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Blender 3.3.2 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]

• Unlinked objects reappear when reloading the file.(T101499)
  
• VSE: Hard cut does not cut correctly cut strip when speed factor is greater than 1 or differing framerates. (T101447)
  
• Remove Render Slot not working for first slot. (T100330)
  
• Blender crash when calling Delete command for Library Override. (T101306)
  
• Unlinked objects reappear when reloading the file. (T101499)
  
• VSE: Hard cut does not cut correctly cut strip when speed factor is greater than 1 or differing framerates. (T101447)
  
• Remove Render Slot not working for first slot. (T100330)
  
• Blender crash when calling Delete command for Library Override. (T101306)
  
• i cant select the texture I created in texture paint. (T101334)
  
• Deleting a baked action results in an error. (T101045)
  
• New math function to add small bias to zero axis. (rB7e5db850dc9)
  
• mathutils.geometry.intersect_line_line does not behave consistently for 2D vectors on Linux. (T101591)
  
• GPencil: All strokes snap to origin in a Scale value is on 0. (T101517)
  
• LineArt: Fix "No intersection" flicker. (rB2a78941d2cd)
  
• Crash when adjusting UV stitch operation's limit (when more than 32 objects are in mutli-object-editmode). (T101492)
  
• Freeze when reloading a library while having an Object property with a custom getter function defined in Python. (T101618)
  
• DRW: fix use of potentially uninitialized variable. (rBc98268d3f56)
  
• Zooming with NDOF device is inverted in Camera View. (T100953)
  
• Refactor: adding function to check if an animation container has grease pencil layer keyframes. (rB0b45d3e3866)
  
• Grease Pencil: Multiframe editing doesn't update properly. (T101547)
  
• Regression: Animating parameter in geometry nodes causes a crash on animated render. (T101025)
  
• Regression: Edited action in NLA ignored settings. (T101275)
  
• c++ obj importer has wrong materials on objects. (T101685)
  
• MaterialX Standard Surface (OSL) crashes Blender in debug. (T101702)
  
• Cycles prints core dump when rendering with OPTIX and missing package `libnvidia-gl`. (T101651)
  
• GPencil: Fix unreported Close Stroke operator did not select new points. (rB07ba515b21a)
  
• Regression: Knife Project crashes Blender 3.4 and 3.3. (T101721)
  
• NLA Editor - Proportional editing not working in the Adjust Last Operation panel for the Transform items. (T101709)
  
• Issues with HDRIs and render result pixel values that exceed half float limits. (T98575)
  
• Duplicate objects are created when a library overridden collection has new objects added that are then also overridden. (T101679)
  
• Wrong logic inside GHOST_ContextGLX::setSwapInterval method. (T101776)
  
• Spreadsheet crash when entering edit mode on a GN attached objects. (T101786)
  
• Animated Holdout & Shadow do not update in Cycles. (T99450)
  
• Cycles: Fix floor intrinsic for ARM Neon. (rB5ff62df238f)
  
• Noise texture shows incorrect behaviour for large scale values. (T98672)
  
• bl3.2.1 Wont show "load preferences: from 2.93. (T100699)
  
• Discrepancy in Cycles rendering result appears when "Pack Resources" on tga file. (T99565)
  
• Overrides: Crash when removing unexisting library (heist scene). (T101903)
  
• Walk mode: when you press space button too fast, gravity disables. (T99997)
  
• Fix missing OpenMP in Linux builds. (rB2b2fc6d)
  
• Build: update various libraries for 3.4, fixing bugs and security issues. (rB2fb0640)
  
• Build: bump expat version to 2.5.0 to address CVE-2022-43680. (rB953eda6)
  
• Regression: Crashes when using packed text font in VSE. (T99872)
  
• First render of barbershop appears different. (T92416)
  
• add performance preset for cycles is broken. (T101020)
  
• Update Steam/Windows Store to use blender-launcher. (T88613)
  
• Info editor reports wrong transform options. (T101928)
  
• Cycles: No Hair Shadows with Transparent BSDF. (T94136)
  
• Eevee: Custom object properties don't work in shader for Curves objects. (T101896)
  
• GPencil: Fix compiler warning. (rBf07f55582a0)
  
• Fix (studio-reported) issue with overrides on library relocating. (rB0c3a52d571f)
  
• Regression: EXR 'JPG Preview' doesn't use color space anymore. (T101329)
  
• Outliner data-block counter treats bones as collection. (T101946)
  
• Regression: Box select may not show channel rows in Animation Editors. (T101933)
  
• Node color is different from color panel. (T99603)
  
• Fix: set more UI colors to PROP_COLOR_GAMMA. (rB7ce6750234c)
  
