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Versions

Blender 4.2.2 LTS – September 24, 2024

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Changelog

Wayland: tiny mouse cursor with 125% fractional scaling. [#105895]
OpenGL: Enable High Quality Normals for Legacy AMD Drivers. [#126483]
Blender 4.2 – Entering Grease Pencil ‘Weight Paint’ mode (in a new scene) crashes Blender. [#126419]
Fix #126434: Boid particle fight rule crash involving non-boid psys. [#126494]
Geometry Nodes: Crash in Sample UV Surface node. [#126450]
Blender has impractically long startup time opening old files with many objects. [#126526]
Crash while bridging faces. [#123405]
Hex values in color popup are written with 1 or 2 digits mixed, instead of always using 2 digits. [#126551]
VDB sequence gets imported multiple times and gets chopped up. [#124832]
Wrong cursor icon after saving with multiple windows open. [#124693]
Crash when unlinking scene from render layers node in compositor when using GPU device. [#126552]
Alembic: Issues importing Hair in 4.2 but not in 3.6. [#126324]
Regression: Group ID in Fill Curve Evaluate inconsistantly. [#126595]
Fix missing error check for fork() failing. [2c9e26acc56]
Fix soft-delete hanging on *nix when the command was not found. [70475861cda]
Regression: Graph Editor: broken f-curve line. [#120950]
Extensions: Update the example license on the manifest template. [e877bedac72]
4.2.1 EEVEE Cryptomatte pass doesn’t match Cycles. [#126556]
Data passes have wrong alpha with macOS GPU compositor. [#126412]
Fix: Outdated tooltip on Principled BSDF. [1e9ae10e904]
Fix crash & other errors creating fallback path for buttons. [c3916026773]
Cryptomatte doesn’t work when its source is EXR file packed into blend file. [#126567]
Build: Ambiguous call to isfinite for MSVC 17.11. [fc31352b706]
Black transparent BSDF is invisible. [#126459]
Backface culling keeps “face orientation” overlay. [#126351]
USD drag-drop import crash after undo. [#124752]
USDA import crashes Blender during material assignment to geometry subsets. [#125184]
Fix: USD: Use correct data type for UsdPreviewSurface normal input. [f50e4cbb62d]
Steam launcher script refuses to launch on drive mount points that contain spaces. [#126734]
Fix: Typo in extensions repository lock info message. [7ceedb5f4c3]
EEVEE-NEXT – Shadows Break with Subdivision Surface (RDNA2 only?). [#123787]
EEVEE Command Line Rendering on the Mac freezes, memory usage constantly increases up until freeze. [#125333]
Group input socket missing subtype when created from Gamma shader node Gamma socket. [#126535]
Segmentation Fault Upon Blender Startup. [#126573]
Objects displayed as Wire occlude objects behind when Face Orientation is on. [#126225]
Fix: Cycles memory leak in HIP-RT. [357fb5c5ffd]
Pin to last issue on Library override object. [#126677]
Missing vcruntime140.dll when running blender-launcher.exe on Windows. [#126798]
Compositor has no independent Texture access. [#126856]
Fix incorrect location from SpaceText.region_location_from_cursor. [fb14083ff54]
Multiresolution modifier: Using ‘Unsubdivide’ while the mesh has faces hidden in edit mode results in Blender freezing completely. [#126633]
Fix multi-res un-subdivide skipping faces & leaking memory. [574d096f784]
Crash on clicking ‘Lock Camera to View’ widget after running ‘Reload Scripts’ operator. [#126852]
glTF exporter: Fix UI after Blender changes. [fc9b876f25a]
glTF exporter: Fix custom prop when apply modifier. [e38cda52808]
glTF exporter: avoid double export. [4f660c3b2c6]
glTF exporter: Regression: RGB to Shader socket unlit management. [f82b50654ab]
glTF exporter: fix error message if hook failed. [f59641b6b04]
