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BLENDER TODAY #214 New open movie! https://studio.blender.org/films/pet-projects/ Apple M2 benchmark tests https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/query/?device_name=Apple%20M2&operating_system=macOS&blender_version=3.3.0&blender_version=3.4.0&group_by=device_name

POSE LIBRARY Usability pass/redesign https://developer.blender.org/rBAc164c changes to the panels in the Action Editor https://developer.blender.org/rBA2326a

ASSET BROWSER New catalog menu https://developer.blender.org/rBa8aae6 Allow changing active catalog from Python https://developer.blender.org/rB80249c "All" asset library https://developer.blender.org/rB35e54b

CYCLES Cycles: Occupancy tuning for new higher end M2 machines https://developer.blender.org/rB08b342 https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/01/apple-unveils-m2-pro-and-m2-max-next-generation-chips-for-next-level-workflows/ Cycles: remove SSE3 and AVX kernel optimization levels https://developer.blender.org/rBa84a8a

NODES Use checkbox for exposed boolean sockets https://developer.blender.org/D12816 new Interpolate Curves node https://developer.blender.org/rB85908e show number of curve points in socket inspection tooltip

Add warning to set material node with no faces https://developer.blender.org/rB400f02 Adjust modifier UI to put field toggles on the right https://developer.blender.org/rB686254 Prefer evaluate at index value input in search https://developer.blender.org/rB917936 Rename node and socket for "Group ID" convention https://developer.blender.org/rB203ab9

Node Wrangler: improve Add Principled Setup file matching logic https://developer.blender.org/rBAc0a67

Attributes: Autofill for attribute conversion operators https://developer.blender.org/rB587a1b

EEVEE Nodes: Resolve performance bottleneck with mix node updates https://developer.blender.org/rBa3a60e Eevee: Mark Properties on Samples Panel Animatable https://developer.blender.org/rB34fa36

BGL_Wrap: disable calls on non-opengl backends https://developer.blender.org/rBcac6b6

GREASE PENCIL Build modifier add "natural drawing" time https://developer.blender.org/D16759 Add offset(Location, Rotation, Scale) by Layer, Stroke and Material to Offset modifier https://developer.blender.org/rB7d712d show brush size in Draw tool cursor https://developer.blender.org/rBa44c12 Use Material or Vertex Color for Brush cursor https://developer.blender.org/rBe1180b Provide Option for Fill in Material Popover https://developer.blender.org/D17004 Add Vertex Opacity Overlay parameter in Sculpt https://developer.blender.org/rB1aff91 Allow interpolation to use breakdown keyframe as extremes https://developer.blender.org/rB56ae40

Storypencil: Support Audio files and UI refactor https://developer.blender.org/rBA6fcd1

UV UV: support constrain-to-bounds for uv shear operator https://developer.blender.org/rB3d1594

ANIMATION Animation: Graph Editor Ease operator https://developer.blender.org/rB76a686 NLA: Udating Blend-in and Blend-out values to clamp on NLA strip Transform https://developer.blender.org/rBfa67b8 Animation: Improve performance of Bake Action operator https://developer.blender.org/rB58c8c4 Animation: Make Bake Animation operator use preview range when enabled https://developer.blender.org/rBc47b69 Animation: Remove While Held Pose propagate option https://developer.blender.org/rB825f01

Object: Support converting curves object to mesh https://developer.blender.org/rB2752a8 Point Cloud: Support set origin and apply scale operators https://developer.blender.org/rBadb4dd Cloth: share self and object collision BVH trees when possible https://developer.blender.org/rBa3ac91 Cloth: precompute barycentric coordinates for collision points https://developer.blender.org/rBe1df73

POTPOURRI Images: add mirror extension type https://developer.blender.org/rBa501a2 Custom Properties: Add boolean type https://developer.blender.org/D12815 USD export: ensure edit mode changes are exported https://developer.blender.org/rBf8b115 OBJ: add split by objects/groups import options (T103839) https://developer.blender.org/rBb59982 BLI_path_util: support both forward and back slashes for WIN32 https://developer.blender.org/rBdb54b9 Python API: Add collection properties to MeshUVLoopLayer to access UV and the associated bool attributes https://developer.blender.org/rBa82c12 Add-ons: Exclude contrib for beta, rc and release builds. https://developer.blender.org/rBe8c786 Windows: Run blender-launcher.exe instead of blender.exe https://developer.blender.org/rB460f7e macOS: Remove user notifications. https://developer.blender.org/rB3590e2 MacOS: Update Min Requirement to 10.15 https://developer.blender.org/rB597aec Bump buildbot gcc version to 11 https://developer.blender.org/rB5c4d11

Sun Position: add Show Surface and Show Analemmas options https://developer.blender.org/rBA29a67