Uitgavegeschiedenis Blender

Many different mesh modelling tools were added and improved. Cycles render performance was improved on Windows and on GPU's. The motion tracker can now automate placement and choice of markers more with new tools. Smoke rendering quality has been improved to reduce blockiness.

Python scripts and drivers are now disabled by default when loading files. This is for improved security, without this feature malicious .blend files could cause problems. See the Python security documentation for details.

Modeling
Improved bridge tool to bridge multiple loops at once, subdivision, surface blending and bridging face regions. New grid-fill tool filling a grid from edge loops, X mirror and projected proportional editing, snap to symmetry, face split option for dissolve, vertex connect cut across faces.

Cycles Rendering
Rendering performance has been improved on CPU and GPU and support for new GPUs was added. A new Mist render pass is available, Ray visibility is now supported for all light sources, and new Nodes have been added. Hair rendering on the GPU has been enabled as well.

Motion Tracker
Some new features and smaller improvements to existing ones were done for motion tracking. Main features are markers' position refining, which allows you to refine marker position after it was occluded by an object, and automatic keyframe selection, which tries to automatically find a best keyframe for the reconstruction.

Physics
Smoke has improved rendering quality avoid blockiness, and subframe simulation support to handle fast moving emitters. Particles can now be emitted from faces generated by modifiers that were not in the original mesh.

Usability
Improved weight painting tools, mask modifier for sequencer strips, 2D image paint more consistent with 3D painting, better key shortcuts display, quick enabling and disabling of multiple layers or visibility, auto indent for multi-line Python statements, and more.

Python Security
Auto-running Python scripts can now be controlled more securely.

Addons
New addons are Texture Atlas to bake shadow and lightmaps for an entire scene, and Edit Linked Library, for quick editing of linked assets.

Bug Fixes
In addition to the new features, over 280 bugs that existed in previous releases have been fixed.

Over 100 bugs fixed since 2.67 release: (Changes from revision 56533 up to 56912)
Interface

Fix #35286: 'Reset to Default Theme' makes some node titlebars go black (r56647)
Fix #35261: double clicking the up arrow in the file browser to go up multiple directories fast would start drag and drop (r56653)
Fix #56662: files with numbers higher than 2147483648 or with different numbers of leading zeros would show in random order in the file browser. (r56662)
Fix #35284: outline name edit textbox did not show properly in some cases. (r56670)
Fix #56672: search menu buttons (with an X on the right side to clear) had text overlapping the X icon (r35281)
Fix #35273: click in empty space to deselect as used by the Maya keymap gave a python error when used in pose mode. (r56673)
Fix #35262: assigning shortcuts from e.g. delete or selection mode menus (r56676)
Fix #35307: popup menus in nodes, with nodes outside window boundary, were clipped (r56688)
Fix #35342: multi-sample antialiasing makes tooltips look blurry (r56766)
Fix #35415: multi-sample don't work in 2.66 and newer (regression) (r56912)
Fix for toggle drag not working in popups (r56747 r56881)
Change to drag-lock behavior, only use with outliner (this way layers can be changed all at once) (r56748)

Viewport

Fix #35259: Fix crash when enabling mesh analysis intersect with wire edges (r56539)
Fix eternal loop with background scenes (r56689)

Animation

Fix #35253: Fix failure to animate X, Y, Z values in nodes with vector sub-menu (r56581)
Fix #35384: animation to enable/disable render layers was applied one frame too late when rendering animations. (r56851)
Fix #35398: changing render layer name causes animation to be lost. (r56868)
Fix material/lamp drivers not working sometimes when they were used by multiple objects (r56707)
Fix for shape-key drivers executing for every call to derivedmesh (r56880)

Sequencer

Fix #35390: the vertical line indicating scene end frame was off by one (r56872 r56882 r56894)

