Feature and Stability Update

This is a stability release with over 700 fixes from Blender. This is part of all the latest from Blender 4.4 and 4.5 to the date - with a 33 pieces of love from us.

Additionally includes

• New quick "tag" assignment to show nodegroups in the relevant Asset Shelves
• New Quick Viewers for the compositor exposed to a top level
• Default hotkey updates

Included new features from Blender are

• New Glare node
• CPU compositor rewrite and performance update
• Much refinement to the UI
• New "disabled" mode of properties in nodes and modifiers
• New editor snapping
• New sculpt plane brush
• New Select by Pole Count and Topology Influence
• Relationship Overlays improved
• Rigging got love
• New Fcurve noise modifier

Thanks again for all your artwork, feedback and love! And a very special thanks to the community and developers for working this project.

• Bforartists-4.4.0-Linux.tar.xz
• Bforartists-4.4.0-Mac-Intel.dmg
• Bforartists-4.4.0-Mac-Silicon.dmg
• Bforartists-4.4.0-Windows.zip
• Bforartists-4.4.0-x86_64.AppImage
• bforartists_4.4.0.deb
• Install_Bforartists4_440.exe
• releasenote_bforartists4_440.txt

3D View

• Mesh - Sculpt Mode - Active Tool float props left #4962
• Workbench Overlays - Float depth of field left #4935
• Workbench Overlays - Show collapsed indicator for Cavity #4936
• Set Parent to Vertex needs icon #4928

Hotkeys

• Compositor - Hotkeys for Fast Preview, make discoverable #4923
• Add CTRL/ALT+F to outliner and properties editor to toggle outliner search focus, add to tooltip #4316
• Update GP3 hotkeys to GP2 hotkeys #4601

Properties editor

• Grease Pencil object - Object Data Properties - Layer panel - Specials menu - same tooltip for duplicate tools # 4967
• Grease Pencil object - Object Data Properties - Layer panel - Isolate Layers - same tooltip, same name #4968
• Object data properties with grease pencil - Layers panel - specials menu - add missing icons # 4957

Asset Shelves

• Tags - Add "quick" method to assign a node group to an asset shelf #4960
• Node Editors - Remove blanket inclusion of nodegroups (that would show regardless of tag or editor type) #4959

Sequencer

• Bug: no strip selected retiming panel check throws errors #4927
• Preview - Duplicate operator now possible from the preview mode #4888

Compositor

• Sidebar - Add tab - Keying - Chroma Key in icon only mode does nothing #4938
• Float Output node Save as Render toggle #4933

Other

• Inconsistency in Layer panel with grease pencil object # 4963
• Node editor, new Utility nodes #4949
• Some tooltip content in the tool shelf does not show with Bforartists keymap #2102
• Update / rewrite Building_Bforartists_with_Cmake_and_VS_2019_on_Windows.pdf #4921
• Keybinds / Shortcuts missing from Lattice Edit Mode #4944
• Need to remove VIEW3D_PT_shading_cavity from properties_render.py #4945
• Missing Icon (View_Camera_Unselected) #4934
• Bug - Asset Shelf context and legacy GP1 #4969
• 3D Viewport Tool shelf - enum "ERASE_DISCPLACEMENT" not found #4954
• Default Assets - Update assets to use tags instead of prefixes #4581
• Power User Tools - Update the way it registers the addon #4958
• 3D Viewport - Sidebar - Tool Tab - Mesh - Sculpt Mode - Advanced subpanel, make the brushes dropdown box read only #4951
• AMD HIP - Cycles Failed to build BLAS #4912
• Preferences - Interface - Line width prop is no-longer working #4937
• Cycles - Re-enable HIP graphics cards gfx1150, gfx1151 and gfx1152 #4932
• Text Editor - Float search properties left #4929

Splashscreen is kindly provided by Andres Stephens, one of the core developers.

Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters