Blender 2.83.9 LTS

The ninth maintenance release of the first long-term support release is out.

Blender 2.83.9 LTS features a total of 13 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.

OldNewMap handling of pointers in blenloader does not work correctly with FD_FLAGS_SWITCH_ENDIAN. (T81226)
EEVEE: Scattering pass is also outputted as Transmittance Volume Renderpass. (T81254)
Use of deprectated PyEval_ReleaseLock() causes crash when Blender built against Python 3.9.0. (T81688)
Crash when choosing cycles device with python. (T81520)
'Delimit' in 'Select Linked' works unexpectedly when editing multiple objects. (T81288)
Crash in undoing switch from sculpt to edit mode and back. (T81854)
"Saving As..." a blend file with a Script node file path filled with 1023 symbols crashes Blender. (T81421)
Fix own previous commit re testing of `BLI_rel_path`. (rB670ee877d9a)
Reflection Plane causing problems at certain clip distances. (T81942)
Crash when calling bmesh.utils.vert_separate(). (T81939)
Fix (studio-reported) Armature: bug in handling of custom bone transform. (rB05b4d8d13a9)
Memory leak if both a shader and an AddonPreferences class are used. (T71362)
Both X-Ray and cavity enabled causes abnormal GPU load. (T81633)

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