Nice formatted version (pictures soon):
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.66/Usability
Short list of main changes:
- Transparent region option (over main region), added code to blend in/out such panels.
- Min size window now 640 x 480
- Fixed DPI for ui - lots of cleanup and changes everywhere. Icon image need correct size still, layer-in-use icon needs remake.
- Macbook retina support, use command line --no-native-pixels to disable it
- Timeline Marker label was drawing wrong
- Trackpad and magic mouse: supports zoom (hold ctrl)
- Fix for splash position: removed ghost function and made window size update after creation immediate
- Fast undo buffer save now adds UI as well. Could be checked for regular file save even...
Quit.blend and temp file saving use this now.
- Dixed filename in window on reading quit.blend or temp saves, and they now add a warning in window title: "(Recovered)"
- New Userpref option "Keep Session" - this always saves quit.blend, and loads on start.
This allows keeping UI and data without actual saves, until you actually save.
When you load startup.blend and quit, it recognises the quit.blend as a startup (no file name in header)
- Added 3D view copy/paste buffers (selected objects). Shortcuts ctrl-c, ctrl-v (OSX, cmd-c, cmd-v).
Coded partial file saving for it. Could be used for other purposes. Todo: use OS clipboards.
- User preferences (themes, keymaps, user settings) now can be saved as a separate file.
Old option is called "Save Startup File" the new one "Save User Settings".
To visualise this difference, the 'save startup file' button has been removed from user preferences window. That option is available as CTRL+U and in File menu still.
- OSX: fixed bug that stopped giving mouse events outside window.
This also fixes "Continuous Grab" for OSX. (error since 2009)
Undo push was missed in cases when script failed to run with some error
when using Run Script in text editor. As far as i can see it makes sense
to skip undo push here only in cases live editing is enabled.
Otherwise it's indeed annoying to return to previous scene state when
debugging the script.
Patch by Sebastian Nell, thanks!
Still not ideal (it could some smarter selection policy in such case perhaps),
but it's less annoying than it was before.
nice obscure case, when a script executes, frees its self (by loading a file for eg), then has a python error.
... in this case blender would fetch the python exception and attempt to move the cursor in the freed textblock to the error line, crashing blender.
Submitted by: Justin Dailey (dail)
Patch allows the current line (or selected lines) to be moved up and down with
Ctrl+Shift+Up and Ctrl+Shift+Down. Has undo/redo support and operators in python
menu.
