Reference/Release Notes/4.0
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Blender 4.0 Release Notes
Blender 4.0 is currently in Alpha. Phase Bcon2 until September 27, 2023. See schedule.
Under development in main.
Animation & Rigging
Core
EEVEE & Viewport
Grease Pencil
Modeling & UV
Nodes & Physics
Pipeline, Assets & I/O
Python API & Text Editor
Rendering
Cycles
Sculpt, Paint, Texture
User Interface
Keymap
VFX & Video
Add-ons
Asset Bundles
Compatibility
- The mesh format changes from previous versions are now included in the Blender file format.
- Blender 3.6 LTS can read files from 4.0, but earlier versions cannot.
- Blender 3.6 LTS will save meshes in a format compatible with older versions of Blender, so it can be used as conversion tool if needed.
- See the section in the Python API section for more details.
- The new blendfile compatibility policy (#109151) has been implemented (see PR #110109).
- OBJ and PLY I/O add-ons have been removed, since their formats are now natively imported and exported by Blender (see the add-ons page for details).