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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