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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]

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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 2.93.14 LTS XXX. 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]

• Regression: Incorrect icon displaying of Weighted Normal modifier in the outliner. (T102993)
  
• Different texture direction for box projection mode in OSL. (T103615)
  
• Modifier tools don't support greasepencil modifiers. (T103455)
  

[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 2.93.13 LTS is a hotfix release fixing an issue that was unfortunately introduced with 2.93.12. 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]

• Clicking on Favourites will rename them. (T89515)
  

[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 2.93.12 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]

• Pose bone ID property driver causes dependency cycle. (T87039)
  
• Cycles Render Light Paths. (T89199)
  
• Color indicating animation status missing from many icon buttons (all defined with emboss=False). (T89350)
  
• mathutils.geometry.intersect_line_line does not behave consistently for 2D vectors on Linux. (T101591)
  
• Walk mode: when you press space button too fast, gravity disables. (T99997)
  
• Node color is different from color panel. (T99603)
  
• 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)
  
• audaspace: Fix build error with MSVC 17.4+. (rBac7b4855bd9)
  
• There is no "Knife" tool in the menu. (T102187)
  
• UV editor: missing UV outlines in texture paint mode. (T100926)
  
• No Camera Found in Scene - Not True. (T102514)
  
• Fix: greasepencil selection of entire_strokes not working. (rB9a537b63a5a)
  
• Grease Pencil: Brush cursors not shown if the file is opened with sculpt/vertex-/weightpaint mode. (T102685)
  
• Fix: missing greasepencil hook modifier relationship lines. (rB1f30e7c183c)
  

[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

It's time to update your Blender!

Blender 3.4.1 addresses over 35 issues present in the initial release.

This is a corrective release, meaning it doesn't contain new features, only fixes. It is highly recommended for everyone currently using Blender 3.4 to upgrade, since it fixes several crashes and improves functionality in many areas.

Read the full list of changes on the Wiki https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/3.4/Corrective_Releases

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The Blender team,
December 20, 2022