark: Use keys to access data - Jeroen Bakker
• Refactor: Paint: Perform mixing in scene linear colorspace - Sean Kim
• Refactor: EEVEE: Add function for computing slab transmittance color - Weizhen Huang
• Refactor: Adjust paint stroke cleanup methods - Sean Kim
• Refactor: Rename structs and variables in pose slide code - Christoph Lendenfeld
• Refactor: Compositor: Wrap schedule in struct - Omar Emara
• Refactor: Core: Move LibOverride Runtime out of DNA. - Bastien Montagne
• Refactor: Cycles Raycast SVM node implementation - Sergey Sharybin
• Refactor: Core: GHash -> Map in liboverride code. - Bastien Montagne

Release tools

• Release tools: Fix error when working with non-standard backport titles - Alaska

Revert

• Revert "Fix (unreported) Core: Invalid memory access at readfile time." - Bastien Montagne

Rigify

• Rigify: Fix #156222 Action Manager Channel Flip - Wayne Dixon

Tests

• Tests: Update imbuf template .blend file after recent changes - Jesse Yurkovich
• Tests: Sequencer GPU render tests - Aras Pranckevicius
• Tests: Add UI tests for quick effects - Julian Eisel
• Tests: Add test for node tools with data-block inputs - Hans Goudey

UI

• 🔸 UI: Preserve pan and zoom when changing images in image editor - Habib Gahbiche
• 🔸 UI: Node Wrangler: Use layout.panel for preference subsections - quackarooni
• 🔸 UI: Add XYZ labels to array properties with PROP_PIXEL subtype - quackarooni
• 🔸 UI: Only show "To Circle" in mesh Edit mode - Aaron Carlisle
• 🔸 UI: Show categories tabs even when there is only one active - Guillermo Venegas
• 🔸 UI: Give shape key names more space - Pratik Borhade
• 🔸 UI: Hide color when generated type for new image is not "Blank" - John Kiril Swenson
• 🔸 UI: Synchronize new image dialog in Image Editor and 3D Viewport - Sean Kim
• UI: tighten poll for setting Clipping Region operator/indicator - Philipp Oeser
• 🔸 UI: Outliner: Color tag inheritance for new collections - Pratik Borhade
• 🔸 UI: Draw Collection icon with color tag in object properties panel - Pratik Borhade
• 🔸 UI: hide settings when Cycles sampling pattern does not use them - Philipp Oeser
• 🔸 UI: Use auto scroll in menus/popups only when cursor within block bounds - Guillermo Venegas

UV

• 🔸 UV: Add delimit seam to select linked operator - Eitan Traurig

VSE

• 🔸 VSE: More options for snapping image origins in preview - John Kiril Swenson
• 🔸 VSE: Prefetch several frames before current playhead - Aras Pranckevicius
• 🔸 VSE: Add a progress bar for "Render Audio" - Kévin Dietrich

Vulkan

• Vulkan: Implement GPU_finish - Jeroen Bakker

Win32

• Win32: Increase Buffer Sizes for ContextWGL clone_window - Harley Acheson

WM

• WM: Add unique identifiers to reports, and expose them to Python API - Cyrill Vitkovskiy