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Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 3.5!



Blender 3.5 is feature packed, touching almost every corner to make Blender better in every way:

GPU accelerated viewport compositor Support for sculpting with Vector Displacement Maps (VDM) textures 26 built-in node groups assets for Hair grooming Faster rendering of scenes with many lights in Cycles Import and export USDZ

Plus: EEVEE renders much faster on Apple Silicon devices, Cycles supports non-uniform spot lights and less noisy area lights, new animation curves tools, new UV and modeling tools, faster OBJ export, as always hundreds of bug fixes, performance, memory improvements, cleanups, refactors, and so much more.

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

Thank you!
Another exciting milestone achieved thanks to the Blender community and the over 3000 individuals and organizations contributing to the Blender Development Fund.

Happy Blending!

The Blender Team
March 29th, 2023

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

[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 2.93.16 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]

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 3.3.4 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]

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 2.93.15 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