Blender 2.83.8 LTS

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

Blender 2.83.8 LTS features a total of 16 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.

Fix OpenCL render error in large scenes. (rB094addfe84c)
GPencil: bones cannot be selected using Ctrl + LMB (with Left Selection Preference). (T80905)
2.8x Crash when loading 2.79 file. (T81168)
Fix invert vertex group weight miscalculation for modifiers. (rB3bdf921e824)
NLA Bake action broken for bone following path. (T61985)
Blender 2.90 Tris to Quads breaks UVs even with Compare UVs checked. (T80520)
Re-ordering face maps messes up the names of other face maps. (T79973)
Crash when deleting custom orientation. And gizmo points wrong way. (T80426)
Blender 2.83 broken Depth of Field in Viewport (Mac OSX). (T78653)
Access violation trying to access C.evaluated_get().view_layer_eval.depsgraph. (T62504)
Use-after-free when rendering material previews. (T80630)
Unpaired ED_image_undo_push_begin(..). (T80885)
Crash in pose mode using a driver on bendy bone Segments. (T81218)
Not freed memory blocks after using viewport shading type: "rendered". (T81459)
Cycles: Fix usage of memory barriers in split kernel. (rB23bf3b09ddf)
Windows 10 Start Menu and Taskbar Visual Appearance Issues for Microsoft Store Installations. (T79356)

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