Blender 3.6 LTS

The last LTS before the 4 series begins.
Supported until June 2025.
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* Find Blender 3.6 LTS under v3.6 – Stable – LTS branch. Switch by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties..., open the Betas tab and select the v3.6 – Stable – LTS program.

Source Code

The source for this release is under the blender-v3.6-releasebranch, and can be compiled as usual. See instructions.

Versions

Blender 3.6.19 LTS – December 17, 2024

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  • Fix ‘missing files’ operator not reporting which ID is using the missing filepath. [48fdd62ec27]
  • Crash renaming a modifier in the Outliner and then toggling its “Realtime” / “show_viewport” property. [#130536]
  • 3.6 LTS: EEVEE Non-Color different bit depth JPEGs UDIMs crash. [#130722]
  • Dragging on bone transform property won’t go below zero. [#131045]
  • While in pose mode, pressing alt+e will disable wireframe overlay. [#130061]
  • Geometry node – setting lacunarity to 0 crashes Blender (musgrave texture) [fine in 4.1, request to ackport]. [#100838]
Blender 3.6.18 LTS – November 19, 2024

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  • Node Wrangler Color Space for Normal Map. [#129695]
  • Sculpt: Crash or artifacts when using Scale Tool with multires. [#128917]
  • Blender crashes after playing animation button for particles system (Boids). [#126434]
  • “Sync Visible Range” option not working in “Movie Clip Editor Panel” > Tracking Mode > View – Graph. [#126728]
  • Animation doesn’t play/start when cursor is over side panel of NLA editor. [#126869]
  • NLA Editor’s Channel list does not update when object’s viewport visibility changes. [#127117]
  • `copy_from_face_interp` needs tuple input, loses reference, returns nothing. [#120861]
  • removing f-curve modifier does not purge modifier motion. [#128805]
  • Viewport Shading, Render mode, render crashes. [#129235]
Blender 3.6.17 LTS – October 15, 2024

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  • Outdated HDRi license file. [#128095]
Blender 3.6.16 LTS – September 24, 2024

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  • atan2(0,0) evaluates to NaN on Metal but 0 on all other platforms. [#126799]
  • Build: Ambiguous call to isfinite for MSVC 17.11. [1da590cd2e4]
  • Blender 3.6.15 MetalRT – Hiding all objects in rendered viewport crashes. [#127453]
  • Blender adds Grease Pencil Objects to Scene when appending IDs with annotations (e.g. in their shader editor). [#127142]
Blender 3.6.15 LTS – August 20, 2024

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  • Incorrect sampling with 180° Spot and Light tree activated. [#125168]
  • Graph Editor: Cursor Value to Selection can output position outside normalized range. [#125064]
  • Graphical glitching on AMD Radeon GPU. [#116229]
Blender 3.6.14 LTS – July 16, 2024

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  • STL/PLY: Imported object data instanced. [#118148]
  • [snap packaging] Please provide appstream common id. [#123473]
  • Cycles: oneAPI: Fix driver version check for future Intel GPU drivers. [2ae87b8fb06]
  • Collada: export when editing multiple objects does not pick up all changes. [#94125]
  • Possibly incorrect rendering result when using zero-spread area light on a standard Lambertian object in Blender 3.6.12. [#123448]
Blender 3.6.13 LTS – June 25, 2024

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  • ‘Limit Location’ constraint does not work when added via script. [#119945]
  • Fix #102872: Custom Normals Average operator ui shows wrong properties. [#121864]
  • layout.template_search() causes crash if target is a PointerProperty. [#122150]
  • Exporting PLY with Vertex Normals ON + Importing PLY causes Broken Vertex Normals. [#122344]
  • Sculpt: After using clotch, an error will occur in the cloch filter – filter type: scale. [#122429]
  • Hair Curves: Grow brush doesn’t work if curves have only two points. [#122598]
  • Pie menu performs multiple actions at the same time if it appears near the edge of screen and hotkey is used. [#122526]
  • Blender freezes when repeating baking textures. [#82483]
  • Regression: Copy to selected on addons properties crach Blender. [#119999]
Blender 3.6.12 LTS – May 21, 2024

