Blender News

Blender 3.6.23 LTS Maintenance Release !

Blender 3.6.23 LTS comes with important bugfixes. It is released on the v3.6 - Stable - LTS branch.

You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select v3.6 - Stable - LTS.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

ASAN-reported heap buffer overflows resulting from missing file loading checks. (#137870)

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 3.6 LTS releases on blender.org

[h3]LTS Program[/h3]

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Blender 4.2.11 LTS Maintenance Release !

Blender 4.2.11 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the v4.2 - Stable - LTS branch.

You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select v4.2 - Stable - LTS.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

Cycles Render Viewport breaks in Blender 4.2.9 LTS, but works fine in 4.2.7 LTS and 4.4.3. [
Fix out-of-bounds write with Wayland compose-key event handling. [
ASAN-reported heap buffer overflows resulting from missing file loading checks. [

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 4.2 LTS releases on blender.org

[h3]LTS Program[/h3]

Learn more about the LTS program on blender.org

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Keep reporting any issues you find to make this LTS the most stable release ever !

Happy blending,
The Blender team

Blender 4.2.10 LTS Maintenance Release !

Blender 4.2.10 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the v4.2 - Stable - LTS branch.

You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select v4.2 - Stable - LTS.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

Move tests data and assets into the main repository as Git-LFS. (#137215)
Drag and drop does not work on Windows 10 from P4V, but does in other DCC Tools. (#135672)
Attempting Undo after toggling back into Sculpt mode crashes Blender. (#137751)
Crash when compositor references another scene. (#137821)
Intel OpenGL: Camera gizmo can not be shifted with gizmo while Drag Select box is active. (#132196)
Crash in Blender 4.4.1 related to custom properties and drivers. (#138073)
Build configuration: SUPPORT_SSE42_BUILD may be false positive for old CPUs. (#134933)
Crash when editing muted node groups if there is a Viewer node inside, in Compositing Editor. (#134073)
4.2LTS: Extensions: forward any errors setting up wheels to reports. (7629abe43513dd32a4cbc3f635bac60ae66b62ca)
`FileNotFoundError: [WinError 206] The filename or extension is too long` while installing extension with packed wheels. (#132924)
Crash with Python 3.12+ & Manta flow. (#129926)
4.2LTS: PyAPI: support Python 3.13. (8299e073cfa3acbd4994ad0630899414cd9d138b)
Blender fails to build against Python 3.13 due to use of various functions that have been moved to internal API. (#123871)
Opening files from Splash executes scripts even from excluded folders. (#137314)
Crash when add a driver to Axis property in SimpleDeform Modifier. (#129225)

Blender 4.4.3 Hotfix Release

Blender 4.4.3 fixes 1 issue present in Blender 4.4.2.

Read the full list of changes on https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.4/corrective_releases/

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The Blender team,
29th April 2025

Blender 4.4.2 Corrective Release

It's time to update your Blender!

Blender 4.4.2 addresses 8 issues present in the initial release.

This is a corrective release, meaning it doesn't contain new features, only fixes. It is highly recommended for everyone currently using Blender 4.4.1 to upgrade, since it fixes several crashes and improves functionality in many areas.

Read the full list of changes on https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.4/corrective_releases/

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The Blender team,
29th April 2025