Eevee?

[Assassin Aria]

Any ETA on when Eevee is being released?

[The Renderer]

Not anytime soon. 2.79 will be released shortly (probably during Siggraph, so within a few days?), but 2.8 (=Eevee) will take quite a bit longer. There probably will be test builds along the way but the actual release... next year? Maybe?

[Mika]

As far as I know, Blender 2.79 will be released at the end of September (I've been looking at forums but may be wrong, there's really no specific date yet). For the Eevee is version 2.80 and that has date by the middle of 2018 as soon (also commented in forums, could be even 2019?). The only thing you can do is wait . But, you can download the BETA version 2.80.

[Lord Mystirio]

I know it's not your question, but if you can't wait that long to get your hands on it, simply download the 2.8 nightly build from their website (this is what i did). Then copy pas the content of the .zip file in your Blender steam folder et voilà ^^ .

[Assassin Aria]

Thank you all :)

[larrycot]

I downloaded the "Bleeding Edge" 2.80 build yesterday and couldn't find the icon to change the Viewport Shading so I could play with EEVEE. Maybe it's just removed for this build?

[Keepon]

@larrycot, You'll need to switch render engine in topbar.

[Cubey3]

Whats with the name? Is eevee some sort of acronym coincidence or was it intentional naming it after the pokemon that everyone loves?

[Keepon]

From Blender Developers Blog[code.blender.org]

Eevee engine

- To avoid the confusing and too much hyped name “PBR” ("Physically-Based Renderer"), we propose to call this engine the EEVEE, or Extra Easy Virtual Environment Engine!

and according to comments section[code.blender.org] on same article, "they named if after the Pokemon and came up with the acronym later."

I'm guessing they will rename it later, when 2.8 will be closer to usable build.

[Cubey3]

Originally posted by Keepon:

From Blender Developers Blog[code.blender.org]

Eevee engine

- To avoid the confusing and too much hyped name “PBR” ("Physically-Based Renderer"), we propose to call this engine the EEVEE, or Extra Easy Virtual Environment Engine!

and according to comments section[code.blender.org] on same article, "they named if after the Pokemon and came up with the acronym later."

I'm guessing they will rename it later, when 2.8 will be closer to usable build.

That seems to be how most acronyms are made, they think of the thing they want to name it after first and then awkwardly name it so it somewhat works with the acronym