It's time to update your Blender!

Blender 4.4.2 addresses 8 issues present in the initial release.

This is a corrective release, meaning it doesn't contain new features, only fixes. It is highly recommended for everyone currently using Blender 4.4.1 to upgrade, since it fixes several crashes and improves functionality in many areas.

Read the full list of changes on https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.4/corrective_releases/

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The Blender team,
29th April 2025

Blender 3.6.22 LTS comes with important bugfixes. It is released on the v3.6 - Stable - LTS branch.

You can switch to this by right-clicking on the Blender entry in your library, select Properties.... Open the Betas tab and select v3.6 - Stable - LTS.

* RNA: LibraryWeakReference: make path and ID name editable. (3483d5389fac2d88b50822c3329e7e534b9035b0[projects.blender.org])* Fix: IMBuf: Potential buffer overflow in JPEG metadata writer. (1c764341d79[projects.blender.org])* Blender 4.4 can crash with certain compositor setups. (#136360[projects.blender.org])* python3.dll dependency in extensions cant be loaded from subprocesses..? leads to import issues in extension. (#126782[projects.blender.org])* macOS: Disable OpenMP when using Xcode 16.3 / LLVM 17. (55c5b1c6ef4[projects.blender.org])* Fix: Compilation error with XCode 16.3. (d6279646eb3[projects.blender.org])

For a detailed list of bug fixes in each release, see https://www.blender.org/download/lts/3-6/


Learn more about the https://www.blender.org/download/lts/