A copy and paste from the dev meeting notes

"Blender developers meeting notes - 2018-10-08

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today’s developer meeting.

Next meeting is Monday, 15 October 18:00 CEST (16:00 UTC).

1. Blender 2.8

Work continues towards the beta, with lots of bugfixes and incremental improvements.

New features:

The unit system now supports fixed units for display and editing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrL0tbBTKus

New icon set by Andrzej Ambroz was added.

Initial tool system for UV editor.

Multi-object editing now works for armature edit mode.

New B-Bone Custom Handle type that uses the handle bone direction only.

Weight paint can now display isoline contours.

Weekly Reports:

Bastien: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2018#Week_264_-09.2F29_to_10.2F05 Brecht: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2018#October_1-5 Campbell: http://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2018.html#week-294-october-1 Clément: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2018#Week_91:1st-7th_Oct Dalai: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Dfelinto/Reports/2018#October_1-5 Jacques: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:JacquesLucke/Reports/2018 Philipp: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:PhilippOeser/Foundation/2018#Week_40.28Oct_1st_-_Oct_5th.29"

Going through a lot of the meeting notes and bug fixes and implementations etc. It appears to be a bit all over the place Although I am happy they finally got a dedicated wireframe mode. and the z hotkey brings up a shading menu rather than just switching between the 2 modes.

Lots of little things and a few cosmetic things, so the way its looking I would say early next year sometime.

Incantrix