• Properties Editor Attribute panels errors when pinning mesh. (T102045)
  
• GPencil: Crashes Sculpt > Smooth Brush with [Shift Key] and with Auto Masking Stroke On. (T102092)
  
• Curves sculptmode: crash when using curve stroke in any tool. (T101062)
  
• Cycles HIP issues on Debian. (T102018)
  
• File Browser: Move Bookmark buttons malfunction if no item is selected. (T102014)
  
• ColorRamp Keyframes crash Blender. (T85870)
  
• Properties Editor Attribute panels errors when pinning mesh. (T102045)
  
• Regression: Trim Curve Node Crash. (T101256)
  
• Regression: Normal baking strange artifacts in texture bake. (T101669)
  
• Crash when opening a file with instances for child particles with Curve Clumping. (T100883)
  
• audaspace: Fix build error with MSVC 17.4+. (rBbe34354500f)
  
• Mouse wrapping causes erratic movement. (T89399)
  
• UV Editing proportional editing not working/updating correctly with UV Sync Selection enabled. (T101220)
  
• Regression: Stretched image in the viewport when viewed from the lamp object. (T101533)
  
• Regression: 'Object Info' 'Random' always gives the same seed for instanced bezier curves. (T101270)
  
• There is no "Knife" tool in the menu. (T102187)
  
• Regression: Bevel operator Loop Slide overshoot. (T95335)
  
• Image.save() more heavy than original when using bpy. (T102421)
  
• Fix: Link drag search crash with incorrect socket name in switch node. (rBe257e2e0759)
  
• GN: Undefined behavior for subdivided cyclical single-point Catmull-Rom splines. (T102537)
  
• UV editor: missing UV outlines in texture paint mode. (T100926)
  
• win-launcher: linger when launched from steam. (rB4a7ace4a783)
  
• Regression: EEVEE: AMD driver 22.7.1 - 22.8.2: Volumes created from VDB and Geometry Nodes show artifacts. (T100530)
  
• Regression: Grease Pencil materials added via Python do not show up in "Change Active Material" Menu. (T102566)
  
• Regression: Crash when making an Object as Effector set to Guide and trying to scrub the timeline. (T102257)
  
• blender3.3 HIP performance down 30% on Windows. (T100891)
  
• Memory leak with GPU subdivision on rendering. (T100969)
  
• glTF exporter: Fix division by zero when IOR is 1.0. (rBA50a297df)
  
• FBX exporting animation with 1 fps. (T99876)
  
• glTF exporter: Fix export all weight influences. (rBA6f168d59)
  
• glTF: Fix Traceback in Variant UI. (rBA1c1b05ef)
  
• Regression: Cycles Don`t updated Color Attributes. (T101925)
  
• Texture baking fails when using a "material_index" attribute and values assigned to faces refrerence a non-existent material slot. (T102214)
  
• Cycles: Tweak inlining policy on Metal. (rB021c8c7)
  
• Cycles: Enable MetalRT pointclouds & other fixes. (rB3e247f0)
  
• Cycles: Allow Intel GPUs under Metal. (rBf9f8340)
  
• Fix macOS build error after recent changes to enable Intel GPUs. (rB86abbf7)
  

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

Blender 3.3.1 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]

• Regression: The start frame of NLA tracks can not be negative. (T100918)
  
• Cycles shows transmission in displaced shader as black. (T100914)
  
• Cryptomatte layers saved incorrectly with EXR DWA compression. (T96933)
  
• Cryptomatte EXR Output Bit Depth should always be 32bit. (T88049)
  
• Banding-like effect in Cycles using OpenVDB volumes. (T100714)
  
• Texture bake fills black when set clear texture. (T100708)
  
• The eevee view model failed to load the texture, causing the model to be purple. (T57759)
  
• EEVEE: Fix attributes node on Alpha Clip/Hashed materials. (rB5e372fca7c8)
  
• Regression: "Copy Location" constraint doesn't work if the control object is a vertex and we're in edit mode. (T99141)
  
• UI: Add shift-click hint to library overrides button tooltip. (rBc25181be4d8)
  
• Fix: Spreadsheet row filters unimplemented for boolean type. (rBbcdb90b9618)
  
• OBJ exporter does not properly export "image sequence" texture names. (T100669)
  
• New 3.1+ OBJ exporter UI fields order could be improved. (T96297)
  
• Some C++ importers/exporters (e.g. OBJ) reset file dialog Sort By mode. (T100887)
  
• Fix: link drag search feature only works forgeometry nodes groups. (rB568265964e9)
  
• Sync markers option doesn't work when sliding keyframes with a keyboard entry. (T100851)
  
• GPencil: Copy paste stroke(s) does not respect autokeying value. (T100999)
  
