The maintenance release of the first long-term support release is out !
Blender 2.83.17 LTS features many bug fixes. It is released on the 2.83 branch.
You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select 2.83.
Patch Notes
- Fix invalid polygon normal array access building bake data. (rBf6fb695ed8b)
- Select Similar Face Regions triggers AddressSanitizer crash. (T89247)
- Viewport Render Preview glitching with Eevee Render Engine. (T89405)
- Blender crash when showing thumbnail of a strongly skewed .exr image. (T89868)
- Fix T70356: Scaling up 1x1 pixel image reads past buffer bounds. (rB1a1510a3a08)
- Fix object "Set Origin" operating on linked library data. (rBb2f2daf21f7)
- Build Bot: MacOS X test fails. (T81077)
- Fix memory leak with Python RNA property get callback errors. (rB1f96166e08a)
LTS Program
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Happy blending,
The Blender team