Blender 3.3.16 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.

* Fix: memory leak during Property Search. (e10b2fc1a3cee6f0a802cd853a0be3dc788204f9)* Assign Shortcut Missing when Right Clicking Undo History. (#97431)* Regression: Guiding in manta is broken. (#106425)* External Particle Cache Playback Is Broken (2.8). (#68436)* Blender Crash When Changing Color Palette in Edit Mode. (#117526)* Unable to enter node group by clicking on the icon after exiting it using the shortcut ctrl+tab. (#117530)* bpy.ops.paint.image_paint with a texture requires initialization with manual paint stroke otherwise color not quite right. (#54554)* Fix buffer overflow passing a vertical segment to convexhull_2d. (6fba82404d9)* Regression: Crash on deleting shape key from Blender File view. (#108407)* Regression: Crash on deleting shape key from Blender File view. (#108407)* object.override_library.resync(...) -- crashes when view_layer is not specified. (#118055)

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see https://www.blender.org/download/lts/3-3/


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Blender 3.6.8 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the v3.6 - 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 v3.6 - Stable - LTS.

* Cycles: add ROCm 6 compatibility for HIP. (888612cb0e)* Nodes: Add forward compatibility versioning for #111187. (a4dd4fe220a5a074f5cfd6d852e63178ca803eb7)* Graph editor: "Frame selected" zooms in so much that Y axis disappears. (#115678)* Make the preference option "remap relative" apply for all save operations. (27ce1cac808)* Pressing ESC during operators of bpy.ops.graph won't cancel de operation. (#115330)* foreach_get/set doesn't work for enum. (#92621)* Regression: VSE: Crash unlinking packed font file from text strip with more than one user. (#116215)* Assert on selecting object in outliner. (#116193)* Geometry Nodes: shortest path node can't process attributes properly. (#116274)* bpy.ops.wm.url_open() can no longer open html files in the filesystem. (#116280)* Fix #116695: Light Tree assert with certain light visibility settings. (#116703)* File Browser: Blender freezes for half a minute when opening File Browser. (#112599)* Fix: memory leak during Property Search. (b2c34fa95b0)* Extrude to Cursor tool: it don't allow to correct position of new vertex after LMB pressed. (#114282)* Regression: UV window menus disappearing. (#115590)* Python error loading fbx file in new project. (#105045)* Crash: Opening a 3.3 project crashes 3.6/4.0. (#114582)* Regression: UV window menus disappearing. (#115590)* Rendering multiple deformation motion blur steps with "velocity" attribute is wrong and can cause memory problems. (#116792)* FCurve extrapolation ignored in whenever anything is present in the NLA. (#115978)

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see https://www.blender.org/download/lts/3-6/


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Blender 3.3.15 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.

* Crash: Opening a 3.3 project crashes 3.6/4.0. (#114582)* Cycles: add ROCm 6 compatibility for HIP. (9673fa2720b99d935e69f3c3d9ef0a0d61c2e3cf)* Make the preference option "remap relative" apply for all save operations. (80e39f14e45)* foreach_get/set doesn't work for enum. (#92621)* Extrude to Cursor tool: it don't allow to correct position of new vertex after LMB pressed. (#114282)

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see https://www.blender.org/download/lts/3-3/


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Blender 3.6.7 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the v3.6 - 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 v3.6 - Stable - LTS.

* Fix: Increase thread stack size for musl libc. (064a48ad28e3e25259084b34d17de6cca01d6495)* Fix uninitialized pending actions for Windows under Wayland. (c3f67cd541f)* Ghost: Fix build error with MSVC 17.7 preview 3. (ec6aa0b3fd3)* Grease pencil time offset modifier doesn't work if the animation is 1 frame long. (#114685)* Fix 'Make LibOverride' on Empty-instanced collection making everything editable. (71b159d1585)* In the OPTIX viewport rendering mode, trimming the curve leads to an OPTIX crash. (#113325)* API Unexpected timer event after clicking the Modifier sort area in UI. (#113697)* Discovered typo in bmesh code. (#115060)* Scrollbars for template_lists in popups dont update correctly. (#115363)* Massive lag in Spreadsheet editor when scrolling. (#114557)* Fix animation player bug upon shutdown. (431a0844fc0e6082aa6e8432c36a18697859c841)

and the list of fixes in 3.6.6 (official release for that was skipped)

