While there are major new features scheduled, including a new asset manager, revamped animation toolset and a USD importer, Blender 3.0 will also move the software to a more conventional two-year release cycle with long-term support versions, reflecting its increasing use in major commercial productions.īlender 3.0 now due to ship in October 2021 The first of Blender’s new two-yearly release cyclesįirst announced last year, Blender 3.0 will finally bring to an end the 20-year-plus Blender 2.x release cycle, although the change is symbolic as much as structural. The release now looks likely to take place during the online events scheduled to replace this year’s Blender Conference, and should also feature Cycles X, Blender’s much-anticipated new production renderer. The delay, proposed by Blender Foundation chairman Ton Roosendaal, is being brought in to enable in-person workshops with core contributors when coronavirus travel restrictions ease. The release of Blender 3.0, this year’s milestone update to the open-source 3D software, is being postponed from August to “late October” December 2021. Scroll down for the latest news of the release date.
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