Major Software Version Releases for Blender and Bottles
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Bottles 60.0 Launches with Native Wayland SupportBlender 5.0, a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software, is now available for download as a major update that introduces numerous new features and improvements.
Highlights of Blender 5.0 include support for displaying HDR and wide gamut colors, which requires a HDR or wide gamut capable monitor. On Linux systems, this works only when using Wayland and setting the Vulkan backend in Blender's system preferences.
Blender 5.0 also introduces a working color space for Blend files, a new AgX HDR view, a new Convert to Display compositor node, new Rec.2100-PQ and Rec.2100-HLG displays that can be used for color grading for HDR video export, and new ACES 1.3 and 2.0 views as an alternative to AgX and Filmic.
[...] There are also many UI changes in Blender 5.0, including drag and drop support within the Shape Keys list, snapping support for sidebars, a new "Delete Other Workspaces" context menu entry for workspace tabs, the ability to collapse paint pressure curves, and per-camera composition guide overlay color.
Moreover, theme settings have changed significantly in Blender 5.0 to make creating custom themes easier, while numerous theme settings have been unified, and more than 300 settings have been removed. On top of that, Blender 5.0 introduces a new Storyboarding template and workspace.
Among other noteworthy changes, this release adds a human base mesh bundle for realistic skeleton assets, six new Geometry Nodes-based modifiers, a new volume rendering algorithm based on null scattering, and a new "Working Space" choice in the Convert Color Space compositor node to convert to and from the current working space that images are in by default.
Being a major update, Blender 5.0 removes support for LZMA or LZO compressed point caches, support for Intel Macs, support for pre-2.50 animation, big-endian support, as well as the unsupported access to runtime-defined properties storage data in the Python API.
[...] Blender 5.0 requires NVIDIA GeForce 900 and newer GPUs, as well as Quadro Tesla GPU architecture and newer, including RTX-based cards, with the official NVIDIA drivers, AMD GCN 4th gen and newer GPUs, and Intel Kaby Lake architecture and newer GPUs.
Check out the release notes for more details about the changes included in Blender 5.0, which you can download right now from the official website as a universal binary that you can run on virtually any GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything on your personal computer.
An Anonymous Coward writes:
Bottles, an open-source software tool built on top of Wine that helps users run Windows applications and games on Linux systems by providing a user-friendly GUI, has just released its latest version, 60.0.
The update introduces a native Wayland option directly in the bottle settings, giving users a more predictable experience on modern Linux desktops that have already shifted away from X11.
Alongside this, the new WineBridge features expand how processes can be spawned and managed, supported by a consent prompt to ensure users maintain control over updates to that component.
For Steam Deck users, the release includes a fix for broken controls in Gaming Mode, resolving a regression that made some titles unusable. Several environment-related issues are also addressed, including problems with working directories not persisting, unclear environment variable creation, and cases where easyterm failed to run due to missing GTK variables.
[...] For more information on all the changes, visit the project's GitHub changelog.
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