Composite/Nodes

Fix #35252: Fix crash with the node placed partially behind the screen (r56572)
Fix #35291: crash deleting 'Group Output' node in compositor (r56654)
Fix #35327: compositing Z combine node was not giving the same result as previous versions when the Z values were the same (r56755)
Fix #35330: Blur node crash due to size overflow (r56759)
Fix #35349: multiple viewers nodes crashing during render (r56791)
Fix #35376: node editor throwing python error on some files saved with 2.66 test builds. (r56830)
Fix #35388: grouped nodes not editable in properties ui. (r56857)
Fix #35369: crop node or FileOutput node bug. (r56879)
Fix #35313: object and ID anti-aliased masks are incorrect when using border render + crop (r56898)
Fix string escaping when building python expression for nodes (r56610)
Fix crash loading node groups caused by versioning error (r56611)
Fix for add_node operator, prevent it from re-using settings from a previous call (r56613)
Fix note add operators were not using UNDO option (r56648)

Render

Fix #35219: Fix blender internal auto ray bias to avoid the terminator shadow problem was giving light flickering on a mesh with animated hair strands. (r56577)
Fix #35280: crash when setting Environment Map imagefile (r56620)
Fix #35335: Crash when rendering a text object with a remesh modifier and a material texture (r56749)

Render (Cycles)

Fix #35272: GPU crash with anisotropic shader in group node. (r56650 r56663)
Fix #35282: color ramp set to constant interpolation did not work well (r56651)
Fix #35306: normal mapping not working with flat shading. (r56682)

Render (Freestyle)

Fix #35352: geometry spatial noise freezes on render (r56836)
Fix #35385: rendering crash with modifiers (r56839)
Fix #35245: Freestyle getting stuck on view map creation + memory leaks. (r56905)
Fix crash when closing blend files with no line styles (r56711)
Fix for a copy-and-paste bug in a Freestyle Python API helper function (r56806)
Fix for memory leaks in Freestyle Python API components (r56778 r56807)
Fix for missing finalization of memory blocks allocated in the Freestyle module (r56826)
Fix for built-in style module sketchy_multiple_parameterization.py not working correctly (r56867)

Modifiers

Fix #35317: crash with boolean modifier using an object whose library linked mesh datablock went missing (r56698)

Tools

Fix #35257: 'Bridge > Merge' sometimes flips result (r56606)
Fix #35292: edge slide slow with big image in image editor (r56671)
Fix #35289: UV layout export to image was extremely slow for large meshes (r56674)
Fix #35326: even edge slide on open edge crashes (r56735)
Fix #35308: Edge Split operator splits unselected edges (r56760)
Fix for strange behavior with loop select involving ngons (r56773 r56783 r56784 r56785), See: comparison
Fix loopselect-slide (with multicut enabled) changing from vertex-select to edge-select. (r56863)

Paint

Fix part of #35372: distorted strokes when painting zoomed out with a small brush size (r56816)
Fix #35057, #35372: slow texture painting performance. (r56823)
Fix #35355: 2D image paint View mapping mode was dependent on zoom, this was wrong, it should just fit the texture in the brush circle. (r56833)
Fix #35372: sculpting/painting long brush strokes with small brush size would take up a lot of memory. (r56834)
Fix #56901: calling any paint operator from operator search menu with mouse crashes blender. (r56901)
Fix crash on 2d painting when no active object is present (regression), (r56892)
Fix Painting / Sculpting: improve pressure sensitivity (regression) (r56896)
Fix crash due to shared paint cursor function (regression). (r56902)

Sculpt

Fix #35337: sculpt performance regression, partial redraw was not working anymore due to paint cursor redraw problem. (r56763)
Fix sculpt getting slower as you paint a longer stroke. Partial redraw was redrawing the whole area that was painted on from the start of the stroke (r56767 r56828)
Fix #35364: 'D Key' shortcut inconsistency (r56815 r56873)
Fix #35354: dyntopo - materials and UI display issues (r56820)

