Blender 4.1 Release Notes

Blender 4.1 was released on March 26, 2024.

Check out out the final release notes on blender.org.

• Animation & Rigging
• Compositor
• Cycles
• EEVEE
• Geometry Nodes
• Import & Export
• Modeling
• Python API
• Rendering
• Sculpting
• Sequencer
• User Interface
• Add-ons

Compatibility

• Libraries have been upgraded to match VFX platform 2024, including:
  • Python 3.11
  • OpenColorIO 2.3
  • OpenEXR 3.2
  • OpenVDB 11.0
  • OpenShadingLanguage 1.13
  • USD 23.11

• macOS 11.2 (Big Sur) is now the minimum required version for Apple computers.

• Intel Arc is supported with driver version 101.5186 on Windows and XX.XX.27642.38 on Linux.

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