Blender 4.2 LTS Release Notes¶
Blender 4.2 LTS was released on July 16, 2024.
It will be maintained until July 2026.
Check out out the final release notes on blender.org.
- Animation & Rigging
- Color Management
- Compositor
- Core
- Cycles
- EEVEE
- Extensions
- Geometry Nodes
- Import & Export
- Modeling & UV
- Physics
- Python API
- Sculpt
- User Interface
- Video Sequencer
Compatibility¶
Hardware Requirements¶
On Windows and Linux a CPU with SSE4.2 is now required. This is supported since AMD Bulldozer (2011) and Intel Nehalem (2008).
Compositor¶
Due to added support for GPU rendering and CPU optimizations, some nodes have changed behavior, and certain compositing setups will require manual adjustments. See all breaking changes.
Add-ons¶
Most add-ons that used to ship with Blender, are now available on the Extensions Platform where you can browse, install, and update them online from within Blender. Read more about Extensions.
Add-ons that haven't been converted to extensions yet, are still supported as legacy add-ons and can be installed from disk as usual.
To ease the distribution and transition to the new system, a bundle of the add-ons that shipped with Blender 4.1 is available for download.
IDProperties¶
System-defined and library-overridable IDProperties are now statically typed.