Blender 2.79b

# Fix:
- Eyedrop picking objects inconsistently
- Crash when rendering halo flare
- Knife cuts fail away from center
- Boids crash w/ random rule selection
- ShapeKeys Lattice by the driver, problem updates in new depsgraph
- Bake normals multi-res crash
- Multiview: fix Image Editor not showing Views menu when rendering non-stereo Multi-View camera rigs
- Cross effect strip input fields can't be changed (in its properties panel)
- Boid goal object that has a force field set to 'Every Point' shape causes crash
- Fix node auto-offset to left broken
- Fix file browser not sorting file list when opened from editor menu
- Fix crash reporting render errors during baking
- blender internal lights in exclusive light group wrong in viewport
- switching between textures in texture buttons not updating preview
- "Select parent" if there is no parent doesn't work correctly
- Cycles: Fix wrong particles min/max calculation for point density
- Blender Internal: Fix regression in point density texture
- Windows: File Browser Crash while listing big folders in preview mode (fonts, images...)
- Cycles bake normal map
- Armature: No more possible to rotate a bone with only its tip selected, in EditMode
- Can't select an object with OpenSubdiv enabled

- Initial support for Pixar's OpenSubdiv geometry subdivision technology.
- A huge view-port performance boost.
- Big file browser performance boost and arrow keys navigation support.
- Node auto-offset feature that helps organizing node layouts.
- Absolute grid snapping in the 3D view.
- Sculpting with tiled strokes.
- Text effect strips for the sequencer, supporting subtitle export

# Fixes:
- Game Engine would crash for Objects using velocity clamping
- Browsing render passes in Blender crashed.
- Stereo Parallel vs. Off-Axis
- Crash velocity clamping on static objects
- IOR Value Slider with "Ctrl" modifier does not increment as intended
- Selecting passes in image editor does no longer work
- Dither does not work
- Bevel regression
- vertex-slide regression with rotated objects
- vertex-slide helper-line scale
- Multi-View UI: convergence is only useless for the parallel camera (toe-in still uses it)
- Keyframe indicators for NLA Strip properties fails if the AnimData has an active action
- Correct --help message

- Blender now supports a fully integrated Multi-View and Stereo 3D pipeline
- Cycles has much awaited initial support for AMD GPUs, and a new Light Portals feature.
- UI now allows font previews in the file browser.
- High quality options for viewport depth of field were added
- Modeling has a new Corrective Smooth modifier.
- The Decimate modifier was improved significantly.
- 3D viewport painting now supports symmetry and the distribution of Dynamic Topology was improved
- Video Sequence Editor: Placeholders can now replace missing frames of image sequences
- Game Engine now allows smoother LOD transitions, and supports mist attributes animation
- 100s of bug fixes and smaller feature improvements.

* Several Cycles Rendering updates, improvements and new features, support for GeForce 9xx GPUs.
* New fullscreen mode, improved Pie Menus, 3D View can now display the world background.
* Knife-tool now allows freehand smart cuts, and more improvements were made in selection tools, Bevel Modifier and Shapekeys.
* Unwrapping UVs was improved, strength is now enabled for Grab and Snake Hook brushes, better visual feedback mode for painting with masks.
* Sequencer now can show a backdrop, strips can be snapped to others along with other improvements.
* Freestyle NPR Rendering has a new SVG exporter add-on, along with other improvements.
* Grease Pencil had a major update, it is now possible to edit and animate strokes! New draw styles, and imporvements in user interface.
* Collada Importer was updated, improving the compatibility with other software’s bone concepts.
* Add-ons: FBX improved importing/exporting armatures, some Python API changes could need some Add-ons to be updated!
* As usual several other minor updates and improvements, and lot of bugfixing also in this release.