GREASE PENCIL in your BROWSER - Blender Today LIVE #260

Changelog between May 27, 2025 - June 10, 2025 at 12h

393 commits in total, of which 114 are fixes and 1 cleanup.

ANIM

• 🔸 ANIM: optimize proportional editing many keys in the Graph Editor - Philipp Oeser

Add new versioning source file template.

• Add new versioning source file template. - Bastien Montagne

Allocator

• Allocator: Use calloc when alignment is compatible - Hans Goudey

Blender 4.5 Forward Compatibility for Long ID Names.

• 🔸 Blender 4.5 Forward Compatibility for Long ID Names. - Bastien Montagne

Brush

• 🔸 Brush: Remove legacy icon replaced by asset preview image - Hans Goudey

Build

• Build: Make Zstandard use our zstd library - Sebastian Parborg
• Build: Enable Vulkan in USD (no Vulkan SDK) - Sebastian Parborg
• Build: resolve build error with USD enabled - Campbell Barton
• Build: DPCPP, don't build tests as they are not needed - Sebastian Parborg
• Build: Remove features from blosc that we don't use - Sebastian Parborg
• Build: Make libraries compile on Linux ARM64 again - Brecht Van Lommel
• Build: remove OpenCollada libs - Aras Pranckevicius
• Build: unbreak building with GCC 15 - Campbell Barton

Cleanup

• Cleanup: Fix comment (update reference to ID_NEW_SET macro). - Bastien Montagne
• Cleanup: Unused arguments in Cycles kernel - Brecht Van Lommel
• Cleanup: Nodes: Remove always-null arguments - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: GPU: Simplify GLCompilerWorker management - Miguel Pozo
• Cleanup: Fix incorrect reference to MAX_ID_NAME-2 for Mask's layer name. - Bastien Montagne
• Cleanup: Use C++ style casts for Brush type - Sean Kim
• Cleanup: Use functional style cast for node socket type enum - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: Remove unused variables in sculpt_undo.cc - Sean Kim
• Cleanup: use doxygen doc-strings, spelling (make check_spelling_*) - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: unused parameter warning - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: Use functional style case for eCustomDataType - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: Vulkan: Silence logging - Jeroen Bakker
• Cleanup: Remove unnecessary const in BKE_brush.hh - Sean Kim
• Cleanup: Remove unnecessary qualifiers in BKE_paint.hh - Sean Kim
• Cleanup: Grammar: Fix uses of "it's own" - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: Grammar: Fix uses of "for e.g." - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: spelling & duplicate terms (check_spelling.py) - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: VSE: Standardize "Crossfade" and "Gamma Crossfade" naming - John Kiril Swenson
• Cleanup: use a separate logging callback in background in Wayland - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: VSE: Replace redundant "Change Effect Input" with "Swap Inputs" - John Kiril Swenson
• Cleanup: add missing include - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: move PlayheadSnappingPanel out of tool-system module - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: typo - Jacques Lucke
• Cleanup: repeated typo - Jacques Lucke
• Cleanup: correct documentation of BLI_uniquename_cb for dynamic strings - Sybren A. Stüvel
• Cleanup: Unused parameter warning - Brecht Van Lommel
• Cleanup: Grammar: Fallback vs. fall back - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: spelling in comments (make check_spelling_*) - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: remove redundant checks for UV data layers - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: Comment code style - Christoph Lendenfeld
• Cleanup: Use CurvesGeometry::is_empty() - Falk David
• Cleanup: Move more draw cache functions to C++ namespace - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: Remove unnecessary struct prefix in BKE_brush.hh - Sean Kim
• Cleanup: Move eUnifiedPaintSettingsFlags to DNA_scene_enums.h - Sean Kim
• Cleanup: Rename and move BKE_sculpt_check_cavity_curves - Sean Kim
• Cleanup: spelling in comments & duplicate terms (check_spelling.py) - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: add missing braces in walk/fly mode - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: remove invalid comment - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: remove unused functions in UI scripts - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: Remove meaningless const for return by value - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: Sculpt: Remove unused argument - Hans Goudey
• Cleanup: spelling in comments - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: const-correctness for GHOST's IME events - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: const-correctness for array-store references - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: correct misleading names - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: Make format - Thomas Dinges
• Cleanup: Assert normalized first before performing any operation - Mohamed El Shorbagy
• Cleanup: GPU: Use CLOG instead of std::cout for profile error - Clément Foucault
• Cleanup: spelling, use doxygen comments, move doc-string to declaration - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: Cycles: remove unused variable - Weizhen Huang
• Cleanup: minor changes to spreadsheet header filtering - Campbell Barton
• Cleanup: quiet unused variable warning - Jacques Lucke

