[Bf-committers] Blender developer week notes - 2022.11.28

[Thomas Dinges]

Hi all,

Here are the compiled notes for this week's development. For the complete
report with an overview of new features and changes, developer weekly 
reports and more read it on:
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/28-november-2022/26658

Announcements
=============
* Blender 3.5 will have new minimum required versions [1] for Linux 
distributions. Task: [2]
- The buildbot infrastructure changes are expected to happen this 
Monday, after which Blender 3.5 daily builds will stop working on older 
distributions.
- Blender 3.4, 3.3 LTS and 2.93 LTS are not affected, and will continue 
to be built on CentOS 7.

* The Future of Character Animation — Blender Developers Blog [3]
* Blender Birds of a Feather at Siggraph Asia 2022 [4]

Modules & Projects
==================
Meeting notes:
* Technical Documentation Discussion - 21 November 2022 [5]
* Grease Pencil Module Meeting [6]
* Animation & Rigging module meeting [7]
* Procedural Hair for Blender 3.5 [8]
* Eevee/Viewport Module Meeting [9]

Geometry Nodes:
New blog post [10] about the Geometry Nodes workshop that happened after 
the Blender Conference 2022.
It shows the design discussions about simulation, loops and geometry object.

There are already builds available for the simulation-branch [11].

Have a good week,
Thomas

[1] https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/3.5#Compatibility
[2] https://developer.blender.org/T102440
[3] 
https://code.blender.org/2022/11/the-future-of-character-animation-rigging/
[4] 
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/blender-birds-of-a-feather-at-siggraph-asia-2022/26669/

[5] 
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/technical-documentation-discussion-21-november-2022/26656
[6] 
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2022-11-21-grease-pencil-module-meeting/26652
[7] 
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2022-11-24-animation-rigging-module-meeting/26687
[8] 
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2022-11-24-procedural-hair-for-blender-3-5/26700
[9] 
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2022-11-28-eevee-viewport-module-meeting/26711

[10] https://code.blender.org/2022/11/geometry-nodes-workshop-2022/
[11] 
https://builder.blender.org/download/experimental/geometry-nodes-simulation/

-- 
Thomas Dinges  -  thomas at blender.org   -  www.blender.org
Developer Community Coordinator at Blender
Buikslotermeerplein 161 - 1025 ET Amsterdam - The Netherlands