BLender 2.76: We go 'b' series now

Referenced by issue #55209, Theme setting for properties, image, movie clip editor
Referenced by issue #54655, Importing any video to VSE results in audio and video having different lengths (not a codec problem, happens to all videos)
Referenced by issue #53250, Crash when linking/appending a scene to a blend when another linked scene in this blend is currently open/active
Referenced by issue #51964, Can't sort Linked objects transparency in viewport
Referenced by issue #50421, Blender crashes while Duplicating
Referenced by issue #50408, Port EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION fix to 2.76b
Referenced by issue #49924, Grease Pencil (GP) not working on Video Sequencer Editor (VSE)
Referenced by issue #49887, Middle Mouse button for Rotate 3D view does not work (Mouse: Logitech MX Anywhere 2)
Referenced by issue #49810, Objects deleted by switching layers
Referenced by issue #49387, Blender 2.77 & up, GLSL Viewport rendering not working correctly, material glitches & artifacts
Referenced by issue #48944, Copy Rotation bone constraint on non-positively scaled armature
Referenced by issue #48948, Cycles: Normalmap does not bake with Alpha
Referenced by issue #48953, In dual monitor, Mesh disappears when Opensubdiv's on
Referenced by issue #48843, Too many speed controlled videos kills the program.
Referenced by issue #48748, BI Material Diffuse color isn't showing in Texture Shading mode
Referenced by issue #48716, Knife cut creates polygons with inverted normals
Referenced by issue #48683, Knife create a hole in the face cutted.
Referenced by issue #48542, OSL crash on 32bit
Referenced by issue #48546, Blender OOM at startup
Referenced by issue #48274, F-Curve channel name doesn't appear
Referenced by issue #48215, Linux crash - Right clicking on any mesh will instantly crash Blender
Referenced by issue #48199, Shift O no longer cycles through all Falloff Types in Proportional Edit mode
Referenced by issue #48180, No checker pattern displayed for alpha transparency areas in rendered image
Referenced by issue #48162, GPU render issue, CPU renders fine (Volumetric Emission)
Referenced by issue #48037, 2.77 and 2.69 both on Windows and Linux crashes when trying to play (unbaked,first try,play) rigid body physics
Referenced by issue #48028, GPU Compute in Cycles is broken on AMD stable drivers and Blender stable release
Referenced by issue #47996, Bug Hair (particles) Density/Length texture in Cycles
Referenced by issue #47971, Blender 2.77 Crash When Rigid Body Cache 'Bake' Clicked
Referenced by issue #47921, Blender crashes when trying to select an object
Referenced by issue #47908, Loop End action does not complete (behaves as Loop Stop)
Referenced by issue #47909, Significant animation overhead remains after stopping animation playback
Referenced by issue #47860, Selecting object crashes Blender 2.77 on Ubuntu 14.04
Referenced by issue #47830, Selecting multiple Shape Keys values doesn't highlight them during selection
Referenced by issue #47835, Solid Black smoke domain
Referenced by issue #47838, Walk Navigation fails to use gravity with intersecting objects
Referenced by issue #47825, backgrond images bug
Referenced by issue #47802, bake does not accept DIFFUSE_COLOR as parameter in 2.77 rc2
Referenced by issue #47782, Crash on MacBook Pro 2015 Retina when start to render on 2nd non retina display
Referenced by issue #47751, Blender 2.77+2.77~rc1~1456489967
Referenced by issue #47756, RGB Curves node kills HDR values?
Referenced by issue #47737, Blender crash when add Smoth modifier on Lattice.
Referenced by issue #47738, Blender segmentation fault when Right-clicking on any object in 3d view.
Referenced by issue #47741, OpenGL render always renders against transparent background
Referenced by issue #47742, Blender cannot remember last used name and path while saving rendered image
Referenced by issue #47722, FBX export interpolation is not accurate
Referenced by issue #47677, Text Object Outline fails to daplay
Referenced by issue #47667, Uneven width of colors in ColorRamp with constant selected
Referenced by issue #47635, Slowdown of texture painting
Referenced by issue #47627, Audio will not keep sync with video at 20 FPS.
Referenced by issue #47581, Sliding UI vertically outward when cursor is moving in sidebars
Referenced by issue #47575, OSX Blender causes display failure
Referenced by issue #47557, Several issues with constraints in a negative scaled armature
Referenced by issue #47549, Texture properties tab empty
Referenced by issue #47532, F6-menu drops mouseclicks