Cleanup/Fix

• Cleanup/Fix: BLO: Include missing header. - Bastien Montagne

Compositor

• 🔸 Compositor: set crop node default size to 1920x1080 - Habib Gahbiche
• Compositor: Take virtual sockets into consideration - Omar Emara
• 🔸 Compositor: Add support for Group Input node - Omar Emara
• 🔸 Compositor: Turn Flip node options to inputs - Omar Emara
• 🔸 Compositor: implement toggle for backdrop gizmos - Habib Gahbiche
• Compositor: Maintain alpha in Lens Distortion node - Mohamed Hassan
• 🔸 Compositor: Expose EWA sampling in interpolation enum - Benjamin Beilharz

Core

• 🔸 Core: Show all path template errors in the UI - Nathan Vegdahl
• Core: lock stack trace printing - илья _
• Core: Add data-level support for new 'system IDprops' storage for Blender 4.5 forward compatibility with 5.0 blendfiles - Bastien Montagne
• Core: add id_cast function as more type-safe reinterpret_cast alternative - Jacques Lucke

Curves

• Curves: Unit tests for curves::nurbs::calculate_knots - Mattias Fredriksson

Cycles

• 🔸 Cycles: Use HIP SDK 6.4.0 on Linux - Sergey Sharybin
• Cycles: Show device optimizations status in preferences for oneAPI - Nikita Sirgienko
• Cycles: Switch OptiX OSL to use LLVM bitcode for shadeops - Lukas Stockner
• Cycles: Bump OptiX minimum and release version to 8.0.0 - Brecht Van Lommel

Deps

• 🔸 Deps: Update python packages - Thomas Dinges

Docs

• Docs: update code layout diagram - Campbell Barton
• Docs: Grammar and wording cleanups for FileHandler examples - Jesse Yurkovich
• Docs: use single quotes instead of back-ticks - Campbell Barton

Draw

• Draw: Remove direct use of duplis from engine code - Miguel Pozo

EEVEE

• 🔸 EEVEE: Use simpler hash for ObjectKey - Hans Goudey
• 🔸 EEVEE: Add deferred texture loading - Clément Foucault
• 🔸 EEVEE: Split static shaders in different compilation batches - Clément Foucault

