Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Blender 4.4 has been released on Tuesday. Check out whats new in the release notes. This is a selection of changes that happened over the last week. For a full overview including fixes, code only changes and more visit projects.blender.org. Add keying set support to Copy Global Transform add-on (commit) - (Sybren A. Stvel) Add import settings popover, move import method into it (commit) - (Julian Eisel) Import settings popover with collection instancing option (commit) - (Julian Eisel) Configurable Line Breaking Behavior (commit) - (Harley Acheson) Add common nodes to compositor (commit) - (Omar Emara) Add Image Info node (commit) - (Omar Emara) Support conversion to and from int2 and float2 (commit) - (Omar Emara) Support Int2 and Float2 types in shader operations (commit) - (Omar Emara) Support all single value types in File Output (commit) - (Omar Emara) Add boolean socket support (commit) - (Omar Emara) Adaptive subdivision no longer doubles up with Blender levels (commit) - (Brecht Van Lommel) Maximise MTLCompiler concurrency when GUI isnt active (commit) - (Michael Jones) Multithread adaptive subdivision dicing (commit) - (Brecht Van Lommel) Add quantized geometric normal for shadow bias (commit) - (Clment Foucault) Move import nodes out of experimental (commit) - (Hans Goudey) Add icon_value property to support using custom icons (commit) - (Jonas Holzman) Drawing API functions to assign/remove vertex group data (commit) - (Pratik Borhade) Draw Tool: Improve random color value and saturation setting results (commit) - (Casey Bianco-Davis) Enable panel toggles in the Compositor (commit) - (Omar Emara) Update bitflag smoothgroup to also consider boundary vertices. (commit) - (Bastien Montagne) Add Gizmo Simple 2D (commit) - (Jonas Holzman) Make area border width decoupled from scale factor (commit) - (Clment Foucault) Add unit to label in Glare (Simple Star) node (commit) - (Pablo Vazquez) Output > FFmpeg Video hide useless parameters for some codecs (commit) - (Martin-Vignali) Typographical and Path Wrapping for Tooltips (commit) - (Harley Acheson) Increase Height of the Left-Size Corner Action Zones (commit) - (Harley Acheson) Use snapping when drag & dropping collections (commit) - (Julian Eisel) Increase Border Edge Drag Width (commit) - (Harley Acheson) Increase Contrast of Area Resize Feedback (commit) - (Harley Acheson) Color Icons for Red, Green, & Blue (commit) - (Harley Acheson) Rename Add File Node operator to Add Image as Node (commit) - (Guillermo Venegas) Eliminate some unintentional VtArray copies (commit) - (Jesse Yurkovich) Swapchain synchronization (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker) Prefer tripple buffering (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker) Allow property changes in the editor to create undo steps (commit) - (Sean Kim)