Also, there is a nasty option in the general preferences (preview options: top, right) :
disable automatic material preview rendering

This means that you will always have to click this triangle to get the materials updated. I recommend to uncheck both options in this area.

For some reason, the above option gets activated sometimes, maybe through a keyboard shortcut.

 

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