Software Update: Blender 2.93.2

Version 2.93.2 of the cross-platform and open source program Blender has been released. This application is intended for 3d modelling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. More information about the extensive possibilities of Blender can be found at this page are being found. This program includes the short open source animation films Elephant’s Dream, Big Buck Bunny, cinderTears of Steel and Cosmos Laundromat created. Since version 2.93, the following improvements have been made:

LTS Release 2.93.2 Changelog

• Line Art Bug FIx: stroke default in-front should be on. [rB9e64fd461ac3fa05e4ae780ee3a9f41b18c7c216]
• Follow Path for empty works only in negative values. [T89153]
• Align Orientation to Target keeps rotation when toggled. [T89571]
• `bpy.ops.screen.screen_full_area()` resets certain fields of the context. [T89526]
• Fix edit mesh random select regression in random seed use. [rB27e32652679]
• Use after free when tabbing through numeric inputs. [T89265]
• Fix invalid polygon normal array access building bake data. [rB32658bb5c9f]
• Select Similar Face Regions triggers AddressSanitizer crash. [T89247]
• Undefined Geometry nodes cause a crash when connected to a Group Output node. [T89004]
• Set Origin missing from Text object in 2.93. [T88808]
• Fix: Crash Requesting GPU_SHADER_GPENCIL_FILL builtin shader. [rB3c6a981fd98]
• Viewport Render Preview glitching with Eevee Render Engine. [T89405]
• Cleanup: Remove deprecated variables and functions calls from our ffmpeg code. [rBf522e8db228]
• Fix T87932: Failure to build movie strip proxy. [rBfe4cbe62dff]
• Make encoded video fps correct with ffmpeg < 4.4. [rB14308b0a5ef]
• Fix T88623, T87044: Make encoded videos play correctly in VLC. [rB19c0666d408]
• FFmpeg: Update proxy settings. [rB00ffe028200]
• Fix T57397: Movies are blurred after sws_scale. [rB13ab6b7bb60]
• FFmpeg: Fix seeking not returning the correct frame when not using TC index. [rB7eb3e77b94f]
• Fix: Wrong logic for checking if we can reuse decoded frame. [rB02a6be54432]
• Fix: Prevent small memory leak in VSE indexer. [rBcea80f1add5]
• Fix: VSE timecodes being used even when turned off. [rBa68f5456e48]
• Fix: VSE indexer seeking not working correctly. [rB7616f4ae577]
• Fix: VSE search in mpegts files would fail. [rB444a8cbc2fd]
• Fix: VSE seeking with proxy strips would fail on certain frames. [rBbec8e436a1c]
• UI: Collection tab should hide when scene master collection is active. [T89422]
• Blender crash when showing thumbnail of a strongly skewed .exr image. [T89868]
• Fix T89861: Checking face selection breaks UV stitch operator. [rB062764d5d01]
• Fix T70356: Scaling up 1×1 pixel image reads past buffer bounds. [rB41bd164e4c7]
• Fix object “Set Origin” operating on linked library data. [rB5d1ef0efd01]
• BlenderKit: draw categories in asset card. [rBA0d880d12]
• BlenderKit: many post-release fixes. [rBA526557bb]
• BlenderKit: fix category display. [rBA29db4b5f]
• BlenderKit: fix an error when trying to assign material to unsupported object type. [rBAae7be84e]
• Alembic export not respecting the renderable flag. [T89594]
• Alembic export: evaluation mode option. [rB7b94e7cca49]
• TGA Images with any alpha value smaller than one behaves unexpectedly. [T89034]
• Collection user counts are set to `1` on file load. Boolean modifier orphans collections. [T89765]
• Round end caps on Freestyle lines not working properly. [T88015]
• Crash when baking to vertex colors while “Normals-> Auto Smooth” is enabled. [T88756]
• Crash when using Cycles preview or render – custom data layer / auto smooth. [T89455]
• Crash when editing a Collection Instance referenced by Line Art object. [T89838]
• [2.93.2] Geometry nodes: wrongly detected “Node group has unidentified nodes or sockets” error. [T89851]
• Persistent data, motion blur, and geometry displacement results in glitchy meshes during rendering. [T89736]
• adding a custom AOV doesn’t show the output on the compositors render layer node. [T89981]
• Geometry Nodes: ‘New’ Button tries to create node_tree on active modifier, rather than button context. [T89982]
• Py API: `bpy.data.orphans_purge` incorrect argument parsing. [T89733]
• Drawing with make line tool in an empty scene results crash. [T89724]
• It can’t snap vertices when using community addon ‘Snap_Utilities_Line’. [T89812]
• Blender File View – can’t type space while holding shift key. [T85517]
• Separating meshes by material makes render passes in cycles stuck in 1/64. [T89884]

LTS Release 2.93.1 Changelog

• __file__ not set during `.as_module()`. [T88899]
• Fix buffer overrun in paint_line_strokes_spacing. [rBcc5392b4d93]
• Skin modifier asserts on invalid normals. [T88111]
• Mantaflow inflow with shapekeys is not working anymore (regression). [T88566]
• Mantaflow problem with geometry nodes. [T88531]
• UV Editor Hide Selected not working on multiple selection. [T88625]
• Cryptomatte: EXR sequence does not update when scrubbing the timeline. [T88666]
• Cryptomatte only works for the first View Layer. [T88567]
• EEVEE: AOVs not same as cycles. [rBe1d2485fd32]
• TBBMalloc_proxy is failing on windows 10. [T88813]
• ChromeOS: Black screen/window on startup:. [T77651]
• When selected a texture in the Properties panel shows another texture in the 3D Viewport. [T88788]
• LineArt: Fix edge clipping index error. [rB57301121747]
• Grease Pencil Line Art Modifier – Incorrect baking with camera markers. [T88464]
• Fix outdated face tessellation use when editing edit-mesh coodinates. [rBb4a81d80537]
• Fix image space missing mask display panel. [rBb61f4fd8da3]
• Fix modifier deform by armature check ignoring virtual modifiers. [rBbc648018571]
• Bmesh: removed deform parameter of from_object still in PyDoc. [T89013]
• VSE shading mode ignores Grease Pencil Vertex colors. [T86956]