BETTER WORKSPACES – Blender.Today LIVE #199

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BLENDER TODAY #199

USER INTERFACE
* Workspaces: Option to pin scene to a workspace https://developer.blender.org/rBe0cc86
* UI: Superimposed pin icon for workspace scene pinning in the scene switcher https://developer.blender.org/D11890
* 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

CURVES
* Hair Curves: The new curves object is now available https://developer.blender.org/rBbecb15
* Curves: support deforming curves on surface https://developer.blender.org/D14864
* Curves: Add sculpt selection overlay https://developer.blender.org/D15219
* Draw: Curve outline drawing in object mode https://developer.blender.org/rBa8f7d4
* Curves: Port subdivide node to the new data-block https://developer.blender.org/rB9435ee

RIGGING
* Weight & Vertex Paint: always respect edit mode hiding on faces https://developer.blender.org/rBe3801a

OUTLINER
* Outliner, Library Overrides: List child objects under parents https://developer.blender.org/D15339
* ID Management: Purge: Make outliner button use recursive purge https://developer.blender.org/rBa27024

COMPOSITOR
* Compositor: Pre-fill active scene movie clip in more nodes https://developer.blender.org/rBda8524
* Compositor: Pre-fill motion tracking fields https://developer.blender.org/rBc76e1e

PERFORMANCE
* Object: Speed up duplication of large selections by doing fewer collection syncs https://developer.blender.org/rB2d041f

CYCLES
* Cycles: enable oneAPI in Linux release builds https://developer.blender.org/rB0f50ae
* Curves: use consistent default radius for Cycles, Eevee, Set Curve Radius node https://developer.blender.org/rB8159e0

I/O
* IO: speed up import of large Alembic/USD/OBJ scenes by optimizing material assignment https://developer.blender.org/rB94323b
* OBJ: remove “experimental” from C++ based importer/exporter, mark Python legacy https://developer.blender.org/rB8fb8a6

ADD-ONS
* Rigify: make uniform limb scaling optional and hide the constraint https://developer.blender.org/rBA7ea2e
* Fix T99335: Rigify horse has wrong parents https://developer.blender.org/rBAe5d87
* Node Wrangler: expose Custom Color property in the Frame Selected operator https://developer.blender.org/D15320
* glTF exporter: export all actions of a single armature is now under an export option https://developer.blender.org/rBA09d75
* glTF importer/exporter: Manage some official Khronos Extensions about Materials https://developer.blender.org/rBA042fb
* AnimAll, and Sun Position: add French translation https://developer.blender.org/rBA7faf9

PYTHON
* Python: support v3.11 (beta) https://developer.blender.org/rB780c0e
* PyAPI: add Matrix.is_identity read-only attribute https://developer.blender.org/rB133d39

POTPOURRI
* BLF: Add Support for Variable Fonts https://developer.blender.org/D12977
* GHOST/Wayland: support dynamic loading libraries for Wayland https://developer.blender.org/rBe58e02

FIXES
* Fix T99386: Driven modifiers are always re-evaluated during animation https://developer.blender.org/rBeb7218

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