We've heard the sad news that Vinay Pawar, one of our active contributors, passed away last month. We knew him as zoyd in #blendercoders. Vinay was an active and helpful member in many places. We will miss his presence.
The following developers have worked on 2.55 beta:
- Thomas Dinges (DingTo)
- Damien Plisson (damien78)
- Daniel Salazar (ZanQdo)
- Sergey Sharybin (nazgul)
- Elia Sarti (vekoon)
- Stefan Gartner (sgefant)
- Ken Hughes (khughes)
- Martin Poirier (theeth)
- Brecht van Lommel (blendix)
- Dalai Felinto (dfelinto)
- Joshua Leung (Aligorith)
- Matt Ebb (broken)
- Nicholas Bishop (nicholasbishop)
- Doug Hammond (dougal2)
- Peter Schlaile (schlaile)
- Andrea Weikert (elubie)
- Janne Karhu (jhk)
- Luca Bonavita (mindrones)
- Nathan Vegdahl (cessen)
- Mitchell Stokes (Moguri)
- Campbell Barton (campbellbarton)
- Arystanbek Dyussenov (kazanbas)
- gsrb3d
- Jörg Müller (nexYon)
- Nathan Letwory (jesterKing)
This release has numerous patches applied, provided by coders and users to our patch tracker. Thanks!
We also want to thank all the users who have been active on our bug tracker in testing and verifying reports.
Since Blender 2.54 Beta was released 25 developers have made an effort to improve and stabilize the Blender 2.5 series.
With more than 760 commits to our code repository over 360 bugs were fixed.
- #[19096] FBX doubly rotated
- #[20064] Cloth simulation doesn't stop when marker is set back to frame 1 after exiting mesh edit.
- #[20277] Bug with Continuous Grab (windows)
- #[20350] particles are offset from emittor in dupli-objects
- #[20576] Curve modifier and loop cut
- #[20676] Smoke bake files fails to reload after a save / reload of blend file
- #[20708] segmented bones don't work well with spline IK
- #[20753] Segfault during sequence render in latest svn
- #[20761] Bones/Armature: "Inherit Scale" doesn't work if "Inherit Rotation" is disabled
- #[20979] SEQUENCER EFFECT: F-Curve not able to be set on Global Speed
- #[21084] Collada messing up geometry on import and renaming uvlayers
- #[21097] Rotating multiple bones with non-local location behaves incorrectly.
- #[21163] Text editor scrollbar problem with word wrap
- #[21179] r26939 - Lasso tool does not work when drawing counter clock wise
- #[21239] particles rendered as objects + display as render = crash (VBOs)
- #[21294] Bad object drawing and crash when rendering
- #[21309] SEQUENCER EFFECT: F-Curve breaks Speed Fader on Speed Control effect
- #[21331] Pose snap not working in some cases
- #[21395] Command Key for keyboard mapping not functional
- #[21429] Crash when rendering sequencer with Image preview opened
- #[21475] Moving a Transform strip upwards moves its animation sidewards
- #[21483] Twisting when Dupliframing a Surface Circle (Nurbs) along a Curve.
- #[21610] alt-r for bone (reset rotation) doesnt work in weight painting mode
- #[21718] Shrinkwrap's "Project" mode with offset gives wrong results.
- #[21768] Collada export of translations channel bug
- #[21783] VSE Scene Strips Cancel Node Compositing Effects
- #[21809] dangerous data-loss causing bug when changing driver variables
- #[21822] Unusual material slot behaviour, edit v object mode, cascade, SVN 27833
- #[21875] Copy rotation only on y axies
- #[21959] 'Apply rotation' to scaled object behaves wrong
- #[21976] edges disappear when using loop cut on geometry with hidden parts
- #[22110] fbx exporter blender 2.5 A2 is not working with udk and unity
- #[22161] Drawing of custom shapes in bones
- #[22164] Merging vertices in edit mode crashes blender
- #[22169] LoopCut and Slide plus ArrayModifier Object offset FirstLast gives crash
- #[22236] Seg Fault when rendering sequence with speed effect
- #[22250] Retopo projects to the wrong object when multiple objects are behind.
