Blender 5.0.1 + x64 + Portable + Addons + Repack

Port all changes for automated Cycles testing c6e4a81d
Fix for wrong render result of hair with BVH motion steps b3b4084
Fix compilation error of GLSL viewport when using Light Path node 9215848
Fix wrong Brick texture in material viewport 8ba1dab
Fix crash with material preview and image sequences dd2e33b
Fix T50512: Linked Backround scene with animation not updating with new depsgraph e89145e
Fix T50687: Cycles baking time estimate and progress bar doesn't work / progress when baking with high samples 67169e7
Fix T50748: Render Time incorrect when refreshing rendered preview in GPU mode b95645c
Fix wrong render results with texture limit and half-float textures 909c8ec
Fix Cycles still saving render output when error happened d9e6268, 90d96de

Grease Pencil
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New design and complete overhaul, including:
Easy layer management.
Ability to have multiple colors and thickness values per layer.
Stroke quality improvements.
Different color saturation in the same stroke.
Improved Fills - Support for Concave Shapes.
Parenting a layer to any object, armature or bone.
And more!
For Addon developers: See related Grease Pencil API Changes


Alembic
Initial implementation in Blender.
Basic Alembic support through import and export operators.
Data streaming through cache constraints and modifiers.

Cycles Renderer
Cycles 2.78 spherical stereo.jpg
Rendering spherical stereo images for VR is now supported.
Multiscatter GGX mode for the glossy and glass BSDF nodes.
Experimental feature: Improved Subdivision and Displacement system.
Vertex color, weight and normal support for point density textures.
Hair rendering speed up / memory use improvements.
OpenCL devices now support float4 textures (e.g. HDR textures).
Added support for NVidia GTX 1060, 1070, 1080 GPUs.

User Interface
Ui operator search categories.png
Improvements to the Eyedropper and Operator Search.
Additional drawing mode for the Waveform Scope in the Image Editor.
Defining ranges and individual render frames in the Command Line.

Modeling


Fill Region Selection
New Freehand Curve drawing tool.
New Dissolve tool.
New Fill Region tool for Selection.
Improvements to Decimation, Bevel.
Edit-mode undo memory usage has been optimized.

Viewport & Render
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More supported shading nodes and options for the Cycles viewport render.
Additional shading features for the Blender GLSL viewport.
Blender Render shading can now also be computed in world space.

Animation
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Improvements to Bendy Bones for Easier and Simpler Rigging.
Numerous changes to streamline the process of setting up and editing drivers.
The type of keyframe can be chosen on insertion.
Support non-uniform scaled bones failing with IK solver.
And more!

Datablocks & Libraries Management
A new core low-level feature for datablocks management, called 'ID remapping'.
Currently it allows from the Outliner:
In the Blender File view to Reload and Relocate libraries.
In All Scenes, Current Scene and similar views to Fully Delete or Remap a datablock.

Physics
The rest shape of cloth can now be animated.
Cloth Simulation Speed is now adjustable.
Collision Groups for Particles and Soft Body.

Python API and Add-ons
11 new add-ons are included in this release.
Numerous improvements and fixes to existing add-ons.
Removed Import: MakeHuman (.mhx) (format not supported anymore in MakeHuman).
New Preferences Individual Activation.
Changes to the Python API functions.
And more!

More Features

Bug Fixes
As for every Blender release, hundreds of bugs were fixed, thanks to the hardworking Blender developers.

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HIGHLIGHTS:
Cycles: Cycles now supports rendering spherical stereo images for VR.
Grease Pencil: Reworked to be similar to other 2D drawing softwares.
Alembic: Initial basic support in Blender.
Improvements to Bendy Bones for Easier and Simpler Rigging.
Eleven new add-ons.
And: 100s of bug fixes and other improvements!
Grease Pencil:
New design and complete overhaul, including:
Easy layer management.
Ability to have multiple colors and thickness values per layer.
Stroke quality improvements.
Different color saturation in the same stroke.
Improved Fills - Support for Concave Shapes.
Parenting a layer to any object, armature or bone.
Alembic:
Initial implementation in Blender.
Basic Alembic support through import and export operators.
Data streaming through cache constraints and modifiers.
Cycles Renderer:
Rendering spherical stereo images for VR is now supported.
Multiscatter GGX mode for the glossy and glass BSDF nodes.
Experimental feature: Improved Subdivision and Displacement system.
Vertex color, weight and normal support for point density textures.
Hair rendering speed up / memory use improvements.
OpenCL devices now support float4 textures (e.g. HDR textures).
Added support for NVidia GTX 1060, 1070, 1080 GPUs.
User Interface:
Improvements to the Eyedropper and Operator Search.
Additional drawing mode for the Waveform Scope in the Image Editor.
Defining ranges and individual render frames in the Command Line.
Modeling:
New Freehand Curve drawing tool.
New Dissolve tool.
New Fill Region tool for Selection.
Improvements to Decimation, Bevel.
Edit-mode undo memory usage has been optimized.
Viewport & Render:
More supported shading nodes and options for the Cycles viewport render.
Additional shading features for the Blender GLSL viewport.
Blender Render shading can now also be computed in world space.
Animation:
Improvements to Bendy Bones for Easier and Simpler Rigging.
Numerous changes to streamline the process of setting up and editing drivers.
The type of keyframe can be chosen on insertion.
Support non-uniform scaled bones failing with IK solver.
Datablocks & Libraries Management:
A new core low-level feature for datablocks management, called 'ID remapping'.
Currently it allows from the Outliner:
In the Blender File view to Reload and Relocate libraries.
In All Scenes, Current Scene and similar views to Fully Delete or Remap a datablock.
Physics:
The rest shape of cloth can now be animated.
Cloth Simulation Speed is now adjustable.
Collision Groups for Particles and Soft Body.
Add-ons:
11 new add-ons are included in this release.
Numerous improvements and fixes to existing add-ons.
Removed Import: MakeHuman (.mhx) (format not supported anymore in MakeHuman).
New Preferences Individual Activation.
Changes to the Python API functions.
Bug Fixes:
As for every Blender release, hundreds of bugs were fixed, thanks to the hardworking Blender developers.

Cycles: Cycles now supports rendering spherical stereo images for VR.
Grease Pencil: Reworked to be similar to other 2D drawing softwares.
Alembic: Initial basic support in Blender.
And: 100s of bug fixes and other improvements!

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Release notes are still in progress. Please help testing this RC and make it a stable 2.78 we can enjoy for a long time (so work on Blender 2.8 can move on)