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

What’s New

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!

Long-term Commitment

Blender 4.2 is the fifth LTS release, each covering two years of fixes, once again solidifying the Blender Foundation’s commitment to making Blender a reliable tool for use in production and educational environments.

• Blender 2.83 LTS — 2020 – 2022 (20 releases)
• Blender 2.93 LTS — 2021 – 2023 (18 releases)
• Blender 3.3 LTS — 2022 – 2024 (21 releases so far)
• Blender 3.6 LTS — 2023 – 2025 (14 releases so far)
• Blender 4.2 LTS — 2024 – 2026

Thank you!

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