Blender 4.5.4 LTS Maintenance Release !

Blender 4.5.4 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the v4.5 - Stable - LTS branch. You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select v4.5 - Stable - Stable.

Patch Notes

• AddedBlender 4.5.3 fails to compile with OpenColorIO 2.5.0. (#147227) * OpenEXRSupport reading multipart files with full channel names. (138e8fbf1bd85a081682f6d44d8bd73e993560ff) * Render: Forward compatibility for Blender 5.0 pass renames. (738209b2bee5be0ac4946ab5511f1644f2ac3391) * Illegal address when rendering with a custom camera in 4.5. (#145544) * UV Editor: Lock Pinned Islands in UV packing not working with UDIMs. (#141293) * Armature Symmetrize not symmetrizing Display Type prop. (#145190) * Crash when Capture Screenshot Preview. (#145719) * Regression: 3D cursor misaligned with axes in certain viewport rotations. (#145028) * Crash when opening old file with undefined node. (#145675) * USD Import: Fails to respect path user preference. (#145856) * VSE: from 4.5 right click select doesn't work with Blade Tool. (#145715) * Fix: VSE: Metastack channel preview with negative values. (f974c598f9a) * Crash on pasting VSE strip with driver. (#145629) * Fix: GPU: Avoid accessing GLContext after it is destroyed. (e8b7e144e04) * VRAM leak when Stereoscopy and motion blur are both enabled. (#145743) * Crash when switching view layer after undoing deleting/unlinking of certain object types. (#145848) * Fix #145932: Relax Face Set brush can corrupt mesh. (#145952) * Crash using playhead snapping in VSE in new scene. (#145890) * Blender 4.5 freezes with blank output colour management settings. (#146042) * Vulkan: Render Preview Error with Multiple 3D Viewports. (#145961) * Blender sometimes crashes when using resize detail button in dyntopo mode on a mesh with resolution higher than 500. (#146233) * Viewport Compositor: Render Layer input will not pass thru. (#146133) * 4.2.5 LTS - 5.0.0 alpha: Crashing after using UV Sculpt Tools in New Scene. (#145879) * Rigify: Actions Feature does not use Slotted Actions. (#144641) * .glb file import error on Blender 4.5. (#142867) * OpenGL: Curve control points are extremely small when first displayed. (#146501) * Possible Relax vertices in UV crash (wrong uv_sculpt size, missing defaults). (#132016) * User interface artifacting with Vulkan on Qualcomm. (#145315) * Fix #147340: EEVEE: Crash on failed world material compilation. (#147445) * Grease Pencil: Hardness property doesn't affect Square line type. (#147147) * Fix: Cycles: MetalRT motion curves setup bug. (#146568) * Can't select verts/edges/faces behind wire/bounds objects while retopology overlay is on. (#145993) * Crash when exporting alembic with Color Attributes. (#146822) * Moving a empty material after joining objects crashes Blender (backport request). (#146878) * Node Wrangler: Add Principled Setup plugs bump textures into filter width. (#146679) * Fix: VSE: Propagate split to connected strips by default. (22d9b4ff719) * Fix: USD: Camera FStop of 0 means no depth of field. (47368daebe0) * Animation is not deleting when Bake Simulation was used. (#146105) * bpy.ops.object.geometry_node_bake_pack_single failing on Windows. (#147175) * Blender crashes when using the Align Bones operator across two armatures with different mirror settings. (#146242) * VSE: "Swap Data" breaks strip alignment, then crashes. (#146682) * Some keymap user preferences do not get imported into Blender 4.5 properly. (#146670) * Crash if Grab and Keep Moving Missing Linked Data Block. (#147283) * Weight painting can easily create NaN. (#146671) * Test for greying out linked images in texture painting is backwards. (#147568) * Crash after dragging any Asset Library Essential into the Compositor (Timings Overlay enabled, invokes the wrong tooltip). (#147752) * Fix #146724: Crash when deleting node group from outliner. (#147828) * Fix #147803: assert triggered on keyframe jump on NLA control curves. (#147957) * Crash deleting library from which the current scene is linked. (#147759) * Crash using Blade or Slip tool in VSE with new scene. (#145853) * Toggle Window Fullscreen, Timeline (4.5.0, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3, 4.5.4). (#146812) * Fix (unreported) Collada: missing `finish` call on some modified attribute. (84418a8d16a6846afae0e80cde25027f53fded56) * Sequencer: crash with sequencer in sequencer. (#147477) * Crash when dragging outliner object into status bar. (#144921) * anim_transforms_to_deltas resets non-keyframed object transforms values. (#147796) * Collection input is missing the picker on new node group. (#147860) * Unnecessary write operations on blender_assets.cats.txt. (#111576) * Blender freezes on saving/loading of blend files with complex liboverride trees. (#145894) * install_linux_packages: Fix for Fedora ≥ 41 (DNF5). (e32a8ec884e) * Grease Pencil: Stroke not visible for specific post processing values. (#147174) * Blender Timeline animation, SHIFT vs CTRL selection difference. (#147996) * Rigify doesn't check existence of collection properly. (#148454) * Opening old 2012 .blend file crashes blender. (#148170) For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 4.5 LTS releases on blender.org

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