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Update your Blender ID nickname at BlenderToday is a weekly live show highlighting the latest news in Blender development, the community, and Q&A. Streaming from the Blender HQ in Amsterdam since 2018, hosted by Pablo Vazquez. Support Blender by joining the Development Fund #b3d #BlenderToday * Music by  @Thaehan  -- BLENDER TODAY #216 BLENDER TODAY #216 transition to ! CHANGELOG PERFORMANCE BMesh: Parallelize BMesh to evaluated Mesh conversion Curves: Use shared caches for evaluated data UI Gizmo: add new cage2d draw style for circular shapes Gizmo: add central point to circular 2D cage Gizmo: add gizmo for adjusting spot light blend Fix wrong spot light blend circle radius in viewport EEVEE Metal: Optimize GLSL to MSL translation. Improve cached compilation CYCLES Cycles: add non-uniform scaling to spot light size Cycles: Enable MetalRT opt-in for AMD/Navi2 GPUs Cycles: Prevent use of both AMD and Intel Metal devices at same time Cycles: Reorganize Fresnel handling in Microfacet closures Cycles: Use local atomics for faster shader sorting (enabled on Metal) ANIMATION Animation: Add “Select Linked Vertices“ to Weight Paint Mode Animation: Add Operator for adding FCurve modifiers to more menus Animation: Enable Pin Icon in the Dope Sheet I/O USD export: add scale and bias for normal maps Fix T100028: Convert USD camera properties to mm from USD units FBX Export: Speed up shape key weights and normals IO: Harmonize UI for selection of axes in OBJ and Collada GREASE PENCIL Fix T104371: GPencil merge down layer duplicates wrong frame GEOMETRY NODES Geometry Nodes: add support for eye dropper for object input in modifier Geometry Nodes: parallelize part of Duplicate Elements node Geometry Nodes: Tweak menu location of sample nodes Nodes: Add modal keymap for Node link drag POTPOURRI Sculpt: Don’t invert in geodesic mask expand keymap Sculpt: Un-invert expand normal falloff Fix: CustomData layers become unsorted in versioning PyAPI: updates to which didn’t follow conventions Fix T104316: Width of headerless panels on regions with overlap FFMPEG: Change default AV1 encoder for “slowest“ Viewport Compositor: Platform support message