v2.1.24
What's Changed
💡 Features:
- Clicking on the Install Button in the download tab now navigates you to the Build in the Library.
- Improved Settings readability.
- New option to Disable automatic build Checking on Startup
(Settings > Blender Builds)
. - New option to only scrape Daily or Stable builds
(Settings > Blender Builds)
. - New settings to use Pre-release Updates for the Blender Launcher
(Settings > General)
. - New settings to use System Title Bar
(Settings > Appearance)
. - You can now open the last closed Blender file by shift-clicking on the Launch button.
- Every build is now editable.
🛠️ Fixes:
- Fixed Stable build fetching.
- Fixed installed versions being flagged as "installed" after uninstalling in the download tab.
- Fixed a bug preventing users from launching Blender 2.79 and older from the Launcher.
- Fixed the inability to move BL using internal moving panels on some Linux Distributions.
⚙️ Others:
- New icon in the Context Menu.
- Implemented Semver to manage the version of the Blender Launcher and Blender builds. (We used non-standard version numbers for this version and the previous one to prevent breaking the updater; we will return to a more standard versioning format in the next update).
- Blender Launcher Settings, Log, and Cache files are now located in the user folder.
- Windows:
%AppData%\..\Local\Blender Launcher
. - Linux Config:
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME
or~/.config/Blender Launcher
- Linux Cache:
$XDG_CACHE_HOME
or~/.cache
- Windows:
- Stable Build caching to reduce request amount and speed up the fetching of all the Blender builds.
- Improved Error feedback.
- Shift-clicking
Check
will now refresh Stable and Daily. - Using argparse for parsing commandline arguments.
Edit: Uploaded a new version of the Ubuntu build due to segfaults (I love github actions so much...)