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

Blender 2.83.18 LTS features many bug fixes. It is released on the 2.83 branch.

You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select 2.83.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

• Knife project leaks memory each time a text, curve, or surface object is used for cutting. (T90791)
  
• Fix memory leak in edit-mesh dissolve degenerate. (rBe291f482ef0)
  
• wrong address to get boost libraries in /build_files/build_environment/install_deps.sh. (T90719)
  
• Scale to Fit overflows into a second line. (T89241)
  
• ASAN: Trying to Undo a knife-project operation causes heap-use-after-free failure. (T90493)
  
• Fix fix invalid index use for edit-mesh laplacian smooth. (rB6d1895c6816)
  
• Fix slicing with negative indices. (rB120292a1909)
  
• Slicing certain BMEditSelSeq objects crashes Blender. (T89450)
  
• font loading creates duplicate ID names. (T90417)
  
• Separate by loose parts weird result. (T85436)
  
• Crash after Instancing to Scene after making linked Collection local. (T89835)
  
• Cleanup/Fix RNA array length accessors returning non-zero values in invalid cases. (rB103e314be4a)
  
• Fix T83164: Spline IK `joint_bindings` parameter is broken. (rBdbdf22786da)
  
• Something in Blender can generate invalid (Nan) values in UVMaps. (T79775)
  
• Fix buffer size mismatch in SCRIPT_OT_python_file_run. (rB0367ce4b19d)
  
• Crash selecting 3D tracking marker. (T90651)
  
• Fix invalid mask use for the UV-project modifier. (rB06317ce9572)
  
• Fix error scaling thumbnails to zero dimensions. (rB5f156291cdc)
  
• Fix memory leak if an error occurred assigning id-property sequence. (rBc6856da22c8)
  
• Texture Paint Stencil doesn't use assigned UV Layer. (T91557)
  
• Fix default surface resolution U/V mis-match. (rB87237df4fd9)
  

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Blender 2.93.4 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]

• VSE: Flush audio encode after finishing video export. (rB85c08c9717b104e1b537476604b6a0fa8e58e477)
  
• FFMPEG: Fix building with older versions that need FFMPEG_USE_DURATION_WORKAROUND. (rB7ec351c0d531a801d07263c6c95c8cffc1fb5e9b)
  
• VSE: Fix "off by one" error when encoding audio. (rB9511009438d)
  
• VSE: Fix memory leak when adding bad image/movie strips. (rB54a821e8fd7)
  
• VSE: Fix video strip duration calculation. (rBd486d248687)
  
• VSE: Fix seeking issues. (rB00dd68405d8)
  
• VSE: Fix audaspace not reading ffmpeg files with start offset correctly. (rB489df7ac88c)
  
• VSE: Use lines to draw waveform. (rBc634d859b21)
  
• M2T video seeking is broken. (T87967)
  
• Add sanity NULL checks when loading sound sequences. (rB1a4122d4415)
  
• wrong address to get boost libraries in /build_files/build_environment/install_deps.sh. (T90719)
  
• Effect Strip added to a nested Metastrip gets duplicate name (thus inherits fcurves from other Strips). (T90737)
  
• Memorie spike shrink-wrap and geometry nodes. (T89429)
  
• Fix: DNA struct alignment on 32 bit. (rB9fb9bf59967)
  
• Makesdna: Fix detecting 32 bit padding issues. (rB70df9119f46)
  
• Fix FTBFS on mips64el architecture. (rB9d94b358ca1)
  
• Fix memory leak with building springs in the cloth simulator. (rB20f04ce62af)
  
• Knife project leaks memory each time a text, curve, or surface object is used for cutting. (T90791)
  
• Grease Pencil layer transformations ignored by select tool. (T90690)
  
• Fix memory leak in edit-mesh dissolve degenerate. (rBe1e2abd4bf0)
  
• Scale to Fit overflows into a second line. (T89241)
  
• Memory leak after importing a model/ toggling shading workspace. (T88033)
  
• ASAN: Trying to Undo a knife-project operation causes heap-use-after-free failure. (T90493)
  
