In May 2002, Roosendaal started the non-profit Blender Foundation, with the first goal to find a way to continue developing and promoting Blender as a community-based open-source project. This also resulted in the discontinuation of Blender's development. After NeoGeo's dissolution, Ton Roosendaal founded Not a Number Technologies (NaN) in June 1998 to further develop Blender, initially distributing it as shareware until NaN went bankrupt in 2002. NeoGeo was later dissolved, and its client contracts were taken over by another company. On January 1, 1998, Blender was released publicly online as SGI freeware.
Some design choices and experiences for Blender were carried over from an earlier software application, called Traces, that Roosendaal developed for NeoGeo on the Commodore Amiga platform during the 1987–1991 period. The name Blender was inspired by a song by the Swiss electronic band Yello, from the album Baby, which NeoGeo used in its showreel. Version 1.00 was released in January 1995, with the primary author being company co-owner and software developer Ton Roosendaal. You can check out the Blender LTS schedule here.The Dutch animation studio NeoGeo (not related to the Neo Geo family of video game hardware) started to develop Blender as an in-house application, and based on the timestamps for the first source files, Januis considered to be Blender's birthday. This latest update has already rolled out on Steam, the Microsoft Store, and Snap, and can be downloaded from the link below.īlender's LTS program runs alongside the regular Blender releases and provides long-term support for a stable version of Blender to allow studios and individuals to finish big productions without having to swap versions to benefit from bug updates. The 3.3.1 release on the other hand brings 74 new bug fixes since its last one.
This double release packs a punch: the 2.93.11 release comes in hot with 11 bug fixes in total, bringing the total number of fixes since the original release to more than 261 so far.
These releases contain only bug fixes and minor improvements, they are fully compatible with your current projects and are considered safe to be used in a production environment. The Blender Developers have graced us with two simultaneous Blender LTS releases: Blender 3.3.1 LTS and Blender 2.93.11 LTS! Blender 2.93 LTS will be supported officially until 2023, while the this is the first corrective release of many in the 3.3 series, which has just been released and will be supported officially for two more years.Īs usual with corrective releases, it is highly recommended to upgrade.
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