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Blender 3.0.1 features many bug fixes.

* Selection in the 3d view is broken in build from Xcode 13. (T91680)
* Fix Cycles AVX test failure with x86_64 build running on Arm. (rBd02eecc)
* Fix/workaround macOS Rosetta crash running Cycles AVX tests. (rBe78a21a)
* Fix Asset Browser properties region toggle not showing open/closed state. (rB2af6cb9dce3)
* Asset Browser: Fix incorrect user message. (rB24a79289b01)
* Fix some shortcut keys not working on macOS with Japanese input. (rB8b44b756d85)
* Mesh Sequence Cache (ABC) an hair interpolated children distribution issue (triangulate modifier seem to fix it). (T92561)
* Shift+F1 to switch to asset browser randomly crashes. (T93508)
* Subdividing with overlapping tri and quad crashes Blender. (T93563)
* Blender 3.0 cannot import FBX (containing more than 8 UV layers). (T93541)
* Triangulating a mesh with overlapping tri and quad faces can cause an assertion failure. (T93574)
* Asset browser: dropping object on grid in orthogonal view misses the floor plane. (T93388)
* Snap Cursor not working after changing Add Object tool settings. (T93732)
* Crash on edit mesh with a curve modifier with both a vertex group assigned and the edit mode display option enabled. (T93611)
* Dragging the NLA strip cause a crash, if the related action is in tweakmode. (T93707)
* VSE: Fix strip with mask modifier not blending. (rB1fd824345d5)
* Video editor thumbnails don't show at the default zoom level. (T93314)
* Single point NURBS crash in resample node. (T93521)
* 3.0 Documentation broken link?. (T93773)
* Use World background color when rendering pose library previews. (T93467)
* When seperating a grease pencil stroke to its own object it will lose all vertex groups. (T93728)
* Measure active tool fails in front view with snap incremental enable. (T93869)
* Zstd-compressed .blend files from external tools aren't recognized. (T93858)
* Change bone name cause vertex group not working until select another vertex group. (T93892)
* Crash when trying to load custom preview in asset browser with user library selected. (T93691)
* Instances of only vertices/edges not properly shown in viewport. (T84710)
* img.has_data Always returns True since version 3.0. (T93871)
* Fast GI Approximation Render Crash. (T93874)
* Shadow Catcher - Cuda Error in Viewport Rendering with Optix Denoiser. (T93890)
* When render with Cycles' Fast GI Approximation, Method "Add" is affected by bounces in Method "Replace". (T93498)
* Geometry Nodes: Random Integer min and max values half as frequent. (T93591)
* Custom node sockets don't get relinked when dropping a node on an existing link. (T93430)
* redundant 'falloff' dropdown in weight paint header. (T93169)
* Spare falloff panel. (T94243)
* gltf2 not exporting animations in 3.0. (T93704)
* Blender freezes when saving with active VR session. (T93649)
* Fix meta-ball bound-box calculation reading past buffer bounds. (rB62ce0c60cd5)
* 3D Cursor is not in the right place after Shift + C (Center Cursor and Frame All). (T93971)
* Crash on changing curve type from Bezier to NURBS in Geometry Nodes. (T94082)
* Crash when exceeding memory_cache_limit in the viewport. (T92838)
* Cleanup: Correct order of guard and lock in moviecache_valfree. (rB0564b19ff4d)
* Selecting current action in Undo History Undoes all the History. (T94115)
