Blender 3.2.0

What's new in this version:

Let there be light groups:
- A new type of Cycles render pass that contains only the lighting from a subset of light sources.
- Light Groups can be used in order to e.g. modify the color and/or intensity of light sources in the compositor without re-rendering.

Shadow caustics:
- Cycles now supports selective rendering of caustics in shadows of refractive objects.
- This is based on “Manifold Next Event Estimation”, a method developed for production rendering.

Volume motion blur:
- Introducing support for motion blur for gas simulations and imported OpenVDB volumes.

More cycles:
- Support Adaptive Sampling with Scrambling Distance
- AMD GPU Rendering for Linux
- OpenColorIO color space aliases support
- New Linear ACEScg color space
- Add Alpha Output to Object Info node
- Support different Color Management for Render and Viewport
- Automatically unpause viewport when switching to rendered mode
- Enable Alembic procedural for final renders
- Support for Baking to UDIM tiles

Color me impressed:
- Blender 3.2 revolutionizes polygon painting with new tools, usability improvements, and unprecedented performance

Paint it back:
- Paint Brush
- Smear Brush
- Mask by Color
- Color Filter Tool

Remesh:
- Now when using the voxel remesher all color attributes will be preserved.
- This is perfect to color your sculpts as you still experiment and block out the general shapes.

Mask out:
- Masking, auto-masking and face sets are fully supported with color attribute painting.

Duplicate elements:
- This new node creates a new geometry with the specified elements (point, edge, face, spline, or instance).
- Combined with the Geometry to Instance Node, this can be used to create a basic efficient “Array” operation. This should be more efficient because the duplicates are instances.

Asset collections:
- Expand your asset library with Collections
- Add Collection assets as instances or real objects
- Thumbnails are automatically generated, or customize it with your own

Modeling curve pen tool:
- Quickly add, delete, and tweak control points. Hold modifier keys to switch handle types.

Envelope modifier:
- This new modifier connects all points that are N points apart, a shape known as envelope.

And more:
- Build modifier improvements
- Improved smooth operator algorithm
- Scale Stroke Thickness in Pie menu
- New “Keep Shape” option in Smooth modifier
- Dot Dash modifier improvements
- Improve multi-user Grease Pencil performance
- Added cache to speed up object evaluation

Enhanced channels:
- Organize your edits by giving channels a name!
- You can also mute and lock entire channels.

Plus:
- Add frame selected operator for preview
- Better handling of animation when transforming strips
- Option to limit timeline view height
- Use float for transformation offset
- Enable edge panning for transform operator
- Add filter method to strip transform
- Create new scene from VSE

Eevee:
- Displacement bump improvements
- Shader improvements
- Show compilation progress in the 3D Viewport
- Bump node optimization
- Tangent Vector displacement now matches Cycles

Library Overrides:
- ReSync up to 10x faster
- General improvements
- Proxy system deprecated

I/O:
- Support for WebP image format
- New Experimental OBJ importer
- FBX I/O Improvements
- BHV importing improvements

Viewport:
- Support maintaining ortho views when rolling +/- 90°

Animation & Rigging:
- Motion Paths improvements
- New “Keep Transform Without Inverse” parent option
- Improvements to NLA editor
- Support custom shortcuts for “Insert Keyframe” menu
- Discontinuity (Euler) Filter available in Dope Sheet
- Rigify improvements
- Legacy Pose Library deprecated

Core:
- Improved error message when monitors are connected to multiple adapters
- Faster Blender launch with disconnected shares
- NDOF device improvements
- Improved numerical entry when using Chinese language
- Support for Woff and Woff2 font file formats

VR:
- Camera Landmark from Session
- Object Visibility options
- Support for HTC Vive Focus 3 controllers
- User Interface:
- Swap Areas between separate windows
- Snapping per editor
- OneDrive shortcut in File Browser
- Improved dragging of preview thumbnails
- Voxel Size now displays units
- Markers improvements
- Better defaults in Voxel Remesh

Python:
- Context Temp Override
- Display exceptions in Info Editor
- Python API changes
- API breaking changes and deprecation
- Text Editor: Soft keywords syntax highlight

More:
- Compositor: Add Combine and Separate XYZ Nodes
- Fixes in Motion Tracking
- Libraries Updates