* Light of 'Area' type lamp presents artifacts when placed at great distances. (#110183)* Regression: Cycles: Weird Mesh Light Sampling. (#112931)* Mesh analysis type does not change on non-active objects during multi-object editing. (#113285)* Freestyle: Lineset "Fill Range by selection" operator fails with python error. (#113255)* Painting with Ctrl Left Mouse in the Image Editor doesn't respect selected secondary color. (#113323)* New windows in Blender being added with wrong depth order on Mac 14.0. (#112935)* SSS polygon boundary artifacts with volume absorption. (#113461)* Crash or error when exporting big Layout Uvs. (#110524)* API gpu.state.scissor_test_set(False) not working. (#113310)* Geometry Nodes: Viewer sees handle type update after its connection point. (#113429)* Segmentation Fault Crashing Blender when Rendering. (#110415)* Weight gradient tool auto normalizes over locked groups. (#107920)* Weight paint gradient tool paints over hidden vertices. (#113798)* Weight Gradient tool paints over locked vertex groups. (#107918)* context.annotation_data isn't set to nullptr when the last annotation layer is deleted. (#112683)* RGB-shifted edges when outputting IndexOB 16-bit PNG. (#111442)* The Properties space "search filter" disables checkboxes in panel headers when searching. (#114015)* Make Local (All) operator is crashing Blender with Library Override Collections. (#114134)* Cycles: update Linux library search paths for upcoming ROCm 6. (fa006094360)* Fix mouse cursor failing to update for blocking actions on Wayland. (98ec3826ac)* Fix #107523: Cursor not cleared when panning stops. (6e51a2eaea)* Fix drag & drop crash when dragging over window decorations on Wayland. (4eca55cc11)* Fix invalid surface size under Wayland when GHOST set the window size. (4b34443c10)* Fix crash dragging images into the animation player. (601141e01c)* Fix incorrect screen-size under Wayland with transformed outputs. (06e08069fc)* File forward compatibility 4.0 to 3.6.5 - Redo panel not opening. (#114536)* Weird behavior with the set spline type node selection. (#110666)* Fix "make bpy" on macOS not install libraries inside bpy module. (00fbe3b112f)* Blender 3.3 crashes when opening a 3.6 file with a complex armature. (#114152)* when opening a .blend in 4.1 that was created in 3.6, Blender hard crashes when changing the cycles viewport render pass from the viewport shading menu. (#114336)* Crash when I import OBJ file. (#114304)* USDZ conversion happens outside of main thread. (#114415)* UI: Blender no longer displays a warning for too new .blends. (#114430)* Frame Range Metadata doesn't work when you want to burn it into image. (#113810)* Unexpected clip duplication and crash in NLA editor, when moving multi instance shapekey animation clips. (#114216)* Trace image to Grease Pencil always miss the first image in a sequence. (#114358)* VSE: Separate Images (Y) is broken - It is only duplicating the first image to all the resulting strips. (#114434)* Fix potential buffer overflow in strcpy use on macOS. (09baf6a8bc8)* Fix #66286: DblClick to rename UIList items within a popover not working. (#114363)* Regression: Crash on deleting NLA strip in tweak mode. (#109430)* Fix USD Export crash with complex scenes, due to race condition during depsgraph building. (e76cb15a3f3)

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see https://www.blender.org/download/lts/3-6/


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Blender 3.3.14 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.

* In the OPTIX viewport rendering mode, trimming the curve leads to an OPTIX crash. (#113325)* Massive lag in Spreadsheet editor when scrolling. (#114557)* Scrollbars for template_lists in popups dont update correctly. (#115363)

and the list of fixes in 3.3.13 (official release for that was skipped)

* New windows in Blender being added with wrong depth order on Mac 14.0. (#112935)* SSS polygon boundary artifacts with volume absorption. (#113461)* Painting with Ctrl Left Mouse in the Image Editor doesn't respect selected secondary color. (#113323)* Fix USD Export crash with complex scenes, due to race condition during depsgraph building. (127f76751db)* API gpu.state.scissor_test_set(False) not working. (#113310)* Weight gradient tool auto normalizes over locked groups. (#107920)* context.annotation_data isn't set to nullptr when the last annotation layer is deleted. (#112683)* Cycles: update Linux library search paths for upcoming ROCm 6. (a5c81e124cc)* Blender 3.3 crashes when opening a 3.6 file with a complex armature. (#114152)* UI: Blender no longer displays a warning for too new .blends. (#114430)* Frame Range Metadata doesn't work when you want to burn it into image. (#113810)* Unexpected clip duplication and crash in NLA editor, when moving multi instance shapekey animation clips. (#114216)* Trace image to Grease Pencil always miss the first image in a sequence. (#114358)* Fix #66286: DblClick to rename UIList items within a popover not working. (#114363)* Regression: Crash on deleting NLA strip in tweak mode. (#109430)* Grease pencil time offset modifier doesn't work if the animation is 1 frame long. (#114685)

