https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/8c4f9a9a-b5f5-42d0-98fb-3bdc82baad8a Update your Blender ID nickname at https://id.blender.org/settings/profile 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 Blender by joining the Development Fund https://fund.blender.org #b3d #BlenderToday Music by  @Thaehan , -- BLENDER TODAY #216 BLENDER TODAY #216 developer.blender.org transition to projects.blender.org ! CHANGELOG PERFORMANCE BMesh: Parallelize BMesh to evaluated Mesh conversion https://developer.blender.org/rBebe8f8c Curves: Use shared caches for evaluated data https://developer.blender.org/rB7f95821 UI Gizmo: add new cage2d draw style for circular shapes https://developer.blender.org/rBfe5d54d Gizmo: add central point to circular 2D cage https://developer.blender.org/rB2350662 Gizmo: add gizmo for adjusting spot light blend https://developer.blender.org/rB3c8c0f1 Fix wrong spot light blend circle radius in viewport https://developer.blender.org/rBce42906 EEVEE Metal: Optimize GLSL to MSL translation. Improve cached compilation https://developer.blender.org/rBa504058 CYCLES Cycles: add non-uniform scaling to spot light size https://developer.blender.org/rBb454416 Cycles: Enable MetalRT opt-in for AMD/Navi2 GPUs https://developer.blender.org/rB46c9f77 Cycles: Prevent use of both AMD and Intel Metal devices at same time https://developer.blender.org/rBbe0912a Cycles: Reorganize Fresnel handling in Microfacet closures https://developer.blender.org/rB73000c7 Cycles: Use local atomics for faster shader sorting (enabled on Metal) https://developer.blender.org/rB654e1e9 ANIMATION Animation: Add "Select Linked Vertices" to Weight Paint Mode https://developer.blender.org/rB04aab7d Animation: Add Operator for adding FCurve modifiers to more menus https://developer.blender.org/rB0f51b5b Animation: Enable Pin Icon in the Dope Sheet https://developer.blender.org/rB49ad91b I/O USD export: add scale and bias for normal maps https://developer.blender.org/rBc79b55f Fix T100028: Convert USD camera properties to mm from USD units https://developer.blender.org/rBf359a39 FBX Export: Speed up shape key weights and normals https://developer.blender.org/rBA6ff033 IO: Harmonize UI for selection of axes in OBJ and Collada https://developer.blender.org/rB9565ea0 GREASE PENCIL Fix T104371: GPencil merge down layer duplicates wrong frame https://developer.blender.org/rB6d297c3 GEOMETRY NODES Geometry Nodes: add support for eye dropper for object input in modifier https://developer.blender.org/rB19fe5ca Geometry Nodes: parallelize part of Duplicate Elements node https://developer.blender.org/rB3d6ceb7 Geometry Nodes: Tweak menu location of sample nodes https://developer.blender.org/rB789e549 Nodes: Add modal keymap for Node link drag https://developer.blender.org/rBdc79281 POTPOURRI Sculpt: Don't invert in geodesic mask expand keymap https://developer.blender.org/rB3750e7e Sculpt: Un-invert expand normal falloff https://developer.blender.org/rB0a9520c Fix: CustomData layers become unsorted in versioning https://developer.blender.org/rBd92edca PyAPI: updates to bl_ui.generic_ui_list which didn't follow conventions https://developer.blender.org/rBc468aee Fix T104316: Width of headerless panels on regions with overlap https://developer.blender.org/rBab9c34e FFMPEG: Change default AV1 encoder for "slowest" https://developer.blender.org/rBe1ee86b Viewport Compositor: Platform support message https://developer.blender.org/rB99520a7 Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:59:55 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.blender.org https://video.blender.org/lazy-static/avatars/83e44c73-9c22-453c-a454-c4efe225fd4d.png https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/8c4f9a9a-b5f5-42d0-98fb-3bdc82baad8a All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.blender.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.