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Next-gen material authoring tool now out of beta. First official release adds new delighter filter.

Tuesday, November 5th, 2019

Free-in-beta material-authoring tool gets new Scatter modifier, updated Pattern modifer, layer blending modes and undo/redo system.

Monday, July 22nd, 2019

Big update adds parametric authoring and image-to-PBR-material conversion to the scan blending tool, now in free beta.

Friday, March 15th, 2019

Texture painting tool gets 'huge boost' to viewport performance and quality, better symmetry painting.

Wednesday, November 21st, 2018

Handy rig-building toolset can now warp all the blendshapes for one character to another with different topology. Free for personal use.

Thursday, February 5th, 2026

Updated: new release candidate for the core glTF Gaussian Splatting Extension paves the way towards support for 3DGS data in glTF files.

Thursday, February 5th, 2026

Helldivers 2 dev becomes Blender's third new corporate sponsor in two weeks, donating €30,000/year towards the open-source 3D app.

Wednesday, February 4th, 2026

Promising GPU-accelerated tool for organizing your visual reference material even lets you drag and drop videos directly from YouTube.

Wednesday, February 4th, 2026

Check out the major features now in development for the open-source 3D software and due for release in Blender 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and beyond.

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

Neat new add-on displays the effect of individual shapes as real-time heatmaps, helping troubleshoot complex facial and full-body rigs.

Monday, February 2nd, 2026