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see https://www.blender.org/download/lts/3-3/


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It's time to update your Blender!

Blender 4.0.2 addresses over 40 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 4.0.1 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/4.0/Corrective_Releases

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The Blender team,
December 5, 2023

It's time to update your Blender!

Blender 4.0.1 addresses over 10 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 4.0 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/4.0/Corrective_Releases

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The Blender team,
November 17, 2023

Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 4.0!


Blender 4.0 is the first step towards a new iteration of Blender, and delivers a number of new feature and workflow improvements across all areas.

To highlight a few:

- New Principled BSDF shader
- AgX view transform for improved color handling
- Light linking in Cycles
- Node Tools, powered by Geometry Nodes
- Repeat zones in Geometry Nodes
- New Snap Base for improved placement and transform workflows
- “Type to search” and various UI improvements, including a new default font
- New animation curve editing operators
- Bone collections
- and so, so much more

- The Human Base Meshes bundle got an update with new models and improved topology.

Explore the release notes for an in-depth look at what’s new.


This work is made possible thanks to the outstanding contributions of the Blender community, and the support of the over 3500 individuals and 37 organizations contributing to the Blender Development Fund.

Happy Blending!

The Blender Team
November 14th, 2023

Blender 3.6.5 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the v3.6 - 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 v3.6 - Stable - LTS.

* Multiscatter GGX Refraction Roughness Bug. (#109907)* Blender 3.6 crashes when opening 3.5 files with library overrides / shape keys. (#112623)* Regression: Smart UV project stopped aligning islands vertically. (#110724)* Regression: Uv Unpacking creates diagonal pieces instead of straight ones. (#109906)* Crash backtrace missing on Linux. (#111186)* Fix (studio-reported) liboverride: hierarchy root ensure fails in some cases. (8a15a61e0f78e)* Fix: crash in liboverride hierarchy ensure. (e6b99c15dbaf5)* Fix (unreported) liboverride: Hierarchy corruption when making some override local. (c80b45f646289)* Rigify: fix unreliable interpolation of limb tweak roll. (bf936d59)* glTF importer: Fix custom attribute import. (8a4a56ea)* Fix incorrect cast for BLF_str_offset_from_cursor_position. (e785101e73317a8ff7c51ddd2974f1504b178639)* Line Art doesn't render from Sequencer Perspective. (#100596)* Clear and Keep Transformation not working when keyed. (#97628)* Fix #93685: Allow Outliner Drag to Other Windows. (#105196)* Fix memory leak when the explode modifier is used with vertex groups. (30eb74ca48d)* Regression: Artifacts after importing fbx file. (#109599)* PLY export: Export broken result when mesh has faces with >255 vertices. (#112011)* Importing old theme crashes Blender on "Load X.X Settings". (#113002)* Start getting Blender default Font in Text rendering after long use. (#113044)* Python: support the step and precision arguments in rna_idprop_ui_create. (74821371676)* Assertion fails when parenting a library override to a bone. (#112548)* OSL CheckBox socket not working in NodeGroup. (#106760)* Fix (unreported) crash in 'startup.blend' GP default update code. (b2c0e49bf3a)* Edit Mode: Memory Leak for Separate By Loose Parts. (#113387)* 3.6 LTS: Fix text editor auto-close potentially auto-closing non-brackets. (8b5d0ba19f9ac14f5c68da6f7d2b7fc14b95b13e)* 3.6 LTS: Fix crash converting spaces to tabs. (1f09031dc79a2fa2c334b95b321d804eadfab6dd)* Regression: Geometry Nodes: Merge by Distance node crashes. (#112909)* Bevel + Weld modifer Crash. (#112922)

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see https://www.blender.org/download/lts/3-6/


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