• blender 2.93.1 fails to build with python 3.10.0b4 (upcoming python 3.10). (T89931)
  
• Incorrect result of Vector Projection (Geometry Nodes -> Attribute Vector Math). (T90567)
  
• Grease Pencil Reproject Strokes on surfaces from a camera's point of view is incorrectly placing the strokes on the Back Faces when canvas is intersecting the object. (T89101)
  
• Something in Blender can generate invalid (Nan) values in UVMaps. (T79775)
  
• Blender Crashing when opening file. (T89805)
  
• bpy.types.Object.parent_bone not reset when clearing a bone parent. (T88498)
  
• UI bugs in NLA Editor and Action Editor. (T87681)
  
• Animation channels widgets (graph, action, NLA,
• dopesheet*) block input for the search channel, and invert search toggle. (T90364)
  

[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 2.93.3 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]

• Cursor vertex snapping not working in UV editor. (T90477)
  
• Fix fix invalid index use for edit-mesh laplacian smooth. (rB4d7f10d6143)
  
• Fix slicing with negative indices. (rBe862874606b)
  
• Slicing certain BMEditSelSeq objects crashes Blender. (T89450)
  
• Fix broken logic in Windows directory query function. (rBa1b687c7a4a)
  
• font loading creates duplicate ID names. (T90417)
  
• Separate by loose parts weird result. (T85436)
  
• Edit mode. Spin tool. Spin center is always on 3d-cursor despite pivot selection. (T86030)
  
• Fix memory leaks in Python gizmo get/set handlers. (rB2be2aeaf0a5)
  
• Fix gpu.types.GPUTexture crash when the size argument was too big. (rBbc627fbf657)
  
• Fix memory leak with Python RNA property get callback errors. (rBa818ad5a549)
  
• LineArt: Occlusion accuracy fix. (rB69edb9c7d96)
  
• BlenderKit: fetch user's ratings from server. (rBA6a81558b)
  
• BlenderKit: improve ratings UI. (rBA78a5ae9b)
  
• GPencil: Dopesheet channel box selection is offset. (T89952)
  
• Very slow performance when copying rigid body physics. (T76356)
  
• Hair particles duplication with duplicate settings enabled copies all the particles instead of one selected. (T83317)
  
• NodeTree.links.new() can connect one output to a multi-input many times; access violation occurs when disconnecting. (T89416)
  
• UI: Output Metadata: Strip Name no long accessible. (T78469)
  
• Driver Editor not updated in real-time (blender >= 2.90). (T87041)
  
• Crash after Instancing to Scene after making linked Collection local. (T89835)
  
• Spline IK `joint_bindings` parameter is broken. (T83164)
  

[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

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

Blender 2.83.17 LTS features many bug fixes. It is released on the 2.83 branch.

You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select 2.83.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

• Fix invalid polygon normal array access building bake data. (rBf6fb695ed8b)
  
• Select Similar Face Regions triggers AddressSanitizer crash. (T89247)
  
• Viewport Render Preview glitching with Eevee Render Engine. (T89405)
  
• Blender crash when showing thumbnail of a strongly skewed .exr image. (T89868)
  
• Fix T70356: Scaling up 1x1 pixel image reads past buffer bounds. (rB1a1510a3a08)
  
• Fix object "Set Origin" operating on linked library data. (rBb2f2daf21f7)
  
• Build Bot: MacOS X test fails. (T81077)
  
• Fix memory leak with Python RNA property get callback errors. (rB1f96166e08a)
  

[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:

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• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Instagram

Keep reporting any issues you find to make this LTS the most stable release ever !

