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CHANGELOG – BLENDER TODAY #209

BLENDER CONFERENCE

NODEVEMBER https://twitter.com/NodevemberIO/status/1587041305468747777

UI
* UI: Icon number indicator for data-blocks https://developer.blender.org/rB84825e4

GEOMETRY NODES
* Geometry Nodes: Use common utility for copying attribute data https://developer.blender.org/rBa803dbe
* Nodes: Improve socket node lookup performance https://developer.blender.org/rBc39eb09

CURVES
* Curves: make the “surface_uv_map” a searchable dropdown https://developer.blender.org/rB2180e6f

CYCLES
* Cycles: add Equiangular Cubemap Face camera projection https://developer.blender.org/rBf9113b7
* Cycles: Metal integrator state size tuning https://developer.blender.org/rB8dd7b5b
* Cycles: Allow Intel GPUs under Metal https://developer.blender.org/rBe6902d1
* Cycles: use packed float3 back for oneAPI https://developer.blender.org/rB4b14b33

UV
* UV: support snapping on non-uniform grids https://developer.blender.org/rB1edebb7

SCULPT
* Sculpt: Remove face sets from default cube https://developer.blender.org/rBe8291f4
* Sculpt: Improve performance of face set creation from selection https://developer.blender.org/rBda4bd24

PERFORMANCE
* Make batch ID deletion 100 times faster https://developer.blender.org/rB358155a
* Lib reload/relocate: Improve performances https://developer.blender.org/rB40afb8a
* ViewLayer: Reduce object duplication syncing https://developer.blender.org/rBf017fde

COMPOSITOR
* Realtime Compositor: Implement Tone Map node https://developer.blender.org/rB7f2cd2d
* Realtime Compositor: Implement normalize node https://developer.blender.org/rB58e25f1

LINUX
* GHOST/Wayland: support high resolution 2D track-pad scroll events https://developer.blender.org/rB30d9a62
* GHOST/Wayland: invert touch-pad scrolling https://developer.blender.org/rBf0fba1a
* GHOST/Wayland: primary clipboard support https://developer.blender.org/rBb0eff51
* GHOST/Wayland: multi-touch gesture support https://developer.blender.org/rB8bb211a
* GHOST/Wayland: swap tablet middle/right mouse buttons https://developer.blender.org/rBc4f9e4a
* GHOST/Wayland: support device add/removal at runtime https://developer.blender.org/rBe844f70

ADD-ONS
* Align Tools add-on: allow undo for all operators and presets for advanced https://developer.blender.org/rBA70fab4

POTPOURRI
* Video rendering: FFMpeg AV1 codec encoding support https://developer.blender.org/rB59a0b49
* install_deps: Update Python, OIIO, openPGL and FFMPEG versions https://developer.blender.org/rB3bac6f1
* GPU: Add placeholder for Vulkan backend https://developer.blender.org/rB0e6f2d9
* Blender: Add command line argument to switch gpu backends. https://developer.blender.org/rB3655eb7
* SystemInfo: Add active GPU backend https://developer.blender.org/rBec60c8a
* Build: update OSL to version 1.12.6.2 https://developer.blender.org/rB303dd26
* Fix T66713: Walk mode doesn’t take scene unit scale into account https://developer.blender.org/rBa0bbd65