Reference/Release Notes/2.82

= Blender 2.82 Release Notes =

Blender 2.82 was released on 14 February, 2020.

Check out the final release notes on blender.org.

2.82a Corrective Release
This corrective release does not include new features and only fixes a few serious regressions introduced in 2.82 release.

Physics
Mantaflow fluid simulation, cloth internal air pressure, cloth internal springs.

Cycles
OptiX denoiser, improvements to shader nodes, custom render passes, and more.

EEVEE
Viewport render passes, and a lot of important fixes.

Textures
UDIM textures for texture painting and rendering in Eevee and Cycles.

Sculpt & Paint
Slide/relax tool, multiplane scrape tool, operator improvements, pose brush and brush updates, paint improvements.

Grease Pencil


User interface, improved tools, multiple strokes modifier.

Modeling


Custom profiles for bevel, cutoff vertex mesh, weld modifier and solidify modifier.

User Interface


Many tools now have a gizmo, like bevel and the UV editor.

Animation & Rigging
Improvements to bones, constraints and F-curves.

Import & Export


New USD exporter, many glTF improvements, Alembic mesh normals export, VFX platform 2020 compatibility.

Python API
Python API changes, Custom curve profile and widget, changes to handling of Python environment.

Add-ons
Updates to Rigify, Add Mesh Extra objects, BlenderKit, and new add-ons Import Palettes, PDT, Add Node Presets, Collection manager, Sun position and Amaranth toolkit.