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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.