Modules & Projects

New Features and Changes

Replace UI Font with Inter Regular v3.19 (commit, commit, commit) (Harley Acheson)
Support text subpixel positioning, anti-aliasing, and hinting (commit) (Harley Acheson)
Expose discrete thumbnail sizes for menus (commit) (Harley Acheson)
Console
- Add support for displaying tab-stops (commit) (Campbell Barton)
- Support additional console text operations (commit) (Harley Acheson)
Various minor layout and text improvements (commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit) (Pablo Vazquez, Hans Goudey, Julian Eisel)
Keymap
- Add shortcut to open Preferences (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
Add Vertex Crease operator to vertex context menu (commit) (persun)
Remove File Browser “small_size” feature (commit) (Harley Acheson)

Don’t require geometry input for “Move to Nodes” (commit) (Hans Goudey)
Filter data-block buttons for tools and modifiers (commit) (Hans Goudey)
Tools
- Disable viewer node shortcut in tool context (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Improve geometry nodes tool popover layout (commit) (Hans Goudey)
Performance
- Use lazy evaluation in repeat zone (commit) (Jacques Lucke)

Make transmission color in Pricipled BSDF match the base color (commit) (Weizhen Huang)
Make list interface look more consistent (commit) (Sergey Sharybin)
Performance
- Use Blender headers to access geometry data, avoid copy (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Remove the inline (pass-through) socket feature (commit) (Lukas Tönne)
Move float values to “Value” node with link-drag-search (commit) (Hans Goudey)
Panels
- Support drawing buttons inside node panels (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
- Draw node panels in material properties editor (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
- Shorten node socket labels when they start with the panel name (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
- Improve vertical spacing in panels (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)

Use Schlick’s approximation instead of real Fresnel for glass (commit) (Weizhen Huang)
Rename Eevee to EEVEE in labels/tooltips (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
EEVEE Next
- Deferred: Add combine pass (commit) (Clément Foucault)
- Raytrace: Add Diffuse Ray (commit) (Clément Foucault)
- Deferred: Add combine pass (commit) (Clément Foucault)
- Port SSS profile to Pre-compute shader (commit) (Clément Foucault)
- Add info count for shader optimization jobs in progress (commit) (Jason Fielder)

Support multi-editing for FCurve modifiers (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)
Time Offset Slider (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)
Graph Editor Push/Pull operator (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)
Bone collections
- Add bone collections to the outliner (commit, commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Make it possible to select bone collections on linked armature (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Replace “bone layers” operator with collections (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Merge bone collection assignment menus (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Add Collada IO bone collection support (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Tweak (de)select bones in collection inputs, poll messages (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
Make “(de)select bones” work on linked armatures (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
Add graph editor key/handles selection operator (commit) (Nathan Vegdahl)
Add operators to select by bone color and collection (commit, commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
Add “Select Grouped” operators for bone collection and color (commit, commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)

Curves
- Add RNA API to add points (commit) (Hans Goudey)
Assets
- Expose asset representation in context (commit) (Julian Eisel)
- Expose more data in the asset representation (commit) (Julian Eisel)
- Replace asset_library_ref with asset_library_reference (commit) (Julian Eisel)
Support the step and precision arguments in rna_idprop_ui_create (commit) (Alexander Gavrilov)
Nodes
- Rename ui_items property to items_tree (commit) (Lukas Tönne)