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What changed in Blender in 2017

79 updates · 29 main milestones · Mar 6, 2017 to Sep 12, 2017

  1. 12 events
    Over 700 Bugs Fixedbug fixMilestone
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    Faster AMD OpenCL Performanceperformance
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    Shadow Catcher Feature Addednew content
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    Faster AMD OpenCL supportperformance
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    Denoiser Feature Addednew content
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    Over 700 bugs fixedbug fixMilestone
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    Filmic Color Management Implementednew content
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    Filmic Color Management implementednew content
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    PBR Shader Introducednew content
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    Shadow Catcher feature addednew content
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    Denoiser feature addednew content
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    PBR Shader introducednew content
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  2. 16 events
    New Add-ons Coming Soonnew content

    A dedicated article will be released for new add-ons.

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    New Add-ons Coming Soonnew content

    A dedicated article for new add-ons will be released.

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    OpenCL Performance ImprovementperformanceMilestone

    Performance improved up to 5x faster with AMD cards.

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    Shadow Catcher Addednew content
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    Improved Alembic I/Onew content
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    Denoising Feature Introducednew content
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    Filmic Color Management Implementednew content
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    Improved Alembic I/Onew content
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    Principled BSDF (Disney Shaders) Introducednew content
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    OpenCL Performance BoostperformanceMilestone

    Performance improved up to 5x faster with AMD cards.

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    Denoising Feature Introducednew content
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    Shadow Catcher Addednew content
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    Enhanced Pose Library for Animationnew content
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    Enhanced Pose Library for Animationnew content
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    Filmic Color Management Implementednew content
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    Principled BSDF (Disney Shaders) Introducednew content
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  3. 51 events
    Return correct alpha for environment map in GLSLperformance
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    More efficient noise reduction for Branched Path TracingperformanceMilestone
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    Ability to enable/disable individual GPUs for flexible benchmark scriptingperformance
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    Fix various crashes related to linked data blocksbug fixMilestone
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    Unused shader nodes are now ignored on render timeperformance
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    Use more global SSE optimizations for SSE4.1+ kernelsperformanceMilestone
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    Improve multi-threaded usage of fluid simulationperformance
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    Fireflies reduction for background textures when using MISperformanceMilestone
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    Multiple improvements for the latest AVX2 CPUsperformanceMilestone

    Includes optimized math utilities and faster triangle intersection function.

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    Various optimizations and fixes for deformation motion blurperformanceMilestone
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    Optimization of dependency graph construction timebug fix
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    Added 3D textures support for OpenCLperformance
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    Better remaining time estimationperformance
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    Improvements to procedural texturesperformance
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    Fixed crash of inverse kinematics on 32 bit Windows platformsbug fixMilestone
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    Distance culling for objects to remove objects which are too far away from the cameraperformance
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    Hair particle settings moved to Geometry panel of Render contextui ux
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    Unused shader nodes are now ignored on render timeperformance
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    Multithreaded shader compilation and optimizations for emission meshesperformanceMilestone
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    Improve multi-threaded usage of fluid simulationperformance
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    Fixes for missing animation updatesbug fix
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    Added time steps BVH option to speed up rendering of scenes with motion blurperformanceMilestone
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    Distance culling for objectsperformance

    Removes objects which are too far away from the camera

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    Fixed regression crash when adding texture node to compositorbug fixMilestone
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    Added time steps BVH option to speed up rendering of scenes with motion blurperformanceMilestone
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    Major render time improvements on transparent shadowsperformanceMilestone
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    Fixed regression crash when adding texture node to compositorbug fixMilestone
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    Fix missing or wrong relation links causing bone flickeringbug fixMilestone

    Related to complex rigs.

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    Hair particle settings moved to Geometry panel of Render contextui ux
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    Fix various crashes related to linked data blocksbug fixMilestone
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    Fixes for missing animation updatesbug fix
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    Added 3D textures support for OpenCLperformance
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    Multithreaded shader compilation and optimizations for emission meshesperformanceMilestone
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    Beckmann/GGX distribution with 0 roughness is now considered a singular rayperformance
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    Improvements to procedural texturesperformance
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    Use more global SSE optimizations for SSE4.1+ kernelsperformanceMilestone
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    Different seed for subframes and different stereo viewsperformanceMilestone

    Allows 'slow-motion' effect and improved VR experience

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    Use XDG folder for cache on Linux and OSXperformance

    Avoids having per-Blender version folder with all the OpenCL/CUDA kernels built.

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    Fixed crash of inverse kinematics on 32 bit Windows platformsbug fixMilestone
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    Various optimizations and fixes for deformation motion blurperformanceMilestone
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    Better remaining time estimationperformance
    Steam
    Use XDG folder for cache on Linux and OSXperformance

    Avoids having per-Blender version folder with all the OpenCL/CUDA kernels built.

    Steam
    Multiple improvements for the latest AVX2 CPUsperformanceMilestone

    Includes optimized math utilities, faster triangle intersection function, and BVH traversal optimizations.

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    Ability to enable/disable individual GPUsperformance

    Helps artists and allows flexible benchmark scripting.

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    Major render time improvements on transparent shadowsperformanceMilestone
    Steam
    Return correct alpha for environment map in GLSLperformance
    Steam
    Fireflies reduction for background textures when using MISperformanceMilestone
    Steam
    More efficient noise reduction for Branched Path TracingperformanceMilestone
    Steam
    Fix missing or wrong relation links causing bone flickeringbug fixMilestone
    Steam
    Beckmann/GGX distribution with 0 roughness considered a singular rayperformance
    Steam
    Optimization of dependency graph construction timebug fix
    Steam