Blender 2.75a Release Notes

The Blender Foundation and online developer community are proud to present Blender 2.75a!

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Blender now supports a fully integrated Multi-View and Stereo 3D pipeline
Cycles has much awaited initial support for AMD GPUs, and a new Light Portals feature.
UI now allows font previews in the file browser.
High quality options for viewport depth of field were added
Modeling has a new Corrective Smooth modifier.
The Decimate modifier was improved significantly.
3D viewport painting now supports symmetry and the distribution of Dynamic Topology was improved
Video Sequence Editor: Placeholders can now replace missing frames of image sequences
Game Engine now allows smoother LOD transitions, and supports mist attributes animation
And: 100s of bug fixes and smaller feature improvements.

Update 2.75a release: check this link for list of fixes.

Multi-View and Stereo 3D

Real-time visualization of stereoscopic effect
Viewport feedback of stereoscopy cameras, convergence and volumes
Camera stereo settings (pivot, convergence, ...)
Render of multiple views
Compositor and Sequencer
Cycles support
And more!

Cycles Rendering

Initial support for rendering with AMD GPUs was added
New Light Portals for improving environment light sampling were added
Several performance and memory optimizations
Animated Seed is now a built-in feature
And more!

User Interface

Viewport Depth of field got an option for high quality display
File Browser:
- Ability to display font previews
- The size for thumbnails can now be changed
Initial support for editing all selected items from the UI was added
Material slots are now reorderable
Search buttons for choosing an object now display an eyedropper icon
Opening/Closing multiple panels is now possible by click-dragging over them
And more!

Modeling

A new Corrective Smooth modifier for smoothing deformed areas
Decimate modifier was improved
Great performance boost for Metaball calculations
Tools:
- New split off options for the Rip Tool
- Un-clamped Edge Slide sliding
- More even Subdivide Smooth output
Selection:
- Checker de-select now has the option to skip steps
- Improved Select Linked options and support
And more!

Sculpting/Painting

Symmetry painting support for texture painting in 3D viewport
Dynamic topology distribution was greatly improved
New dynamic topology detail mode
Improved crease brush
And more!

Animation

The new Dependency Graph has landed! (Disabled by default) - This is the base needed for developing loads of neat features in the future
Action Management: New features and updates to flesh out the planned workflow enhancements
Action Editor: New features for unlinking Actions and to prevent unwanted/unintentional loss of data
NLA: Strip influence and time curves update properly
Rigging:
- New Armature Symmetrize tool
- “Fill Bones” tool
- ...
Quite a few Grease Pencil improvements
And more!

Game Engine

New hysteresis parameter for smoother transitions between LODs
Material and World mist attributes now support animation
Debug drawing of Sun Lamps shadow range
Improved collision masks and groups
Replication of rigid body joint constraints for group instances
Python API improvements with subclassing, new options and methods
Over 40 bug fixes (see list).
And more!

Sequencer

A new "Use Placeholder" option that automatically replaces missing frames of image sequences
Proxies:
- Support for storing multiple proxies in one custom directory
- Option to store proxies per strip or per project

Add-ons

A new "UI Previews" API for requesting and displaying image files in the UI as custom icons
"Add Mesh Extra Objects" has been updated
The Collada exporter can now export custom normals
Node Wrangler:
- Rewritten ‘Align Nodes’ function
- Nodes are now spaced evenly and consistently
- ...
The Python executable is now included with official Blender releases to support multi-threaded script access (better)
And more!

More Features

Image metadata support and display
"Simplify" for scenes is now split into viewport/render

Have a look at some of the above mentioned features in the demo videos made by the Blender community. Here you will also find the Developer Sneak Peak series - a video podcast series that showcases important milestones in the development of every Blender release.

Bug Fixes

As for every Blender release, hundreds of bugs were fixed, thanks to the hardworking Blender developers.

Re-Designs

The Baking-API now uses an object_id in the bake() function and in the pixel_array table
The new material reorder feature affects polygons' material indices

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