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  • Object ▸ Library Override ▸ Make doesn’t create editable overrides. [#120788]
  • Collada: Import with loose edges not immediately show them. [#120721]
  • Regression: Transfer Attribute isn’t versioned correctly from 3.3.X to 3.6.10. [#120748]
  • Fix potential buffer read overflow in the splash screen. [c02b4b27dac]
  • Regression: Custom node remains undefined after running script. [#120084]
  • Setting “Fake User” status cannot be undone (e.g. undonig “Mark Asset” leaves behind “Fake User” status). [#121310]
  • bpy.ops.image.clipboard_paste() causing crashes in 3dview , image editor have no problem. [#121108]
  • NLA push down order inconsistency. [#121121]
Blender 3.6.11 LTS – April 16, 2024

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  • Blender crash on pose library N-panel. [#108078]
  • UI: missing update after changing the symmetry axis. [#118137]
  • Update problem with detail size and voxel size edit boxes in sculpt mode. [#119275]
  • GP Fill Tool not working on Mac with Metal GPU Backend. [#109363]
  • Modal knife tool can crash if used on hidden object. [#116262]
  • Missing driver bone target doesn’t mark driver as invalid. [#119523]
  • Regression: Wrong orientation on shrinkwrap constrained instanced collection. [#119992]
  • Crash rendering when using OptiX and Grease Pencil on recent drivers. [#120007]
Blender 3.6.10 LTS – March 19, 2024

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  • Migration of libraries to Git LFS. [#108978]
  • install_linux_packages: Add git-lfs to ‘build essentials’. [888c41316f]
  • Deleting an unused light group caused the environment light group to render to another light group. [#117586]
  • Crash on attempting to rename linked object from the NLA. [#118225]
  • Fix #107228: AttributeGroup.new crash when layer cannot be created. [#118378]
  • Crash when delete linked object in scenes outliner. [#105968]
  • image > copy, adds 3 white pixels on the left, deletes 3 pixels on the right. [#118351]
  • GPencil: Blender crash when file open. [#102930]
  • Fix: Cycles incorrect rendering of certain negative strength lights. [a3702760609]
  • Cycles: Improve reporting of HIP texture allocation failures. [5fc714999bf]
  • Fix: Cycles HIP incorrect rendering of clip image textures. [89d8f12730c]
  • Cycles Crash on deleting/hiding all mesh objects with HIP RT (Experimental). [#112983]
  • Cycles: HIP search for ROCm 6 driver. [0ea4ac2ef39]
  • Blender crashes at OpenGL render if viewport.lock_rotation is True. [#119058]
  • Blender Crashes when trying to create a Pivot Constraint for armature. [#104657]
  • blender crash itself while importing a dae (collide) file. [#102860]
  • Collada export crashes (when relative “//” is in `Preferences` > `File Paths` > `Temporary Files`). [#95411]
  • Specific Rig Crashes blender when going into pose mode. [#84848]
  • Able to link an external collection inside another linked collection, causes data loss. [#119142]
  • ‘Set Action’ in outliner does not correctly update the animation. [#119106]
  • Segmentation fault when selecting context.area.type before applying operator (scripting). [#54468]
  • Copy material to selected causes crash when receiving object doesn’t have a material slot. [#114552]
  • Outliner (Data API mode) crash trying to display a MeshSkinVertex in editmode. [#79961]
  • Build: upgrade Intel Graphics Compiler on Linux. [95c42a9d]
  • Build: Upgrade Intel Graphics Compiler to 1.0.15468 on Linux. [d8cca36c788]
  • Possible crash with Motion Blur with changing curves count. [#117485]
  • Crash loading certain .exr file in compositor. [#101227]
  • IMB: Read single-layer XYZ channels as a combined image. [23df139aafb5f31c0b370c0c5fa9bf2ec22d026a]
  • IMB: Support rgba and V channels in single-layer EXR. [b54a26ede47668a3aba537e1f57d6b60d54f1778]
  • liboverride_troubleshoot_operation(): fails with context incorrect, even with screen.areas.type == ‘OUTLINER’. [#118299]
  • library override causes incorrect parenting (and subsequent problems). [#118300]
  • Fix LibOverride asserting when same RNA path changes type. [2c4589ca82]
Blender 3.6.9 LTS – February 20, 2024

