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Blender 2.91 Official Release Available

Blender 2.91 is here!

The Blender Foundation and developers community proudly presents the fourth major release in 2020.

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Enjoy the full list of updates at https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-91/

This release has been made possible thanks to the community of contributors and developers on blender.org for providing demos, submitting bug reports, and thanks to the over 4,700 individuals and companies who joined the Development Fund.

The Blender Team

Amsterdam, 25th November, 2020.

Blender 2.83.9 LTS

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

Blender 2.83.9 LTS features a total of 13 bug fixes. It is released on the 2.83lts branch. You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select the 2.83lts beta program.

OldNewMap handling of pointers in blenloader does not work correctly with FD_FLAGS_SWITCH_ENDIAN. (T81226)
EEVEE: Scattering pass is also outputted as Transmittance Volume Renderpass. (T81254)
Use of deprectated PyEval_ReleaseLock() causes crash when Blender built against Python 3.9.0. (T81688)
Crash when choosing cycles device with python. (T81520)
'Delimit' in 'Select Linked' works unexpectedly when editing multiple objects. (T81288)
Crash in undoing switch from sculpt to edit mode and back. (T81854)
"Saving As..." a blend file with a Script node file path filled with 1023 symbols crashes Blender. (T81421)
Fix own previous commit re testing of `BLI_rel_path`. (rB670ee877d9a)
Reflection Plane causing problems at certain clip distances. (T81942)
Crash when calling bmesh.utils.vert_separate(). (T81939)
Fix (studio-reported) Armature: bug in handling of custom bone transform. (rB05b4d8d13a9)
Memory leak if both a shader and an AddonPreferences class are used. (T71362)
Both X-Ray and cavity enabled causes abnormal GPU load. (T81633)

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Blender 2.83.8 LTS

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

Blender 2.83.8 LTS features a total of 16 bug fixes. It is released on the 2.83lts branch. You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select the 2.83lts beta program.

Fix OpenCL render error in large scenes. (rB094addfe84c)
GPencil: bones cannot be selected using Ctrl + LMB (with Left Selection Preference). (T80905)
2.8x Crash when loading 2.79 file. (T81168)
Fix invert vertex group weight miscalculation for modifiers. (rB3bdf921e824)
NLA Bake action broken for bone following path. (T61985)
Blender 2.90 Tris to Quads breaks UVs even with Compare UVs checked. (T80520)
Re-ordering face maps messes up the names of other face maps. (T79973)
Crash when deleting custom orientation. And gizmo points wrong way. (T80426)
Blender 2.83 broken Depth of Field in Viewport (Mac OSX). (T78653)
Access violation trying to access C.evaluated_get().view_layer_eval.depsgraph. (T62504)
Use-after-free when rendering material previews. (T80630)
Unpaired ED_image_undo_push_begin(..). (T80885)
Crash in pose mode using a driver on bendy bone Segments. (T81218)
Not freed memory blocks after using viewport shading type: "rendered". (T81459)
Cycles: Fix usage of memory barriers in split kernel. (rB23bf3b09ddf)
Windows 10 Start Menu and Taskbar Visual Appearance Issues for Microsoft Store Installations. (T79356)

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Blender 2.83.7 LTS

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

Blender 2.83.7 LTS features a total of 9 bug fixes. It is released on the 2.83lts branch. You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select the 2.83lts beta program.

Cycles baking crash with locked-UI & background-mode. (T71012)
Crash adding properties to material node-trees. (T80238)
BLI_polyfill_calc exceeds stack size allocating points. (T80604)
Library Override - Custom Property to Drive Child Particles results. (T80457)
Crash on undo/ redo after changing modes. (T78392)
Edit Mode crash with shape keys created on blank mesh. (T77584)
ERROR ACCESS VIOLATION when switching to EEVEE rendered view. (T79737)
Workbench: Inverted alpha when rendering. (T80603)
Grease Pencil: MacOS: broken Gradient and Texture. (T75061)

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Blender 2.90.1 Maintenance Release available

Blender 2.90.1 is a maintenance release for 2.90 containing 40 fixes:

Decimate Modifier: Restore vertex group factor property in UI. (rB97c6c4e47883)
GPencil Opacity modifier not working. (T80289)
Extrude manifold can generate invalid geometry. (T80233)
Re-ordering face maps messes up the names of other face maps. (T79973)
Crash when deleting custom orientation. (T80426)
Crash after duplicating and hiding vertices while using X Axis. (T80224)
principle volume shader not working for world in Eevee. (T80332)
Eevee OpenVDB render error when frames miss part of the grids. (T79718)
PY API doc: fix doc for new override option of properties. (rB09ef19996509)
Crash when multi-mesh editing UVs with proportional editing. (T80561)
Crash adding properties to material node-trees. (T80238)
BLI_polyfill_calc exceeds stack size allocating points. (T80604)
Crash deleting bone constraints when the armature layer is. (T80464)
Cycles baking crash with locked-UI & background-mode. (T71012)
Hook modifier crashes without vertex group data. (T80516)
Mantaflow crash when adaptive domain + noise are enabled. (T79626)
Mantaflow Noise Not working with Smoke/Smoke and Fire. (T80372)
Vertex Colors not showing in edit mode. (T78225)
Correct Face Attributes affecting modes not listed. (T80623)
Edit Mode crash with shape keys created on blank mesh. (T77584)
Crash accessing depsgraph from evaluated view layer. (T62504)
Translations in python scripts are missing. (T80589)
Crash reloading scripts from the Python console. (T80694)
Library Override - Custom Property to Drive Child Particles results. (T80457)
Crash on undo/ redo after changing modes. (T78392)
UV edge select splits UV's for lasso/box/circle select. (T80728)
potential crash in volume grids in Eevee shaders. (T80630)
Fix OpenCL render error in large scenes. (rB3dbb231ed2f8)
Add versioning for 2.90 files that may have invalid mesh. (rB3a92a2df4519)
Texture paint camera project crashes after undo/redo. (T80885)
Auto IK Double Generates IK constraints. (T80437)
Cycles: Separate Embree device for each CPU Device. (rB009971ba7adc)
Cycles crash on macOS with older CPUs. (T78793)
Fix invert vertex group weight miscalculation for modifiers. (rBe0f13f41c681)
NLA Bake exception baking pose with non-pose selection. (T61985)
Tris to Quads ignores UV delimit option. (T80520)
Avoid changing the visibility of loose geometry. (T80771)
Archipack: support for bmesh bevel arguments changes in 2.90. (rBA8e1b4dd71b37)
Crash on editing multiple UVs of multiple different objects. (T80899)

This release has been made possible thanks to the community of contributors and developers on blender.org for providing demos, submitting bug reports, and thanks to the over 4,700 individuals and companies who joined the Development Fund.

The Blender Team

Amsterdam, 23rd September, 2020.