Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 8 December 2025

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

This is a selection of changes that happened over the last week. For a full overview including fixes, code only changes and more visit projects.blender.org.

Assets

• Use reports to communicate errors on asset import (commit) – (Julian Eisel)

Compositor

• Forward compatibility for Composite node (commit) – (Habib Gahbiche)
• Implement duplicate sequencer modifier node group (commit) – (Ramon Klauck)

Core

• Writefile: Add basic ‘log info’ timing when writing blendfile. (commit) – (Bastien Montagne)
• Preserve ‘stable pointers’ data accross undo steps. (commit) – (Bastien Montagne)

Cycles

• Show CPU only name under Cycles devices for CPU (commit) – (salipour)

EEVEE

• Add “EEVEE.render_frame” gpu scope (for renderdoc frame capture) (commit) – (Jordan Justen)
• Add Material Pipeline States (commit) – (Jeroen Bakker)
• Add Glossy reflection evaluation to planar probe capture (commit) – (Clément Foucault)

GPU

• Shader Tool: Add support for string builtin types (commit) – (Clément Foucault)

Geometry Nodes

• Add Minimum stretch unwrap option (commit) – (Eitan Traurig)
• Register separate operator for each node tool (commit) – (Hans Goudey)

Grease Pencil

• Allow all remaining sculpt tools to sculpt Bezier handles (commit) – (Casey Bianco-Davis)

Nodes

• Node Wrangler: Add “Start Frame” property to “Add Image Sequence” Operator (commit) – (IREXTIA)
• Additional check for availability of next socket before adding spacing (commit) – (IREXTIA)

Paint

• Improve cancelling stroke support (commit) – (Sean Kim)
• Expose debug options in UI (commit) – (Sean Kim)

Subdiv

• Avoid function call overhead for face propagation (commit) – (Hans Goudey)

UI

• Don’t show progress bar cancel button if not cancel-able (commit) – (Julian Eisel)
• Area Movement Soft Snapping at Region Heights (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
• Center Align Non-Overlapped Header Status Text (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
• Camera (Restrict Render) Icon Changes (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
• Monitor (Restrict View) Icon Vertical Adjustment (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
• Show User Fonts with System Fonts (Win32) (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
• USB Drive Icon for Windows (commit) – (Harley Acheson)

VSE

• Add Meta Strip Volume (commit) – (Ramon Klauck)
• Add Search entry in add menu (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)
• UI: Consistently name scene sync feature (commit) – (Falk David)
• Move strip time related functions to DNA (commit) – (Richard Antalik)
• Python API: Add SequenceTimelineChannel.number property (commit) – (John Kiril Swenson)

Vulkan

• Vertex Input Dynamic State (commit) – (Jeroen Bakker)
• Report missing pipeline states (commit) – (Jeroen Bakker)
• Workaround AMD driver issue (commit) – (Jeroen Bakker)

XR

• Prevent displaying uninitialized error string on instance creation failure (commit) – (Jonas Holzman)

macOS

• Animation Player zoom window size fix and keybinds improvements (commit) – (Jonas Holzman)