[Bf-committers] Blender 3.0 bcon2

[Dalai Felinto]

Hi,
We are officially in 3.0 bcon2 [1]. The following is the current status of
the pending features.

Original bcon1 targets postponed to bcon2:
* Theme changes [2].
* VR navigation.

Features postponed to 3.1:
* Opensubdiv OpenGL (D12406).
* UV edge selection support (D12028).
* Clip Editor (exposing operators as tools) [3].

All the bcon2 show stoppers are now already in master, including:
* Tool header swap (D12631).
* VSE changes (D12405).
* Catalogs UI.
* Cycles-X.
* Geometry Nodes Fields.
* Grease Pencil split weight modifier in two.
* UV: GSoC - D12680 + D12684.
* Knife improvements: GSoC.
* Full canvas compositor "backend".

The bcon2 will last slightly less than a month. Bcon3 is on October 20,
2021. For the complete schedule please check the 3.0 project page [4].

[1] - https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Process/Release_Cycle
[2] - branch `temp-ui-tweaks` + D11878
[3] - branch `tracking_tools`
[4] - https://developer.blender.org/project/view/120/

All the best,
-Dalai-
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