- #[22263] Child of constraint - only rotation
- #[22285] Adding scenes as clips in the VSE doesn't take into account the start and end frames of the timeline of the scene(rev 28649)
- #[22289] Cancelling transform fails to revert change in f-curve handle type
- #[22323] Graph Editor: crashe when transforming keys after pivot is set to "Individual Centers"
- #[22344] Weight paint brushes are completly wonkers
- #[22348] Color correction is non-reversable on JPGs and PNGs
- #[22399] Text Editor: word-wrapped lines prevent navigating through text with up-arrow.
- #[22407] Object level proxies ignore transform of original
- #[22442] FFMPEG Output Truncated on 2.5a2 on Windows 32/64bit
- #[22539] File browser problems when navigating
- #[22560] Crash with particles group and emission start
- #[22598] Animated texture properties do not appear in IPO if no material properties are also animated
- #[22603] Crash on launching external editor in texture paint [r29461] [WinXP 32bit]
- #[22612] FFMPEG writes incorrect Xvid FourCC code
- #[22634] sculpting/multires and wireframe display mode glitches
- #[22662] Transforming handles in the graph editor is broken.
- #[22767] parenting object causes rotation/scale/location information to be corrupted
- #[22785] Vertices go crazy when Separating a Multires object
- #[22825] Copy Scenes with Audio Strip Crash.
- #[22853] Incorrect roll and crash with mirrored bone extrusion
- #[22867] retopo bug
- #[22922] Composite nodes: adding a viewer before doing anything else does wrong connections
- #[22925] Crash when loading a scene in the sequencer with compositing and sequencer enabled in post processing
- #[22947] Sample color tool from a color picker in user preferences doesn't work
- #[22999] Crash when playing with baking / image texture add
- #[23001] Addons do not unregister properly in Blender 2.5.3
- #[23005] Sphere select does not work in texture paint modus
- #[23019] Path not found when installed with %HOME% system variable for 64 bit
- #[23031] adding a driver ontop of keyframe makes driver undeletable
- #[23068] Image editor: Update Automatically not updating the compositor.
- #[23070] some shortcuts cannot be saved in a usual way
- #[23078] Operator properties panel hides and can't unhide it.
- #[23083] changing the script makface.py delivers a crash
- #[23124] 2.5.3 saving the config files into a wrong directory
- #[23150] Creating Vertex with CTRL-LMB not snapping
- #[23170] Texture Baking with multithreading enabled causes wierd artifacts.
- #[23186] Object goes wild after deleting and adding mesh in edit mode
- #[23191] Ctrl-LMB quick extrude problem with non-perpendicular edges/faces.
- #[23267] Blender (2.53 beta 32 bit) crashes on startup in Windows XP
- #[23311] Half a colour picker appears
- #[23314] Comp node renaming breaks animation
- #[23326] Enable to add keframes on Image values (texture context)
- #[23343] changes in images doesn't update compositor image nodes
- #[23355] Square Color picker moving by itself and locking up
- #[23358] template_curve_mapping doesn't work in split views
- #[23405] PNG Images bigger then 2gig wont load with blender.
- #[23412] Weightpaint and rotate around bones
- #[23420] VIEWER NODE: Loses Viewer Nodes forever
- #[23447] wrong vertices/edges selected in UV editor
- #[23451] Render View, one plus button too much
- #[23468] Using dupliverts on a parent object causes a CTD.
- #[23475] Trapped in Render view
- #[23485] Clicking on movie file causes crash in image node file browser
- #[23506] Bevel Modifier display problem
- #[23508] Buttons in all windows gone
- #[23514] Modifier names containing ']' character cant be animated.