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  • Geometry Nodes: quick plug ignores Accumulate field Group ID socket. [#117647]
  • Regression: Array Caps broken on empty mesh in 3.5. [#107353]
  • VDM Brush Baker built-in Addon : warning at startup. [#117150]
  • [Sun position] Fix missing parameter (patch available). [#117397]
  • Assign Shortcut Missing when Right Clicking Undo History. [#97431]
  • Crash dispalying subdivision surface mesh with loose edges in edit-mode. [#117015]
  • 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]
  • UDIMs not packing to blend file and causing color artifacts. [#117411]
  • When rendering an image sequence with stereoscopy and overwrite disabled, images still get overwritten. [#117674]
  • When rendering an image sequence with stereoscopy and overwrite disabled, images still get overwritten. [#117674]
  • Fix: Cycles MIS disabled unnecessarily with transparency, causing fireflies. [02b9ea70729]
  • bpy.ops.paint.image_paint with a texture requires initialization with manual paint stroke otherwise color not quite right. [#54554]
  • Changing the order of vertex groups changes the specified vertex group in the modifier. [#113803]
  • Fix buffer overflow passing a vertical segment to convexhull_2d. [bc4b4e8ec32]
  • Regression: Crash on deleting shape key from Blender File view. [#108407]
  • object.override_library.resync(…) — crashes when view_layer is not specified. [#118055]
  • Cycles plane Emission gradient “clipping”. [#117771]
  • Regression: Crash on deleting shape key from Blender File view. [#108407]
Blender 3.6.8 LTS – January 16, 2024

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  • 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]
Blender 3.6.7 LTS – December 12, 2023

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  • 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]

List of fixes from 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]
Blender 3.6.5 LTS – October 19, 2023

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  • 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]
Blender 3.6.4 LTS – September 26, 2023

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  • “Jump to keyframe” grayed out. Unable to jump between keyframes. [#112673]
  • Transfer Mode operator doesn’t update outliner selection. [#101550]
  • Python modifiers.execution_time doesn’t work on curve objects. [#112397]
  • Fix #112399: Memory leak with exceptions from scripts in the text editor. [d9ab0a3ef7f]
Blender 3.6.3 LTS – September 21, 2023

