Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. Free to use for everyone, for any purpose.
Blender 3.6.7 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the [i]v3.6 - Stable - LTS[/i] branch.
You can switch to this by [b]right-clicking[/b] on the [b]Blender[/b] entry in your library, select [b]Properties...[/b]. Open the [b]Betas[/b] tab and select [b]v3.6 - Stable - LTS[/b].
[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]
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* Fix: Increase thread stack size for musl libc. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/064a48ad28e3e25259084b34d17de6cca01d6495]064a48ad28e3e25259084b34d17de6cca01d6495[/url])
* Fix uninitialized pending actions for Windows under Wayland. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/c3f67cd541f]c3f67cd541f[/url])
* Ghost: Fix build error with MSVC 17.7 preview 3. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/ec6aa0b3fd3]ec6aa0b3fd3[/url])
* Grease pencil time offset modifier doesn't work if the animation is 1 frame long. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/114685]#114685[/url])
* Fix 'Make LibOverride' on Empty-instanced collection making everything editable. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/71b159d1585]71b159d1585[/url])
* In the OPTIX viewport rendering mode, trimming the curve leads to an OPTIX crash. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/113325]#113325[/url])
* API Unexpected timer event after clicking the Modifier sort area in UI. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/113697]#113697[/url])
* Discovered typo in bmesh code. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/115060]#115060[/url])
* Scrollbars for template_lists in popups dont update correctly. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/115363]#115363[/url])
* Massive lag in Spreadsheet editor when scrolling. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/114557]#114557[/url])
* Fix animation player bug upon shutdown. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/431a0844fc0e6082aa6e8432c36a18697859c841]431a0844fc0e6082aa6e8432c36a18697859c841[/url])
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and the list of fixes in 3.6.6 (official release for that was skipped)
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* Light of 'Area' type lamp presents artifacts when placed at great distances. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/110183]#110183[/url])
* Regression: Cycles: Weird Mesh Light Sampling. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/112931]#112931[/url])
* Mesh analysis type does not change on non-active objects during multi-object editing. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/113285]#113285[/url])
* Freestyle: Lineset "Fill Range by selection" operator fails with python error. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/113255]#113255[/url])
* Painting with Ctrl Left Mouse in the Image Editor doesn't respect selected secondary color. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/113323]#113323[/url])
* New windows in Blender being added with wrong depth order on Mac 14.0. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/112935]#112935[/url])
* SSS polygon boundary artifacts with volume absorption. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/113461]#113461[/url])
* Crash or error when exporting big Layout Uvs. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/110524]#110524[/url])
* API gpu.state.scissor_test_set(False) not working. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/113310]#113310[/url])
* Geometry Nodes: Viewer sees handle type update after its connection point. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/113429]#113429[/url])
* Segmentation Fault Crashing Blender when Rendering. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/110415]#110415[/url])
* Weight gradient tool auto normalizes over locked groups. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/107920]#107920[/url])
* Weight paint gradient tool paints over hidden vertices. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/113798]#113798[/url])
* Weight Gradient tool paints over locked vertex groups. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/107918]#107918[/url])
* context.annotation_data isn't set to nullptr when the last annotation layer is deleted. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/112683]#112683[/url])
* RGB-shifted edges when outputting IndexOB 16-bit PNG. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/111442]#111442[/url])
* The Properties space "search filter" disables checkboxes in panel headers when searching. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/114015]#114015[/url])
* Make Local (All) operator is crashing Blender with Library Override Collections. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/114134]#114134[/url])
* Cycles: update Linux library search paths for upcoming ROCm 6. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/fa006094360]fa006094360[/url])
* Fix mouse cursor failing to update for blocking actions on Wayland. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/98ec3826ac]98ec3826ac[/url])
* Fix #107523: Cursor not cleared when panning stops. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/6e51a2eaea]6e51a2eaea[/url])
* Fix drag & drop crash when dragging over window decorations on Wayland. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/4eca55cc11]4eca55cc11[/url])
* Fix invalid surface size under Wayland when GHOST set the window size. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/4b34443c10]4b34443c10[/url])
* Fix crash dragging images into the animation player. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/601141e01c]601141e01c[/url])
* Fix incorrect screen-size under Wayland with transformed outputs. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/06e08069fc]06e08069fc[/url])
* File forward compatibility 4.0 to 3.6.5 - Redo panel not opening. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/114536]#114536[/url])
* Weird behavior with the set spline type node selection. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/110666]#110666[/url])
* Fix "make bpy" on macOS not install libraries inside bpy module. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/00fbe3b112f]00fbe3b112f[/url])
* Blender 3.3 crashes when opening a 3.6 file with a complex armature. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/114152]#114152[/url])
* 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. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/114336]#114336[/url])
* Crash when I import OBJ file. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/114304]#114304[/url])
* USDZ conversion happens outside of main thread. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/114415]#114415[/url])
* UI: Blender no longer displays a warning for too new .blends. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/114430]#114430[/url])
* Frame Range Metadata doesn't work when you want to burn it into image. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/113810]#113810[/url])
* Unexpected clip duplication and crash in NLA editor, when moving multi instance shapekey animation clips. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/114216]#114216[/url])
* Trace image to Grease Pencil always miss the first image in a sequence. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/114358]#114358[/url])
* VSE: Separate Images (Y) is broken - It is only duplicating the first image to all the resulting strips. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/114434]#114434[/url])
* Fix potential buffer overflow in strcpy use on macOS. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/09baf6a8bc8]09baf6a8bc8[/url])
* Fix #66286: DblClick to rename UIList items within a popover not working. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/114363]#114363[/url])
* Regression: Crash on deleting NLA strip in tweak mode. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/109430]#109430[/url])
* Fix USD Export crash with complex scenes, due to race condition during depsgraph building. ([url=https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/e76cb15a3f3]e76cb15a3f3[/url])
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For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see [url=https://www.blender.org/download/lts/3-6/] 3.6 LTS releases on blender.org[/url]
[h3]LTS Program[/h3]
Learn more about the [url=https://www.blender.org/download/lts/]LTS program on blender.org[/url]
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