- #[23528] ED_pose_channel_in_IK_chain() doesn't take length of IK chain into account
- #[23539] Blender Generated Static Environments Fail To Save
- #[23540] Smoke preview shading is broken
- #[23543] Bugs in Collada material export
- #[23549] Copy rotation don't work if influence is another than 0 or 1
- #[23562] Renders using Particle Fluids, Dupli Objects and Subframes crashes Blender
- #[23577] Parenting scaled objects transforms them
- #[23583] SEGFAULT: When trying to delete FCurve value in compositor
- #[23595] Texture paint with a node based brush produces artifacts
- #[23598] Sequencer speed control fails on resize
- #[23606] Crash down while bakin AO map
- #[23629] Layers doesn't sign there are objects on them, only if the object is selected
- #[23637] Replacing an image used in the compositor crashes
- #[23651] Speed control's F-Curve compress Y will reduce on extrude
- #[23652] In texture Paint Mode RMB + drag translate the object
- #[23673] Modifier construction gives correct result in viewport but incorrect in render
- #[23690] Compositing nodes + Image editor width scopes for previewing viewer node + Rendering crash instantly
- #[23692] Segmentation Fault on every Render using Comp Nodes
- #[23698] Text editor wont open or save after one successful attempt
- #[23700] New nodes are created away from cursor
- #[23706] SEGFAULT: File Load of EXR
- #[23707] Autokey Available is ignored on a Clear Transform
- #[23708] Connection between nodes with F (fail case)
- #[23709] Blur node on Flat blurs even at 0 by 0 pixel spread
- #[23724] Transparency artefacts, lighting; introduced since official beta
- #[23729] Smoke / Edit Mode bug
- #[23731] Smoke / scrubbing on non saved file weird behaviour
- #[23732] Smoke / load external cache doesn't work
- #[23737] Network render + patch
- #[23739] # (hash) character can't be used in image filenames
- #[23748] Background Image Crash Program
- #[23753] Quicktime crash when browsing folder with certain movie files
- #[23754] GLSL + curve + modifier
- #[23766] Blender 2.5 smoke simulation won't stop after changing current timeline frame.
- #[23770] Copy/paste error in io_anim_bvh reloads the wrong module.
- #[23778] obj importing forgets to enable transparent into material
- #[23783] /../ prefix stops going up a dir
- #[23784] Renaming files broken in the file selector
- #[23785] Armature modifier not applied in rest position when starting game
- #[23791] crash rendering to some format
- #[23794] Particle System + FS Motion Blur corrupts some frames and possibly cache
- #[23795] Insert Visual Loc/Rot Keyframe of Armature Bones Broken
- #[23802] addons panel empty
- #[23813] Memory leak when importing bvh
- #[23818] Edge slide not resetting properly when displaying edge lengths
- #[23828] obj export problems
- #[23830] Border selecting bones in editmode bug
- #[23831] Removing an IK Constraint in pose mode still draws bone with IK highlight
- #[23832] Moving a pose bone doesnt update the transform button props realtime.
- #[23833] Console Errors (Keymaps)
- #[23835] Preview or loading large image as texture crashes blender
- #[23839] rip command shortcut 'V' missing
- #[23841] Bone envelope draws funky
- #[23843] Blender XP32 goes into loop when closing new window.
- #[23847] Key-frames not set when animating texture node offset and scale values
- #[23849] When the file is opened, Blender 2.5x crushes.
