Compatibility is broken for this release.When using the add-on Rigify, please note:.Rigs created in Blender 2.77 may still work.Rigs created in Blender 2.78 may not be compatible with 2.79.During the 2.78 series: IK snapping was partly broken.Changes to IK snapping may affect rigs that use non-uniform IK scaling.rigs using this feature saved in 2.79 won't behave correctly when loaded in older versions, see D2796). Changes to bbone easing break forward compatibility (i.e.The text color contained in a layout.box() is now defined in User Preferences > Themes > User Interface > Box section.Some Interface Themes may need to be reloaded to work properly.blend files in Blender 2.78c and earlier may crash. blend files can't be opened in earlier versions of Blender. When using add-ons in Blender 2.79 that take advantage of the new data-block pointer properties, the resulting.Due to various issues with drivers for AMD GCN 1.0 architecture, those cards are no longer supported for Cycles rendering.This corrective release only fixes a few serious bugs/regressions introduced in 2.79a fixes. It aims at making Blender 2.79 even more robust and reliable while most of the development effort is focused on the next version, Blender 2.8. in mesh normal and tangent space computation, in SubSurf modifier). And some performance enhancements, mostly in threaded code (e.g. It brings a huge amount of fixes (over 200, from real bugs to potential security issues).

This corrective release does not add any new feature.

And: 100s of bug fixes and other improvements!.

Twenty Three new and several updated add-ons.

User Interface: Initial support for reusable custom configurations, automatic DPI scaling.

Alembic: Improvements to compatibility, stability and support.

Grease Pencil: New frame interpolation tools, per-layer onion skinning.

Cycles: Built-in Denoising, Shadow catcher, Principled shader, AMD OpenCL optimizations.The Blender Foundation and online developer community are proud to present Blender 2.79! Download the 2.79 Release

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