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CHANGELOG – BLENDER TODAY #208

20 Years of Blender Open Source! https://twitter.com/Blender/status/1580582619414409224

Volkswagen joins Blender Development Fund! https://twitter.com/Blender/status/1580903182427095041
BCON22 Live Podcast https://conference.blender.org
Blender Extensions Platform – https://code.blender.org/2022/10/blender-extensions-platform/

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