- #[23850] 2.54-beta Cloth - Unable to change Cache Step
- #[23857] Game engine world color doesn't respect color management setting in GLSL mode
- #[23864] Bevel Modifier + UV crashes under certain conditions
- #[23865] reloading scripts don't work
- #[23867] GroupNode.nodetree -> node_tree
- #[23868] NodeGroup font resolution problem when editing it
- #[23869] outliner not updated correctly/instantly
- #[23872] particle deflection in conjunction with SPH particles is apparently buggy
- #[23879] Missing Undo and Redo menu items
- #[23882] BrushTexture.Slot.size missing
- #[23884] Crash On Delete of a Duplicated Object
- #[23886] Timeline region update missing when adding/select/moving markers
- #[23899] renderlayers are not working properly
- #[23901] DISPLACE NODE: Will not accept negative values
- #[23906] Cloud generate/degenerate crashes renderer
- #[23908] Irratic manipulator scale at far out distances
- #[23909] Calculating Depth
- #[23910] Removing an object in Py crashes blender
- #[23912] Unable to render almost in any movie format
- #[23914] Text object with mirror/transparency in Blender 2.54 appear with their grid
- #[23916] Tangent space normalmap baking not working correctly
- #[23917] Output that does not append closing slash (/) on directories if file name is empty
- #[23918] No shadow received on object with 'shadows only' enabled when 'environment lightning' is ON
- #[23921] commit [31994] messes up importing of images in the compositor
- #[23923] extra material slots created
- #[23925] converting text into a curve looses materials.
- #[23927] Crash proportional editing: connected
- #[23932] Render crash -- probably due to compositor backdrop & viewers
- #[23935] Exporting to Unity3d .fbx Blender 2.5
- #[23944] Missing update of 3D view when toggling visibility of object in outliner with keyboard
- #[23945] obj export problems
- #[23948] Alpha from images inside compositor is gone
- #[23950] Crash with bake
- #[23954] Bone roll keeps changing when switching between EDIT <-> OBJECT mode
- #[23955] Erreur Totblock: 52 at each closure of Blender
- #[23961] Object hair particles do not render if turned off in viewport
- #[23965] Segmentation fault when using bpy_struct.keyframe_insert() with nested custom property
- #[23966] Cursor to selected: incorrect behaviour in curves
- #[23970] Memory problem when setting hair amount to zero
- #[23973] Make Single User -> Object & Data dont work as expected
- #[23974] Crash with 'i' on a value or other property
- #[23977] toggle back to object mode not working (outliner issue)
- #[23978] Error installing addon
- #[23979] Adding keyframe to an FCurve with option replace=True fails on nested ID property
- #[23983] Text editor does not update immediately when unlinking a text.
- #[23985] Crashes and Renders black
- #[23986] Camera->Lens->Pespective->Angle input
- #[23988] The Maya preset as default
- #[23991] sort vertex group
- #[23992] WM_keymap_free crash
- #[23995] Do loop cuts from the space bar search while in the properties panel crashes blender.
- #[24006] writeffmpeg doesn't flush delayed frames - fix attached
- #[24014] Operator UI not shown in the order defined
- #[24015] Deleting Objects with a Point Density Texture and Rendering Crashes Blender
- #[24018] Move backdrop seems do be broken
- #[24031] Baked Physics with Phsics set to NO can't be freed
- #[24038] keyboard navigation not working in second level menus
- #[24040] loop select -> delete edge loop crashes blender
- #[24041] Adding NURBS Sphere and NURBS Donut problem
- #[24043] Blender crashes when trying to export file to desktop.
- #[24046] Keyframe display in Timeline isn't updated
- #[24048] Tab key crashes console
- #[24050] Frame Rate buttons look strange
- #[24051] Scrubbing Timeline in VSE with Jack Audio doesn't scrub just plays the audio track
- #[24054] Shift+A add menu in Surface editmode shows curve items.