Game Engine

Fix #31757: Fix setGLSLMaterialSetting has no effect (regression) (r56605)
Fix #34382: vertex position doesn't update when set through Python and "Cast Buffer Shadows" is disabled (r56639)
Fix #35204: new alpha-enabled shadows fail when UVs Change (r56643)
Fix #34631: error displaying texface (r56679)
Fix #34044: error displaying texface for objects with no material (r56680)
Fix #35320: crash when adding property without setting material (r56745)
Fix #35329: action actuator crash with replacemesh, pointers got outdated. (r56756)
Add missing python properties on ActionActuator: layer, layerWeight (r56906)

Particles

Fix #35296: particles crash with long object name (r56668)

Rigid Body

fix #35403: Highlight not updating instantly when removing from Rigid body

Python

Fix #35319: 2x2 matrix inverse and adjugate were wrong. (r56700)
Fix #35336: added a warning in the doc string for nodetree.nodes.new() (r56800)

Other

Fix OS X build with 10.6 SDK, was not working due to recent fullscreen bug fixes. (r56601)
Fix #35255: Fix build for older OpenCollada versions failed (r56537 r56538)
Fix #35267: cmd+v, cmd+c on OS X for copy/paste worked in some editors like the 3D view and text editor but not in the animation editors(r56661 r56678)

Over 80 bugs fixed since 2.66 release:

Interface

Fix #34357: Image editor scope and clip editor track preview did not resize properly with different DPI settings. (r54760)
Fix #33466: Alt+MouseWheel changes frame as well as buttons (r54929)
Fix UI/DPI: user preferences window size now takes into account DPI, otherwise the buttons don't fit properly. (r54945)
Fix soft shadow at top edge incorrectly drawn (r54954)
Fix #34418: Screencast could be started twice (r54961)
Fix #34509: Panel color were not updated from old files properly (r54996)
Allow trackpad and magic mouse swipes to control brush size for circle select. (r55027)
Fix (regression) #34391: Window position not saving correctly for next start-up (r54879)
Fix #34390: quicktime video codec menu showing blank (r54942)

Viewport

Fix #34378: GLSL materials using multiple UV layers fail in editmode (r54783)
Fix #34347: View3D Mini-Axis drawing in error with overlay (r54789)
Fix #34426: Manipulator handles drawn incorrectly by depth (r54923)
Fix glitch rotating the camera in camera mode drawing helper-line in random locations (r54928)

Animation

Fix zoom for graph-editor (and other editors) (r54910)

Sequencer

Fix #34439: Strip modifier - Mask multiply failure (r54901)
Fix #34453: Added RGBA|RGB channels toggle to sequencer preview (r54904)
Fix sequencer crash when pasteing strips after creating new file (r54935)

Composite/Nodes

Fix #34356: Inputs list in file output doesn't appear properly. (r54754)
Fix #34359: Crash when using image output node (r54746)
Fix #34474: "Record Composite" image op segfaults in compositor code (r54948)
Fix #34461: Inconsistent behavior of "Color Mix Node" and "Alpha Over Node" (r54960)
Fix #34507: Adding reroute node into invalid links would crash the compositor (r55047)

MovieClip/Tracking

Fix memory leak when loading multilayer EXR as movie clip (r54934)
Fix for incorrect subpixel precision of marker when using track offset (r55028)

Render

Fix #34351: Displacement map Bake margin does not work (r54748)
Fix #34436: Node editor delete texture crash (r54908)
Fix #34493: Image Sequence texture didn't allow "Offset" with fcurves. (r55012)
Fix #34475: Weird noise bug with Texture nodes (r55021)
Fix for texture preview render with show alpha enabled (r55026)
Fix image transparency backwards compatibility. Now the texture datablock has a 'Use Alpha' option again. (r55022)

Render (Cycles)

Fix #34421: viewport render stuck with no objects in the scene. (r54885)
Fix #34480: hair render in dupligroup did hide the emitter properly in some cases. (r54959)

