v2.1.24

[Victor-IX]

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
• 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.

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This discussion was created from the release v2.1.24.

[eisenbruch]

Im no longer getting any new builds to download on v2.1.24.

Is this happening for anyone else?

I have not downloaded these builds, and they are not showing up in Blender Launcher:

[Victor-IX]

what value do you have in the Blender Launcher.ini file next to the .log file for the minimum_blender_stable_version?

[eisenbruch]

minimum_blender_stable_version=4

[zeptofine]

Try changing that to 4.0

[zeptofine]

Addendum, this was addressed here 836e0d7 and i forgot to add safeguards if that did occur

[eisenbruch]

yep, working now. thanks

[SmoothTurtle872]

Finally Its fixed

[wallyma]

Oh no. trying to run a batch command of smoke Simulation and just moving my files and everything into the root folder To have the executable recognizable from the command line. Well I went ahead and deleted and updated all My versions and of course everything is gone. there's nothing in the recycle bin. is there a way you can just give people the option of "delete to recycle bin" instead of completely wiping it off your hard drive " NO UNDELETE". I work so hard on that some simulation :(

[wallyma]

I did a recover file, simulation not there but the file is. All my smoke settings too. so okay...whew.

[Victor-IX]

If I understand correctly, you had placed some smoke simulation assets in a Blender version root folder in the Blender launcher library, and when deleting the old version, you lost those files?