- #[24062] draw_view_icon() broken
- #[24063] Error in RNA naming in SequenceCrop.min_x/y ;
- #[24064] "Add interaction preset" does not work
- #[24065] obj export (mtl image path)
- #[24066] Menu_Items_Greyed
- #[24067] Sculpt texture disappears when you scroll up
- #[24068] Blender crashes when saving and filename includes scandinavian chars (ä, ö, å)
- #[24069] Blender chrashes on add keyframe
- #[24074] Bug! with Pan key selection
- #[24077] text icon not updated correctly in outliner
- #[24082] COLLADA files not exporting correctly in 2.54
- #[24083] Crash when opening a certain file
- #[24084] Collada Export invalid
- #[24085] NULL character is last
- #[24087] Blender can not install add-ons unless running with root priviledges
- #[24092] F-Curve Cycle doesn't behave properly at end of Cycles (also: possible problem with how the cycle range is determined)
- #[24094] Multiresolution sculpt mode undo crash
- #[24095] Actual theme colors do not match colors set in User Preferences
- #[24096] Shift+A does not work with a bone selected in pose mode
- #[24097] Shadow buffer halo for classical-halfway goes through gemoitry
- #[24098] File->New and File->Load Factory Defaults share the same hotkey
- #[24099] nla content moves out of sync - with fix
- #[24100] Blender becomes unresponsive when editing spot lights
- #[24103] Can't copy logic bricks from instance
- #[24104] File_Menu is truncated.
- #[24107] Hair/General particle glitch- Presets
- #[24111] Mirror clipping not working while sculpting a mirrored mesh
- #[24116] UV layout exporting doesnt work
- #[24118] Hair particles can not be edited
- #[24122] Shift-C doesn't work in "Camera View"
- #[24123] Network render gives black images
- #[24130] Crash on the 4-bit *.bmp files
- #[24133] r32303, Mirror Modifier + EditMode + VBO's Problem.
- #[24134] pointcache memory error (crash)
- #[24135] Material modification not immediately updated in Outliner
- #[24139] Edge loop + Multi-Resolution modifier results weird artifacts
- #[24142] path changes break osx
- #[24143] Edit NLA Strips
- #[24144] Small problem with texture (r32316)
- #[24145] Various COLLADA export issues
- #[24148] unable to get keyboard mappings to work in the text window
- #[24151] AddPresetBase class does not add Color import when saving color properties
- #[24153] Typo
- #[24155] Operator Cheat Sheet doesn't work properly
- #[24157] AddPresetBase class writes incorrect values for float_vector properties
- #[24158] Object text fields immediately search based on existing content
- #[24161] 2.5 Beta Background MP4 crash
- #[24165] Composite doesn't work when sequencer strip is added in own scene, works when strip is added in another scene.
- #[24167] Timeline keyframes don't update when selecting objects from outliner
- #[24168] verts[] was replaced with vertices[] but gives the old info to user.
- #[24169] Sequencer segfaults often when scrubbing to frame zero
- #[24171] Tab key no longer responds from UV / Image Editor
- #[24174] browsing directories with files named *.mp4 after 'add Movie' in Sequence Editor gives a crash
- #[24179] Button "Loop Cut and Slide" on Mesh Tools not work
- #[24180] Make duplicates real doesn't update immediatly the outliner.
- #[24182] Blender crash when browsing folders contains Full HD movies.
- #[24185] Blender 2.54 beta Windows startup does not like C:\Python27
- #[24190] Extrude Faces called from Alt+ E_key menu don't works well
- #[24195] Cloth modifier doesn't work after changing subsurf on the object
- #[24200] COLLADA Exporter: Aspect ratio is not exported
- #[24201] COLLADA Exporter: Light source energy incorrect
- #[24205] Multilayer EXR files used as input sequence are displayed incorrectly
- #[24208] ObjectId information is wrong when read from multilayer exr
- #[24209] Texture Forcefields: Use Object Coordinates produces incorrect results (patch included)
- #[24210] Tiled textures can cause corruption of entire UI
- #[24214] F6 "last operator" panel repeatable segmentation fault
- #[24215] Bad shorcut indication for Bezier curve handles.
- #[24221] Creating graph from armature doesn't work with unsaved .blend files (with fix).
- #[24225] Blur Node ignores gamma option when size has input.
- #[24226] small inconsistency in user preferences
- #[24231] outliner not refreshed correctly
- #[24234] Object deletion doesn't take into account its users (causes segfault)
- #[24237] Hair dynamics with zero particles generates a segmentation fault
- #[24238] "M" (move) selects wrong action when with armature
- #[24239] Fkey doesn't work in image paint unless also in 3D texture paint
- #[24241] Blender closing with "Segmentation fault" in revision 32462
- #[24243] wavefront animation export
- #[24244] Shortcuts don't save.
