Hi all, Here are the notes from today's developer meeting. Next meeting is Monday, 10 December 18:00 CET (17:00 UTC).
1) Blender 2.8 Beta Finally released! For info see here: https://code.blender.org/2018/11/blender-2-8-beta/ The bug tracker is open again for general reports and is being flooded. Developers focus on triaging and fixing. Some interesting tracker stats are here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jNB4jhnFzNs6vapRv-uAyvlZ4fdmgw5_QIwjry4OPRk 2) New Features and Changes * Left click select as default, spacebar defaults to play animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR_mFxl0bnM * Toolbar added in node editor. * Font textbox overflow methods: overflow, truncated and scale-to-fit. https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/2.80/Modeling#Text_improvements ) * Better thread scheduling for AMD Threadripper and EPYC NUMA. * New Timer API for addons. https://docs.blender.org/api/blender2.8/bpy.app.timers.html * Workbench studio lights were changed from HDRIs to 4 distant lights, have preset support, and now use PBR materials. * Cycles: new runtime profiler that measures time spent in various parts of the CPU kernel. * Annotations have onion skinning support again, useful for animation notes. 3) Other Projects * New skin for the developer wiki is coming. https://developer.blender.org/T57987#566007 * Meeting notes are now posted on devtalk: https://devtalk.blender.org/c/blender/meeting-notes 4) Weekly Reports * Bastien: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2018#Week_272_-_11.2F24_to_11.2F30 * Brecht: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2018#November_24_-_28 * Campbell: https://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2018.html#week-302-month-26 * Clément: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2018#Week_99_:_26th_-_2nd_Dec * Dalai: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Dfelinto/Reports/2018 * Jacques: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:JacquesLucke/Reports/2018 * Philipp: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:PhilippOeser/Foundation/2018 * Sergey: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2018#Week_363:_26th_November_-_2nd_December _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