* 3d cursor crash when using shortcut. (T94109)
* Outliner: Collection dragging tooltip is not updating. (T94184)
* Crash when the Home button is pressed in the VSE. (T94254)
* Crash when cutting meta-meta. (T94280)
* DeltaX does not show how many frames you are moving your keyframes. (T94191)
* Fix: Build issue on 32 bit archs. (rB6514e4c4180)
* Snap performance regression at high poll rate. (T93408)
* Close Area crashes Blender (3.0.0 and 3.0.1). (T94334)
* Python error when trying to add Grease Pencil brush preset. (T94375)
* Cycles X broke OptiX memory pooling via NVLink. (T93620)
* Extruding first vertex of a spline with GN modifier enabled causes a crash. (T94442)
* Crash in nvoglv64.dll entering edit mode on curve. (T94454)
* Scaling Grease Pencil Strokes in Edit Mode Scales Thickness. (T93163)
* Set Origin causes unexpected offset on Grease Pencil strokes when Curve Editing is enabled. (T93134)
* Grease pencil hue and tint modifiers don't work with selected material. (T93868)
* LineArt: Correct collection intersection mask logic. (rB7339663bbc3)
* LineArt: Correct clamping of out of bound isect index. (rB69c56d2819a)
* 3D Cursor surface projection onto hidden faces. (T94392)
* Grease Pencil AutoMerge does not work when Draw Strokes On Back is enabled. (T94620)
* Regression: Grease Pencil does not show up in render past 2049x2049 render resolution. (T94169)
* Fix T94563: Cycles standalone build error on with strict float/double casting. (rB7d26cf01f78)
* Crash in Compositing. (T94506)
* Discontinuous cutting with the knife tool. (T93695)
* Knife project fails in orthographic mode. (T94145)
* Shadow Terminator Geometry Offset causes artifacts for translucent shader (Cycles). (T93418)
* New-file causes Python assert with negative reference count. (T94708)
* save_as_mainfile will crash if context has no screen. (T93949)
* Constraint Shrinkwrap does not applies, it reset all changes. (T94600)
* VR Add-on: Unintended navigation when using Valve Index. (T93509)
* Blender Crashing While Appending Animation Action. (T94264)
* Export to X3D Fails. (T94122)
* Viewport X-Ray is influencing snapping even in material mode. (T93477)
* Auto Depth problem with Cliping Region. (T94728)
* Auto Depth problem with Cliping Region. (T94728)
* Grease Pencil Strokes drawn at 0.0 Strength still visible. (T94799)
* Tool Settings: Drag on Tweak not working. (T92953)
* Object As Font not working. (T94624)
* Fix crash caused by exception in Python gizmo target get handler. (rB40c5786df33)
* GPencil: Copying keys doesn't preserve Keyframe Type. (T94903)
* Grease Pencil Drawing don't Update after paste. (T94089)
* Line Art: Per object Override Crease setting does not work. (T94878)
* Regression: Group Input/Output cannot connect to some custom sockets. (T94827)
* Video Sequencer Preview with Prefetch Frames crashes inside Meta Strip. (T94768)
* Multiple volumes using same data can cause crash/freeze. (T94715)
* Boolean Apply Clearing custom data layers (bevel weight Weight / Vgroup Data). (T94197)
* Cleanup: Avoid possible NULL pointer error. (rB822501d86df)
* crash or error when using GPUFrameBuffer.read_color(... data=data). (T94202)
* Mesh: Add versioning in 3.0 for vertex normal refactor. (rBadd07576a090186dde7858bcb6e68f9cf059f902)
* Unity x Blender 3.0 Integration. (T95099)

