Blender 5.0 Open-Source 3D Graphics App Is Now Available for Download

posted by Marius Nestor on Nov 18, 2025,
updated Nov 20, 2025

Highlights of Blender 5.0 include support for displaying HDR and wide gamut colors, which requires a HDR or wide gamut capable monitor. On Linux systems, this works only when using Wayland and setting the Vulkan backend in Blender’s system preferences.

Blender 5.0 also introduces a working color space for Blend files, a new AgX HDR view, a new Convert to Display compositor node, new Rec.2100-PQ and Rec.2100-HLG displays that can be used for color grading for HDR video export, and new ACES 1.3 and 2.0 views as an alternative to AgX and Filmic.

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Linuxiac:

• Blender 5.0 Released with a UI Overhaul, Smarter Nodes, and HDR Support

  The Blender Foundation has released Blender 5.0, a major update for this popular open-source 3D creation suite that touches nearly every aspect of the app, from minor details to foundational shifts.

  On the user interface side, when you open Blender 5.0 for the first time, the interface feels different. The developers have unified the theme system, removing more than 300 options, which is one of the biggest structural changes in years, to make custom theme creation and maintenance more manageable. However, some existing custom themes built for Blender 4.5 may break as a result.

LWN:

• Blender 5.0 released

  Version 5.0 of the Blender animation system has been released. Notable improvements include improved color management, HDR capabilities, and a new storyboarding template. See the release notes for a lengthy list of new features and changes, and the bugfixes page for the 588 commits that fixed bugs in Blender 4.5 or older.

GoL:

• A great showcase of open source - Blender 5.0 is out with completely overhauled colour management | GamingOnLinux

  Another release is here for the incredible open source project Blender. The 5.0 release brings huge changes like completely overhauled colour management.

It's FOSS:

• Blender 5.0 Released with HDR Support, Video Sequencer Overhaul, and ACES Workflows

  Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite used across film, animation, game development, and VFX production. Organizations like Ubisoft, NVIDIA, AMD, and others rely on it for their commercial projects.

  With a recent announcement, the Blender team has released Blender 5.0, introducing major improvements to color management, video editing, and rendering workflows.

UbuntuHandbook:

• Blender 5.0 Released with HDR Color Space, Much Faster Material Compilation | UbuntuHandbook

  Blender, the popular 3D computer graphics software, released new major 5.0 version yesterday.

  The new 5.0 release overhauled the color management pipeline with native wide-gamut and HDR color spaces support.

  It can now display and export HDR and wide-gamut colors for both images and video. And, it added new ACES 1.3 and 2.0 views as alternative to AgX and Filmic, AgX HDR view, and Rec.2100-PQ and Rec.2100-HLG displays.

  It’s now possible to use a wider gamut of colors for materials, lights and compositing, and to follow common ACES workflows, set a custom Working Space per file and Sequencer, and use the Convert Colorspace node in the Compositor.