The meeting notes from the April 6th developers' meeting detail the status of the Google Summer of Code. Out of 90 applications, 41 meet the formal requirements. The final selection will be announced on April 31st. The report also summarizes the previous week's key module meetings, such as Grease Pencil and Cycles, and lists new features implemented in the codebase.
Technical Implementations in Import, Rendering, and Nodes 🔧
Among the notable technical changes are expanded support for importing point clouds from Alembic. In Cycles, base support for denoiser scaling and OSL closures was added. The compositor receives a new Object Info node. Geometry Nodes optimizes mathematical operations and attribute handling. There are also advances in EEVEE Fast GI and the GPU shader system.
Awaiting April with 31 days of patience 😉
The community eagerly awaits the announcement of the GSoC projects, scheduled for a date as real as April 31st. Meanwhile, the developers aren't sleeping, adding closures and optimizations we will probably understand in a few years. It's comforting to know that, somewhere, someone can already import a point cloud slightly more efficiently.