Blender 3.6 LTS Adds Light Trees Support on AMD GPUs, HW Ray-Tracing on Intel Arc
Blender 3.6 comes about three months after the Blender 3.5 release and it looks to be a long-term supported (LTS) series that will receive support for two years with regular updates that introduce bug fixes and stability improvements. The first long-term support release of the 3.x series was Blender 3.3 LTS, which will be supported until September 2024.
Highlights of Blender 3.6 LTS include a new add-on to easily create VDM brushes, support for importing and exporting the legacy 3DS format, support for light trees on AMD GPUs, hardware ray-tracing acceleration for Intel Arc and Data Center GPUs, as well as support for simulations on geometry nodes.