EEVEE: Background turns black when only single visible volume object is present. [#126986]
PLY export does not clamp vertex colors when they exceed 1.0 (instead they are wrapped). [#127022]
Fix BMFace/BMLoop.copy_from_face_interp() functions. [b22dd61a47d]
`copy_from_face_interp` needs tuple input, loses reference, returns nothing. [#120861]
atan2(0,0) evaluates to NaN on Metal but 0 on all other platforms. [#126799]
Default Cube has `Transparent Shadows` off. [#126038]
Fix incorrect use of exit() when execv() fails on *nix. [374da29f6aa]
Fix: prevent free of nullptr during bone collection undo processing. [50506c79455]
Crash with “Extrude Mesh” geometry node on from_pydata edge only mesh. [#127085]
3D viewport background color affects attribute text color. [#126908]
4.2 oneAPI “Embree on GPU” (HWRT) no hair strands in viewport. [#124811]
Fix: Cannot render Victor and Spring with embree disabled on Intel GPUs. [b72ad1209a8]
Fix crash entering edit-mode for text objects from old blender versions. [7bc471630b0]
Fix crash reading files from v2.66. [0b42a3aabc1]
Fix memory leak loading legacy meshes without any edges. [a9745f2a16c]
4.2 Regression: UI popover can not be scrolled upwards. [#127012]
Loop cut and Curve Modifier stop working properly. [#123138]
Regression: Crash if `cls.bl_rna` after unregister_class(). [#127165]
Regression: Connecting node lines disappear. [#127039]
Fix missing import in cli command registration example. [73c27fd6509]
Fix missing check for “-c” to terminate argument parsing. [b49c8bd8dad]
Geometry Nodes Crashes Blender – Access Violation in mesh_sample.cc – Windows 11. [#127319]
GP Objects Flicker in Video Sequencer when Material Preview mode. [#125506]
EEVEE: Can not use Curves Info->Length. [#126463]
Cleanup: pass const depsgraph for viewport funcitons. [fcc87f44886]
Fix missing redraw when setting the view axis. [f06c7a50c63]
Fix local view failing to restore axis-roll. [0cb427c9119]
Console Keyboard Interrupt does not work on Blender 4.2.1. [#127329]
EEVEE: Black surfaces on Intel GPU. [#122837]
Blender 4.2 – Compress Saving option gets removed when recovering from AutoSave. [#126821]
Can’t change viewport text overlay color. [#124549]
Blender adds Grease Pencil Objects to Scene when appending IDs with annotations (e.g. in their shader editor). [#127142]
UI broken in 4.2 when preferences are saved with 4.3. [#126706]
Crash when switching an area to asset browser and back and creating a new file. [#124167]
Crash on undo: Unlinking Scene Collection from Object Properties panel. [#126549]
Area light resize gizmo (amongst other gizmos) missing undo step?. [#69164]
4.2 backport: Core: flush outputs before calling exiting on `execvp` failure. [8159824a1c8ff1a6165b2c37b399c8b3784bea88]
glTF: hook UI, distinct import & export draw code. [79d64e293ce]
glTF exporter: fix missing hook parameters leading to crash. [cf0a1b04204]
glTF: Fix typo in a previous commit. [062a574786f]
Fix back-slash character filtering in the outliner & UI list. [73ef17c17bf]
Crash after unlink -> undo -> select (linked copied scene). [#127213]
Extensions – fail to install extension from cli. [#126792]
Fix crash scrubbing in the animation player with 1 frame loaded. [9d571a11f22]
Fix error in stereo3d side-by-side display. [420043d7271]
BKE_lib: avoid potential read uninitialized memory in BKE_id_copy_*. [b4cfb0c8168]
Fix: error in node wrangler format string. [84ed03ec12e]
active_framebuffer_get v framebuffer_active_get. [#127636]
Fix batch renaming object data from the outliner. [c6b39783aa6]
oneAPI Embree GPU, transparent shadows will render opaque if transparent bounces is 1024. [#125093]
Meshes or Curves with just “wire” edges disappear in the viewport if SubD is used while in Viewport “Wireframe” mode. [#126524]
