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BLENDER TODAY #198

COMMUNITY
* Blender Conference ticket sale! https://conference.blender.org/2022/
* Blender 3.2.1 release this week, for real

WHAT’S NEW
GEOMETRY NODES
* Geometry Nodes: Add Mesh To Volume Node https://developer.blender.org/rB1516f7
* Geometry Nodes: UV Unwrap and Pack Islands Nodes https://developer.blender.org/rB4593fb
* https://twitter.com/amalbubble/status/1543929220917006336

MODELING
* UV: Improve UV Straighten operator https://developer.blender.org/rB9dd27a
* Transform Snap: nearest face snap mode, snapping options, refactoring https://developer.blender.org/rB011327

GREASE PENCIL / LINE ART
* LineArt: Shadow and related functionalities https://developer.blender.org/rB6dd8ce

MOTION TRACKING
* Tracking: Image from Plane Marker operators https://developer.blender.org/rBe4bf58
* Mask editor: Always use smooth drawing https://developer.blender.org/rBc1ffea

CYCLES
* Cycles: Add support for rendering on Intel GPUs using oneAPI https://developer.blender.org/rBa02992
* Cycles: enable Vega GPU/APU support https://developer.blender.org/rBabfa09

USER INTERFACE
* UI: add Custom properties panel to collections https://developer.blender.org/rBb91011
* UI: add tooltips for nodes to the shader node add menu https://developer.blender.org/D15309

VSE
* VSE: Improved Retiming system https://developer.blender.org/rB302b04
* FFmpeg: Add VFR media support https://developer.blender.org/rBf0a3d2

CURVES
* Curves: New tools for curves sculpt mode https://developer.blender.org/rB416aef
* Sculpt Curves: UI tweaks and shortcut https://developer.blender.org/rB3ffc55

I/O
* COLLADA: Support for alpha color in vertex data https://developer.blender.org/rB106d93
* IO: print import & export times of Alembic & USD https://developer.blender.org/rBe7a212

POTPOURRI
* Benchmark: Add EEVEE viewport playback tests https://developer.blender.org/rB66f826