Fix

• Fix: Gizmo for Crop Node is broken - Habib Gahbiche
• Fix: compositor gizmos sometimes have no effect - Habib Gahbiche
• Fix: Weekly report script error when no PR found for branch - Julian Eisel
• Fix: Nodes: cannot make menu input expanded - Jacques Lucke
• Fix: BLO: Invalid handling of duplicated libraries in readfile code. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix: Assets Browser: asserts on unknown import method values. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix: Core: VectorList iterator after clear - Miguel Pozo
• Fix: USD: Set midlevel and scale inputs for constant displacement - Jesse Yurkovich
• Fix: Cursor options display inactive in Sculpt Mode - Sean Kim
• Fix: Sculpt Filter tools may not initialize radius - Sean Kim
• Fix: VSE: Reassign Inputs erroring - John Kiril Swenson
• Fix: VSE: Add missing effect types to "change effect type" menu - John Kiril Swenson
• Fix: GPU: Failling test caused by missing push constant - Clément Foucault
• Fix: Shader CPP compiler error - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix: Geometry Nodes: Show menu socket name in boolean Switch nodes - Lukas Tönne
• Fix: Various fixes to unused CustomData to AttributeStorage conversion - Hans Goudey
• Fix: Asset library tests using wrong internal asset library type - Julian Eisel
• Fix: GPU: Invalid logic in StaticShader::get() - Clément Foucault
• Fix: GPU: Make StaticShader::ensure_compile_async request for ready state - Clément Foucault
• Fix: Graph Editor Circle/Lasso select fails to select handles - Philipp Oeser
• Fix: Metal parallel shader compilation does not respect -t option - Brecht Van Lommel
• Fix: VSE source cache eviction logic - Aras Pranckevicius
• Fix: Use Color Temperature prop subtype for light temperature - Damien Picard
• Fix: Incorrect handling of asset libraries from Preferences - Julian Eisel
• Fix: Memory leak in Image Coordinates node - Omar Emara
• Fix: Crash in BVH2 instance packing after recent bugfix in bc543ec5312d - Brecht Van Lommel
• Fix: Compile error in node socket shape shader - Hans Goudey
• Fix: Mantaflow OpenVDB cache hollow volume artifacts - Bartosz Kosiorek
• Fix: Geometry Nodes: Duplicate Elements node propagates instance handles incorrectly - илья _
• Fix: Cryptomatte pick layer is wrongly displayed sometime - Omar Emara
• Fix: Crash when starting asset preview screenshot in the header - Christoph Lendenfeld
• Fix: OpenGL: Hang when subprocess crashes - Miguel Pozo
• Fix: inconsistent directory path in make.bat - chunfeng_tsin-2
• Fix: Crash with frame nodes after recent fix - Hans Goudey
• Fix: PyDocs: Annotations for callables with variable number of arguments - Andrej730
• Fix: wrong pointer passed to RNA_pointer_create_discrete - Jacques Lucke
• Fix: assert in auto smooth operator - Jacques Lucke
• Fix: use getter function for Library.parent in RNA - Jacques Lucke
• Fix: OSL camera templates should not have copyright and license header - Brecht Van Lommel
• Fix: Curves: Custom knots in Curves and GP operators - Laurynas Duburas
• Fix: Texture paint color jitter dereference of uninitialized optional - Hans Goudey
• Fix: UV Editor doesn't show UVs in non-edit modes - Sean Kim
• Fix: Geometry Nodes: Unnecessary "Curve to Mesh" scale input versioning - Falk David
• Fix: UnifiedPaintSetting converting values incorrectly - Sean Kim
• Fix: uninitialized TransData center for Curves proportional editing - Philipp Oeser
• Fix: PyAPI Docs: Document more msgbus limitations - Andrej730
• Fix: GPU: Metal: Compilation error - Clément Foucault
• Fix: Quiet unused variable warning - Guillermo Venegas
• Fix: Build error with OpenSubdiv disabled - Hans Goudey
• Fix: Build warning due to unnecessary default constructor - Pratik Borhade
• Fix: Overlay: Shader compilation warnings - Clément Foucault
• Fix: Append: Error message when appending liboverrides. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix: Silence warning in BKE_brush_calc_curve_factors - Sean Kim
• Fix: PyDocs: Syntax error in PointerProperty assignment - Steve-Paws
• Fix: #140028: Vulkan: Incorrect move of resources - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix: Value property in shape key tree rows - Pratik Borhade
• Fix: Assets: Grease Pencil erasers - Falk David
• Fix: Assets: Grease Pencil fill defaults - Falk David
• Fix #105546: Cycles volume uninitialized when frame is beyond valid range - Weizhen Huang
• Fix #118207: avoid floating point calculations when computing random integer - Jacques Lucke
• Fix #125944: Outliner: Child objects missing when linked to other collection - Pratik Borhade
• Fix #125974: Theme: TreeView list items use wrong theme settings - Pratik Borhade
• Fix #130597: Grease Pencil: Brush cursor radius not working in perspective projection. - casey-bianco-davis
