The Blender Foundation has released Blender 2.79a, the latest version of the open-source 3D software.
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The update is largely a bugfix release, but does improve performance quite significantly in some areas: tests suggest that the Cycles renderer now runs 10% faster on Windows when using CUDA GPUs.
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- The next Blender version under development, do not use in production nor save important files with it yet. Additional bug fixes on top of the last official Blender release.
- In April 2018 it was removed from the upcoming Blender 2.8 release series, having long lagged behind other game engines such as the open-source Godot, and Unity. In the 2.8 announcement, the Blender team specifically mentioned the Godot engine as a suitable.
Speed boosts with threaded code and when GPU rendering on Windows
Although 2.79a doesn't add any new features – the last major feature release was Blender 2.79 itself, which shipped last September – it does include over 200 fixes, 'from real bugs to potential security issues'.
It also improves performance, 'mostly in threaded code', with the release notes singling out mesh normal and tangent space calculation and the subdivision surface modifier as particular beneficiaries.
According to this tweet from Mike Pan, founder of animation studio The Pixelary, the update also cuts render times by around 10% when using Blender's Cycles engine on Windows.
The reduction is specific to rendering on the GPU with Nvidia's CUDA cards: CPU rendering and GPU rendering using OpenCL are not affected – an issue discussed in this blog post from The Pixelary last year.
Availability and system requirements
Blender 2.79a is available for Windows Vista+, Linux with glibc 2.19 and above and macOS 10.6+.
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In the last couple of months you probably some of the new features and resources coming with Blender 2.80. For those of that took the time to download and try all the new options like Eevee, using experimental builds released along several months I have some great news.
Blender 2.8 was already in alpha mode for a while, and just a few moments ago it reached beta! With a beta version available we have another critical milestone for the software.
Before anything, you can download the Blender 2.80 beta from this link.
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A beta version is not entirely stable, but it is much better than an “experimental� build. You will get something much closer to what Blender 2.80 stable will become in a couple of months and have the benefit of a consistent experience, with a focus on bug fixing and polishing and not adding significant new features.
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Have you tried Eevee for architectural visualization? If you were waiting for something more stable than an experimental or alpha versions, it is now time to jump into Blender 2.80!
