Blender 5.0 Released with Better Vulkan Support, HDR on Wayland
4 days ago
- #Wayland
- #Vulkan
- #Blender
- Blender 5.0 released with significant improvements.
- Better Vulkan viewport support across different GPUs/drivers.
- HDR and wide color gamut support on Linux with Vulkan and Wayland.
- Community-contributed human base mesh bundle for realistic skeleton assets.
- Larger buffers in Blend files and removal of big endian support.
- Curves drawing has been rewritten for better performance.
- Support for LZO and LZMA dropped in favor of Zstd for point caches.
- Various file format handling improvements and enhanced Vulkan support.
- AMD HIP-RT now stable but not enabled by default until Blender 5.1.
- Blender.org experiencing HTTP 500 errors due to Cloudflare outage; binaries available via mirror.