Regression: Deinterlace checkbox makes video invisible. [#127654]
4.2 backport: Fix fake_retiming_key_init returning uninitialized stack memory. [06ad4d64312ed97c2cacbd4736a4a1e88712bd03]

Blender 4.2.1 LTS – August 20, 2024

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Changelog

Build: add missing ROCm installation step. [bf738fd35afe7fa2c79c24ac44f6ea97dc3ac8d7]
Anim: layered Action data is still loaded in 4.2-release. [#125063]
Extra Mesh Objects – Operator Presets – * Missing Paths *. [#124020]
Geometry Nodes: Crashing when I input the value node into the length on the resample curve node. [#124431]
Transparent 3D viewport issue. [#102994]
Fix: Dyntopo sample detail doesn’t update status text. [5bf1be8f51c]
Fix: Nodes: crash in case of dissolving node after save. [c3268834d79]
Regression: Some nodes has wider spacing between sockets. [#124637]
Geometry Nodes: cache related nodes are not present in quick plug search. [#124625]
OptiX OSL uses incorrect SSS render method. [#124705]
VSE: Fix glitchy handle select for adjacent strips. [4f6a5f963cb]
Incorrect snap symbol. [#124552]
Voronoi Texture Smoothness Socket Input also is used as Lacunarity in Smooth F1. [#124745]
No transfer of the “Cast Shadow” attribute for light. [#124817]
VSE – Frame Selected ( Numpad . ) doesnt work anymore. [#124868]
VSE: Reword the text of the movie add “use_framerate” option. [7033d9bcf2a]
Blender 4.2: Can’t install add-ons if a specific order of operations is followed on first open. [#124850]
Linux Wayland: Repeatedly opening and closing a Blender window freezes Blender. [#123096]
Fix: EEVEE materials with three closures render black on MacOS. [1f12bd3c492]
DOF eyedropper button not showing in Cycles and inconsistent text labels. [#124501]
Crash droping images in view3d ui regions. [#124931]
VSE: Meta/scene strips are drawn with a gap to strip start. [#124589]
VSE misses strip auto-deselect with right click selection (Blender 2.7 x keymap). [#124623]
VSE cache not updated for moved strips. [#124767]
Palette editing not working in Color Attribute Paint Mode in Draw Mode. [#124990]
Crash when using certain tools in viewport on Wayland. [#120465]
Fix window activation on startup with Wayland & libdecor. [de1806f4154]
Batch export of STL-files incorrect handling of .stl-suffix. [#120253]
Extensions: double-warning upon launching Blender. [#124769]
Manpage fails to generate. [#125202]
Legacy Addons don’t install in 4.2 if they’re missing a LF or comment at the top. [#125142]
Easing on Bendy Bones Resets Inconsistently. [#125023]
Purge Unused crashes if mouse not moved away from popup before confirm delete with enter key. [#125006]
Incorrect sampling with 180° Spot and Light tree activated. [#125168]
Regression: The Mix RGB node produces unexpected results in the World Shader. [#125134]
Extensions: Unable to parse manifest if version format “X.X” instead of “X.X.X”. [#124885]
Extensions: drag’n’drop installation from website for not yer approved extensions. [#125046]
glTF exporter: avoid crash when animation + full collection hierarchy. [d3d22496bc2]
glTF exporter: Fix row active UI and add tooltip. [ee3d935debe]
glTF exporter: Fix UDIM export crash when not rectangular tile locations. [6c8510f0c0a]
Export All Collections operator returns incorrect info message after running. [#125112]
Regression: UV editor doesn’t import images by drag and drop anymore. [#125319]
Collada: animated camera import bug in 4.2. [#124859]
VSE: Line between two strips draws as multiple pixels randomly although there is no gap. [#125061]
VSE: Text strip outline wrongly goes “into” the text area (visible with semitransparent font color). [#125043]
