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Install Blender Launcher

Blender Launcher is a standalone software client that provides management for stable, daily and experimental builds of Blender 3D. It is a free open source project available for 64-bit Windows and Linux (GLIBC 2.31 and higher) operating sys...

Install with winget
winget install --id VictorIX.BlenderLauncher
Upgrade
winget upgrade --id VictorIX.BlenderLauncher
Uninstall
winget uninstall --id VictorIX.BlenderLauncher

About Blender Launcher

Blender Launcher is a standalone software client that provides management for stable, daily and experimental builds of Blender 3D. It is a free open source project available for 64-bit Windows and Linux (GLIBC 2.31 and higher) operating systems.

What's new in 2.7.5

What's Changed πŸ’‘ Features: - Add Blender to PATH on macOS πŸ› οΈ Fixes: - Show permission error popup when a folder does not have the required permissions - Improve folder permission handling - Preserve favorite status when updating a build - Reset update button when updating to the same version - Some translation improvements

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Version history

Version Updated Notes
2.7.5 What's Changed πŸ’‘ Features: - Add Blender to PATH on macOS πŸ› οΈ Fixes: - Show permission error popup when a folder does not have the required permissions - Improve folder permission handling - Preserve favorite status when...
2.7.4 Unknown What's Changed πŸ› οΈ Fixes: β€’ macOS tray quit behavior fix β€’ macOS self-update is now fully implemented end-to-end and will work as expected β€’ App update on Windows will now correctly show the update window and restart the...
2.7.3 Unknown What's Changed πŸ’‘ Features: β€’ Display per-version patch notes with a dedicated update popup β€’ Add log level setting (DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR) and open log folder button in General settings β€’ Add the ability to remove a b...
2.7.2 Unknown What's Changed πŸ’‘ Features: - Expand UI localization coverage πŸ› οΈ Fixes: - Fix launching from favorites would lose launch arguments - Fix quick launch set from favorites not persisting across restart - Fix TLS verification...
2.7.1 Unknown πŸ› οΈ Fixes: β€’ Fix Blender console toggle on Windows
2.7.0 Unknown πŸ’‘ Features: β€’ Search bar for builds with version/date range filters and fuzzy matching β€’ Chinese localization support β€’ Setting to show PR label for Experimental builds β€’ Setting to minimize or close the app when launchi...
2.6.1 Unknown What's Changed πŸ› οΈ Fixes: - Fix Bforartists builds not showing in the download list
2.6.0 Unknown What's Changed Blender Launcher is now localized! Currently, only French and Japanese are fully supported. Contributions and feedback are welcome! πŸ’‘ Features: - UPBGE Blender fork support with weekly and stable builds -...
2.5.3 Unknown What's Changed πŸ› οΈ Fixes: - Fix daily build download on macOS βš™οΈ Others: - Backend update to properly separate the daily and experimental build fetching
2.5.2 Unknown What's Changed πŸ› οΈ Fixes: - Fix: Settings and log folder not being created on first launch, preventing the app from launching
2.5.1 Unknown What's Changed πŸ’‘ Features: - .bat and .cmd files can be used as a Blender executable πŸ› οΈ Fixes: - Fix daily build unzip on Linux (.tar.xz) - Fixes multiple macOS installation issues for DMG-extracted builds
2.5.0 Unknown What's Changed πŸ’‘ Features: - New build update function - Add build sorting by branch label - Re-add automatic build scraping πŸ› οΈ Fixes: - Multiple fixes on macOS - Bforartist build scraping fix - Fix open build config and...
2.4.6 Unknown What's Changed πŸ› οΈ Fixes: - Fix Blender Launcher Updater /!\ If you update from 2.4.4 or 2.4.5, the update will fail. For more info on how to update, check the error #258
2.4.4 Unknown What's Changed πŸ’‘ Features: - Improvement made to the CLI version - Support for additional Blender launch arguments in the CLI (E.g.: launch -- --background) πŸ› οΈ Fixes: - Fix some issues with the installer wizard - Fix Bfo...
2.4.3 Unknown What's Changed πŸ’‘ Features: - Create Shortcut Blender Build right-click option now open a file explorer window πŸ› οΈ Fixes: - Fix issues causing internal file corruption
2.4.2 Unknown What's Changed πŸ› οΈ Fixes: - Fix an issue with xdg-open when opening a build folder on Linux - Fix an issue with the edit build window - Fix an issue with the file association window
2.4.1 Unknown What's Changed πŸ› οΈ Fixes: - Fix an issue with the onboarding window when using a non-English OS - Fix an issue with the .blend launching window - Fix an issue with the restarting function of the launcher βš™οΈ Others: - Disa...
2.4.0 Unknown Release notes
2.3.2 Unknown Release notes
2.3.1 Unknown Release notes