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Blender 2.83.6 LTS

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

Blender 2.83.6 LTS features a total of 30 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.

SteamVR is now also supported on Linux (with some limitations). Check the manual for more details (yes, this is the 2.90 manual, but the information regarding SteamVR is the same for 2.83.6).

Crash when switching to Edit Mode (T80530)
VR: SteamVR is now a supported OpenXR runtime! (Windows only) (rB8cc52ef6e208)
Cycles crash rendering with volume object and motion blur (T78038)
VR: Properly support outputting sRGB swapchain buffers (rB70637b303d9e)
Fix/workaround graphics issues breaking SteamVR use with Blender (rBfe492d922d6d)
Fix constant lighting change in VR view when rotating head (rB3a5ef928961b)
Fix warning when compiling on Linux with WITH_XR_OPENXR enabled (rB38ae24102003)
GPUTexture: Extend CUBE_MAP_ARRAY_ARB proxy workaround to all Apple gpus (rB7369a24f61cd)
MEM_guardedalloc: allow freeing const arrays with MEM_SAFE_FREE (rB0fb7d5381ef2)
Inonsistent simplify behavior when linking collection with objects… (T79935)
Fix critical bug in foreach ID looper of Scene data-block. (rBa994e7a4b9c3)
Dyntopo panel error with tools that dont have a brush (T78186)
Cycles: Image Sequence not rendering (T79111)
Crash adding UV's in edit-mode with linked duplicates (T77359)
Bevel Shader node Samples value has too low hardcoded limit (T80012)
Crash when changing to white noise texture (T79915)
BLI_math_matrix: add invert_m4_m4_safe_ortho (m3 version too) (rB19fe5529d737)
Objects disappear when joining with a zero scaled axis (T80077)
Do not subdivide with Multires is mesh has no faces (T80039)
BLI: fix memory leak in delaunay 2d (rB42434d120ba4)
Cycles baking crash with motion blur enabled and no camera (T77683)
OSL shader compilation fails on macOS (T78065)
Duplicate doesn't preserve active spline (T80135)
Add undo step to Alembic and Collada importers... (T77754)
Overrides: Crash with animated IK control on linked armature. (T80078)
Crash on making material local. (T80104)
Fix Outliner allowing to enter Pose Mode on linked armature (rB521ae3d458ad)
File Browser in macOS fullscreen crashes (T77900)
Fix crash accessing image space properties without an active window (rB006ff6453886)
Custom Normals Averaging crash after clearing (T80159)

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Blender 2.90 Official Release available

Building on the success of the 2.8 series, Blender 2.90 continues to polish the user experience, introducing improvements to EEVEE, Cycles, sculpt, VR, animation, modeling, UV editing and so much more. Blender integrates industry standard libraries such as Intel Embree, Intel OpenImageDenoise and NVidia Optix to provide a cutting-edge rendering experience.

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Enjoy the full list of updates at https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-90/

This release has been made possible thanks to the community of contributors and developers on blender.org for providing demos, submitting bug reports, and thanks to the over 4,700 individuals and companies who joined the Development Fund.

The Blender Team

Amsterdam, 31st August, 2020.

Blender 2.83.5 LTS

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

Blender 2.83.5 LTS features a total of 25 bug fixes.

FCurve editor crash when zooming out to limit (T79254)
Crash displaying the same mesh in two windows (T79260)
Fix interface artifacts on Intel GPUs (rB388639243053)
Outliner "Make Single User" crash (T79187)
Eevee cubemaps shows black (T79158)
Smooth brushes crasing in dyntopo (T79007)
too much memory usage rendering animation with persistent images (T78537)
CLOG writes/reads outside allocated memory. (T78730)
Crash converting curve to mesh (T79207)
Fix usercount not decrementing in `gpencil_stroke_separate_exec` (rB4251a87bf60e)
UV select-linked failure to de-select (T46568)
GPencil weight paint crash when painting over modifier generated (T78884)
Workbench: Fix broken id pass (rB38e9a349defc)
Workbench: Object color mode broken if more than 4096 objects (T79509)
GPUShader: compile error on AWS Elastic Graphics (T79246)
Blend file corrupted during save caused by high Cubemap Size (T78529)
EEVEE: LightCache: Add warning if the cache cannot be saved (rBfce71a255cb9)
Crash loading nested set-scenes (T79575)
Fix crash switching render slots when there is only one slot (rBa9e0aeaf653d)
Triangulate quads with 'Beauty' can make zero area faces (T79482)
"Add plane > align" causes crash when certain rigs are in the scene (T77847)
Crash when changing View Layer while VR session runs (T79324)
Video Sequencer image sequence strip source path breaks (T79676)
crash rendering grease pencil from compositor with multiple scenes (T77885)
EEVEE: Crash on Macos due to lightcache baking (T79703)

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Blender 2.83.4 LTS

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

Blender 2.83.4 LTS features a total of 19 bug fixes.

Crash when adjusting sequencer property
GPencil: Fix unreported missing strokes in interpolation
Crash related to viewing video files
Mantaflow Field weights cannot be animated
Batch Generate-Previews doesn't work anymore
Dimensions fail on negative scaled axis
Scale to Fit Text Box fails when text is too narrow
Copy-pasting strip twice crashes Blender
Prefetching can corrupt .blend files
random crash editing shader nodes with textures
missing depsgraph relation when using sound strips in VSE
Fix View3D "Mirror" menu, both "Global" and "Local" items are GLOBAL
Crash displaying many aligned buttons
Follow Active Quads, divide by zero error
Crash when removing strips with prefetching
fresh install of blender 2.83.0 not able to save user startup file
Weight Transfer Operator target mesh doesn't update
Weight Transfer Operator "Deform Pose Bones" destination setting
Object disappears when scaled, set origin etc after applying smooth

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Blender 2.83.3 LTS

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

Blender 2.83.3 LTS features a total of 17 bug fixes.

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