The Chairman Blender Foundation and producer Blender Institute, Mr. Ton Roosendaal come with this news about second release candidate and other projects:
Hi everyone,
Here are notes from today's 14 UTC meeting in irc.freenode.net
#blendercoders.
1) Blender 2.78 RC2
- Second release candidate is out!
http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.78/
- Release logs are also taking shape:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.78
https://www.blender.org/features/2-78/
Based on tracker reporting and further testing we either do a RC3 or
the actual release this week. Sergey Sharybin and Bastien Montagne are
monitoring it closely.
2) Other projects and 2.8
- Currently Blender for OSX links to an Apple system library for
quicktime (qtkit).
This has been deprecated for long, and will be removed from
XCode 10.12.
We have to decide if we want to drop this, and make Blender for
OS X use ffmpg for
all codecs.
- Julian Eisel uploaded custom manipulators patch for review
https://developer.blender.org/D2232
Code docs
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php?title=User:Julianeisel/Custom_Manipulators
- Mike Erwin is in Amsterdam, with Dalai Felinto and others
he will do design sessions
on the 2.8 viewport. Expect interesting logs and docs!
Thanks,
-Ton-