As somebody who's Blender curious but not a 3D graphics designer (I have minimal CAD experience, that's about it), I'd like to know what makes 5.0 special. The release notes are too technical and granular for me.
Pre "open source" free software by GNU such as GCC and Glibc was also quite useful and successful. I mean you are right about those projects but let's not forget about the "boring" stuff (that enabled Linux in the first place).
Insane velocity. The UI is fantastic, would love to see more tools reuse it, like a DAW or a proper dedicated CAD app but from what I read it is deeply integrated in the project.
Very much early for this, it's still Alpha, and the release notes there aren't even complete yet either. I'd say wait until the official stable release at least, which will get a proper landing page highlighting all the changes in a much better way.
https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/5.0/
5.0 is about to drop, maybe you wanted to share that?
Seems likely.
As somebody who's Blender curious but not a 3D graphics designer (I have minimal CAD experience, that's about it), I'd like to know what makes 5.0 special. The release notes are too technical and granular for me.
Every time Blender releases an update, I think: the two most amazing open source projects of all time are Linux and Blender.
Pre "open source" free software by GNU such as GCC and Glibc was also quite useful and successful. I mean you are right about those projects but let's not forget about the "boring" stuff (that enabled Linux in the first place).
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Insane velocity. The UI is fantastic, would love to see more tools reuse it, like a DAW or a proper dedicated CAD app but from what I read it is deeply integrated in the project.
Very much early for this, it's still Alpha, and the release notes there aren't even complete yet either. I'd say wait until the official stable release at least, which will get a proper landing page highlighting all the changes in a much better way.
> Blender 5.1 is currently in Alpha until February 4, 2026.