Blender 2.93.7 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]

• macOS Catalina 10.15.7: Eevee crash with Intel HD 4000. (T92090)
  
• Fix potential crash opening 3.0 blend files in older versions. (rB1d8d6c2f62bf0ee)
  
• GPencil: Speed up Occlude Eraser. (rB4796865b466)
  
• Crash erasing GPencil when occlusion test is enabled. (T92760)
  
• "Flat Caps" on Cutter tool not working if cut is made in the middle of the stroke. (T93074)
  
• Alembic export ignores Mantaflow particles (liquid, spray, foam, bubbles). (T93066)
  
• Mixdown crashes Blender 2.92.0 and 3.0.0 Alpha. (T88614)
  
• UV Maps are broken with Boolean Modifier (Fast Solver). (T92384)
  
• Eevee instant crash with a custom node from template example. (T89260)
  
• Channels in the Grease Pencil Dope Sheet still visible while collection is hidden. (T93194)
  
• Frame Selected does not work in Grease Pencil Curve Edit Mode. (T93198)
  
• Cannot animate Object Info Color in Cycles with Persistent Data ticked. (T93007)
  
• FBX Import error (enum with -1 value -- e.g. as done by the babylonjs exporter from 3dsmax). (T81657)
  
• FBX export error if there is an action in NLA tweakmode. (T93209)
  
• Freestyle NPR: Unknown curve blend type Crash. (T93320)
  
• Freestyle: Sinus Displacement Division by Zero Crash. (T93322)
  
• Curve Guide force field causes crash. (T93338)
  
• Texture paint: crash when painting with clone brush. (T93117)
  
• View/Frame Selected (Vertex Paint mode) not working. (T93130)
  
• Freestyle seed in noise modifier can be zero (leading to crash). (T89081)
  
• Rotation Chooses Wrong Axis. (T93290)
  
• Magic UV: Remove online updater. (rBA69c817b8)
  
• Curve based rig broken since 2.93. (T89564)
  
• Reload Library Override file loses Constraints. (T93353)
  
• Subdividing with overlapping tri and quad crashes Blender. (T93563)
  
• Relax/Push Pose operator not working on quaternion rotation. (T92043)
  
• LineArt: Shifting fix for different camera fitting. (rBd23303e27d75cef439755c8bc193128affab568a)
  
• Node Wrangler - Principled Texture Setup error (with Relative Path option and blendfile and textures are on different drives). (T77022)
  

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Happy blending,
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Today, 3December 2021, Blender Foundation announces the release of Blender 3.0, to mark the beginning of a new era for open source 2D/3D content creation.

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In many ways 3D has become mainstream now. 3D technology is an undeniable part of our lives. In the coming decade it will influence how we communicate and interact with each other and the world. Every large player in the tech industry is anticipating this development. For that reason, it is too important to leave the future only to businesses and shareholder driven practices.

The Blender organization and the community of blender.org are committed to remain an independent force to ensure that old and new ways of creating 3D experiences — whether graphics, film, games or xr — are freely and openly accessible for everyone, disregarding where you come from. With Blender 3.0 we make another step into that direction, as first of the many to be released this decade.

Blender 3.0 is available as Free Software download on blender.org.

For more information:

• Blender 3.0 release log
• Blender 3.x roadmap
• Every New Feature in 6 minutes

December 2021
Ton Roosendaal, Blender Foundation.

Blender 2.93.6 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]

• Failed assert when dragging object data-block into 3D View. (T87703)
  
• Can't duplicate or copy (Ctrl-C) object from linked file. (T90840)
  
• arm64: Viewport and Timeline jump large distances when scrolling the pointer off screen using Shift-Middle Mouse. (T88386)
  
• Cycles render artefacts with motion blur turned on. (T91728)
  
• VSE: Implement sanity check for files with more channels than supported. (rBaaa85ad2e0f)
  
• Some Editors (e.g. Outliner) can be synced with animation editor ('Sync visible Range'). (T91237)
  
• Crash in sculpt mode using "Smooth" brush and tab with tablet stylus. (T89164)
  
• [GPUOffscreen] draw_view3d doesn't apply color management settings. (T84227)
  
• Cycles - Rendering on a Nvidia A100 crashes/fails on Google Colab. (T91879)
  
• Fix LLVM 12 symbol conflict with Mesa drivers, after recent Linux libs update. (rBd3f04702890)
  
• GPencil: Memory leak removing stroke from python. (T92185)
  
• Camera BG jitter offset (regression). (T91398)
  
• EEVEE: Specular BSDF incompatible with Shader to RGB when SSR is active. (T88766)
  
