Blender 5.0 Release Notes

Blender 5.0 is currently in Alpha until October 1, 2025. See schedule.

Under development in main.

• Animation & Rigging
• Assets
• Color Management
• Compositor
• Core
• Cycles
• EEVEE & Viewport
• Geometry Nodes
• Grease Pencil
• Modeling & UV
• Motion Tracking
• Physics
• Pipeline & I/O
• Python API
• Rendering
• Sculpt, Paint, Texture
• User Interface
• Video Sequencer

Compatibility

• Maximum Data-Blocks name length has been increased to 255 bytes.
• Removal of (Unsupported) Access to Runtime-Defined Properties Storage Data.
• Big endian support has been removed.
• Support for LZMA or LZO compressed point caches has been dropped
• Support for Intel Macs has been removed
• Increase Minimum GPU requirements for Blender
• Cycles / CUDA: The minimum supported compute capability is sm_50 now (~GeForce 900 cards)
• Blendfile Compression on saving is now enabled by default.