VSE : shadow of text strip don’t shadow the outlines of text + naming issues. [#124922]
Fix (unreported) 4.2: Copy of material ID fails. [449c4fc72e]
Fix: Unable to duplicate mask keyframes. [c2c3ccb42fe]
Asset shelf crash when opening a file. [#125466]
Collada: animated camera import bug in 4.2. [#124859]
UI: Add LTS to Version String for Title Bar (4.2). [7a16c7532c961d908f3339ab40b8d00e7d283943]
Core extensions report bugs to add-on repo. [#122858]
Extensions becomes empty when filtering addons in the workspace. [#122754]
Fix failure to toggle filtering for add-ons with long names. [04d8595e55d]
Memory leak when using GPencil Line Art modifier on certain frames. [#125340]
VSE text outline is not fully rendered for some (mostly “script”) fonts. [#124899]
Graph Editor: Cursor Value to Selection can output position outside normalized range. [#125064]
Fix: Tracking related RNA paths incomplete/wrong. [f49b57811e5]
Regression: Tooltip missing from open URL preset operator. [#123735]
Crash Converting FLOAT4X4 attribute from vertex to Face Corner. [#125404]
Changes from ‘source/blender/blenlib/intern/filereader_zstd.c’ led to failure on s390x architecture. [#125395]
Changes from ‘source/blender/blenlib/intern/filereader_zstd.c’ led to failure on s390x architecture. [#125395]
Fix unhandled exception for non dictionary items in extensions repo. [778524fce37]
Extensions: support “blocklist” in the remote repository. [0f24fd7756a]
Extensions: Errors on the console about missing directories. [#125763]
Multiple select snap mode not work in UV editer. [#123179]
Fix broken EEVEE material shadow mode versioning. [451ee89c48a]
Triangulate modifier (also Triangulate Faces operator) changed behavior with custom normals. [#124836]
Video: Error in video decoding on either Linux or AVX512 CPU (ffmpeg alignment issue?). [#125446]
Crash when add a file output node by draging in compositing workspace. [#125588]
“Pin to Last” Fails to Maintain Modifier Order. [#125400]
Compositor Convert Colorspace node crashing Blender 4.2 when viewing realtime compositor in rendered 3D viewport. [#125402]
Alembic importer imports everything twice. [#125607]
Active camera context issue. [#125636]
Failure to connect to online repository on WIN32: [ASN1] nested asn1 error (_ssl.c:4035). [#125660]
Anim: Rigify `limbs.spline_tentacle` doesn’t generate correctly. [#125226]
Alpha Clip still visible in material settings when using Cycles render engine. [#125387]
PyAPI: include bpy.utils.extension_path_user in __all__. [623e196f67f]
Failure to connect to online repository on WIN32: customized Python configuration. [#124731]
Fix error where upgrading an extension always enabled it. [93be30b2172]
Blender crashes when adding a working Geometry Node modifier to a specific object in Edit Mode. [#125672]
Eevee 4.2 no longer exports Cryptomatte metadatas. [#125232]
Can’t move channels in Graph Editor except for Object Transforms. [#125509]
Regression: Stick bone tail selection is not drawn. [#125542]
Weight Paint Not Appearing in Material Preview viewport shading. [#125185]
Cycles: NaN pixels in Glossy and Transmissive Passes with roughness values near 0.0266. [#125750]
Extensions: restore fix for removing extensions with symlinks. [fdbb8efa9d6]
Fix error installing app-templates & legacy add-ons overwriting symlinks. [9c3ade79f27]
Removing Addon with compiled modules(e.g. cython) on Windows will cause PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied. [#77837]
Regression: ACCESS VIOLATION for operators using class properties. [#123327]
Blender 4.2 RC – Pasting a material onto itself consistently crashes the program. [#124702]
