In T74556#888738, @Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii) wrote:

It always worked like that.

By the way - snapping to closest vertex in Edit Mode works like in previous versions of Blender, but you loose the initial origin location, which is not easily restored in most cases.

So this is a feature request.

Thanks Sergey!
You are right about new particles messing up old projects.
Is it possible to work around it using Python?

It doesn't work for me on the official release of 2.79
I suppose I have to open new bug report.

The title is based on initial observations.
It is definitely a bug so I will leave it to developers to figure it out.

Decided to play with the texture node before plugging it into Scale offset

In T51705#438514, @Aaron Carlisle (Blendify) wrote:

Please try with a build from builder.blender.org/download

Sorry about that!
Note taken.

In T51705#438461, @Joel Godin (FloridaJo) wrote:

Do you mean like this?

Yes, that's the setup that crashes Blender.
It was mentioned from another user I just replicated it on my machine.

Can you confirm that this doesn't happen for low-res images? (100x100 or so).