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Blender 4.2 LTS: User Interface

General

Inter font

Color tooltips

  • Asset Browser now supports Maximize Area. (2d5a83f294)
  • Wavelength node now uses nanometer-scale inputs. (cc541f2c07)

Status Bar

Status bar keymap

  • Status Bar now collapses multiple X/Y/Z operations to a more concise format. (49bd285529)

Status bar keymap

  • Expanded Status Bar icons for keymap events. (d1b6621903)

Keymap icons

  • Tighter Status Bar keymap spacing. (65bfae2258)
  • Status Bar mouse event icons are better aligned. (9cb298f706)

Dialogs

Large confirmation

Small confirmation

  • Recent Items context menu now supports opening file location. (6789a88107)
  • "Select" menus reorganized to be more consistent. (ede675705e, 4dbca26b5c)
  • Menus in mesh sculpt mode were reorganized after gaining new items (1fe8fbd93a)
  • Changes to menu separator padding. (48dee674f3)
  • All Zoom menus now use a new consistent format. (7e2075b809)

Zoom menus

3D Viewport

  • Ability to toggle Camera Guides in Viewport Overlays. (392ac52ebb)
  • Ability to toggle Camera Passepartout in Viewport Overlays. (2a287dc23c)
  • Corrected initial viewport tilt. (913acaf395)
  • More improvements to overlay text contrast. (3582e52f9c, 3ee8a75e8e)
  • Reduced dead zone for 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse. (d739d27a2d)
  • Object menu gains a Modifiers submenu. (e63c8bb3c2)
  • Sidebar made a bit wider. (068e624ebc)

Properties Editor

  • Add, remove, apply, and reorder modifiers of all selected objects by holding alt. (9a7f4a3b58)
  • Changes to Modifer pinning. (7ee189416c)
  • Add eyedropper button to camera focus distance. (7f8d4df410)

Focus distance eyedropper

Text Editor

  • GLSL syntax highlighting. (462c144f41)
  • Drop strings & URLs into the text editor and Python console (64843cb12d)
    Drag URLs and texts to text and console editors

Node Editor

  • Input sockets that don't allow editing the value don't show up in the sidebar anymore. (d27a1c47fa, d9d9ff1dcd).
  • Slightly improved sorting in search when adding nodes (d1634b2a4a, 22c6831f63).
  • Show tooltip with node description when over node title (749433f20b).
  • Improved tooltips for dangling reroute nodes (fa66b52d0a).
  • Improved tooltips for multi-input sockets (ed9921185a).
  • Display node label for tooltips on reroute nodes (0bd6279504).
  • Multiple images can be added at the same time using drag and drop (615100acda).
  • Node groups can have descriptions now (6176e66636).
  • Node group properties have been reorganized (125afb20d3).
  • Node groups now have a color tag that affects the header color of group nodes (f4b9ca758a).
  • When adding a frame around the selected nodes (ctrl+J), the new frame will now be added to the common root frame of these nodes (0f32291d15).
  • Invalid (red) links now have some additional information for why they are invalid (399f6a1c60).
  • Dragging a node onto a link does not remove the link anymore if it is incompatible. It's dimmed instead (ebb61ef30f).
  • Resetting socket values now actually works, instead of always setting values to zero (6b6657405f).
  • Using the shortcut (ctrl+shift+click) to connect to a viewer now also moves the viewer closer to the node (7be4d4f443).
  • Some sockets can now be renamed directly in the node by Ctrl+Clicking on it (cd5eb4aa03).
  • New overlay to reroute labels that are derived from upstream reroute nodes (db5d410164).

Outliner

  • Ctrl-F can initiate Outliner filtering. (f5fdda776c)
  • Orphan Data mode renamed to Unused Data. (72be662af4)
  • Blender File mode now supports managing user counts. (d8f6ae7919)

Blender File mode

Unused Datablocks

The Purge operator now pops up a dialog where user can choose which options to apply, and get instant feedback on the amounts of unused data-blocks will be deleted. (PR#117304) (0fd8f29e88)

New purge popup

The File > Cleanup menu has a new Manage Unused Data operation to open the outliner in Unused Data mode. (f04bd961fd)

Preferences

Save theme

  • Improved operators for adding/deleting custom themes. (a0a2e7e0dd)
  • Improved operators for adding/deleting custom key configurations. (57729aa8bb)
  • Preferences "Translation" section changed to "Language". (73d76d4360)

Splash

  • Changes to Splash Screen for new versions. (d2d810f11a)

Splash screen changes

Platforms

  • Linux: Registering & unregistering file-type associations is now supported on Linux. This can be accessed via the system preferences "Operating System Settings" or via command line arguments (--register, --register-allusers), see --help for details. (9cb3a17352).
  • Linux: Image copy and paste now works in Wayland. (692de6d380)
  • Windows: Fixed pixel shift in clipboard image paste. (a677518cb5)

Translations

  • The ability to edit PO files directly from the user interface has been removed. (details, b143cc1885)