#MIGRATING BLENDER ADDONS TO NEW BLENDER SOFTWARE#

However, this is what we can look forward to:Д«esides that, we are not seeing too many active feature branches. Mind, we're not certain that this will come in Blender 3.0 already - it might be in a later version. The new, better, more powerful Cycles X is definitely something to get hyped about. (Updated on April 23rd) Cycles X is announced! It looks like there are plans for a few feature additions, including performance addition to the VSA and the addition of Virtual Arrays.

So far, there are only a few updates in the public release notes meaning that the developers are not actively working on a big number of new tasks at the moment. Keep in mind, this is still early days (though 3.0 is coming sooner than you may think). It should also be clearer for users to follow.

#MIGRATING BLENDER ADDONS TO NEW BLENDER SOFTWARE#

The simplified versioning is more in line with the naming convention of commercial software packages. Blender 4.0 could be there in 2023 already! (source: ) Why the naming change? I suggest to do minor releases (3.0, 3.1, 3.2, вЂ¦ 3.7) for two-year periods, and then move to a new major release. (.) in summer 2021 the Blender 3.0 series begins! By then we will implement a more conventional release numbering. (Note: Thanks to TedJNielsen for helping to make this information more accurate!) Here is what Ton Roosendaal said about the new numbering:

The next 'major' release is going to be 4.0. The following releases (3.1, 3.2, etc.) will also be 'minor'. It looks like the biggest change is moving to Semantic Versioning and this makes a lot of sense.Д«lender 3.0 does not mean this will be a 'major' release - instead, it signifies the start of new, 'more conventional' release numbering. (That's a big NO to question #3.) Blender is moving to Semantic Versioning Should I really switch from coffee to green smoothies?.So here are the three questions on everybody's mind: To those of us who started with 2.49, Blender 3.0 seems like a fairy-tale.

If reading 'Blender 3.0' also made you spit your green smoothie at your screen, you're not the only one.

Migrating blender addons to new blender