Announcements

Blender UI and manual translation effort will now happen on an instance of Weblate: translate.blender.org. See Blender Translations Infrastructure Update for more details.

Modules & Projects

Principled BSDF
- Add panels to Principled BSDF node (commit) (Alaska)
- Rework Emission (commit) (Lukas Stockner)
- Tweak Subsurface parameters (commit) (Lukas Stockner)
- Rework Clearcoat (commit) (Lukas Stockner)
Pack Chiang Hair local coordinates into BSDF normal field (commit) (Lukas Stockner)
Performance
- Use Blender code directly for accessing geometry data, avoid copies (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Only compute Coat Normal if needed (commit) (Lukas Stockner)
- macOS
  - Use new MetalRT curve primitives for 3D curves and ribbons (commit) (Michael Jones)

Tools
- Update node tool menus dynamically (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Show uncategorized assets in separate menus (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Show node tool name in redo panel (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Skip redo panel for node tools without inputs (commit) (Hans Goudey)
Performance
- Create local tree logger only when something is logged (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
- Combine allocations in lazy function graph executor (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
- Pre-fill loose vertex and bounds cache of line primitive (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Reduce memory usage in node state (commit, commit) (Jacques Lucke)
- Send lazy threading hint from ico sphere node (commit) (Jacques Lucke)

3D Viewport
- Split object/mode overlays into own popover (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
Change window title to include version (commit) (Harley Acheson)
Allow integer thumbnail size range (commit) (Harley Acheson)
Change menu icons of single-choice enums to radio buttons (commit) (Thomas Barlow)
Add icons to Color Ramp context menu items (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
File Browser
- Change order of lists in sidebar (commit) (Harley Acheson)
Keymap
- Add Numpad Return to create newline in Text object edit mode (commit) (Philipp Oeser)
Theme
- Allow transparency when editing text in widgets (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
Asset Shelf
- Make UI more constistent with Asset Browser (commit, commit) (Julian Eisel)

Consider alpha channel in Kuwahara filter CPU implementation (commit) (Habib Gahbiche)

Only show editable bone collections in M/shift+M menu (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
Library Overrides
- Hide bone collection custom property editor on overrides (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Allow assigning bones to added-in-local-override collections (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Add support for renaming bone collections added by overrides (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Allow appending bone collections with liboverrides (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Allow (de)selecting bones in collection on overridden armature (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Disallow bone collection operations on linked armatures (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
Change graph editor locked key drawing (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)

When finding the best packing method, use area as tie breaker (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
Disable best fit rotation of all islands at end of UV packing (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)

Support for input/output sockets in the same row (commit) (Lukas Tönne)
Support shortcuts for adding specific node group assets from menu (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Implement keyframe operators for animation editors (commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit) (Amelie Fondevilla, Falk David, Casey Bianco-Davis)

Auto-close pairs on selected text (commit, commit) (Matheus Santos, Campbell Barton)

Expose geometry attribute “is required” read-only property to Python (commit) (Hans Goudey)
add `keyconfig.keymaps.clear()`` (commit) (Campbell Barton)
Move the keymap “contains” checks into the RNA API (commit) (Campbell Barton)
Assets
- Use asset representation for asset shelf methods (commit) (Julian Eisel)
- Expose ID type in asset representation RNA for Python access (commit) (Julian Eisel)