The Blender 2.72 RC is out. It seems to be standing up to the users. So, we may sit it release this week. You can get the RC now and will be able to get the final release when it is out at Blender.org.
The developer’s notes for Blender 2.73 have been released. The items they plan to work on for 2.73 are:
- Tamito Kajiyama: Freestyle memory optimizationwill go into 2.73 (BF-funded project result).
- Thomas Dinges proposes to make Cycles Default as target. He will make a proposal to the list here next week, to outline which work should have to be completed for it (IO mostly).
- Freestyle built-in SVG exporterwould be a 2.73 target too.
- Dun Liang (randon)’s Windows IME support patchcould also go into 2.73 – allow better Asian character input.
- Jeroen Bakker: compositor memory managementis ready for final review. updated with all comments.
- Multiview is going to be a candidate, check the great doc from Dalai Felinto.
- FBX: there are two addons, the ‘experimental’ one has the latest work on it. Will get tested and improved for 2.73.
There are some other projects that may make it into 2.73. Whether they do or not, they are being discussed and some of them worked on. I find the descriptions rather sketchy.