• Fix #132700: Grease Pencil: Strokes with locked materials receive weight value - Sietse Brouwer
• Fix #133533: Inverted scroll direction in render pass menu - Marc Hamamji
• Fix #133738: missing update when input of zone without link changes - Jacques Lucke
• Fix #134599: Win32 Automatically Detect Language for Chinese Variations - Harley Acheson
• Fix #137120: Asset catalogs overwitten by pre-existing ones on file save - Julian Eisel
• Fix #137236: performance regression with nonsensical face material indices - Jacques Lucke
• Fix #137238: Collection asset placement not working with collection hierarchies. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix #137238: Collection asset placement not working with collection hierarchies. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix #137662: Auto-validate meshes during USD import if we detect bad faces - Jesse Yurkovich
• Fix #137735: Scale Icon Border Intensity by Icon Alpha - Harley Acheson
• Fix #137909: Vulkan: Recover from allocation errors - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix #137942: Grease Pencil: Make layer operators non-editable for linked data - Pratik Borhade
• Fix #137966: oneAPI crash when max texture size is exceeded - Brecht Van Lommel
• Fix #138085: Nodes: allow panel toggles in panels with outputs - Jacques Lucke
• Fix #138175: EEVEE crash with multiple materials in sculpt mode multires - Hans Goudey
• Fix #138509: Cycles: Point clouds do not render properly when using spatial splits - David Murmann
• Fix #138511: support dropping material asset into Set Material node - Jacques Lucke
• Fix #138533: Cryptomatte node fails for animated images - Omar Emara
• Fix #138654: reset menu socket to default value does not work - Jacques Lucke
• Fix #138662: Image Editor View and Mask modes show UVs - Sean Kim
• Fix #138793: Grease Pencil: Tag ID update after conv from legacy curves - YimingWu
• Fix #138920: EEVEE: Crash when switching workspace with world volume - Clément Foucault
• Fix #139019: Grease Pencil: Support converting materials from Curve - YimingWu
• Fix #139043: Asset shelf previews not updating when preview is changed - Julian Eisel
• Fix #139157: Fix Movement of Numbers in animation editors - Harley Acheson
• Fix #139172: group outputs show up in link-drag-search incorrectly - Jacques Lucke
• Fix #139214: Wrong FBX file imported when dropping with a preset - Guillermo Venegas
• Fix #139248: Update IME Data with GHOST_kEventImeComposition Event - Harley Acheson
• Fix #139274: Grease Pencil: Update vertex color overlay value - YimingWu
• Fix #139314: Copy Keyframes copies a frame if only a handle is selected - Philipp Oeser
• Fix #139327: Movie distortion result is cropped - Omar Emara
• Fix #139369: Crash pasting 3D text from a curve with more materials - Campbell Barton
• Fix #139391: take dynamically added vertex groups into account in armature modifier - Jacques Lucke
• Fix #139443: WM: Clear draw region framebuffers to avoid corruption - Christoph Neuhauser
• Fix #139449: Show gizmos in viewport when selecting gizmo nodes - Marc Hamamji
• Fix #139466: Grease Pencil: Face Project / Face Nearest snapping broken - Philipp Oeser
• Fix #139471: Grease Pencil: Trace materials must be created on main thread - Lukas Tönne
• Fix #139516: crash when enabling shader node previews - Jacques Lucke
• Fix #139546: Vulkan: Race condition during rendering resulting in a stall - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix #139550: Modeling: Add error message for invalid mesh data transfer - YimingWu
• Fix #139553: EEVEE: Vulkan raytracing denoising pink propagation - Clément Foucault
• Fix #139558: Incorrect shader when using edge slide even - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix #139565: PyGPU: Add builtin point shaders - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix #139565: Update GPU polyline examples - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix #139572: Grease Pencil: Support pasting strokes into multiple frames - YimingWu
• Fix #139580: Movie proxies can be missing the last frame - Aras Pranckevicius
• Fix #139586: Switch node crops input image - Omar Emara
• Fix #139590: Draw: Ensure dupli batches are always extracted - Miguel Pozo
• Fix #139617: Crash when activating brush - Sean Kim
• Fix #139645: Incorrect preview rendering for screenshot previews - Christoph Lendenfeld
• Fix #139648: Crash when capturing screenshot preview with selection over window edges - Dhiraputta Pathama Tengara
• Fix #139656: FBX importer does not set normalmap textures as "non-color" - Aras Pranckevicius
• Fix #139666: Grease Pencil: Fix modifier type when getting defgroup names - YimingWu
• Fix #139670: Cycles crash with persistent data and light geometry - Brecht Van Lommel
