2.1.0 - 2026-11-04

Added

• Pose Library in a session: Blender's pose assets pose the character while AutoPose runs.
• Hold Frozen Joints: a joint frozen at two keys stays frozen between them.
• Freeze Active Handles: each newly activated handle is frozen in place.
• Facing: sets which way the character faces, so a character facing another way than -Y gets its look-at controls in the right direction.
• Rig presets: Roblox R15, Roblox R6 and MakeHuman MHX.
• Rigid-part characters: meshes parented to bones work with Puppet Mode and self collision.
• Clean Up AutoPose: removes the rigs AutoPose built and gives back the settings it changed.
• Paste Mirrored (Ctrl + Shift + V): the copied pose mirrored in place, foot contact and freezes too.
• Foot roll: a pinned foot rolls onto its toe or heel as the other end moves, and from heel to ball between two keys.
• Character Keys: the animation editors show only the character's keys during a session.

Changed

• Handle configuration per key: each keyed frame keeps its own handles, freezes and foot contact; frames between keys show the key before, and a moved key takes its setup along.
• IK on FK controls: turned off at Start and back on at Finish if the pose stays the same.
• Freeze or contact: a foot is held by one or the other; the later one wins.
• Paste carries freezes: frozen joints come with the copied pose, as foot contact does.
• Rotation limits at Finish: the question has a Don't ask again option.
• Look-at handles can no longer be frozen.
• Choosing another Character Rig moves the session to it.
• A foot set down near where it stood counts as planted; the sidebar and Plant Now say what held it.
• Plant Feet Between Keys adds fewer keys.
• Paste and Restore key the pose under Auto Key.
• Status notes are short and name joints as the sidebar does.
• Start and Reconstruct turn on Overlays and Bones.
• Session keys follow Blender's Default Interpolation and Default Handles.
• AutoPose's rigs and controls live in one Blaze_AutoPose collection.
• Puppet Mode selects a body part from a few pixels away to ease the selection.

Fixes

• Esc over playback no longer ends the session; it stops playback, as in Blender.
• Paste no longer lands the feet a few centimetres off on some rigs.
• The session no longer ends on save, on Esc during a move, on a click in a channel list or on Set Keyframe right after a frame change.
• Editing the armature object's own keys no longer shifts the character.
• Undo: drags, keys, Timeline edits and frame changes now undo in order, one step each, from the keys or the Edit menu.
• Adjust Last Operation now works on edits made in other editors.
• Key edits in the Graph Editor and Dope Sheet, interpolation and easing too, now reach the character at once.
• Plant Feet Between Keys now holds a foot between two keys one frame apart.
• Planted feet no longer slide when a key is added further along, and stay planted after undo and redo.
• G and R now work in Local View, a typed value applies at once, and G on all handles moves the whole character.
• S no longer scales a handle.
• Snapping and Affect Only Locations no longer apply to handles.
• A rotation handle no longer spins wildly when dragged from near its centre.
• Rigify rigs with the older bone names now pose their arms and legs; the IK/FK switch is read off the rig's drivers, and the Rigify preset detects those names.
• Frozen joints other than hands and feet no longer drift a little when another joint is dragged.
• A frozen hand or a knee under the floor no longer blocks every drag.
• Start no longer discards an unkeyed change on a keyed controller.
• Keying no longer leaves every key selected, only the newest.
• Keying over NLA strips no longer hides them.
• The control rig no longer stays in Pose Mode after the session ends, and recovery files no longer open stuck in it.
• A double click in a popup no longer picks a handle.
• An In-Between slider opened from the sidebar no longer jumps to its end before the pointer reaches the 3D View.
• The hover card no longer shows in every view, only in the one under the pointer.
• Nearly straight limbs no longer bend the wrong way.
• Reconstruct no longer misplaces joints on rigs whose bones point away from the next joint, such as game rigs.
• Chest and neck drags no longer fall short on rigs with extra spine bones.
• Controllers with a Child Of constraint no longer move at keying or Finish.
• An error during a session no longer leaves the handles unresponsive: AutoPose restarts the session with its handles, freezes and undo history, and an error that comes back finishes the session and says why.
• Handles and Puppet Mode no longer stop responding after select all, hide or undo.
• Puppet Mode no longer picks the wrong body part on meshes with modifiers such as Subdivision.
• A 3D View with its overlays off no longer picks handles.
• Drags no longer fail while a second Blender window shows a different scene.
• Cancelling the T-pose steps no longer removes an existing AutoPose rig.
• Planted feet no longer jump in height on rigs whose legs end at the ankles.

See Updating Blaze AutoPose for how to update.