What happened to all the pre-3.0 branches?

[1TheBlueWii1]

I'm still using 2.92, since most of the add-ons I use doesn't work with later versions.

But out of nowhere, Steam is showing that Blender needs an update. Which made me realize the branches for the older versions are no longer there.

Is there a reason for this???

[butcho]

Well, Blender devs communicate but just not on Steam. I guess Steam's just not that important for the devs. Time is better invested in the development of the program and on their own platform instead of Steam, where most people use it only to track their time in Blender.

I mean I love Blender but why the hell would I want a reminder on how much lifetime I spent in nearly 15 years of Blender.

[Mikey]

this ♥♥♥♥ is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying

[Stone Cold Stavros Flatley]

My blessed 2.79b... reeee

[HeartWubbs]

whyyyy, my 2.93... I'm going to have to find and reinstall all my plugins ;-;

[Reverie]

I was honestly shocked, but tbh I can just install Blender 2.79b from their site directly. It's odd that they decide to remove all the beta branches for no reason. I've seen a game use up to 15 beta branches so it's definitely not them running out of beta slots (if that's a thing).

[☢ Nuclear Birb ☢]

noooo! i want my blender versions on steam :'( wtff

[☢ Nuclear Birb ☢]

noooo! i want my blender versions on steam :'( wtff

[Siknesd]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3160069004
I made a guide

[NemiKaiser]

Guess I'm not the only one, I need to rollback to Blender 2.79

[NemiKaiser]

I need the old blender 2.93

[butcho]

https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/graphics/blender/release/

[damiensyn]

Maybe try here?
https://www.blender.org/download/previous-versions/|

[damiensyn]

Here is a list of all of them
https://download.blender.org/release/

[herichimo]

Автор сообщения: 1TheBlueWii1

I'm still using 2.92, since most of the add-ons I use doesn't work with later versions.

But out of nowhere, Steam is showing that Blender needs an update. Which made me realize the branches for the older versions are no longer there.

Is there a reason for this???

I have a feeling steam simply removed the option to prevent games/programs from updating.
This is why everyone's blenders are updating.

Also: It isn't Blender's fault new versions do not work with older systems, that is Python's doing. Python put a kill-code in its binaries that will stop them working unless you have the latest spyware installed.

You can get a stand alone zip of the latest 4.0 with the Python kill-code removed (will work on older systems) I put a link in another thread on this same topic.

[Seventh Monkey]

i feel like i went from 2.79b to 4.00 overnight and don't know what the hell just happened and already been on blender.org and am seriously considering downloading an older version again....crap i know i'm stupid but there's a steep learning curve there unannounced without some of the features and UI i was used to....I don't know what the heck just happened and can't even make sense of what i'm dealing with right now