• Fix #139675: Mesh analysis crashes in editmode with instances - Philipp Oeser
• Fix #139681: Cursor appears in walk navigation after hovering over gizmo - Campbell Barton
• Fix #139705: Generate undo step after cancelling node.join_named - Pratik Borhade
• Fix #139721: Audio: Blender hang on startup - Jörg Müller
• Fix #139726: EEVEE: HiZ unneeded filtering - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix #139726: EEVEE: HiZ unneeded filtering - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix #139750: Crash in structure type inferencing with missing data-block - Hans Goudey
• Fix #139752: missing update when changing camera parameters - Jacques Lucke
• Fix #139753: Discontinuity in mesh tangent without UV map - Weizhen Huang
• Fix #139773: Grease Pencil: Copy vgroup names when converting from mesh - YimingWu
• Fix #139776: Grease Pencil: Prevent fillet on empty curves - YimingWu
• Fix #139780: Always Enforce Minimum Area Heights on File Load - Harley Acheson
• Fix #139782: USD MeshSequenceCache modifier using the wrong frame - Philipp Oeser
• Fix #139791: Crash with HIP-RT and multi GPU BVH after recent fix - Brecht Van Lommel
• Fix #139810: Missing git lfs checkout in make update. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix #139816: Corrupt wireframe with antialiasing off and subdivision - Hans Goudey
• Fix #139828: Proportional edit connected only fails with some topology - Brecht Van Lommel
• Fix #139846: Plane brushes behave incorrectly with constant falloff - Sean Kim
• Fix #139856: Ellipse/Box mask size is clamped - Omar Emara
• Fix #139863: Retiming sound does not tag depsgraph - Richard Antalik
• Fix #139898: Vulkan: Asan issue during color picking - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix #139898: Vulkan: Read out of bounds with color picking - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix #139901: UI: Incorrect flow when drawing scopes - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix #139903: Don't Check Minimum Size for Areas Not Yet Initiated - Harley Acheson
• Fix #139904 glTF: Fix typo regression for uri - Julien Duroure
• Fix #139913: Brush size doubles each time you draw - YimingWu
• Fix #139917: Vulkan: Increase number of render frames - Jeroen Bakker
• Fix #139966 glTF: Fix unquote uri filenames - Julien Duroure
• Fix #139969: Clay Strips brush can corrupt mesh - Sean Kim
• Fix #139981: volume transform crash with bad matrix - Jacques Lucke
• Fix #139985: refit column width when data type changes - Jacques Lucke
• Fix #140014: enforce minimum width when creating group from reroute node - Jacques Lucke
• Fix #140017: creating a node group from Bake node crashes - Jacques Lucke
• Fix #140018: no warning when using bake node or simulation in zone - Jacques Lucke
• Fix #140034: Unhandled Python exception in the spreadsheet UI - Campbell Barton
• Fix #140072: Overlay: UV Stretch ANGLE Overlay always shows green in 4.5 - Clément Foucault
• Fix #140078: Sculpt Paint brushes can apply NaN - Sean Kim
• Fix #81089: Pointiness bright spot artefacts at small scale - Weizhen Huang
• Fix (unreported) 'too new' libraries not always correctly detected. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix (unreported) ID copied in libs making their depencies directly linked. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix PyAPI doc generation: add back a 'context' entry removed by mistake. - Bastien Montagne
• Fix UV select similar missing selection flushing calls - Campbell Barton
• Fix UV select similar vertex & edge tagging for updates on every face - Campbell Barton
• Fix UV select similar with multi-object editing & sync-select - Campbell Barton
• Fix bug in dissolve edges that was introduced in 4.4 - Jason C. Wenger
• Fix command line help text mixing up "-a" arguments - Campbell Barton
• Fix crash de-selecting UV edge loops in edge-selection mode - Campbell Barton
• Fix crash dissolving two adjacent edges of a quad - Jason C. Wenger
• Fix crash picking geometry with out of range material indices - Campbell Barton
• Fix edge dissolve leaving visible edges connected to hidden vertices - Campbell Barton
• Fix edit-mode check when removing materials - Campbell Barton
• Fix failure to start with an unknown --gpu-backend - Campbell Barton
• Fix invalid blend-file writing logic in "Add color jitter support" - Campbell Barton
• Fix missing call to MOV_exit in the animation player - Campbell Barton
• Fix out of bounds read from recent undo optimization - Campbell Barton
• Fix out-of-bounds write with Wayland compose-key event handling - Campbell Barton
• Fix the order dissolve angle is shown in the redo panel - Jason C. Wenger
• Fix use after free error rendering in background mode on Wayland - Campbell Barton
• Fix wm.operator_presets_cleanup failing to exclude collections - Campbell Barton

