Blender 2.83.6 LTS
The sixth maintenance release of the first long-term support release is out.
Blender 2.83.6 LTS features a total of 30 bug fixes. It is released on the 2.83lts branch. You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select the 2.83lts beta program.
SteamVR is now also supported on Linux (with some limitations). Check the manual for more details (yes, this is the 2.90 manual, but the information regarding SteamVR is the same for 2.83.6).
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 2.83.6 LTS features a total of 30 bug fixes. It is released on the 2.83lts branch. You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select the 2.83lts beta program.
SteamVR is now also supported on Linux (with some limitations). Check the manual for more details (yes, this is the 2.90 manual, but the information regarding SteamVR is the same for 2.83.6).
- Crash when switching to Edit Mode (T80530)
- VR: SteamVR is now a supported OpenXR runtime! (Windows only) (rB8cc52ef6e208)
- Cycles crash rendering with volume object and motion blur (T78038)
- VR: Properly support outputting sRGB swapchain buffers (rB70637b303d9e)
- Fix/workaround graphics issues breaking SteamVR use with Blender (rBfe492d922d6d)
- Fix constant lighting change in VR view when rotating head (rB3a5ef928961b)
- Fix warning when compiling on Linux with WITH_XR_OPENXR enabled (rB38ae24102003)
- GPUTexture: Extend CUBE_MAP_ARRAY_ARB proxy workaround to all Apple gpus (rB7369a24f61cd)
- MEM_guardedalloc: allow freeing const arrays with MEM_SAFE_FREE (rB0fb7d5381ef2)
- Inonsistent simplify behavior when linking collection with objects… (T79935)
- Fix critical bug in foreach ID looper of Scene data-block. (rBa994e7a4b9c3)
- Dyntopo panel error with tools that dont have a brush (T78186)
- Cycles: Image Sequence not rendering (T79111)
- Crash adding UV's in edit-mode with linked duplicates (T77359)
- Bevel Shader node Samples value has too low hardcoded limit (T80012)
- Crash when changing to white noise texture (T79915)
- BLI_math_matrix: add invert_m4_m4_safe_ortho (m3 version too) (rB19fe5529d737)
- Objects disappear when joining with a zero scaled axis (T80077)
- Do not subdivide with Multires is mesh has no faces (T80039)
- BLI: fix memory leak in delaunay 2d (rB42434d120ba4)
- Cycles baking crash with motion blur enabled and no camera (T77683)
- OSL shader compilation fails on macOS (T78065)
- Duplicate doesn't preserve active spline (T80135)
- Add undo step to Alembic and Collada importers... (T77754)
- Overrides: Crash with animated IK control on linked armature. (T80078)
- Crash on making material local. (T80104)
- Fix Outliner allowing to enter Pose Mode on linked armature (rB521ae3d458ad)
- File Browser in macOS fullscreen crashes (T77900)
- Fix crash accessing image space properties without an active window (rB006ff6453886)
- Custom Normals Averaging crash after clearing (T80159)
Learn more about the LTS program on blender.org
[h3]Stay up-to-date[/h3]
You can follow Blender on social media:
Keep reporting any issues you find to make this LTS the most stable release ever!
Happy blending,
The Blender team