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    <term>Blender</term>
    <term>Blender</term>
    <term>Application</term>
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    <term>Major</term>
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    <term>Patch</term>
    <term>End-of-life</term>
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    <term>Support</term>
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    <term>Long-term support</term>
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            header1="Lifecycle guide for Blender from Blender"
            header2="All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance" 
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        <item type="paragraph">📅 Last update on 2025-08-08</item>
       
        
        <item type="header2" class="article-title">What is Blender?</item>
        <item type="paragraph" imgLink="content-end-of-life-product-release-version-database.xml" alt="Automate product release and end-of-life management" img="../img/product-release-version-end-of-life/blender-blender.svg"><![CDATA[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. ]]></item>

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        <item type="header2" class="article-title">The entire lifecycle of Blender</item>

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            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.
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        <item type="paragraph">Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Blender (Blender)</item>
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        <item type="removeableParagraph" heading="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.</item>
        

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                    <second>4.5.1</second>
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                    <first>Number of releases</first>
                    <second>72</second>
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                    <second>GNU General Public License v3.0</second>
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                    <first>Release info</first>
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                    <first>Wikipedia</first>
                    <secondlink>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)</secondlink>
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