Blender 4.2 LTS 3D Graphics Software Officially Released

Blender 4.2 LTS 3D Graphics Software Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

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Marius Nestor
Jul 17, 2024

Highlights of Blender 4.2, which is an LTS (Long Term Support) branch that will receive updates until July 2026, include support for GPU-accelerated compositing for final renders, GPU acceleration enabled by default for AMD GPUs on Linux and Windows systems, and rewritten render compositor CPU backend for a performance boost.

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Marius Nestor

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