

As Ton has covered before, we’re very likely to see major version numbers release every two years going forward – so you can expect to see 4.0 in 2023. Version numbers only matter so much, but as mentioned above, Blender releases that represent just a minor jump in version number could actually bring along enough new functionality that would cause any other company to adopt a new major version number.

When Blender 2.80 released two years ago, the software’s spearhead, Ton Roosendaal, had said that it represented such a major step forward, that it really should have been called 3.0. After evaluating the massive support for Blender 2.80 and with the 2.8x release cycles running as planned here is a proposal for the long term Blender release organization. There are stark – perhaps jaw-dropping – changes between 2.0 and the current 2.93, and likewise, there will be a slew of new changes coming with 3.0. Blender LTS and 3.0 February 29th, 2020 General Development, General Updates ton February 2023 update: the release schedule has been restructured. If you’ve been paying attention even just recently, you’ll know that minor version bumps in Blender don’t necessarily mean minor improvements. As we’ve covered before, the next major release of Blender is going to bring us to version 3.0 – some 20 years after the release of 2.0.