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  • Regression: File crashes the program. [#111235]
  • Fix (unreported) invalid memory access in new ‘newer blendfile version’ code. [5b6106f71aec]
  • Crash when switching to the Face select mode in 3.6. [#110136]
  • Regression: Files from last 4.0 can not be saved in 3.6.2 due to undefined region type. [#111332]
  • Fix: ensure bones are on at least one layer on blend file reading. [2fc04eaf4310e64ffbe713376e54df878c9a4279]
  • UV editor: show_gizmo does not switch off gizmos. [#110721]
  • Regression: OBJ Importer fails to import objects. [#110948]
  • Fix (partially) wrong RNA path for ‘ViewShading’ data. [4cf03b28b32]
  • Keyframe jump operator in the Graph Editor does not respect NLA offset. [#110789]
  • rna_prop_ui.rna_idprop_ui_create() fails to create new string property. [#110464]
  • Regression: Area resize cursor does not appear on minimized spreadsheet area. [#110085]
  • GPU: Fix signed/unsigned mismatches in shader code. [#111094]
  • Dropping object name on existing object socket in node editor not working. [#110723]
  • Swap Strips can delete strips if there is not enough space. [#109081]
  • Fix Weld modifier generating invalid mesh. [5b7af751fa5d1619c18fa1899cca885e9b8b79f0]
  • Regression: Blender Crashes On Scene Switch. [#111165]
  • Fatal crash with Freestyle SVG Export when rendering to a directory that does not exist yet. [#104723]
  • Fix #110053: Crash on linked animation data with drivers. [#110795]
  • Crash when changing asset icon. [#106976]
  • Vector displacement suspected to cause geometry artefact and CUDA error. [#111277]
  • UI: Error Logging for Some Screen Operations. [dd7f9749366]
  • Modifier’s Main Dropdown goes backwards. [#111238]
  • Unable to remove added keying set from context menu. [#94129]
  • Shortcut information missing in animation editors channel context menu. [#109427]
  • Crash accessing text style properties in object mode. [#110508]
  • Linked overriden o bject cannot be made local (if it has a parent in the sourcefile). [#111439]
  • Fix: Memory leak in Graph editor keyframe jump. [eb77eaa7d87]
  • VSE: appended modifier stack incorrectly deletes additional modifier. [#111601]
  • Fix: missing update when library override editable is toggled. [8dd151debcb]
  • Fix dangling pointer while scrubbing in the sequencer. [c3689c4235c840da78cfe8d815abe97b94679bb6]
  • Fix #111607: Do not unregister internal nodes. [#111615]
  • Sculpting problem Radius number during push the Shift + click force back to 1px. [#111490]
  • Control point Snap does not work for NURBS Surface. [#111548]
  • Measure tool snapping does not work. [#109454]
  • GeoNodes behaviour differences between 3.6.3 RC, 4.0 master, and 1 month ago. [#111933]
  • Regression: Edit mode weights panel shows incorrect values. [#111273]
  • Regression: Crash on COW delete of shared custom data. [#109583]
  • Fix: Customdata merging does not check layer limit on destination. [2a7d6d182c4]
  • Odd blender VSE crashes – Graph editor / Proxy sizes. [#111642]
  • Regression: Pressing Enter on the file name text will not confirm file selection. [#111645]
  • Overlay drawing issues on Intel HD4400/4600 (Only?). [#111162]
  • Regression: Crash on dragging a Speaker NLA strip. [#110161]
  • Regression: Adding nodes into node network causes strange placement and jump of node. [#111593]
  • Consistent mapping boundaries of brush textures. [#109201]
  • Fix error batch renaming light probes. [b8ab67827db]
  • Cycles: oneAPI: on Windows, embree on GPU may crash when rendering duration exceeds 3 minutes. [#109282]
  • Regression: Crash with assertion after delete scene when some 3D Views have Local Collection enabled. [#111970]
  • Compilation of GHOST_XrGraphicsBinding.cc fails with “invalid conversion” error. [#111820]
  • Vertex parenting broken on Curve object with multiple splines. [#112208]
  • Fix: Regression: Box select not working for GP/GPv3 channels. [9fc217cedfe]
  • Regression: Holding Ctrl + Alt + Scroll does not increment values of all selected objects. [#112028]
  • Regression: Graph Editor handle highlighting not working correctly. [#112144]
  • Sculpt Mode: Mask brush smoothing is broken. [#112285]
  • Regression: Split Edges node skips loose edges. [#109236]
  • Regression: Geometry Nodes Points of Curve is Outputting Unknown Result. [#112184]
  • Regression: Crash when loading with converted curves. [#112068]
  • The color attribute from Particle Instance Modifier is incorrect. [#112335]
  • Regression: Blender crashes when turning on a pass that has equally named AOV pass already. [#111166]
  • Regression: Crash when selecting an object with an orphaned geo node link. [#111411]
  • NLA Editor: “Hold Forward” for “Edited Action” track doesn’t work. [#100718]
  • Operator (e.g `bpy.ops.object.data_transfer()`) crashes when using `context.copy()` via addon. [#112299]
  • Cycles: support building with Windows ROCm 5.5 SDK. [2e1ab36]
  • Only some vertex weights can be modified via the UI panel. [#112123]
  • Sim Nodes: Don’t delete parent bake directory. [eba0d481bb5]
  • Regression: Menu Search crash if mouse is outside of the blender window. [#111212]

Blender 3.6.2 LTS – August 17, 2023

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    • UILayout.template_node_view() doesn’t render UI properly. [#99569]

    • Accent Grave / Tilde key on Apple macOS not working. [#109630]

    • Regression: Using Grease Pencil Sculpt Grab Tool on a Stroke affected by Subdivide Modifier will Crash Blender. [#109986]

    • Blender 3.6 immediately crashes loading a GN hair model created in 3.5. [#110107]

