Blender 4.4 Release Notes¶
Blender 4.4 was released on March 18, 2025.
Check out out the final release notes on blender.org.
- Animation & Rigging
- Compositor
- Core
- Cycles
- EEVEE & Viewport
- Geometry Nodes
- Grease Pencil
- Modeling & UV
- Pipeline & I/O
- Python API
- Sculpt, Paint, Texture
- User Interface
- Video Sequencer
Compatibility¶
- Cycles: Increased minimum driver versions for AMD and Intel GPU rendering.
- Alembic and USD: Processing of edge and vertex creases has changed for consistency with OpenSubdiv.
- Python API: Breaking changes for actions, sequencer strips and subclassing Blender types.
- Libraries have been upgraded to match VFX platform 2025, including:
- MaterialX 1.39
- OpenColorIO 2.4
- OpenEXR 3.3
- OpenShadingLanguage 1.14
- OpenUSD 25.02
- OpenVDB 12.0