Blender 4.5 + Bonsai
Hi! Blender 4.5 is coming very soon - it's now in Beta and going to release at July 15 (https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/milestone/25)
I've already switched to Blender 4.5 to ensure we don't run into situation we had with 4.4 when some issues were fixed very close to the release / after it.
And I've run into one issue I believe we're going to hear about more than once after Blender 4.5 release - opening IFC project in Blender 4.5 with Bonsai 0.8.2 will load indefinitely (due to Blender API change, see https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/140903, no idea if Blender will decide to make it more safe to avoid this issue, but given that issue is kind of uncommon - it seems unlikely). I think we'll be able to release 0.8.3 before 4.5, so anyone who will update Bonsai, won't have this problem, but it's inevitable that some users will run into this and wanted to give a heads-up.
If you're using Bonsai and want to help catch some possible 4.5 issues (or possible Blender issues), you can switch to Blender 4.5 beta too:
- Blender 4.5 beta - https://builder.blender.org/download/daily/
- Latest Bonsai version - https://docs.bonsaibim.org/guides/development/installation.html#unstable-installation