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Blender 2.79a Released
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https://www.blender.org/download/release...#bug-fixes      New in Blender 2.79a
Denoise
Filmic Color Management
PBR Shader
Faster OpenCL
Shadow Catcher
More Cycles Improvements
Modeling & Modifiers
Animation
Grease Pencil
User Interface
Alembic
Python API
Add-ons
More Features
Compatibility Warning
Bug Fixes
Denoise
Get rid of render noise while preserving visual detail as well as possible.
Same render time, buttery smooth.

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The Dweebs - cloud.blender.org
Filmic Color Management
A new Filmic view transform has been added, for more photorealistic results and better handling of high dynamic range.

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Andrew Price - blenderguru.com


PBR Shader
Based on the Disney model, the principled BSDF is a new surface shader node. Combining multiple layers into a single easy to use node.

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Faster OpenCL
Blender 2.79 features much faster AMD OpenCL rendering and feature parity with NVIDIA CUDA. Including support for Subsurface Scattering, Volumetrics and optimized transparent shadows.

Note to macOS users: AMD is currently working on the drivers, OpenCL rendering should work once they are updated.

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Shadow Catcher
Combine CGI elements with real-life footage easily with the new Shadow Catcher feature for Cycles.

Any object in the scene can be a shadow catcher. Controlled by the “Shadow Catcher” option in the object settings. This option will make the object to only receive shadows in a way that it could be composed onto another image.

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More Cycles Improvements
Shaders compilation is now multithreaded, a new light sampling threshold feature was added, speedups up to 20% for CPUs that support AVX2, brick textures have now smoothing and a long-waited feature: texture coordinates for point, spot and area lamps!



Modeling & Modifiers
New Modifier! Surface Deform, transfers motion from another mesh.



Plus a whole bunch of updates. Some of them are:

Displace Modifier: Multi-threading support and new Global/Local space option for X/Y/Z/XYZ directions.
Mirror Modifier: add offset for mirrored UVs.
Mesh intersect has a new Cut separate mode, keeping each side of the intersection separate without splitting faces in half.
New tool to Set custom normals from selected faces.
Improved center of mass calculation for mesh centers.
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Animation
Graph Editor: Channels can now be pinned.
DopeSheet: Background color for bone channels is now inherited from the bone-group color.
DopeSheet: Curve normalization now ignores handles, effectively normalizing curves better.
Motion Paths can now have custom color and thickness.
Pose library reordering and keying for selected bones only.
Better undo for frame changes.
Various small new tools and options.
Further reading on “2.79: Rigging & Animation new features” by Julien Duroure.

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Grease Pencil
New tools for interpolating between grease pencil frames.
Per-layer onion skinning, add blank frame tool, and UI improvements.
Numpad keys now work when doing sculpt sessions.
Operator to add a blank frame
Reproject Strokes option to project strokes onto geometry
UI improvements
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User Interface
Application templates to define a reusable configuration
Automatic scaling for high DPI displays on Windows and Linux
Image empties now support multi-view stereo
Reorganized sequencer and UV editor panels
Custom shortcuts for keyframing and drivers
More tooltips now show the reason why the button is disabled
Add-on duplicates warning now includes paths
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Alembic
Alembic import and export has been greatly improved, both in compatibility and stability.

New supported features include export of linked dupli-groups, sub-frame sampling, face-varying vertex colors, child hairs and empties.

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Python API
Custom properties pointing to data-blocks like objects or materials.
Render engine add-ons can now add custom render passes.
Inserting custom items in right click menus.
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Add-ons
Blender 2.79 packs a bunch of new add-ons that greatly expand Blender’s functionality, allowing you to create architectural environments using parametric windows and walls, to make beautiful skies, or even meta-rigs to animate cats and horses!


Full list of new add-ons: Dynamic Sky, Archipack, Magic UV, Mesh Edit Tools, Skinify, Display Tools, Brush Menus, Btrace, Is Key Free, Turnaround Camera, Auto Mirror, Camera Rigs, Snap Utils Line, Add Advanced Objects, Export Paper Model, Kinoraw Tools, Stored Views, Render Clay, Auto Tracker, Refine Tracking Solution, Materials Library VX, Mesh Tissue, Cell Fracture Crack It.

Several add-ons were updated as well, including Collada, POV-Ray, OBJ, Rigify, Ant Landscape, Add Curve Extra Objects, Viewport Pie Menus, Blender ID, Node Wrangler.

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More Features
Video encoding settings have been simplified, along with the addition of a Constant Rate Factor (CRF) mode.
Viewport support for Object Info, Layer Weight and Fresnel shading nodes.
OpenSubdiv now supports multiple materials drawing in Cycles textured view
Duplicate Particle Systems
Rigid Body Physics: support for rotational springs with stiffness and damping
Collada improvements
Freestyle improvements
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Compatibility Warning
Due to various issues with drivers for AMD GCN 1.0 architecture, those cards are no longer supported for Cycles rendering
When using add-ons in Blender 2.79 that take advantage of the new data-block pointer properties, the resulting .blend files can’t be opened in earlier versions of Blender. Attempting to open such .blend files in Blender 2.78c and earlier may crash.
Some Interface Themes may need to be reloaded to work properly.
The text color contained in a layout.box() is now defined in User Preferences » Themes » User Interface » Box section
Rig compatibility:
Changes to IK snapping may affect rigs that use non-uniform IK scaling. (rigs created in the 2.78 builds.)
During the 2.78 series: IK snapping was partly broken.
This has been fixed for Blender 2.79
Rigs created in Blender 2.78 may not be compatible with 2.79.
Rigs created in Blender 2.77 may still work.
When using the add-on Rigify, please note:
Compatibility is broken for this release. There’s no guarantee rigs created in previous Blender versions will work correctly.
Rigs created in Blender 2.78 may not be compatible with 2.79.
Rigs created in Blender 2.77 may still work.
Save your work before attempting upgrading your rigs.   Bug Fixes
A grand total of 789 bugs have been fixed for Blender 2.79, making it rock stable.

Thanks to the hardworking Blender developers and users reporting them!  :  https://www.blender.org/download/     Creative Freedom Starts Here           Fully Featured
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