Three.js r86 Release

Three.js, the popular open source 3D JavaScript framework, just released version r86.  If you want to learn more about Three.js, we have a two part series available here and here.  This release contains several changes and fixes, as well as adding 3ds support to the editor, documentation improvements, new examples and more.  The changes to the core from the release notes:

Source

• Global
  • Clean up. #11222 #11369 #11384 (@Mugen87)
  • Added google-closure-compiler to dev dependencies. #11265 (@Mugen87)
  • Fixed some lgtm.com alerts. #11348 4ab3305 61520f0 334ab72 (@sjvs and @mrdoob)
    • Fixed some type checks. #11456 (@06wj)
• Camera
  • Added recursive support to copy(). #11416 (@tszyszko)
  • Compute matrixWorldInverse automatically. e2f465d 6cc82c7 (@mrdoob)
• CatmullRomCurve3
  • Clean up. #11366 (@Mugen87)
• Geometry
  • Fixed merge() and mergeMesh check bug. #11451 (@06wj)
• Mesh
  • Added BufferGeometry support in updateMorphTargets(). #11285 (@Mugen87)
• Object3D
  • Moved onBeforeRender()/onAfterRender() from constructor to prototype. #11288 (@lojjic)
  • Added applyQuaternion(). #11334 (@WestLangley)
• ObjectLoader
  • Handle deprecated MultiMaterial. #11220 (@mrdoob)
• PolyhedronGeometry
  • Compute flat normals when detail is zero. #11330 (@WestLangley)
• Ray
  • Improved applyMatrix4() performance. (@06wj)
• RectAreaLight
  • Cleanup and refactoring. #11232 #11243 (@WestLangley)
• RectAreaLightHelper
  • Simplified. #11223 #11236 (@WestLangley and @Mugen87)
• SpotLightHelper
  • Make sure light.matrixWorld is updated. ad52ec8 (@mrdoob)
• SkeletonHelper
  • Replace update() with onBeforeRender(). #11411 2bd55ff c51846a 6086329 (@WestLangley and @mrdoob)
• WebGLRenderer
  • Allow index attributes to be dropped using index.onUpload(). #11412 (@aardgoose)
  • Fix setViewport() and setScissor() pixelRatio bug. #11445 (@06wj)
  • Swapped y in setViewport() and setScissor(). 43ae8e4 (@mrdoob)
• WebGLRenderer/Shaders
  • Remove unnecessary #include <specularmap_fragment> from meshphysical_frag.glsl. #11250 (@takahirox)
  • Adreno 3XX workaround in normalmap_pars_fragment.glsl and bumpmap_pars_fragment.glsl. #9988 (@mrdoob)
• WebGLRenderer/SpritePlugin
  • Improved blending support. #11322 (@stuikomma)
• WebGLRenderer/WebGLPrograms
  • Added renderer.gammaOutput to program hash. #11342 (@WestLangley)
• WebGLRenderer/WebGLShadowMap
  • Fixed spotlight shadow updating. #11276 #11314 (@jaxry)
• WebGLRenderer/WebGLState
  • Use MAX_COMBINED_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS instead of MAX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS. #11303 (@06wj)
  • Handle CustomBlending case. #11336 (@WestLangley)

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