Lifecycle guide for Blender from Blender

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-01-13

What is Blender?

Automate product release and end-of-life management

Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software tool set used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D-printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3D applications, virtual reality, and, formerly, video games. Blender"s features include 3D modelling, UV mapping, texturing, digital drawing, raster graphics editing, rigging and skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, soft body simulation, sculpting, animation, match moving, rendering, motion graphics, video editing, and compositing.

The entire lifecycle of Blender

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Blender. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.

Blender (Blender) release, version and end-of-life information

Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Blender (Blender)

What is the Blender release strategy?

The Blender LTS program is aimed at ensuring that long-lasting projects can be executed using a stable Blender version, which will provide critical fixes throughout a 2-year time span.