Referenced by issue #47534, Crash attempting to use 'bpy.ops.paint.image_paint()'
Referenced by issue #47523, Painting depth of field effect in viewport
Referenced by issue #47515, Blender freezes for a moment when clicking RMB in Sculpt mode
Referenced by issue #47484, Crash on exporting collada file from menu
Referenced by issue #47485, Blender crash
Referenced by issue #47471, Registry entries missing
Referenced by issue #47463, GeForce GTX 960 CUDA error: out of memory in cuArrayCreate(&handle,&desc)
Referenced by issue #47444, Texture node in compositing nodes does not update "generated" textures in texture nodes
Referenced by issue #47449, Segmentation Fault during rendering
Referenced by issue #47451, Origin-only object with ocean simulation modifier does not rendered.
Referenced by issue #47422, "Too many fonts!!!" gets printed on the console after repeatedly calling bpy.ops.wm.read_factory_settings()
Referenced by issue #47409, Packed images won't be saved to the blender file if "Load UI" is unchecked
Referenced by issue #47414, Smoke sim does not work with negative startframe
Referenced by issue #47392, OpenSubdiv is not reactivated though the Modifier after the Subsurf-Modifier is not displayed in Viewport
Referenced by issue #47394, Explode Modifier: Particle UV setting
Referenced by issue #47350, Children hair particles not appearing on certain faces of subdivided cube
Referenced by issue #47352, Crash in sculpting mode with dynamic topology
Referenced by issue #47354, accented characteres
Referenced by issue #47330, problem when 2 gamepads use in same time logitech  (button dont work but axix work) logic editor
Referenced by issue #47314, Misaligned DataBlock Previews for groups with custom center coordinates
Referenced by issue #47318, Seed option does not work for interpolated children on particle hair systems without "Random" checked
Referenced by issue #47319, The "Disconnect/Connect Hair" feature for particle hair systems does not work properly with "Use Modifier Stack"
Referenced by issue #47320, Cycles baking: Some operations do not "take" until edit mode is exited
Referenced by issue #47294, Particle hair textures do not work properly when "Emit From" option is set to "Verts"
Referenced by issue #47281, Blender crashes randomly on freshly installed windows 10 (OpenGL)
Referenced by issue #47273, Cycles GPU performance regression on Nvidia's Maxwell cards
Referenced by issue #47225, Blender Crashes in Sculpt Mode with dyntopo while pressing `esc` key
Referenced by issue #47234, Excessive BVH build time for dupligroup instances of hair-covered objects
Referenced by issue #47201, Cycles+OSL keeps image files open until Blender exits
Referenced by issue #47209, Crashes when adding remesh modifier to the mesh that is far from object origin and has been translated to world origin
Referenced by issue #47187, Blender 2.7x crashes
Referenced by issue #47168, bpy.ops.paint.project_image(image=image_name) degrades high dynamic range to ~8bit
Referenced by issue #47155, Regression with Combed Hair
Referenced by issue #47119, Material Preview not updated when shown in Tool Shelf
Referenced by issue #47121, Image node on linked and localized material loses image after reopening project.
Referenced by issue #47106, Proportional Edit will not disable
Referenced by issue #47109, Change duplicate sound strip path change original stip path too
Referenced by issue #47096, Video Sequence Editor does not update driver values when rendering
Referenced by issue #47098, Hibernate halts render and bake
Referenced by issue #47085, World background window-projected image green channel missing on CPU rendering
Referenced by issue #47068, Weird deformations on linked meshes modified by a curve
Referenced by issue #47050, Changing operator settings of first inserted object removes linked background images added via drag and drop
Referenced by issue #47055, generated navmesh has manifolds/overlapping triangles
Referenced by issue #47035, NLA - Quaternion blending in "Add" mode should use quaternion math instead
Referenced by issue #47042, Blender UI developed a lag all of a sudden
Referenced by issue #47007, Subsurf (OpenSubdiv) crashes with array modifier
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source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_blender.h

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ extern "C" {
 
 /* used by packaging tools */
 /* can be left blank, otherwise a,b,c... etc with no quotes */
-#define BLENDER_VERSION_CHAR   a
+#define BLENDER_VERSION_CHAR   b
 /* alpha/beta/rc/release, docs use this */
 #define BLENDER_VERSION_CYCLE   release