Happy blending,
The Blender team

Blender 2.93.2 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]

• Line Art Bug FIx: stroke default in-front should be on. (rB9e64fd461ac3fa05e4ae780ee3a9f41b18c7c216)
  
• Follow Path for empty works only in negative values. (T89153)
  
• Align Orientation to Target keeps rotation when toggled. (T89571)
  
• `bpy.ops.screen.screen_full_area()` resets certain fields of the context. (T89526)
  
• Fix edit-mesh random select regression in random seed use. (rB27e32652679)
  
• Use-after-free when tabbing through numeric inputs. (T89265)
  
• Fix invalid polygon normal array access building bake data. (rB32658bb5c9f)
  
• Select Similar Face Regions triggers AddressSanitizer crash. (T89247)
  
• Undefined Geometry nodes cause a crash when connected to a Group Output node. (T89004)
  
• Set Origin missing from Text object in 2.93. (T88808)
  
• Fix: Crash Requesting GPU_SHADER_GPENCIL_FILL builtin shader. (rB3c6a981fd98)
  
• Viewport Render Preview glitching with Eevee Render Engine. (T89405)
  
• Cleanup: Remove deprecated variables and functions calls from our ffmpeg code. (rBf522e8db228)
  
• Fix T87932: Failure to build movie strip proxy. (rBfe4cbe62dff)
  
• Make encoded video fps correct with ffmpeg < 4.4. (rB14308b0a5ef)
  
• Fix T88623, T87044: Make encoded videos play correctly in VLC. (rB19c0666d408)
  
• FFmpeg: Update proxy settings. (rB00ffe028200)
  
• Fix T57397: Movies are blurred after sws_scale. (rB13ab6b7bb60)
  
• FFmpeg: Fix seeking not returning the correct frame when not using TC index. (rB7eb3e77b94f)
  
• Fix: Wrong logic for checking if we can reuse decoded frame. (rB02a6be54432)
  
• Fix: Prevent small memory leak in VSE indexer. (rBcea80f1add5)
  
• Fix: VSE timecodes being used even when turned off. (rBa68f5456e48)
  
• Fix: VSE indexer seeking not working correctly. (rB7616f4ae577)
  
• Fix: VSE search in mpegts files would fail. (rB444a8cbc2fd)
  
• Fix: VSE seeking with proxy strips would fail on certain frames. (rBbec8e436a1c)
  
• UI: Collection tab should hide when scene master collection is active. (T89422)
  
• Blender crash when showing thumbnail of a strongly skewed .exr image. (T89868)
  
• Fix T89861: Checking face selection breaks UV stitch operator. (rB062764d5d01)
  
• Fix T70356: Scaling up 1x1 pixel image reads past buffer bounds. (rB41bd164e4c7)
  
• Fix object "Set Origin" operating on linked library data. (rB5d1ef0efd01)
  
• BlenderKit: draw categories in asset card. (rBA0d880d12)
  
• BlenderKit: many post-release fixes. (rBA526557bb)
  
• BlenderKit: fix category display. (rBA29db4b5f)
  
• BlenderKit: fix an error when trying to assign material to unsupported object type. (rBAae7be84e)
  
• Alembic export not respecting the renderable flag. (T89594)
  
• Alembic export: evaluation mode option. (rB7b94e7cca49)
  
• TGA Images with any alpha value smaller than one behaves unexpected. (T89034)
  
• Collection user counts are set to `1` on file load. Boolean modifier orphans Collections. (T89765)
  
• Round end-caps on Freestyle lines not working properly. (T88015)
  
• Crash when baking to vertex colors while "Normals-> Auto Smooth" is enabled. (T88756)
  
• Crash when using Cycles preview or render - custom data layer / auto smooth. (T89455)
  
• Crash when editing a Collection Instance referenced by Line Art object. (T89838)
  
• [2.93.2] Geometry nodes: wrongly detected "Node group has unidentified nodes or sockets" error. (T89851)
  
• Persistent data, motion blur, and geometry displacement results in glitchy meshes during rendering. (T89736)
  
• adding a custom AOV doesn't show the output on the compositors render layer node. (T89981)
  
• Geometry Nodes: 'New' Button tries to create node_tree on active modifier, rather than button context. (T89982)
  
• Py API: `bpy.data.orphans_purge` incorrect argument parsing. (T89733)
  
• Drawing with make line tool in an empty scene results crash. (T89724)
  
• It can't snap vertices when using community addon 'Snap_Utilities_Line'. (T89812)
  
• Blender File View - can't type space while holding shift key. (T85517)
  
• Separating meshes by material makes render passes in cycles stuck in 1/64. (T89884)
  

[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