• GLibC Compat: Add deprecated memory hooks symbols removed from 2.34. (rBbf6a9d705f1)
  
• Cleanup: quiet missing-variable-declarations warning. (rBec2938c71a5)
  
• Fix compilation on Linux, glibc 2.34, and CentOS libraries. (rB6143b3ab382)
  
• Stereo Top/Bottom Render (Cycles) Missing Z Channel:. (T100886)
  
• Incorrect strip length when timecodes are used. (T100771)
  
• 3.3LTS: crash when entering sculpt mode of a wire mesh if it is a "custom object" of a bone. (T101081)
  
• Regression: Blender Crashes When snap roll a bone in armature. (T101040)
  
• Color picker colors drift value for some OCIO configurations. (T101000)
  
• vse group strips expanding in length on cancelled movement. (T101098)
  
• GPencil: Important feature request for Blender 3.3 LTS: Add new option "Forced Intersection". (T101087)
  
• Regression: VSE doesn't interpolate Scene Strip anymore. (T100998)
  
• Regression: Crash on connecting UV sphere node to transform node. (T101137)
  
• Regression: Crash when left click on Point Density node. (T101001)
  
• GPencil: Add frame number to Trace operator. (rBfe15766f463)
  
• Regression: Tiled rendering is not applied to texture baking in 3.x onwards, causing crash on large bakes. (T100626)
  
• Regression: Denoising depth pass: different result from 3.2.2 (ok) to 3.3. (T101065)
  
• Add oneAPI to the 'cycles_device' command line argument help text. (rBa920f32)
  
• obj: support importing multiple files at once. (rBdba599c8064)
  
• GPencil: Allow import several SVG at time. (rB345cdf71e96)
  
• C++ exporters (OBJ/Collada/USD/Alembic) do not remember the path/filename on subsequent exports. (T100797)
  
• Regression: Drag and Drop seems to be broken for image files from desktop. (T100899)
  
• glTF exporter: Fix crash when original texture export is packed. (rBAed9b7805)
  
• glTF exporter: Fix default sheen factors. (rBA0f1e12d8)
  
• glTF exporter: optimized animation size option was not saved when 'remember export settings'. (rBA6552dc49)
  
• UI Animation Render: Attribute error when running in background. (T101239)
  
• glTF exporter: avoid crash when apply modifiers + shapekeys. (rBA06ad75f3)
  
• Regression: baking procedural texture in more than 2048 pixels fails. (T101354)
  
• Regression: Can't save second Viewlayer as .exr. (T101365)
  
• No option to restore previous trackpad behavior on Windows since multitouch support. (T97925)
  
• glTF exporter: Fix color attribute export. (rBA4feb92043cbd)
  
• Regression: Export UV Layout is blurry. (T101134)
  
• UV editor: Console warning when hovered over tools. (T101138)
  
• EEVEE: Screen Space Refraction Artefacts when the viewport is narrow and non square. (T101034)
  
• Regression: Right aligned header. (T100141)
  
• Moving bone to another layer doesn't trigger a depsgraph update. (T101046)
  
• Blender 3.2.1 - Animation on nodes gets bugged out when dealing with Node Groups (duplicate node names). (T101109)
  
• GPencil: Active layer separation freezes blender if layer is empty. (T101317)
  
• GPencil: Crash when sculpting after "bake object transform to grease pencil". (T101370)
  
• Cycles: increase min-supported driver version for Intel GPUs. (rBa6c27ea49da)
  
• Regression: useless Snapping menu in the adjustment popup of Edge bevel weight operator. (T101343)
  
• Fix typo and and incorrect property initialization. (rBb4e8d03e5cf)
  
• Fix curves sculpting in deformed space when using Subdivide node. (rBede6c262229)
  
• GPencil: framechanging does not evaluate keyframed layer transform correctly (if this would result in identity matrix). (T101164)
  
• Regression: Console flooded with warnings when fluid type is Domain. (T101231)
  
• GPencil: Fix unreported memory leak in Fill inverse. (rB662ba67210b)
  
• Curve draw tool's cursor depth mode use a random Z value when viewport camera is orthographic. (T101347)
  
• Node editor: Add driver to socket slots list?. (T101341)
  
• Fix missing Outliner updates when adding nodetrees. (rBcc8df686ad7)
  
• Geometry Nodes in searching pulls nodes from other node add-ons. (T101259)
  
• Regression: Screw Modifier Calculate Order is broken. (T101075)
  
• New OBJ importer handles UVs incorrectly when some faces of an object don't have UVs. (T101487)
  
• Grease Pencil: New lines in Multiframe editing appear as Onion skinning overlay. (T101548)
  
