title: $:/changenotes/5.4.0/#9494
description: Fix LetWidget to always set all staged variables on first render
release: 5.4.0
tags: $:/tags/ChangeNote
change-type: bugfix
change-category: widget
github-links: https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/TiddlyWiki5/pull/9494
github-contributors: yaisog

This PR corrects a bug where the LetWidget did not set variables if their value was the empty output of a filtered transclusion.