GPU

• GPU: Metal: Add --profile-gpu support for CPU timing - Clément Foucault
• 🔸 GPU: Add CompilationPriority - Miguel Pozo
• 🔸 GPU: Add async compilation to StaticShader class - Clément Foucault
• GPU: Always use MTLShaderCompiler - Miguel Pozo
• GPU: Add compilation constants - Clément Foucault
• GPU: Shader: Also move the compilation handle in static shaders - Clément Foucault
• GPU: Add profiling groups for subprocess compilation - Clément Foucault
• 🔸 GPU: OpenGL: Add support for non-blocking specialization - Clément Foucault
• GPU: GLProgram: Use unique pointer instead of movable object - Clément Foucault
• 🔸 GPU: Enable GL multithreaded compilation by default - Clément Foucault
• GPU: Shader: Add support for shader entry points - Clément Foucault

Geometry Nodes

• 🔸 Geometry Nodes: add error message when simulation is in loop or closure - Jacques Lucke
• 🔸 Geometry Nodes: Socket structure type and display changes - Hans Goudey
• 🔸 Geometry Nodes: add error message when simulations are not supported - Jacques Lucke
• 🔸 Geometry Nodes: new Format String node - Jacques Lucke
• 🔸 Geometry Nodes: initialize String node width based on content - Jacques Lucke
• Geometry Nodes: initialize String node when using link-drag-search - Jacques Lucke
• 🔸 Geometry Nodes: support structure types in closures - Jacques Lucke

Grease Pencil

• 🔸 Grease Pencil: remove "Weights" from editmode menu - Philipp Oeser
• 🔸 Grease Pencil: Fill Tool: Draw fill guides - Falk David
• 🔸 Grease Pencil: Edit Mode Outline Strokes operator - Casey Bianco-Davis
• 🔸 Grease Pencil: Support exporting animated SVGs - Leon Schittek
• 🔸 Grease Pencil: Add Convert Curve Type operator - Falk David
• 🔸 Grease Pencil: Motion Blur support - Falk David

Hydra

• Hydra: Add selection of Vulkan HGI - Jeroen Bakker

I18N

• I18N: Updated UI translations from git/weblate repository (d201f173c9e12). - Bastien Montagne

IO

• 🔸 IO: Remove Collada import/export - Aras Pranckevicius

ImBuf

• 🔸 ImBuf: Remove pre-2.80 Texture mipmaps/filters - Aras Pranckevicius

Improve Blender resilience to blendfile DNA data corruption.