    • Mesh Deform Modifier Vertex Count Error. [#110021]

    • Graphics Tablet Lag when in Texture Paint mode in Blender 3.0. [#93796]

    • Window autofocus misbehaves. [#109886]

    • Regression: Pressing multiple modifier keys at the same time locks mouse click. [#109525]

    • Switching open windows ignores held modifiers on WIN32. [#40059]

    • Docs: Fix layout of bpy.types.Object Python API documents. [d47755f3c6e]

    • Spreadsheet does not update during/after playing animation. [#110164]

    • Windows + Intel Arc A770: Crashes if modifying the object after rendering image in rendered view mode. [#109771]

    • Animation: Fcurve Channel color band alignment. [0c4a3577469]

    • Geometry Nodes: Float Curve input limits are not working unless “reset view” is used. [#106139]

    • Appended text looses user (even if used in the Text Editor) after reload. [#110341]

    • deps_builder: Update USD repo and hash. [dca1dbbc6c3]

    • Regression: Speaker ignoring of the starting position in NLA track. [#110336]

    • `use spatial splits` does not display point cloud correctly on video card. [#110170]

    • Regression: Deadlock on render start. [#110426]

    • Fix #109417: Cycles HIP RT crash with multi device rendering. [#110512]

    • Snaping in solid mode (Xray 1.0) doesnt snap to “occluded” geometry. [#110259]

    • bpy.app.driver_namespace: no way to properly initialize for driver in material. [#109720]

    • How to Handle Forward Compatibility. [#109151]

    • Fix (unreported) minor bug in RNA/Liboverride apply code. [fbcaf7bf6f8]

    • blender 3.6.1 crashes on start with wayland. [#110627]

    • Regression: Gizmo stuck in place when I playback my animation. [#110041]

    • Fix #110615: missing GL dev packages in install_linux_packages.py. [#110609]

    • Regression: Loading a VSE .blend file created in older version into 3.6.0 loses information about video/audio clip cut lengths. [#110333]

    • vse separate image after import not working. [#110205]

    • Keyframes on values of linked data. [#109781]

    • Fix (unreported) missing handling of ViewLayer IDProperties in foreach_id code. [c426d5b084b]

    • Fix (unreported) collection ‘readfile’ expand incorrect assertion. [455683c838b]

    • Export_3ds: Fixed camera & spotlight target calculation. [c94cc788]

    • glTF exporter: fix missing animation hook parameter. [18d26d61]

    • Export_3ds: Fixed mismatched sign in target calculation. [82ce03ac]

    • Import_3ds: Fixed mismatched sign in target calculation. [90a7110b]

    • (Sun Position) – “North” indicator will not hide. [#104781]

    • Extra objects: Fix TypeError when torus knot added. [973e85bd]

    • Regression: Normal Edit modifier screws up UVs. [#110471]

    • Vertex weight slider not functional in a smooth way (weightpaint mode, editmode is fine). [#109460]

    • Make Line Tool Crashes Blender When Object Has Subdivision Surface Modifier. [#110601]

    • Keyframes on values of linked data. [#109781]

    • new gaussian smooth creates jagged keys. [#109799]

    • Graphic glitches while editing curves – Apple M2. [#110372]

Blender 3.6.1 LTS – July 18, 2023

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    • Operator bpy.ops.uv.pack_islands call leads to Blender crash. [#108171]

    • Append: in `localize All` case, LibOverrides does not behave properly and will leave Main data in invalid state. [#109004]

    • Frame change handler no longer entered when playback stops. [#109218]

    • Fix (studio-reported) crash when using ‘Clear’ on a liboverride hierarchy in the Outliner. [6adfd2ae393]

    • Fix property tags dummy enum value holding a reference to stack memory. [45bf61f131e]

    • Fix dropping files onto the window under Wayland in some cases. [f825a346fcf]

    • Enum properties don’t display text in Dope Sheet sliders. [#109198]

    • Baking in multi-Tiles textures (Udim) from MultiRes only use the height of the last tile as reference. [#109302]

    • Orbit Around Selection in Edit Mode is not working after 3.6.0 update. [#109519]

