Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 4.2 LTS!





Blender 4.2 LTS splash by Blender Studio



What’s New






As usual with LTS (long-term support) releases, Blender 4.2 LTS comes packed with features, improvements, and fixes ready to power your projects for the next two years.




Some highlights:

• New render engine: EEVEE got a complete rewrite, bringing global illumination, displacement, better SSS, volumetric lighting and shadows, viewport motion blur, and so much more.
  
• Cycles: Ray Portals, Thin Film Interference, better volume rendering, blue noise, and more.
  
• The Compositor: Can now utilize GPU acceleration for offline renders, it’s faster on CPU, and more nodes are supported in the 3D Viewport.
  
• Extensions: A new way to share, install, and update add-ons and themes online within Blender.
  
• Portable installation.
  
• Khronos PBR Neutral Tone Mapper.
  
• New sculpt tools.
  
• Video Sequencer: Strips redesign, including highlighting missing media, text strip enhancements, and better performance.
  
• Collection exporters.
  
• USD, Alembic, glTF, OBJ, PLY, and STL enhancements.
  
• Undo up to 5x faster.
  
• Animation editors and tools upgrades.
  
• And so much more!

This also marks the launch of the online Extensions Platform – a community website to share free and open-source add-ons and themes.