• Grease Pencil: Selecting strokes in Edit Mode imprecise if layer transforms are animated. (T101564)
  
• Rain Test Animation demo crashes Blender 3.3. (T101559)
  
• Cycles: Spurious recompiles on Metal in Blender 3.3.x on macOS 13.0. (T101598)
  
• Regression: Incorrect context for running data unlink. (T101510)
  
• Regression: Deleting Object in outliner with a specific filter setting crashes Blender. (T101233)
  
  
  

[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

Blender 2.93.11 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]

• GPencil strokes cannot be edited after set origin. (T99979)
  
• Regression: Crash on toggling display mode of wave modifier in edit mode. (T100191)
  
• Regression: Surface Deform Modifier does not display correctly in Edit Mode while a Vertex Group is assigned to the Modifier. (T100578)
  
• Sync markers option doesn't work when sliding keyframes with a keyboard entry. (T100851)
  
• Curve tools: Crash on undo operation. (T93189)
  
• Apply transform fails to clear delta transform values. (T99070)
  
• Apply object transform fails with delta quaternion rotation. (T100606)
  
• UV editor: Console warning when hovered over tools. (T101138)
  
• EEVEE: Screen Space Refraction Artefacts when the viewport is narrow and non square. (T101034)
  
• Moving bone to another layer doesn't trigger a depsgraph update. (T101046)
  
• Blender 3.2.1 - Animation on nodes gets bugged out when dealing with Node Groups (duplicate node names). (T101109)
  
• GPencil: framechanging does not evaluate keyframed layer transform correctly (if this would result in identity matrix). (T101164)
  
• UI Animation Render: Attribute error when running in background. (T101239)
  

[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

Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present the first long-term release of the 3.x series, Blender 3.3 LTS!



A highlight in this release is the introduction of a completely new system for hair grooming, using a new Curves object type that supports Sculpt mode and the flexibility of Geometry Nodes. The particle-based system is still available and hair can be converted between systems.

Geometry Nodes has been expanded to support procedural UV Unwrapping, shortest-path nodes, and a number of new primitives and utility nodes.

Grease Pencil Line Art is more performant, and can calculate light and shadow contour lines, specify object priority, and received improvements to silhouette detection. Grease Pencil keyframes are now displayed in the general Dopesheet Editor view, making it convenient to animate regular objects and properties together with Grease Pencil keyframes.

Other improvements include better Library Overrides management, new features in Video Sequencer, modeling, UV, faster sculpting in EEVEE, updates in user interface, Cycles support for AMD Vega graphics cards and the new Intel® Arc™ GPUs, and so much more.

Explore the release notes for an in-depth look at what’s new.



Blender 3.3 LTS is a long-term support release, receiving fixes until September 2024.

Another exciting milestone achieved thanks to the Blender community and the over 2900 individuals and organizations contributing to the Blender Development Fund.

Happy Blending!

The Blender Team
September 7th, 2022

Blender 2.93.9 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]

• Cleanup: Avoid possible NULL pointer error. (rBdf5da16aa11)
  
• Spline calc_length() crashes for NURBS curves with only a single point. (T95137)
  
• Cleanup: use an intermediate value for cast_primitive_type. (rB05f631b7ad6)
  
• Fix dna_genfile error converting signed int types to floating point. (rB87b77a97b94)
  
• Blender Crashes to Desktop when viewing thumbnail of a certain HDRI. (T89542)
  
• Keying sets for armatures in library overrides break if unrelated objects are changed in source file. (T95601)
  
• Texture paint: Apply Camera Image crash when selecting a image. (T95787)
  
• Fix broken shapekeys: check for 'NULL' `from` pointer too. (rBfc56ef5f970)
  
• Magic UV: Pass correct argument for operator identifier. (rBAa99ece99)
  
• Node Preset Addon crashes when used with Geometry Nodes. (T90845)
  
• generator modifier : factorized polynomial don't work properly. (T96195)
  
• Fix memory leak evaluating PyDrivers. (rBc3fed26f376)
  
• Workbench screnspace cavity not rendered in batch through command line. (T96243)
  
• GPU: Allow the user to set an anisotropic filtering setting below the implementation-defined value of `GL_MAX_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT`. (rB3dc36b32a1e)
  
• Regression: NLA crash when reordering tracks if no object is selected. (T96624)
  
• Gpencil: Inverted Fill makes extra stroke at origin (0,0,0). (T96790)
  
• Baked particles dont render in final frame. (T68290)
  
• Adjust Last Operation panel is slow (some Undo/Redo happening?). (T85756)
  
• Node mask selection does not take in consideration the parenting with the markers. (T97135)
  
• Mask transform center doesn't take parent Track into account. (T85467)
  

[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