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Blender 3.3.5 LTS features many bug fixes. It is released on the v3.3 - 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 v3.3 - Stable - LTS.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

• Blender SEGV when open .blend file in blender. (#99836)
  
• GPencil: Fix unreported Eyedropper color difference in Materials. (23f6baf45bb)
  
• Appending a camera (with a background movie clip) will not pull in the movie clip. (#104810)
  
• Regression: Loop Cut Tool becomes impressive with modifiers. (#104347)
  
• Geometry Nodes: Crash in Curve to Mesh node when using a cyclic, single point spline as profile. (#104341)
  
• Regression: Blender crashes when you reload a linked library if the active scene is from that library. (#105230)
  
• Regression: Crash when user opens directory instead of file on USD import. (#105160)
  
• bpy.ops.render.render() no cause update Image Editor for Render Results. (#104534)
  

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 3.3 LTS releases on blender.org

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Blender 2.93.16 LTS features many bug fixes. It is released on the 2.93 - 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 2.93 - Stable - LTS.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

• Blender SEGV when open .blend file in blender. (#99836)
  
• Regression: Crash when user opens directory instead of file on USD import. (#105160)
  
• Appending a camera (with a background movie clip) will not pull in the movie clip. (#104810)
  
• GPencil: Fix unreported Eyedropper color difference in Materials. (bb32f316f6f590b2f02012ccf335983436191dc3)
  

[h3]LTS Program[/h3]

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[h3]Stay up-to-date[/h3]

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

Happy blending,
The Blender team

Blender 3.3.4 LTS features many bug fixes. It is released on the v3.3 - 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 v3.3 - Stable - LTS.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

• Build: library security updates for Blender 3.3.4. (8c7cca66f06b)
  
• Fix Cycles bug baking with multiple materials, due to mistake in backport. (2cec5d8139e)
  
• Regression: Blender Crash when unlinking a Collection from Blender File. (#103881)
  
• Regression: Crash when setting cloth simulation rest shape key with subdivision modifier. (#103972)
  
• Regression: Not possible to transfer Color Attributs Layer with "Transfer Mesh Data Layout". (#103400)
  
• Regression: Line Art - Vertex Weight Transfer to a target group doesn't work. (#103887)
  
• Regression: Stereoscopic renders in 3.3.1 remove contrast and raise exposure upon saving file. (#103888)
  
• Issue rendering Stereo 360 Top/Bottom on Blender 3.0.0. (#94752)
  
• Removing greasepencil vertexgroups can leave no active. (#104089)
  
• Regession: Smooth modifier with vergex group not work for negative factors. (#104176)
  
• GPencil: Cutter Tool flattening caps on both sides of the stroke being trimmed. (#104243)
  
• Restoring a key in the keymap editor doesn't work if the key is only disabled. (#90893)
  
• GP/Annotation UI: Wrong icon and behaviour in the wrong regions. (#88617)
  
• Grease Pencil merge down layer duplicates wrong frame. (#104371)
  
• Snap failure at a specific angle. (#104372)
  
• Regression: Click-Drag to select channels in Graph Editor no longer working. (#104026)
  
• Grease Pencil merge down layer misses some frames. (#104514)
  
• Regression: Eevee render takes 3x longer in 3.4 than 3.1.2 - shading related?. (#103903)
  
• Cycles: fix rendering with Nishita Sky Texture on Intel Arc GPUs in 3.3. (581d1f396bd3)
  

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 3.3 LTS releases on blender.org

[h3]LTS Program[/h3]

Learn more about the LTS program on blender.org

[h3]Stay up-to-date[/h3]

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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 2.93.15 LTS features many bug fixes. It is released on the 2.93 - 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 2.93 - Stable - LTS.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

• Regession: Smooth modifier with vergex group not work for negative factors. (#104176)
  
• GPencil: Cutter Tool flattening caps on both sides of the stroke being trimmed. (#104243)
  
• Restoring a key in the keymap editor doesn't work if the key is only disabled. (#90893)
  
• GP/Annotation UI: Wrong icon and behaviour in the wrong regions. (#88617)
  
• Grease Pencil merge down layer duplicates wrong frame. (#104371)
  
• Fix build error in libc_compat when using musl libc. (5d8fd91d790)
  
