POST BCON BLUES - LIVE #209

BlenderToday is a weekly live show highlighting the latest news in Blender development, the community, and Q&A. Streaming from the Blender HQ in Amsterdam since 2018, hosted by Pablo Vazquez. -- Support the future of Blender by joining the Development Fund #b3d * Music by @Thaehan -- CHANGELOG - BLENDER TODAY #209 BLENDER CONFERENCE NODEVEMBER UI * UI: Icon number indicator for data-blocks GEOMETRY NODES * Geometry Nodes: Use common utility for copying attribute data * Nodes: Improve socket node lookup performance CURVES * Curves: make the “surface_uv_map“ a searchable dropdown CYCLES * Cycles: add Equiangular Cubemap Face camera projection * Cycles: Metal integrator state size tuning * Cycles: Allow Intel GPUs under Metal * Cycles: use packed float3 back for oneAPI UV * UV: support snapping on non-uniform grids SCULPT * Sculpt: Remove face sets from default cube * Sculpt: Improve performance of face set creation from selection PERFORMANCE * Make batch ID deletion 100 times faster * Lib reload/relocate: Improve performances * ViewLayer: Reduce object duplication syncing COMPOSITOR * Realtime Compositor: Implement Tone Map node * Realtime Compositor: Implement normalize node LINUX * GHOST/Wayland: support high resolution 2D track-pad scroll events * GHOST/Wayland: invert touch-pad scrolling * GHOST/Wayland: primary clipboard support * GHOST/Wayland: multi-touch gesture support * GHOST/Wayland: swap tablet middle/right mouse buttons * GHOST/Wayland: support device add/removal at runtime ADD-ONS * Align Tools add-on: allow undo for all operators and presets for advanced POTPOURRI * Video rendering: FFMpeg AV1 codec encoding support * install_deps: Update Python, OIIO, openPGL and FFMPEG versions * GPU: Add placeholder for Vulkan backend * Blender: Add command line argument to switch gpu backends. * SystemInfo: Add active GPU backend * Build: update OSL to version * Fix T66713: Walk mode doesn’t take scene unit scale into account