- #[24245] Blender Crash Editing Compositor Group Nodes
- #[24246] Active object pivot - doesn't work with curves and surfaces
- #[24247] Duplicating a Composite Group Node no User Count Icon
- #[24250] wavefront import/export defaults
- #[24253] r32218 breaks outliner icon drawing
- #[24256] Wrong bone subdivision number in tweak panel.
- #[24257] Last shape key not applied as Basis shape.
- #[24260] Window geometry command-line option doesn't work
- #[24262] Segmentation attempting to render
- #[24263] Hooks influence area with vertex group assigned is not effected
- #[24264] toggle UV selection fails.
- #[24267] Hook fails after Solidify
- #[24269] Crashing on loading image into UV/Image Viewer
- #[24270] RNA Properties with long Variable Names
- #[24276] Unable to set extrapolation on a per curve basis
- #[24280] NURBS default "12x12" UV resolution is not actually "12x12"
- #[24288] Mesh Grid pointing towards the floor when first created
- #[24289] bpy.ops.object.select_name() is broken
- #[24291] Error parenting a child with any negative scaling coordinate
- #[24292] When rendering with the stamp feature the scene opt. affects the seq. strip placement
- #[24293] Shadow pass is wrong
- #[24294] IMB_allocImBuf changes in r32517 missed a couple of files
- #[24296] AutoIK interactive chain length adjustment feature is missing
- #[24299] Changing Curves on rendered Pass scewes pass up seriously ;-)
- #[24302] Ctrl+Click Extrude gets old mouse events
- #[24306] Python : relative import error
- #[24307] 3d Viewport Mini 3D Axis changes color when alter 3d grid theme color
- #[24308] gloss setting: mesh rendering visible
- #[24309] Reloading file with incorrect path location.
- #[24311] Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V Issue
- #[24313] Displacement modifier is not respecting animated texture channels.
- #[24316] Changing particles path step in particle mode makes lines invisible
- #[24318] Particle lines disappear if view particles are enabled.
- #[24319] Removing a cloth or softbody simulation in paticle mode problem
- #[24321] duplicate of multiresolution modifier error
- #[24322] Rotating objects with Axis+Angle mode fails.
- #[24324] Wrong center for scaling Bezier Curve's handles
- #[24325] Texture painting using selected faces mask
- #[24331] EdgeSlide not as flawless as 2.49's
- #[24333] Horizon Color Picker Crashes Blender if Two 3D View Windows are Open
- #[24336] evaluation time - curve has no effect
- #[24337] Create vertex (and faces and edges) with "Control+LMB" doesn't works!
- #[24338] All Expoter is not displayed.
- #[24339] Auto Depth, makes viewport lag.
- #[24342] Wrong Bubble description when creation add-on without python comment on class
- #[24344] crash on adding new image when composite is open and there is no Nodetree
- #[24347] Fly mode: Immediately after pressing Shift+F, keys W and S work, keys A, D, R and F do not
- #[24348] Release confirm confusing
- #[24356] Creases in subsurf (catmulk-clark) are ignored in rev. 32627 and later in x64.
- #[24357] Font folder can be specified but is not opened
- #[24361] Only first frame is working with glow in Render Animation using Video Editing - Effect - Glow
- #[24363] Mesh parts of objects with shape keys assigned cannot be separated (in edit mode).
- #[24364] subsurf modifier causes wire-only meshes to disappear in object mode.
- #[24376] Fly mode disturbs the rotation or scale of the camera object
- #[24377] Bad frames drawn
- #[24383] Particles using "circle" as display, are disabled on opening file
- #[24400] If Script is executed with TEXT Editor, it becomes an error.
- #[24404] subsurface edge crease inverted effect REV:32713
- #[24414] Render hanging on small render border.