    • How to add credit to non-committers authors. [#109438]

    • Regression: Vertex Weight Mix crash on apply/undo when mesh has shape keys. [#109523]

    • Regression: Wireframe overlay on mesh Merge by Distance omits some edges. [#109577]

    • NLA editor tracks checkbox overlapping names when left side panel is too small. [#109455]

    • Regression: Outliner: Assert in outliner_collect_objects_to_delete. [#109590]

    • Fix (unreported) missing viewlayer sync call in Outliner liboverride tool. [9f6a4d0c065]

    • Fix toggling of liboverrides between editable and non-edtiable with “Make” tool in the Outliner. [7880ae7c787]

    • Regression: Cycles: Optix not able to render without cuda toolkit. [#109550]

    • Blender 3.6 > .dds image /texture issue. [#109442]

    • Error when collection visibility property is used in driver expression (fixed in main, backport request). [#109570]

    • Mesh.polygon_normals[0].value reports incorrect normal. [#109745]

    • Regression: Edge Crease behaves differently between Complex and Simple Solidify. [#109691]

    • Fix (unreported) potential crash in ‘make override’ Outliner tool. [8bbd05e76f]

    • LibOverride: Add debug util to print out liboverride data. [34965bfcca]

    • LibOverride: Expose ‘match reference’ status flag in RNA API. [737c941eca]

    • LibOverride: Fix potential minor issues in RNA liboverride handling code. [1b76b95886]

    • Node Wrangler: No matching images found. [#104573]

    • FBX: Materials missing from linked duplicates. [#104737]

    • Import_3ds: Fixed target calculation. [8e348cb5]

    • Blender HIP library `libamdhip64.so` loading issue in linux. [#109562]

    • Fix use-after free while transforming sequence strips. [fa2a28e96d0]

    • Fix sequencer image cache holding references to freed keys. [59ab70b594f]

    • Cycles: Embree: Resolve padding-related issue during buffer creations. [ab457ae62e3]

    • Cycles: Fix Out-Of-Bounds issues during Embree BVH building. [a81dccceaf9]

    • Applying a Bevel modifer on a object with UVs pins the uv islands. [#109471]

    • Weird rendering of points with velocity attribute. [#103918]

    • Regression: Blender creates unexpected selection areas when using Select Box or Select Lasso which can lead to crashes. [#109532]

    • Fix memory leak when there are unexpectedly more than MAXSEQ strips. [8142195f290]

    • Fix invalid address-of operator (hidden by a cast). [aef44c2d503]

    • Using python to add a driver to rigid body properties causes a crash. [#109887]

    • UI: Grey out ShapeKey list entry on mute. [be09111784d]

    • Unknown engine warning only shown when loading from a popup. [#109952]

    • Unable to start Blender 3.5 on MacOS 10.15. [#106905]

    • Viewport glitches when using Metal backend. [#109389]

    • Incorrect behavior when moving/linking objects to non-overridden linked collection. [#109898]

    • Geometry Nodes: Simulation crash. [#109885]

    • Faces use retopology overlay color even when retopology overlay is disabled. [#109662]

    • Overlay: Edit Mesh wireframe incorrect bias. [#109040]

    • Crash when calculating rigid body mass. [#109928]

    • Regression: Average Brush in Vertex Paint Mode is broken. [#109822]

    • Can’t delete scene using context menu in “Blender File” view in outliner. [#109802]

    • LibOverride: Fix diffing code not always cleaning unused operations. [3d2bae8a5daae92]

    • Regression: Cycles render crash using F12 render after running script that uses bpy.ops.render. [#109718]

    • Keyframes on values of linked data. [#109781]

    • Snapping no longer works behind faces/objects in wireframe/x-ray mode. [#109433]

    • Regression: Array modifier change a merged Root vertex of Skin modifier. [#109565]

    • vertex slide is broken when using shortcut double GG with face projection snap. [#109633]

    • new gaussian smooth creates jagged keys. [#109799]

    • Cycles HIP RT glass BSDF artifacts. [#109418]

    • Regression: Geometry Nodes: Edge Split node crash. [#110005]

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