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long-term support

See the key features in the game engine and real-time renderer, from better 3D water to Variable Rate Shading and Deferred+ rendering.

Friday, April 25th, 2025

Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source 3D software, from new digital sculpting tools and GPU compositing to 'Eevee Next'.

Tuesday, July 16th, 2024

Game engine to revert to the 'clarity' of its original version numbering system for its next long-term support release in 2024.

Saturday, November 18th, 2023

Check out the key features for CG artists in the game engine's new Long Term Support release, including the new water system.

Friday, June 2nd, 2023

Godot 4.0 ships

Discover five key features for CG artists in this major update to the open-source game engine, from Vulkan rendering to real-time GI.

Thursday, March 2nd, 2023

Open-source 3D software to move to three releases per year to ease pressure on developers and TDs.

Monday, February 27th, 2023

Next-gen terrain-generation software for games and VFX gets the option to turn any imported OBJ file into a ground surface.

Wednesday, November 16th, 2022

Open-source 3D app to revert to supporting the industry standard after criticism from VFX artists.

Thursday, September 29th, 2022

See our pick of the 5 key new features in the open-source 3D software, from new hair grooming tools to better planar tracking.

Wednesday, September 7th, 2022

Latest Long Term Support release of the game engine adds no new features, but will continue to receive regular fixes until 2024.

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022

Long-awaited update to the game engine is smaller than first planned, but features updates to Scaleform and the GamePlatform plugin.

Thursday, April 7th, 2022

Latest Long Term Support of the game engine will continue to get critical fixes for another two years.

Wednesday, June 10th, 2020

The open-source 3D software's first ever Long Term Support release comes packed with new features. Check them out here.

Thursday, June 4th, 2020