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-- CHANGELOG - BLENDER TODAY #209

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NODEVEMBER twitter.com/NodevemberIO/status/1587041305468747777

UI

• UI: Icon number indicator for data-blocks developer.blender.org/rB84825e4

GEOMETRY NODES

• Geometry Nodes: Use common utility for copying attribute data developer.blender.org/rBa803dbe
• Nodes: Improve socket node lookup performance developer.blender.org/rBc39eb09

CURVES

• Curves: make the "surface_uv_map" a searchable dropdown developer.blender.org/rB2180e6f

CYCLES

• Cycles: add Equiangular Cubemap Face camera projection developer.blender.org/rBf9113b7
• Cycles: Metal integrator state size tuning developer.blender.org/rB8dd7b5b
• Cycles: Allow Intel GPUs under Metal developer.blender.org/rBe6902d1
• Cycles: use packed float3 back for oneAPI developer.blender.org/rB4b14b33

UV

• UV: support snapping on non-uniform grids developer.blender.org/rB1edebb7

SCULPT

• Sculpt: Remove face sets from default cube developer.blender.org/rBe8291f4
• Sculpt: Improve performance of face set creation from selection developer.blender.org/rBda4bd24

PERFORMANCE

• Make batch ID deletion 100 times faster developer.blender.org/rB358155a
• Lib reload/relocate: Improve performances developer.blender.org/rB40afb8a
• ViewLayer: Reduce object duplication syncing developer.blender.org/rBf017fde

COMPOSITOR

• Realtime Compositor: Implement Tone Map node developer.blender.org/rB7f2cd2d
• Realtime Compositor: Implement normalize node developer.blender.org/rB58e25f1

LINUX

• GHOST/Wayland: support high resolution 2D track-pad scroll events developer.blender.org/rB30d9a62
• GHOST/Wayland: invert touch-pad scrolling developer.blender.org/rBf0fba1a
• GHOST/Wayland: primary clipboard support developer.blender.org/rBb0eff51
• GHOST/Wayland: multi-touch gesture support developer.blender.org/rB8bb211a
• GHOST/Wayland: swap tablet middle/right mouse buttons developer.blender.org/rBc4f9e4a
• GHOST/Wayland: support device add/removal at runtime developer.blender.org/rBe844f70

ADD-ONS

• Align Tools add-on: allow undo for all operators and presets for advanced developer.blender.org/rBA70fab4

POTPOURRI

• Video rendering: FFMpeg AV1 codec encoding support developer.blender.org/rB59a0b49
• install_deps: Update Python, OIIO, openPGL and FFMPEG versions developer.blender.org/rB3bac6f1
• GPU: Add placeholder for Vulkan backend developer.blender.org/rB0e6f2d9
• Blender: Add command line argument to switch gpu backends. developer.blender.org/rB3655eb7
• SystemInfo: Add active GPU backend developer.blender.org/rBec60c8a
• Build: update OSL to version 1.12.6.2 developer.blender.org/rB303dd26
• Fix T66713: Walk mode doesn't take scene unit scale into account developer.blender.org/rBa0bbd65