The maintenance release of the first long-term support release is out !
Blender 2.83.13 LTS features many 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 2.83lts.
Patch Notes
- Blender crashes when using the symmetrize operator on an armature with an invalid action constraint. (T84988)
- Double post processing frames with color management, when animation rendered. (T79999)
- Cycles: Add CUDA 11 build support. (rBc661515090)
- Fix Cycles CUDA kernels for Ampere not building with CUDA 11. (rB8d02177ab0)
- Cycles: Enable OptiX on first generation Maxwell GPUs again. (rBf00ba34411)
- Fix OptiX being shown as available on first generation Maxwell GPUs. (rBb4bddf2e3bd3e33a9ca7488fc78112f8a5fa0544)
- Cycles: Use pre-compiled PTX kernel for older generation when no matching one is found. (rB08aaa07adb)
- Cycles: Enable OptiX on all Maxwell+ GPUs. (rB510541563e)
- Fix Cycles CUDA build error with Visual Studio 2019 v16.9. (rB052156a646)
LTS Program
Learn more about the LTS program on blender.org
Stay up-to-date
You can follow Blender on social media:
Keep reporting any issues you find to make this LTS the most stable release ever !
Happy blending,
The Blender team