• Improve Blender resilience to blendfile DNA data corruption. - Bastien Montagne

JACK

• JACK: Fix a mutex deadlock when trying to start/stop playback - Sebastian Parborg

Libs

• Libs: Update to 4.5 Linux libs - Sebastian Parborg

Logging

• Logging: remove explicit newlines - Campbell Barton

Mesh

• Mesh: 5.0 changes for mask, custom normals, UV seam - Hans Goudey
• 🔸 Mesh: Separate GPU subdivision normals and positions - Hans Goudey

Modeling

• 🔸 Modeling: add an angle threshold that affects vertex dissolve - Jason C. Wenger

Modifiers

• 🔸 Modifiers: Change softbody fuzzy default value - Pratik Borhade

Movie Clip Editor

• 🔸 Movie Clip Editor: Show preview range - RedMser

NDOF

• 🔸 NDOF: simplify the UI and preferences - Kamil Galik

Nodes

• 🔸 Nodes: improve usage inferencing when some inputs are unknown - Jacques Lucke
• 🔸 Nodes: improve mix node usage inference when some inputs are unknown - Jacques Lucke
• 🔸 Nodes: improve usage inferencing in Vector Math node with unknown inputs - Jacques Lucke
• 🔸 Nodes: support searching for outputs of various input nodes directly - Jacques Lucke
• Nodes: add missing input node sockets in search - Jacques Lucke
• 🔸 Nodes: support creating wrapper node group that keeps original interface - Jacques Lucke
• 🔸 Nodes: Voronoi node CPU optimizations - Aras Pranckevicius
• 🔸 Nodes: make frame bounding box account for extra rows data - Jason C. Wenger
• 🔸 Nodes: add "Power" and "Sign" operations to Vector Math node - quackarooni
• 🔸 Nodes: improve "frame" search - Jacques Lucke
• 🔸 Nodes: add NodeSocket.is_inactive and NodeSocket.is_icon_visible Python API - Jacques Lucke
• 🔸 Nodes: deactivate overlay buttons when no tree is assigned - Habib Gahbiche

Outliner

• Outliner: Support duplicating selected collections - Pratik Borhade
• 🔸 Outliner: Keep Transform by default on drag-dropping to parent - Dan-Gry

Overlay

• 🔸 Overlay: Batch async compile shaders to improve cold startup times - Clément Foucault

Paint

• 🔸 Paint: Add color jitter support - Charles S
• 🔸 Paint: Add forward compatibility code for brush size - Sean Kim
• 🔸 Paint: Scale brush size in preparation for planned 5.0 changes - Sean Kim

PlayAnim

• 🔸 PlayAnim: use the same GPU backend as Blender - Campbell Barton

Point Cloud

• Point Cloud: Use AttributeStorage instead of CustomData - Hans Goudey

PyAPI

• PyAPI: expose Event.ndof_motion via RNA - Campbell Barton
• 🔸 PyAPI: add bpy.app.built_options.experimental_features - Campbell Barton

PyDoc

• PyDoc: improve BMesh operator docs - Campbell Barton
• PyDoc: quiet wanings/prints when building docs - Campbell Barton

PyDocs

• PyDocs: quiet context member warning without experimental features - Campbell Barton

Python Docs

• Python Docs: remove example for using timers with separate threads - Jacques Lucke

Refactor

• Refactor: UI: Remove uiItemStringO API - Guillermo Venegas
• Refactor: Vulkan: Reuse GHOST VkInstance - Jeroen Bakker
• Refactor: Nodes: change int to enum for bNodeSocketType.type - Jacques Lucke
• Refactor: Nodes: precompute node extra info rows - Jacques Lucke
• Refactor: Nodes: extract socket items accessor defaults - Jacques Lucke
• Refactor: Vulkan: Move code from header to compile unit - Jeroen Bakker
• Refactor: Vulkan: Use VKDevice& in finalize_pipeline_layout - Jeroen Bakker
• Refactor: Move collection runtime struct out of DNA - Hans Goudey
• Refactor: UI: Replace uiLayoutSetEmboss and uiLayoutGetEmboss with uiLayout methods - Guillermo Venegas
• Refactor: UI: Add uiLayout default operator call context get and set methods - Guillermo Venegas
• Refactor: UI: Add uiLayout scale and ui_units get and set methods - Guillermo Venegas
• Refactor: Paint: Rename brush _tool properties to _brush_type - Sean Kim
• Refactor: improve error handling for the animation player - Campbell Barton

Release

• Release: Bump main to 5.0 - Thomas Dinges
• Release: Update 4.5 branch to beta - Thomas Dinges

