Blender News

The much anticipated update of the Blender 2.80 milestone is here! With over a thousand fixes and several important updates that were planned for the 2.8 series. Most notable are the sculpting tools overhaul, support for NVIDIA RTX ray tracing in Cycles, Intel Open Image denoising, a better outliner, a new file browser and much more. Read more about the full feature set on blender.org.



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Blender 2.80 is officially available for download

The 2.80 release is dedicated to everyone who has contributed to Blender. To the tirelessly devoted developers. To the artists inspiring them with demos. To the documentation writers. To the Blender Cloud subscribers. To the bug reporters. To the designers. To the Code Quest supporters. To the donators and to the members of the Development Fund. Blender is made by you. Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kik4iZp5mjE

The second release candidate of Blender 2.80 is ready for download right here on Steam! If you have the beta program enabled. Over 70 bugs have been fixed.

Please check it out and report any issue you may find!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNIs_zFro_A

The Blender 2.80 Release Countdown has started.



A Release Candidate is the final step before the release. Blender has been built and packaged just like how the official release would be, and is available for a short period of testing. Download via the Steam updater and give it a good try. If things go as expected, the final release will be one week after.

Blender 2.80 is a massive upgrade! Check out what's new on the Blender website and consider supporting development on fund.blender.org.

It's time to celebrate! Click on the video and enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A-LldprfiE

Read the full story at https://www.blender.org/press/blenders-25th-birthday/
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