Modifiers

Fix #34358: Shrinkwrap modifier project along normal did not work correctly (r54793)
Fix #34369: applying screw modifier turns object to black (r55004)

Tools

Fix #34384: Border select in UV Image window crashed (r54816)
Fix for weight paint using values over 1.0 when blending (r54833)
Fix for regression in 'object.shape_key_transfer' operator since BMesh merge (r54834)
Fix #34415: Edge slide results in segmentation fault on certain mesh (r54875)
Fix #34455: Origin to Center of Mass is missing in menu Object > Transform (r54891)
Fix selecting linked faces (r54920 r54921)
Fix #34366: mesh.select_mode operator could not be configure the use_extend and use_expand properly. (r54944)
fix #34486: Selection of bones in armature edit mode only toggles between two bones (r54969)
Fix #34534: Copy/Paste objects hangs (r55051)
Fix (regression) #34438: Solidify crease error (r54882)
Fix missing select menu for weight, vertex, texture paint modes. (r54883)
Fix joining meshes could loose crease/bevel weights (r54899)
Fix (regression) #34449: Edge toggline bevel failed (r54900)

Sculpt

Fix #34370: Collapse-Edges crash in dyntopo (r54827)
Fix #34431: Crash when dyntopo enabled and using view plane mode (r54971)
Fix #34473: Blender Crashes on toggling modes, dynatopo sculpt/object mode. (r55007)

Game Engine

Fix projection clipping (r54733)
Fix #34349: Character walkDirection ADD mode -#INF error. (r54738)
Fix #18967: Enable alpha buffer (useful for TV broadcasting). (r54745)
Fix #34353: Ray cast on Triangle mesh bounded Rigid Body Object crashes (r54757)
Fix #34219: Webcam support under Linux in Standalone broken (r54764)
Fix #34330: Action Actuator "caching" the previous ran actions (r54766 r54767 r54769)
Fix error using actions with multiple scenes (r54767)
Fix object color channels can now be animated separately without zeroing out the other channels (r54772)
Fix error using uninitialized variables for rendering (r54776 r54781)
Fix #34377: Game-Engine - Multi UV mesh's materials not backwards compatible (r54780)
Fix Game-Engine crashing when on material conversions (r54837)
Fix #34440: Motion blur (2d filter) not working in osx (r54912)
Fix #34428 #20856 #20281: converting multi-uv layers. (r54972)
Fix #34523: 2D-Filter produces render error (r55010)
Fix #34517: 2D-Filter causes mouselook script drifting effect (r55011)

Rigid Body

Fix motion paths calculation being incorrect for rigid bodies (r54799)
Allow rigidbody collision groups to be animated (r54818)
Fix #34410: Planes with Rigid Body always keep distance to colliding objects (r54855)
Fix #34420: Rigid objects not resetting original properly after running a simulation. (r54862)
Fix inconsistency with world rebuilding with the start frame (r54990)

Text Editor

Fix Fix text editor bug: ctrl+F is not configurable (r54878)
Fix #54907: freeze when turning on syntax highlight (r54907)
Fix crash when overwriting ascii character with multibyte character (r54917)

Python

Fix Python console bug: "autocomplete" doesn't advance cursor properly when completion includes UTF8 characters (r54824)
Fix #34423: foreach_get crash for any non existant attribute (r54865 r54866)
Fix #34372: mesh.verts.foreach_set not working with normals (r54943)
Fix for python exception getting the ID from an operator button (r54835)

Other

Fix freeing all bakes in particle mode (r54822)
Fix file with packed images crashes on load (r54790)
Fix image alpha version patch with library linked files (r54794)
Fix #34427: Collada export crash with armature (r54856)
Fix X3D import error loading UV's (r4325)
Fix X3D import for images (r4327)
Rigify fixes (r4321 r4334 r4335)