Release note tool

• Release note tool: Sort backport version numbers from lowest to highest - Alaska
• Release note tools: Remove manual sorting of revert commits - Alaska
• Release note tools: Changes for 4.5 branch - Alaska

Revert "Cleanup

• Revert "Cleanup: remove unused functions in UI scripts" - Campbell Barton

Revert "Fix #139898

• Revert "Fix #139898: Vulkan: Asan issue during color picking" - Jeroen Bakker

Revert "Release

• Revert "Release: Update 4.5 branch to beta" - Thomas Dinges

Rocky8

• Rocky8: Add new library requirement for weston in the install script. - Sebastian Parborg

Sculpt

• 🔸 Sculpt: Lower Multires leaf node limit to 800 - Sean Kim
• Sculpt: Remove dyntopo BMesh reordering - Sean Kim
• Sculpt: Assert when applying a translation that contains NaN - Sean Kim

Shaders

• 🔸 Shaders: Reduce default distance/scale for bump/displacement nodes - Brecht Van Lommel

Spreadsheet

• Spreadsheet: make active table lookup slightly more efficient - Jacques Lucke
• Spreadsheet: reuse same table for Viewer nodes in different loop iterations - Jacques Lucke
• 🔸 Spreadsheet: Add option to display internal attributes - Hans Goudey

Tests

• Tests: Add dyntopo brush stroke and toggle undo test - Sean Kim
• Tests: Allow OptiX to run tests in the OSL folder - Alaska

UI

• 🔸 UI: Make light exposure soft limits match color management exposure - Brecht Van Lommel
• 🔸 UI: UIList: Highlight active element when hovered - Pratik Borhade
• 🔸 UI: Fix incorrect capitalizations - Nika Kutsniashvili
• 🔸 UI: use automatic search box width in more places - Jacques Lucke
• UI: Note that Vulkan can have VR performance issues - Alaska
• 🔸 UI: Tooltip for dragging multiple files - Guillermo Venegas
• 🔸 UI: Move empty image to Image menu - Pratik Borhade
• 🔸 UI: Use Tree view for shape keys - Pratik Borhade
• 🔸 UI: Add "Remove All Particle Systems" operator to particle systems context menu - Eitan Traurig
• 🔸 UI: Top Bar Tabs as Pills - Harley Acheson

USD

• 🔸 USD: Implement new DomeLight_1 Schema for Import - Maxime-Cots

UV

• UV: select similar faces now skips meshes without a selection - Campbell Barton

VSE

• 🔸 VSE: Scene strip invalidation - Richard Antalik
• 🔸 VSE: Improve "Change Effect Type" operator - John Kiril Swenson
• 🔸 VSE: Swap shortcuts for next and previous strip jump - Damien Picard

Versioning

• Versioning: Add 500 versioning file - Thomas Dinges

Vulkan

• Vulkan: Update limitations - Jeroen Bakker
• Vulkan: Only load layers that we trust - Jeroen Bakker
• Vulkan: Allow NVIDIA layers - Jeroen Bakker
• Vulkan: Don't run tests on unsupported platforms - Jeroen Bakker
• Vulkan: Add support for descriptor buffers - Jeroen Bakker
• Vulkan: Add CPU profiling - Clément Foucault

WM

• WM: prevent the same value being written multiple times in a preset - Campbell Barton

Win64

• Win64: Blender 4.5 Library update - Ray Molenkamp
• Win64: Libs: Rebuild of openvdb due to blosc changes - Ray Molenkamp

Windows ARM64

• Windows ARM64: 4.5 Library Updates - Anthony Roberts
• Windows ARM64: Rebuild OpenVDB for blosc changes - Anthony Roberts

deps

• deps: Fix typo in DPCPP_SPIRV_HEADERS_FILE - Ray Molenkamp
• deps: Bump zstd to 1.5.6 - Ray Molenkamp

glTF

• glTF: Update addon version after 4.5 branch creation - Julien Duroure

libs

• libs: move wintab out of the lib dir into /extern - Ray Molenkamp

macOS

• macOS: Update arm64 and x64 libraries for 4.5 - Jonas Holzman