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<h1>2017-11-04: Weekly News<a class="headerlink" href="#weekly-news" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<h2>Changes to Blender<a class="headerlink" href="#changes-to-blender" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p class="rubric">master</p>
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<li>Implement a new automatic handle algorithm to produce smooth F-Curves
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/rB8bdc391c5488228dfe9c9e995277d67558293f08">rB8bdc391c</a></li>
<li>Fix for <a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/T48988">T48988</a> - Enabling bbone easing for posemode.
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/rBa819ef65c07131ddb203a55bd8dc4e3207130b64">rBa819ef65</a></li>
<li>Tracking: Create mesh from selected tracks only
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/rBf1c724337613c2d2081523b3fd5e4d0315268622">rBf1c72433</a></li>
<li>Alembic: added frame offset property
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/rB6099b2620d645f4129c42af2272cb6bd8538fc7a">rB6099b262</a></li>
<li>Alembic: exporting MetaBalls as mesh
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/rB89eb05a8908130f8668e4c677d63f3d2b89e68bb">rB89eb05a8</a></li>
<li>Curve Decimate: new tool to simplify bezier curves <em>(access from the curve clean-up menu)</em>
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/rB80465ba35a163c9832a4666fac74465561b7c6c5">rB80465ba3</a></li>
<li>Heap re-insertion optimization for decimate and beautify <em>(~70% faster for decimate, only ~10% for beautify)</em>.
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/rB336885bebaa8c7b60041b139f02a29da475cf3ea">rB336885be</a></li>
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<p class="rubric">blender2.8</p>
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<li>Mesh Auto-Smooth Split Normal Support
<a class="reference external" href="https://twitter.com/AidyBurrows3D/status/926528793409392640">See results</a>
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/rB59f238ba091187b968a125417cc9323cb9249deb">rB59f238ba</a></li>
<li>Experiment with adding output file meta data from render engine
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/rB5296c2e099e92e30478a454049e72f170f71a624">rB5296c2e0</a></li>
<li>Collections: Bring back simple visibility behavior
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/rB7553523af7b34bfeede09b9acf0a95b84a2c15cf">rB7553523a</a></li>
<li>Draw Manager: re-enable edit-mesh text overlay
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/rB8277bee748188dbcab431e15bedd5c1b5559508a">rB8277bee7</a></li>
</ul>
<p class="rubric">asset-engine</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Add drag’n’drop-linking of material onto object in 3DView
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/rB92a06831a84ded45dabc5860ddf72b2e0556328a">rB92a06831</a></li>
<li>Amber: Add icon of data type to ‘all data’ assets add operator
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/rB0e256653b223c77cf9276350a106f3d02ee3f05a">rB0e256653</a></li>
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<h2>New Patches<a class="headerlink" href="#new-patches" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li>Blender 2.8: Support Auto-Smooth in Edit-Mesh and allocate loop_normals in MeshRenderData instead of CustomData
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/D2907">D2907</a></li>
<li>Cycles: Add option that makes background visible through glass have alpha transparency
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/D2904">D2904</a></li>
<li>Cycles: Add Scatter Direct and Scatter Indirect passes
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/D2903">D2903</a></li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="other-projects">
<h2>Other Projects<a class="headerlink" href="#other-projects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>RFC: Clang-format for Blender
<a class="reference external" href="http://developer.blender.org/T53211">T53211</a></li>
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