Hi all, I am having trouble finding an answer to this because it the behavior that's happening can only be described as 'clipping', but that's obviously something else entirely, so I don't even know what to search for, if this problem has been addressed before.

Basically, the blur feature is not functioning as it always has for me. Trying to blur a circle, the object's boundaries don't extend as far as they should, as fast as they should, so the outer edges of the blur are cropped to a square. This is only happening below a certain level of blur, though; eventually the boundaries extend enough that there's no 'clipping'. It seems like maybe the boundaries of the object are set to where the circle's fill edge is, rather than it's stroke edge? But the object's boundaries are correct (i.e. set by the outer edges of the stroke) when I have the blur set to 0. 

I'm sure there's some box I unchecked somewhere to make this happen, I just can't find it. Thanks in advance!

Not sure which version you´re using - but normally "Automatic Region" should be on by default and increase the bounding box with higher values of the blur filter:

I can't reproduce the issue. When I apply blurring to a circle, the bounding box expands to render the blurred region. Maybe upload your svg?

I've seen this before, though not always and I'm not certain what triggers it.

Switch to the Node tool and look for a couple of diamond-shaped nodes. You can drag these out to increase the area of the blur. Does that work for you?

Pretty sure it´s with an older version.

Hi all-- yes, it seems updating from .91 to 1.1.1 has fixed it, although I am still weirded out by the fact that this was a new problem that started suddenly a few days ago, after having used version .91 for several years. It did not have the 'Automatic Region' checkbox in the filter editor, or anywhere that I could find. 

Thanks!