Blender Launcher v1.15.1

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📢 Please, read about how to report a bug before creating an issue.

📑 Release Notes

🛠️ Fixed:

• Wrong font scaling in some UI areas

🔥 New:

• Added Show Patch Details option to check details of patch builds
  Available in downloads and library context menu for experimental builds with D12345 name pattern
• Settings UI refresh and code refactoring
• Application will ask for restart if applying changed settings requires it

📦 Other:

• Updated dependencies
• PyInstaller updated to 5.3.0

💖 Have a nice day!

Blender Launcher v1.15.0

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📢 Please, read about how to report a bug before creating an issue.

📑 Release Notes

🛠️ Fixed:

• Build hash number is empty for the stable builds in Downloads tab #122
• Clicking the version number button opens a broken web page #128
• Small internal fixes and improvements

🔥 New:

• Experimental proxy support #63
  HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, SOCKS5
• New setting option to change the new builds check frequency #114
• Added options to launch Blender in debug mode on Windows #125
  Available in Build Context Menu → Debug
• Updated downloading code should give better default speed
• Updated scraping code is faster by ~30% in most cases
• Updated downloading progress appearance with more accurate visualization
• Settings now stored in Blender Launcher.ini file for user friendly experience and portability
  ⚡ Warning: because of this change you must set settings from scratch!

📦 Other:

• Updater code refactoring
• Icon/logo updated due to the copyright claim from Francesco
• PyInstaller version updated to 5.0
• UI polishing

🚩 Known issues:

• Connection manager instance can't be killed without restarting application

💖 Have a nice day!

Blender Launcher v1.14.1

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Please, read about how to report a bug before creating an issue.

Release Notes

Fixed:

• Downloads were empty because of the certificate verification failure caused by expired DST Root CA X3 #100
• Invalid global shortcut crashes BL #99

Known issues:

• Using meta key (⊞ Win) as a global shortcut is disable at the moment
  (Pressing meta key leads to unexpected behavior since it is already mapped to many features in Windows)

Blender Launcher v1.14.0

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Please, read about how to report a bug before creating an issue.

Release Notes

Fixed:

• On Linux scraper not filtering *.sha256 files #89
• Daily builds without branch info (stable) was broken
• Link to the release notes was broken
• When deleting builds button label was duplicated

New:

• Added -debug flag to retrieve additional useful debug information
  Check documentation for how to use it
• Blender 3.0 and higher on Windows now supports running via blender-launcher.exe without showing console at startup #75
  Activate Hide Console On Startup in settings to enable this feature
• Build added to quick launch can be executed via global shortcut #81
  Activate Quick Launch Global Shortcut in settings to enable this feature
• Windows taskbar thumbnail now has close and quick launch tool button
• Show reload option for custom builds even if there is no any
• Subversion indent now is constant

Other:

• Added debugging builds for better troubleshooting
• PyInstaller version updated to 4.5.1

Known issues:

• When running Blender via blender-launcher.exe counting active instances isn't working
• Global shortcut doesn't support numeric keypad

Blender Launcher v1.13.0

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Please, read about how to report a bug before creating an issue.

Release Notes

Fixed:

• Site and naming convention changes broke proper build recognition and display [#70]

New:

• Internal MacOS support (not builds yet)

Known issues:

• There is still might be some broken builds due to convention changes when migrating from 1.12.1 to 1.13.0 which should be removed manually from the Library Folder (folders named blender-windows64)

Blender Launcher v1.12.1

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Please, read about how to report a bug before creating an issue.

Release Notes

Fixed:

• Daily and Experimental builds messed up after massive site changes #65

Other:

• Minimum GLIBC version raised to 2.31
• Python version updated to 3.9

Known issues:

• New naming conventions may break branch labels for experimental builds

Blender Launcher v1.12.0

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Please, read about how to report a bug before creating an issue.

Release Notes

Fixed:

• Subversion label doesn't fit five-digit version numbers #62
• Select only active widget when launching build
• Runtime error when application terminates on update or when Show Tray Icon option is disabled

New:

• Added Show Release Notes context menu action for Stable and LTS builds to reveal page with release notes for selected build in web browser
• Hash number display can be accessed by clicking on Commit Time/Upload Time label of build item
• Library Folder now can be set via command line arguments #52
  Read about how to use it on Changing Library Folder section
• BL will warn the user when different version of the application is launched #44

Other:

• Multiple builds deletion stability improvements
• PyInstaller version updated to 4.3 [Windows]
• UI polishing

Blender Launcher v1.11.0

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Please, read about how to report a bug before creating an issue.

Release Notes

Fixed:

• Fix release candidate title conversion to RC [unreported]
• Custom page reload feature forces to draw all builds which leads to duplicates [unreported]
• Fix crashing - library drawer and observer threads [unreported]
• Fix alignment with 'RC' and 'Alpha' subversion labels #56

New:

• Add animated icons to get back visualization of download and extract processes

Other:

• Move dialog creation into separate class, disable custom icons and set view to list by default

Blender Launcher v1.10.0

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Please, read about how to report a bug before creating an issue.

Release Notes

Fixed:

• Symlink doesn't work if associated folder was deleted
• Small internal fixes and improvements

New:

• Refactored Main Window tabs and pages design
• Refactored list design with better alignments matched between tabs and pages
• Branch labels properly cropped when no enough space is available
• Show build phase (Alpha, Beta) for daily builds in downloads tab
• New Favorites tab that contains builds added from Library tab using context menu Add To Favorites action
• Branch renaming support for Favorites tab
• Favorite build renamed to Quick Launch and marks with play icon on the Launch button and Blender tray context menu action
• New builds now marks with dot icon instead of "New" label
• New option to disable tray icon and quit Blender Launcher on close
• Context menus automatically positioned under first available option
• Refactored automatic update system for better stability [#41]

Other:

• Wiki was deprecated in favor of new Documentation site
• Reading local builds now is more stable and fast
• .blinfo file version update due to new Favorites tab - expect reloading all existing builds information at first start
• PyInstaller version updated to 4.2 [Windows]
• Added development packages to virtual environment

Blender Launcher v1.9.2

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Please, read about how to report a bug before creating an issue.

Release Notes

Fixed:

• Scraper fails on 'rc' build version tags which leads to empty daily and experimental downloads pages
  Note: the issue may cause failing of automatic update feature!