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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

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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 2.83.18 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)
  

[h3]LTS Program[/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 2.93.4 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]

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 2.93.3 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