What changed in Blender in 2024

Addresses several crashes and improves functionality.

Dragging on bone transform property won't go below zero.

Fix 'missing files' operator not reporting which ID is using the missing filepath.

3.6 LTS: EEVEE Non-Color different bit depth JPEGs UDIMs crash.

Crash renaming a modifier in the Outliner and then toggling its 'Realtime' / 'show_viewport' property.

While in pose mode, pressing alt+e will disable wireframe overlay.

Geometry node - setting lacunarity to 0 crashes Blender (musgrave texture).

Addresses more than 90 issues present in the initial release, fixing several crashes and improving functionality.

Updated Blender documentation to provide workarounds for issues caused by the new Steam Linux Runtime.

Addressed crashing issues when rendering with Cycles on a GPU due to changes in Steam Linux Runtime.

Resolved an issue with the outdated HDRi license file.

Hiding all objects in rendered viewport crashes on Blender 3.6.15 MetalRT.

atan2(0,0) evaluates to NaN on Metal but 0 on all other platforms.

Build: Ambiguous call to isfinite for MSVC 17.11.

Blender adds Grease Pencil Objects to Scene when appending IDs with annotations in shader editor.

Resolved an issue where incorrect sampling occurred when using 180° Spot and Light tree.

Resolved graphical glitching issues experienced on AMD Radeon GPUs.

Fixed an issue where the Cursor Value to Selection could output position outside normalized range.

Undo functionality is now up to 5x faster.

Please provide appstream common id. (#123473)

Introduced Ray Portals, Thin Film Interference, better volume rendering, and blue noise.

Complete rewrite of EEVEE with global illumination, displacement, better SSS, volumetric lighting and shadows, and viewport motion blur.

The Compositor can now utilize GPU acceleration for offline renders, with improved CPU performance and more nodes supported in the 3D Viewport.

Enhancements for USD, Alembic, glTF, OBJ, PLY, and STL.

Introduction of a portable installation option.

Collada: export when editing multiple objects does not pick up all changes. (#94125)

A new way to share, install, and update add-ons and themes online within Blender.

Includes highlighting missing media, text strip enhancements, and better performance.

Fixed issue where exporting PLY with Vertex Normals ON and importing causes broken vertex normals.

Resolved issue where Grow brush doesn't work if hair curves have only two points.

layout.template_search() causes crash if target is a PointerProperty.

Pie menu performs multiple actions at the same time if it appears near the edge of screen and hotkey is used.

Hair Curves: Grow brush doesn't work if curves have only two points.

Fixed error occurring in the cloth filter after using cloth in sculpt mode.

Resolved regression issue causing Blender to crash on copy to selected in addons properties.

Fix #102872: Custom Normals Average operator UI shows wrong properties.

Fixed issue where 'Limit Location' constraint does not work when added via script.

Fixed freezing issue when repeating baking textures.

Fixed issue where pie menu performs multiple actions if it appears near the edge of the screen and hotkey is used.

Fixed UI issue where Custom Normals Average operator shows wrong properties.

Resolved crash issue when layout.template_search() target is a PointerProperty.

#120084

c02b4b27dac

Regression: Custom node remains undefined after running script.

#120788

#120721

#121121

Depth picking returns wrong result, value being dependent on placement of active camera.

#121108

Regression: Transfer Attribute isn't versioned correctly from 3.3.X to 3.6.10.

#121310

#120748

Resolves crash when rendering using OptiX and Grease Pencil on recent drivers. (#120007)

Resolved a UI issue where updates were missing after changing the symmetry axis.

Fixes missing update in the UI after changing the symmetry axis. (#118137)

Fixes segmentation fault issue when using Bake Line Art. (#110751)

Fixes incorrect parenting caused by library override. (#118300)

Fixes assertion failure when the same RNA path changes type. (fef97afbad)

Addressed an issue where the GP Fill Tool was not functioning on Mac with Metal GPU Backend.

Resolves failure with context incorrect, even with screen.areas.type == 'OUTLINER'. (#118299)

Addresses update problem with detail size and voxel size edit boxes. (#119275)

Fixed a crash that occurred when using the modal knife tool on hidden objects.

Fixed a regression that caused wrong orientation on shrinkwrap constrained instanced collections.

Addresses multiple crashes and improves functionality.

Resolved the issue where a missing driver bone target did not mark the driver as invalid.

Fixed a crash issue occurring on the pose library N-panel.

Fixed an update problem with detail size and voxel size edit boxes in sculpt mode.

Fixed a crash that occurred when rendering with OptiX and Grease Pencil on recent drivers.

Several improvements to Graph Editor and NLA including baking channels.

All nodes in the Compositor now work in the Viewport (except Render Layer passes).

Improvements to Kuwahara and Pixelate nodes in the Compositor.

USD export of armatures and shape keys as USD skeletons and blend shapes.

Python upgraded to version 3.11.

Cycles rendering on Linux is 5% faster.

OpenImageDenoise now runs on GPU on supported hardware.

Video Sequencer drawing, rendering, effects, and scopes are much faster.

Bone Collections are now hierarchical.

A new Bake node in Geometry Nodes.

Several user interface improvements.

Blender 4.1 is aligned with the VFX Reference Platform 2024.

Introduced a new animation keying workflow.

Deleting an unused light group caused the environment light group to render to another light group.

Image > copy adds 3 white pixels on the left, deletes 3 pixels on the right.

Deleting an unused light group caused the environment light group to render to another light group.

Blender crash when file open.

Crash loading certain .exr file in compositor.

Crash on attempting to rename linked object from the NLA.

Crash when delete linked object in scenes outliner.

Able to link an external collection inside another linked collection, causes data loss.

Crash when opening the Compositor in an old file.

Possible crash with Motion Blur with changing curves count.

'Set Action' in outliner does not correctly update the animation.

Copy material to selected causes crash when receiving object doesn't have a material slot.

Resolved an issue where the Extrude to Cursor tool did not allow correcting the position of new vertices after LMB pressed.

Fixed an issue where foreach_get/set did not work for enum types.

Added compatibility for ROCm 6 in the Cycles rendering engine.

Fixed a crash issue when opening a 3.3 project in versions 3.6 or 4.0.

The preference option 'remap relative' now applies to all save operations.