• GLibC Compat: Add deprecated memory hooks symbols removed from 2.34. (db00b50ac70)
  
• Fix compilation on Linux, glibc 2.34, and CentOS libraries. (d730280c026)
  
  

[h3]LTS Program[/h3]

Learn more about the LTS program on blender.org

[h3]Stay up-to-date[/h3]

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

Happy blending,
The Blender team

Blender 3.3.3 LTS features many bug fixes. It is released on the v3.3 - 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 v3.3 - Stable - LTS.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

• Crash with boolean modifier exact mode depending on face orientation (regression from 3.3.1 to 3.3.2). (T103423)
  
• Regression: Crash after deleting color attributes and switching mode. (T102670)
  
• Regression: push/pull doesn't work if applied to many vertices. (T102466)
  
• Regression: when the scene has multiple volumes, some of them get wrong transformation in Eevee's render. (T101402)
  
• Line Art light/shadow glitch if the light object has non-uniform z axis scale. (T101824)
  
• Regression: GPencil Line Art modifier creates extra (offset) strokes on collection instances. (T102503)
  
• No Camera Found in Scene - Not True. (T102514)
  
• Fix: greasepencil selection of entire_strokes not working. (rB15b36dc4e61)
  
• Grease Pencil: Brush cursors not shown if the file is opened with sculpt/vertex-/weightpaint mode. (T102685)
  
• Fix: greasepencil selection mask picking points not working. (rBf3a10a15437)
  
• Fix: missing greasepencil hook modifier relationship lines. (rB5940e9b7927)
  
• Regression: Meta strips from older versions are broken. (T102663)
  
• Regression: Empty metasequence sliding away while moving. (T102801)
  
• Regression: Unlinking an Orphan Action Crashes Blender. (T102797)
  
• GPU: Fix using FLOAT_2D_ARRAY and FLOAT_3D textures via Python. (rBb3e0eadbdc0)
  
• GPencil: Fix unreported interpolate crash if no frames. (rB77e66d630a2)
  
• Grease Pencil: Crash when trying to sculpt on object with Dot Dash modifier. (T102684)
  
• GPencil: Array modifier relative offset don't respect restriction by layer. (T102992)
  
• VDB volumes super slow to start rendering (data on network share). (T102990)
  
• Grease Pencil Multiframe Scale affects stroke thickness inversely. (T103293)
  
• Sculpt: Undo doesn't bring previous stored mesh after calling Mesh extract operation. (T103261)
  
• Regression: Incorrect icon displaying of Weighted Normal modifier in the outliner. (T102993)
  
• Regression: LineArt crash on file load. (T102612)
  
• Cycles DDS oversaturation when alpha is in use. (T101850)
  
• Regression: some Alpha Representation types of some images in Cycles appears to only unmultiple, and not re-multiple. (T102942)
  
• FFmpeg seeking is broken. (T95683)
  
• Fix: new Grease Pencil layer not selected when added from the viewport. (rB9137a4f03ce)
  
• Doubleclicking a channel in the Graph Editor wont select all keyframes (when an Annotation is also present). (T103303)
  
• Outliner: Click on empty area next to View Layer name triggers object select. (T102357)
  
• Regression: Grease pencil: applying armature does not work. It is now similar to removing the armature modifier. (T103234)
  
• Different texture direction for box projection mode in OSL. (T103615)
  
• Fix: Reversed attribute is_internal RNA property. (rB095b3638991)
  
• Regression: UI texpaintslot/color attributes/attributes name filtering broken. (T102878)
  
• glTF exporter: fix crash with weird missing datablock node group. (rBA6f4089e1)
  
• PLY export creates mesh with missing faces in Blender >= 3.1.0. (T103203)
  
• Modifier tools don't support greasepencil modifiers. (T103455)
  
• Local space transform move is broken in orthographic view along x-axis. (T101196)
  
• Regression: Edge snapping and face project snapping no longer locks to axis. (T101964)
  
• The video sequencer does not correctly decode an AVI file. (T101981)
  
• Drawing Masks in Image Editor gone?. (T101501)
  
• Light Groups World Environment anomaly. (T103507)
  
• Regression: Area lamps ignore the Shadow Catcher property on objects in light group passes. (T103403)
  

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 3.3 LTS releases on blender.org

[h3]LTS Program[/h3]

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