EEVEE-Next: Volume does not immediately work after opening Blender. [#122454]
Fix: EEVEE: Invalid error in console from material preview. [ee025327a55]
Extensions: use wait cursor when toggling add-ons. [d255681e9c3]
Crash switching Alembic file to use Render Engine Procedural. [#125826]
Long Key Line and Interpolation Line turn invisible when only single keyframe visible in viewing range. [#125861]
Select in Edit Mode from Material slots with same Material broken. [#125353]
Blender crashes when undoing during sculpting on duplicate object. [#125375]
Templates: Remove bl_info from addon_add_object. [2be74423324]
Templates: Blender Manifest template. [2d2ebead32e]
Eevee Next missing render frame progress in stdout. [#124876]
Fix: Cycles Shadow linking with HIP-RT. [011b5ffbba4ac7a830bc6ec6a43fb8af408ec71f]
Edit Face Set on default mesh changes mesh color. [#125621]
Box mask crashes Blender in sculpt mode. [#125157]
Crash: Sculpting on linked objects with Multeresolution. [#126017]
Crash: Display wireframe in object mode on subdivided mesh with a lone edge. [#124292]
x86 Blender on Apple Silicon doesn’t show Cycles Metal GPU render. [#126005]
Crash when EXR image is loaded in image list. [#126108]
UI: Add LTS to Version String for Title Bar (4.2). [7a16c7532c961d908f3339ab40b8d00e7d283943]
Insert text unicode not working in 4.2. [#125935]
macOS: Armature text line rendering is broken. [#124691]
Adding a compositor node while looking through the viewport realtime compositor leads to crashing. [#125946]
Setting Vertices Y to 0 and sliding in grid node causes blender to crash. [#126101]
Blender Crashes When Exporting USD with Allow Unicode Enabled and Using the Character “∧”. [#126160]
Fix: USD instancing export errors. [e40b2a16106f7f5b7caeb95b4cd07bb1dfa92028]
4.2 EEVEE Cryptomatte pass no longer matches Cycles. [#125618]
Insert keyfame uses wrong values. [#124125]
OpenGL: Remove conservative depth extension check. [#126223]
Add Brush: Added spline always misses one segment equivalent of a length in Blender 4.2. [#125929]
Regression: STL importer “Unit Scale” bug. [#125070]
Joining some meshes shows warning “Call save() to ensure …” in console. [#126278]
Frames are layered on top of each other separated by a scanline when exporting video with PNG video codec. [#126201]
Cleanup: move bpy.utils parent-path check into a function. [e0bd7709d56]
Fix unhandled permissions exception in bpy.utils.is_path_builtin. [399ed8b6533]
Presets: consider presets within the extensions repo to be “built-in”. [de565889672]
Fix active theme behavior when adding/removing themes. [3476864e92f]
Regression: Environment pass is not rendered (or rendered black) with 4.2 EEVEE. [#124565]
Geometry Nodes: Blender crash in create string socket in Capture Attribute node. [#125504]
CMake: library path reference for PLATFORM_ENV_BUILD on unix & macos. [9b251d04e7e]
CMake: library path reference for PLATFORM_ENV_BUILD unix/macos (#2). [2d05f61e6ba]
VSE: prefetch frames crashes with some scene strips. [#125401]
(Unneccessarily) restricted execution in scripted expression drivers (using e.g. “self”, “bpy.data”). [#106372]
Only insert needed generates empty action. [#125169]
Cycles tests: Enable MNEE test on Metal on supported macOS version. [5c67f9469bc]
Render test: Add option to ignore block list. [82a26b72a0f]
Render tests: Use blocklist name for blocked tests. [5a255357434]
CMake: Add buildbot configuration for all platforms. [e6b856bd8ba]
Cycles render tests: Add the option to test with OSL enabled. [fc52a49be772e883e2db2de485fd4f8e5b0d97c3]
Disabling / uninstalling extensions doesn’t always remove the extension’s dependencies. [#125958]
Fix failure to remove libraries when removing wheels. [09e8e493654]