Some highlight features:
• Cycles: Built-in Denoising, Shadow catcher, Principled shader, AMD OpenCL optimizations.
• Grease Pencil: New frame interpolation tools, per-layer onion skinning.
• Alembic: Improvements to compatibility, stability and support.
• User Interface: Initial support for reusable custom configurations, automatic DPI scaling.
• Twenty Two new and several updated add-ons.
• And: 100s of bug fixes and other improvements!
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• Denoising built into the renderer.
• Principled BSDF shader to render a wide variety of materials.
• Shadow catcher to composite CGI elements in real-life footage.
• Faster AMD OpenCL rendering and feature parity with NVidia CUDA.
• Filmic color management for better handling of high dynamic range.
Grease Pencil
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• New tools for interpolating between grease pencil frames.
• Per-layer onion skinning, add blank frame tool, and UI improvements.
Alembic
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• Alembic import and export has been greatly improved, both in compatibility and stability.
• New supported features include export of linked dupli-groups, sub-frame sampling, face-varying vertex colors, child hairs and empties.
Mesh Modeling
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• New surface deform modifier, to transfer motion from another mesh.
• Improved displace and mirror modifiers.
• Various small new tools and options.
Animation
• Pose library reordering and keying for selected bones only.
• Better undo for frame changes.
• Various small new tools and options.
Read a full list of new features in Blender 2.79 in the online release notes
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