Blender - 32 bit full changelog

User Interface:
Blender 2.80 has a revamped user interface, to make it easier to discover and use its many features.
The interface has a redesigned look with a new dark theme and modern icon set, to put the focus on the artwork that you create. Keyboard, mouse and tablet interaction got a refresh with left click select as the new default. Quick Favorites menus provide quick access to often used tools. The layout of the properties editor and preferences has been updated.
Templates and workspaces let you quickly get started with tasks like sculpting, texture painting or motion tracking. They can be customized to create your own efficient working environment.

In this release:
Cycles: Built-in Denoising, Shadow catcher, Principled shader, AMD OpenCL optimizations.
Grease Pencil: New frame interpolation tools, per-layer onion skinning.
Alembic: Improvements to compatibility, stability and support.

Port all changes for automated Cycles testing c6e4a81d
Fix for wrong render result of hair with BVH motion steps b3b4084
Fix compilation error of GLSL viewport when using Light Path node 9215848
Fix wrong Brick texture in material viewport 8ba1dab

Grease Pencil:
New design and complete overhaul, including:
Easy layer management.
Ability to have multiple colors and thickness values per layer.

HIGHLIGHTS:
Cycles: Cycles now supports rendering spherical stereo images for VR.
Grease Pencil: Reworked to be similar to other 2D drawing softwares.
Alembic: Initial basic support in Blender.

HIGHLIGHTS:
Cycles: Cycles now supports rendering spherical stereo images for VR.
Grease Pencil: Reworked to be similar to other 2D drawing softwares.
Alembic: Initial basic support in Blender.

User Interface:
Progress bars got a complete design overhaul.
Support for multi-line text in tooltips, render stamps, frame nodes and meta data display.
Better anti-aliasing for OpenGL renders.

Improved Subsurface Scattering, and faster SSS on GPUs.
Smoke/Fire and Point Density support on GPU.
Customizable motion blur position, support for rolling shutter.
Improvements for AMD GPUs
stability on Windows / Linux and compatibility with OSX El Capitan
is now possible to use wider variety of different GPUs

Other improvements:
Camera zoom motion blur support: initial implementation, will get future improvements
Support for extended and clipped image texture extension (repeat/extend/clip)

Viewport:

the ongoing viewport project brought a big performance boost!
this improved both draw performance and memory usage for mesh data in general
improvements may be noticeable on more complex scenes, sculpting and painting

Other improvements:

Node Editor: auto-offset of existing nodes when adding a new one, a real time-saver!
File Browser:

New Point Density Texture
Creates voxel texture at shader compilation time, in a way that keeps render time as low as possible, but not totally memory efficient: in the future this will be compensated by using OpenVDB for more efficient storage of sparse volume data.

Improvements for AMD GPUs
stability on Windows / Linux and compatibility with OSX El Capitan
is now possible to use wider variety of different GPUs

Other improvements:
Camera zoom motion blur support: initial implementation, will get future improvements
Support for extended and clipped image texture extension (repeat/extend/clip)

Viewport:

the ongoing viewport project brought a big performance boost!
this improved both draw performance and memory usage for mesh data in general
improvements may be noticeable on more complex scenes, sculpting and painting

Other improvements:

Node Editor: auto-offset of existing nodes when adding a new one, a real time-saver!
File Browser:

Cycles Rendering:
New Point Density texture.
Improvements for AMD GPUs (stability on Windows / Linux and compatibility with OSX El Capitan).
Camera zoom motion blur support