Blender 5.0 Released (9to5linux.com)
(Tuesday November 18, 2025 @10:30PM (BeauHD)
from the new-and-improved dept.)
- Reference: 0180130419
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/18/2224225/blender-50-released
- Source link: https://9to5linux.com/blender-5-0-open-source-3d-graphics-app-is-now-available-for-download
Blender 5.0 has been [1]released with major upgrades [2]including HDR and wide-gamut color support on Linux via Wayland/Vulkan , significant theme and UI improvements, new color-space tools, revamped curve and geometry features, and expanded hardware requirements. 9to5Linux reports:
> Blender 5.0 also introduces a working color space for Blend files, a new AgX HDR view, a new Convert to Display compositor node, new Rec.2100-PQ and Rec.2100-HLG displays that can be used for color grading for HDR video export, and new ACES 1.3 and 2.0 views as an alternative to AgX and Filmic.
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> A new "Jump Time by Delta" operator for jumping forward/backward in time by a user-specified delta has been introduced as well, along with a revamped Curve drawing, which better supports the new Curves object type and all of their features, and a new Geometry Attribute constraint.
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> Also new is a "Cylinder" option for curve display type that allows rendering thicker curves without the flat ribbon appearance, support for the Zstd (Zstandard) fast lossless compression algorithm for point caches, as well as a new "Curve Data" panel in edit mode that allows tweaking built-in curve attribute values.
A full list of changes can be found [3]here . You can download from the [4]official website .
[1] https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-0/
[2] https://9to5linux.com/blender-5-0-open-source-3d-graphics-app-is-now-available-for-download
[3] https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.5/
[4] https://www.blender.org/download/
> Blender 5.0 also introduces a working color space for Blend files, a new AgX HDR view, a new Convert to Display compositor node, new Rec.2100-PQ and Rec.2100-HLG displays that can be used for color grading for HDR video export, and new ACES 1.3 and 2.0 views as an alternative to AgX and Filmic.
>
> A new "Jump Time by Delta" operator for jumping forward/backward in time by a user-specified delta has been introduced as well, along with a revamped Curve drawing, which better supports the new Curves object type and all of their features, and a new Geometry Attribute constraint.
>
> Also new is a "Cylinder" option for curve display type that allows rendering thicker curves without the flat ribbon appearance, support for the Zstd (Zstandard) fast lossless compression algorithm for point caches, as well as a new "Curve Data" panel in edit mode that allows tweaking built-in curve attribute values.
A full list of changes can be found [3]here . You can download from the [4]official website .
[1] https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-0/
[2] https://9to5linux.com/blender-5-0-open-source-3d-graphics-app-is-now-available-for-download
[3] https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.5/
[4] https://www.blender.org/download/
Release notes (Score:5, Informative)
by dskoll ( 99328 )
The original article links to the wrong version of the release notes. The 5.0 release notes are [1]here [blender.org].
[1] https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/5.0/
No regrets donating to this project (Score:3)
to free the source code
Re: (Score:3)
I donated to Blender after it was already free, simply because it's an absolutely amazing piece of software and I think the Blender Foundation deserves our support.