• Fix missing null-terminator in BLI_string_join_arrayN. (rB554b1b1663a)
  
• Blender crashes after selecting any object in outliner hierarchy (using statistics overlay). (T92246)
  
• Auto naming of the Vertex Group doesn't work for Grease Pencil. (T92314)
  
• Clicking in Library Overrides Outliner triggers crash in this file. (T92265)
  
• Crash to desktop with boolean modifier. (T90818)
  
• Crash when calling delete to an empty space with an unselected layer in the outliner. (T91411)
  
• Remesh-bug.crash. (T92355)
  
• 2.93: Crash on system with a non-English locale. (T88877)
  
• Blender LTS: Maintenance Task 2.93. (T88449)
  
• Image Editor doesn't display stereoscopic images. (T92608)
  
• LibOverride: Fix crash in ShapeKeys when making a mesh override local. (rB9a290dd657)
  
• Fix missing proper 'make local' call for liboverrides from outliner. (rB9a80455d8774d6b)
  
• Appending crashes. (T89516)
  
• Bones in transformed armatures (rotation and scale) don't scale properly to cursor. (T92515)
  
• Blender 3.0 - Planar Track - Only half of the image appears in the MovieClip Editor. (T92807)
  

[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 2.93.5 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]

• Crash selecting 3D tracking marker. (T90651)
  
• Image Editor not sampling color from the the currently selected pass. (T90772)
  
• PulseAudio breaks animation playback in new scene (no imported sound involved) LTS backport, 3.0 is fine. (T90887)
  
• PulseAudio breaks animation playback in new scene (no imported sound involved) LTS backport, 3.0 is fine. (T90887)
  
• Blender popup windows open on the wrong screen. (T90752)
  
• Fix buffer size mismatch in SCRIPT_OT_python_file_run. (rB515bdda3d9c)
  
• Fix invalid mask use for the UV-project modifier. (rB969d6d3a0ff)
  
• Fix "Text to Object" creating invisible object. (rB933c6b7d8a3)
  
• Fix T88909: Win32 getTitle() UTF8 Support. (rBd6facd44b53)
  
• Fix error scaling thumbnails to zero dimensions. (rB16637e7ff40)
  
• Audio causes issues with Playback when PC put to Sleep, Hibernate or when Screensaver appears. (T88887)
  
• GPencil Time Offset Modifier together with Armature Modifier or/and Lattice Modifier broken in 2.93.3. (T91060)
  
• Grease Pencil: Adding driver in Transform doesn't behave as expected during playback. (T88433)
  
• GPencil: Sculpt Smooth Brush is using Affect Pressure but is not used internally. (T91159)
  
• Loop Tools Relax. (T90600)
  
• Text "Scale to Fit" no longer working properly since 2.93.4. (T91401)
  
• Fix memory leak if an error occurred assigning id-property sequence. (rBec448d5a6ac)
  
• Bisect straight line gesture features dont work ("Flip" / "Snap" option). (T91320)
  
• Workbench doesn't respect GP simplify options when rendering. (T91448)
  
• GPencil: Scripting weight_get and Vertex Groups not working at expected with several groups. (T91511)
  
• GPencil: Interpolate Sequence crash and quit. (T91534)
  
• Eevee ambient occlusion is incorrect on M1 macMini. (T87801)
  
• Intel HD graphics: Changing Roughness Value to 0 causes mesh to be black. (T88754)
  
• VSE playback periodically refuses to work (Pulseaudio, OpenAL seems fine). (T89045)
  
• GPencil: Tint modifier "apply" removes the effect. (T91607)
  
• Texture Paint Stencil doesn't use assigned UV Layer. (T91557)
  
• Fix default surface resolution U/V mis-match. (rB4528c9a357a)
  
• Fix 'WM_window_find_under_cursor'. (rB1ff10bb6d18)
  
• Fix building without audaspace. (rBaf42086e743)
  

[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