Notes:

• The download package contains a blender.html file with installation instructions and a quick survival guide for new users.
• The NL download site is always up to date, the Germany, USA and AU mirror usually a day later.
• You can download the optional Yafray render engine here.
  
• The OSX, Linux and Windows versions have FFMPEG compiled in.
• Users with Intel on-board graphics: some graphics operations (menus or border select) don't show due to driver bug.

Blender 2.46 is the latest release from the Blender Foundation. To download it, please select your platform and location.

You can find the 64 bits versions here.

Windows

Blender 2.46 Installer (9 MB)

Requires Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

USA | Germany | Asia | NL

Blender 2.46 Zip Archive (12 MB)

Requires Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

USA | Germany | Asia | NL

 

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For the Windows build, you may need to install this official update. Vista doesn't need this, but users of older Windows versions should install it if they experience a crash during startup of Blender. Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86)

Linux x86-32

Blender 2.46, Python 2.4 (14 MB)

Requires glibc 2.3.6, includes FFMPG
Suits most recent Linux distributions

USA | Germany | Asia | NL

Blender 2.46, Python 2.5 (14 MB)

Requires glibc 2.3.6, includes FFMPG
Suits most recent Linux distributions

USA | Germany | Asia | NL

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Linux x86-64

Blender 2.46, Python 2.4 (16 MB)

Requires glibc 2.3.6, includes FFMPG
Suits most recent Linux distributions

USA | Germany | Australia | NL

Blender 2.46, Python 2.5 (16 MB)

Requires glibc 2.3.6, includes FFMPG
Suits most recent Linux distributions

USA | Germany | Australia | NL

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Static MesaGL version, Python 2.4  USA | Germany | Australia | NL

Static MesaGL version, Python 2.5  USA | Germany | Australia | NL

Mac OS X

Blender 2.46, PowerPC (19 MB)

Requires Mac OS X 10.3+, Python 2.3
Suits PowerMac G5, Powerbook G4, iMac G5

USA | Germany | Asia | NL

Blender 2.46, Intel (11 MB)

Requires Mac OS X 10.4+, Python 2.3
Suits Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac (Core Duo) and iMac (Core 2 Duo)

USA | Germany | Asia | NL

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Custom Python 2.5 installations:

Blender 2.46, PowerPC, Python 2.5 (13MB): USA | Germany | NL
Blender 2.46, Intel, Python 2.5 (13MB): USA | Germany | NL

Solaris

Blender 2.46, Python 2.5 (11 MB)

Requires Solaris 2.8 / Sparc

USA | NL

FreeBSD

Blender 2.46, Python 2.5 (6 MB)

Requires FreeBSD 7.0

USA | Germany | NL

Regression files are .blend examples showing systematically all features we test before doing a release. This is a good reference for bug hunting, but also a valuable demo overview for new users.

Blender 2.46 regression suite (40+ demo files): NL USA

Blender 2.43 game demos (graphics): NL USA

Blender 2.43 game demos (physics): NL USA

To install Blender, download the appropriate package for your platform to your computer. The Windows version comes with an optional self-extracting installer, for other operating systems you can unpack the compressed file to the location of your choice.  

Provided the Blender binary is in the original extracted directory, Blender will run straight out of the box. No system libraries or system preferences are altered.

Download the md5sums to the same directory as the Blender download and run

$ md5sum -c release246.md5

to verify the integrity of the download. You can safely ignore the warnings about missing files. (Windows users can do this too with a Cygwin installation, or google for 'md5sum win32').