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Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 4.2 LTS!



As usual with LTS (long-term support) releases, Blender 4.2 LTS comes packed with features, improvements, and fixes ready to power your projects for the next two years.

Some highlights:

• New render engine: EEVEE got a complete rewrite, bringing global illumination, displacement, better SSS, volumetric lighting and shadows, viewport motion blur, and so much more.
  
• Cycles: Ray Portals, Thin Film Interference, better volume rendering, blue noise, and more.
  
• The Compositor: Can now utilize GPU acceleration for offline renders, it’s faster on CPU, and more nodes are supported in the 3D Viewport.
  
• Extensions: A new way to share, install, and update add-ons and themes online within Blender.
  
• Portable installation.
  
• Khronos PBR Neutral Tone Mapper.
  
• New sculpt tools.
  
• Video Sequencer: Strips redesign, including highlighting missing media, text strip enhancements, and better performance.
  
• Collection exporters.
  
• USD, Alembic, glTF, OBJ, PLY, and STL enhancements.
  
• Undo up to 5x faster.
  
• Animation editors and tools upgrades.
  
• And so much more!
  

This also marks the launch of the online Extensions Platform – a community website to share free and open source add-ons and themes.

Watch the video summary on Blender’s YouTube channel.

And many more features and fixes await you—explore the release notes for an in-depth look at what’s new!

This work is made possible thanks to the outstanding contributions of the Blender community, and the support of the over 4400 individuals and 38 organizations contributing to the Blender Development Fund.

Happy Blending!

The Blender Team
July 16th, 2024

Blender 3.6.14 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the v3.6 - Stable - LTS branch.

You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select v3.6 - Stable - LTS.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

• STL/PLY: Imported object data instanced. (#118148)
  
• [snap packaging] Please provide appstream common id. (#123473)
  
• Cycles: oneAPI: Fix driver version check for future Intel GPU drivers. (2ae87b8fb06)
  
• Collada: export when editing multiple objects does not pick up all changes. (#94125)
  
• Possibly incorrect rendering result when using zero-spread area light on a standard Lambertian object in Blender 3.6.12. (#123448)
  
  

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 3.6 LTS releases on blender.org

[h3]LTS Program[/h3]

Learn more about the LTS program on blender.org

[h3]Stay up-to-date[/h3]

Blender 3.3.21 LTS features many bug fixes. It is released on the v3.3 - Stable - LTS branch.

You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select v3.3 - Stable - LTS.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

• [snap packaging] Please provide appstream common id. (#123473)
  
• Collada: export when editing multiple objects does not pick up all changes. (#94125)
  
  

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 3.3 LTS releases on blender.org

[h3]LTS Program[/h3]

Learn more about the LTS program on blender.org

[h3]Stay up-to-date[/h3]

You can follow Blender on social media:

Keep reporting any issues you find to make this LTS the most stable release ever !

Happy blending,
The Blender team

Blender 3.6.13 LTS features important bug fixes. It is released on the v3.6 - Stable - LTS branch.

You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select v3.6 - Stable - LTS.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

• 'Limit Location' constraint does not work when added via script. (#119945)
  
• Fix #102872: Custom Normals Average operator ui shows wrong properties. (#121864)
  
• layout.template_search() causes crash if target is a PointerProperty. (#122150)
  
• Exporting PLY with Vertex Normals ON + Importing PLY causes Broken Vertex Normals. (#122344)
  
• Sculpt: After using clotch, an error will occur in the cloch filter - filter type: scale. (#122429)
  
• Hair Curves: Grow brush doesn't work if curves have only two points. (#122598)
  
• Pie menu performs multiple actions at the same time if it appears near the edge of screen and hotkey is used. (#122526)
  
• Blender freezes when repeating baking textures. (#82483)
  
• Regression: Copy to selected on addons properties crach Blender. (#119999)
  
  
  

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 3.6 LTS releases on blender.org

[h3]LTS Program[/h3]

Learn more about the LTS program on blender.org

[h3]Stay up-to-date[/h3]

Blender 3.3.20 LTS features many bug fixes. It is released on the v3.3 - Stable - LTS branch.

You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select v3.3 - Stable - LTS.

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

• Fix #102872: Custom Normals Average operator ui shows wrong properties. (#121864)
  
• layout.template_search() causes crash if target is a PointerProperty. (#122150)
  
• Hair Curves: Grow brush doesn't work if curves have only two points. (#122598)
  
• Pie menu performs multiple actions at the same time if it appears near the edge of screen and hotkey is used. (#122526)
  
  
  

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see 3.3 LTS releases on blender.org

[h3]LTS Program[/h3]

Learn more about the LTS program on blender.org

[h3]Stay up-to-date[/h3]

You can follow Blender on social media:

Keep reporting any issues you find to make this LTS the most stable release ever !

Happy blending,
The Blender team