Blender 4.2 LTS 3D Graphics Software Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
Highlights of Blender 4.2, which is an LTS (Long Term Support) branch that will receive updates until July 2026, include support for GPU-accelerated compositing for final renders, GPU acceleration enabled by default for AMD GPUs on Linux and Windows systems, and rewritten render compositor CPU backend for a performance boost.
Blender 4.2 LTS also brings faster undo due to implicit sharing, support for CPU renders to use GPU-accelerated denoising, improved denoising quality via OpenImageDenoise 2.3, as well as Ray Portal BSDF for rendering portals for visual effects and other production rendering tricks.
OMG Ubuntu:
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Blender 4.2 LTS Brings New Render Engine, GPU Compositor + More - OMG! Ubuntu
Blender 4.2 LTS delivers a sizeable set of new features, a number of performance improvements, and the sort of general fixes and tune-ups one would expect from a well-maintained open-source project such as this.
This long-term support release promises two years of bug fixes from the Blender team, allowing 3D artists and developers to work on their projects confident that no ‘breaking changes’ will be pushed out to them in that time.
GamingOnLinux:
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Blender 4.2 is another crazy-big release
From game devs to movies and all sorts, Blender is a truly incredible bit of free and open source tech and it has evolved a lot with Blender 4.2 out now.
LWN:
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Blender 4.2 LTS released
Version 4.2 LTS of the Blender open-source 3D creation suite has been released. Major improvements include a rewrite of the EEVEE render engine, faster rendering, and much more. See the showcase reel for examples of work created by the Blender community with See the text release notes for even more about 4.2 LTS, which will be maintained until July 2026.
UbuntuHandbook:
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Blender 4.2 LTS Released with EEVEE Render Engine, Extensions Support | UbuntuHandbook
Blender, the popular free open-source 3D animation software, announced new 4.2 release few days ago this Tuesday!
Blender 4.2 is a Long Term Support (LTS) release with 2 years support for critical fixes. It introduced new EEVEE render engine, which is completely rewritten from scratch.
The new engine features screen space global illumination, real displacement, better Subsurface Scattering, much more stable Dithered volumetrics result while navigating the scene, motion blur in 3D viewport, as well as...