Blender 2.79 Test Builds available

Time to prepare for a new release. And this is no ordinary release. This will be the last one before 2.8!

Blender developers have been hard at work, introducing an astonishing number of fixes and new features, for a release that will be truly epic.

We are talking about :

• Denoising
• OpenCL performance (up to 5x faster with AMD cards)
• Shadow Catcher
• Principled BSDF (Disney shaders)
• Filmic Color Management
• Improved Alembic I/O
• Improved Pose Library for Animation
• An so much more
• New add-ons (a dedicated article is coming soon)

Check out the WIP release notes to learn more.



You can be the real hero and help us testing, before we move to Release Candidate stage! To do so, simply visit the Blender 2.79 test build download page and get the Blender version that fits your OS.

If you find a problem, head to developer.blender.org and let us know!

If you want so see some cool projects made with Blender, check out the user Stories on blender.org. But what about you? What is the feature you are the most excited about? What do you expect for the future of Blender?