Blender 2.93.2 LTS Maintenance Release !

Blender 2.93.2 LTS features many bug fixes. It is released on the 2.93 branch.

You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select 2.93.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

• Line Art Bug FIx: stroke default in-front should be on. (rB9e64fd461ac3fa05e4ae780ee3a9f41b18c7c216)
  
• Follow Path for empty works only in negative values. (T89153)
  
• Align Orientation to Target keeps rotation when toggled. (T89571)
  
• `bpy.ops.screen.screen_full_area()` resets certain fields of the context. (T89526)
  
• Fix edit-mesh random select regression in random seed use. (rB27e32652679)
  
• Use-after-free when tabbing through numeric inputs. (T89265)
  
• Fix invalid polygon normal array access building bake data. (rB32658bb5c9f)
  
• Select Similar Face Regions triggers AddressSanitizer crash. (T89247)
  
• Undefined Geometry nodes cause a crash when connected to a Group Output node. (T89004)
  
• Set Origin missing from Text object in 2.93. (T88808)
  
• Fix: Crash Requesting GPU_SHADER_GPENCIL_FILL builtin shader. (rB3c6a981fd98)
  
• Viewport Render Preview glitching with Eevee Render Engine. (T89405)
  
• Cleanup: Remove deprecated variables and functions calls from our ffmpeg code. (rBf522e8db228)
  
• Fix T87932: Failure to build movie strip proxy. (rBfe4cbe62dff)
  
• Make encoded video fps correct with ffmpeg < 4.4. (rB14308b0a5ef)
  
• Fix T88623, T87044: Make encoded videos play correctly in VLC. (rB19c0666d408)
  
• FFmpeg: Update proxy settings. (rB00ffe028200)
  
• Fix T57397: Movies are blurred after sws_scale. (rB13ab6b7bb60)
  
• FFmpeg: Fix seeking not returning the correct frame when not using TC index. (rB7eb3e77b94f)
  
• Fix: Wrong logic for checking if we can reuse decoded frame. (rB02a6be54432)
  
• Fix: Prevent small memory leak in VSE indexer. (rBcea80f1add5)
  
• Fix: VSE timecodes being used even when turned off. (rBa68f5456e48)
  
• Fix: VSE indexer seeking not working correctly. (rB7616f4ae577)
  
• Fix: VSE search in mpegts files would fail. (rB444a8cbc2fd)
  
• Fix: VSE seeking with proxy strips would fail on certain frames. (rBbec8e436a1c)
  
• UI: Collection tab should hide when scene master collection is active. (T89422)
  
• Blender crash when showing thumbnail of a strongly skewed .exr image. (T89868)
  
• Fix T89861: Checking face selection breaks UV stitch operator. (rB062764d5d01)
  
• Fix T70356: Scaling up 1x1 pixel image reads past buffer bounds. (rB41bd164e4c7)
  
• Fix object "Set Origin" operating on linked library data. (rB5d1ef0efd01)
  
• BlenderKit: draw categories in asset card. (rBA0d880d12)
  
• BlenderKit: many post-release fixes. (rBA526557bb)
  
• BlenderKit: fix category display. (rBA29db4b5f)
  
• BlenderKit: fix an error when trying to assign material to unsupported object type. (rBAae7be84e)
  
• Alembic export not respecting the renderable flag. (T89594)
  
• Alembic export: evaluation mode option. (rB7b94e7cca49)
  
• TGA Images with any alpha value smaller than one behaves unexpected. (T89034)
  
• Collection user counts are set to `1` on file load. Boolean modifier orphans Collections. (T89765)
  
• Round end-caps on Freestyle lines not working properly. (T88015)
  
• Crash when baking to vertex colors while "Normals-> Auto Smooth" is enabled. (T88756)
  
• Crash when using Cycles preview or render - custom data layer / auto smooth. (T89455)
  
• Crash when editing a Collection Instance referenced by Line Art object. (T89838)
  
• [2.93.2] Geometry nodes: wrongly detected "Node group has unidentified nodes or sockets" error. (T89851)
  
• Persistent data, motion blur, and geometry displacement results in glitchy meshes during rendering. (T89736)
  
• adding a custom AOV doesn't show the output on the compositors render layer node. (T89981)
  
• Geometry Nodes: 'New' Button tries to create node_tree on active modifier, rather than button context. (T89982)
  
• Py API: `bpy.data.orphans_purge` incorrect argument parsing. (T89733)
  
• Drawing with make line tool in an empty scene results crash. (T89724)
  
• It can't snap vertices when using community addon 'Snap_Utilities_Line'. (T89812)
  
• Blender File View - can't type space while holding shift key. (T85517)
  
• Separating meshes by material makes render passes in cycles stuck in 1/64. (T89884)
  

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