Blender Asset Tracer changelog

This file logs the changes that are actually interesting to users (new features, changed functionality, fixed bugs).

Version 1.4 (in development)

Add a Strict Pointer Mode setting, which determines what happens when a pointer to an unknown datablock is dereferenced. When enabled, a SegmentationFault exception stops the program execution. This has always been the behaviour of BAT, but it now has a name and can be disabled.

On the commandline Strict Pointer Mode is now disabled by default; it can be enabled with the -S parameter (see bat --help).

When BAT is used as library, Strict Pointer Mode is enabled by default, and can be disabled via blender_asset_tracer.blendfile.set_strict_pointer_mode(False).

Remove assertion error when a library blend file linked from a Geometry Nodes modifier does not exist.

When creating a BAT pack, symlinks are no longer followed. This allows BAT-packing a directory structure with symlinked files (such as a Shaman checkout).
When creating a BAT pack, mapped network drives are no longer changed from a drive letter to UNC notation. For example, when mapping a share \\SERVER\Share to drive letter S:\, BAT will now keep referencing S:\ instead of rewriting paths to \\SERVER\Share.
Better handling of drive letters, and of paths that cross drive boundaries.
Better testing of Windows-specific cases when running the tests on Windows, and of POSIX-specific cases on other platforms.
Add support for Geometry Nodes modifier.

Migrated from Pipenv to Poetry for managing Python package dependencies.
Windows compatibility fix when using mapped network storage.
Windows compatibility fix when using different assets with the same path but on different drives.
Allow setting the Shaman JWT authentication token in the SHAMAN_JWT_TOKEN environment variable.
Blender 2.81 compatibility fix (T69976).
Fix for external smoke caches not being packed.
Versions 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 are functionally identical to 1.2